Astonishing head, isn’t it? One would argue, with the hysterical wave of secularisation of knowledge within and without science, that there wouldn’t be any relationship between nature and the mystical part of religion and it’s cosmological myth. But this is not true. There is harmonious relationship between the religious spiritual journey and the perfect flow of natural, beautiful scientific laws. Sufi masters know this. They didn’t test it in laboratories or use mathematical formulae to predict its future; they meditated it in their minds and came up with surprising mystical mysteries. They feel it in their minds when they gaze the movement of universes within them.

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The likes of Jalaludden Rumi, the master of higher poetry, described it in lines and stanzas with poetic figures where plain words failed. The mystics see God in the dance of trees and the musical flow of water. Nature is one of the many ways they use to create channels for communication with God. Through intuition and inspiration, Rumi saw what eyes couldn’t see in the movements of clouds and the fall of rain. This is why Sufi masters think that removing what is natural and replacing it with artificial is tantamount to destroying the aesthetic beauty of the nature and doing great damage not only to the climate but to the channels of revelations. Ibnul Arabi aptly described it in his magnum opus “Futuhat Almakiyya”, and Sayyed Hussein Nasr quotes him often in his books. What a sage!

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