Business Development Analysts

Business Development Analysts are typically people who manage the strategic operations of a business by analyzing trends and patterns in data.

Business Development

Professionals face tough challenges in today’s competitive business environment. How do you continue to excel, move into firm leadership, and find life-work balance? Where do you find the time in the day to deal with stacks of paper, meetings, and multiple projects, people, and tasks that can well…drain your energy? How do you deliver quality to your clients while at the same time bringing in new business?

In the global knowledge economy where the speed of change increases almost daily, companies compete on innovation, creativity and their ability to conceive and transform new ideas and opportunities. Certain business development groups implement innovative planning for a successful business growth. Innovative ideas are applied to products and services on their way of production, business models, marketing, etc. It is also applied to the use of new materials, new combinations of materials, new technologies – new knowledge.

Generally, a business development group consists of field personnel who visit prospective new clients, analysts who craft project plans to recover value, and an inside sales group who assist with the marketing of the firm. What distinguishes all the personnel within the group is their knack for identifying opportunity and selling potential clients on the value of removing or modifying those business constraints.

Tackling these challenges alone can be overwhelming and the pathway to continued success unclear. You need to work in tandem with the business development group to enhance your business productivity and sales. The Business Development Group Inc. located at Garden City, New York, helps you grow your business.

Whether it’s creating public relation campaigns that increase your visibility, capitalizing on new marketing opportunities or helping you to develop the strategic partnerships that can dramatically enhance your business, this company attends all your business needs.

The Business Development Whether you’re looking for general marketing counsel, a complete branding campaign, or to see your business or organization featured in key media outlets that will reach your core audiences with carefully crafted messages, they offer a wide range of services to provide your company with exactly what you need to get the results you want. They can recognize that every client’s needs are different. They recommend a service or tactic unless they think it will add significant value to your company’s bottom line.

From successful media relations campaigns to award-winning graphic design programs, they make it happen quickly with measurable results that support your business objectives each and every time.

Business Development Services Include :

  • Branding
  • Business image enhancement
  • Brochures/newsletters
  • Media press kits
  • Community awareness campaigns
  • Public relations campaigns
  • Advertising
  • Networking and business building
  • Strategic and creative marketing plans
  • Concepts and implementations
  • Business development programs
  • Board development
  • Event planning and execution
  • Corporate identity programs

Their staff includes experienced and talented marketing professionals, public relations experts, journalists, graphic artists, event planners and fundraisers. From their top-level senior staff with decades of valuable experience in the industry, to their exceptional young professionals who bring a fresh eye to the business, you get it all with this Business Development Group.

Conclusion àBusiness development involves evaluating a business and then realizing its full potential, using such tools as marketing, sales, information management and customer service. For a sound company able to withstand competitors, business development never stops but is an ongoing process.

 

Business Development Manager

Always seek clear objectives. Business development includes a number of techniques designed to grow an economic enterprise. Such techniques include assessments of marketing opportunities and target markets, intelligence gathering on customers and competitors, generating leads for possible sales, follow-up sales activity, formal proposal writing and business model design. Business development involves evaluating a business and then realizing its full potential, using such tools as marketing, sales, information management and customer service. These tasks are carried out by business development managers.

Business Development Manager is also known as economist or a business planner. A manager should devote his attention to business development and exploiting the business opportunities that are presented to him and his organization. Business development and making your organization successful is reliant on good knowledge of best practice and management theories. Adopt a team approach – work with others in pursuing common goals. For some time, business development managers have been stressing the urgent need for radical new approaches to the corporation. In this paradigm, the bottom line cedes its pre-eminence to the top: the corporation concentrates on developing new revenue streams from new products and services, while optimizing income from existing lines through innovative marketing and rapid exploitation of changing customer needs and tastes. The new kind of corporation is, above all, ‘agile’. Top business development managers fret about the lack of creativity and innovation beneath them, below the supertanker’s decks, but their own decision-making processes and command structures stultify efforts – even ones which they themselves have promoted – to develop the new and rejuvenate the old.

The business development manager must have considerable sales experience, be an organized and strong negotiator, and be aware of and responsive to economic trends, government policies and currency fluctuations. A university degree in one of the commerce, accounting, economics or business administration streams may prove useful (although not necessary) for entry into the position.

The business development manager works to expand a company’s product reach and profit revenues. They do this by identifying new markets and attracting new clients. The business development manager therefore researches new business opportunities, identifies likely sales points, develops strategic plans and sales strategies, and undertakes presentations to and negotiations with prospective customers.

In larger organizations the business development manager works with marketing and sales departments, government and industry peak bodies. Domestic and overseas travel is often a requirement of this position, and report writing is necessary. In smaller businesses, business development managers answer to owners/executives. However, in larger companies they are answerable to senior marketing and sales executives.

Responsibility of a Business Development Manager :

  • Investigate the economic conditions surrounding your small business activity such as industry trends and competition.
  • Conduct extensive market research prior to starting up your business and continue gathering information throughout the life of the business.
  • Prepare a detailed business plan so you will not lose sight of your goals and objectives.
  • Secure sufficient financial resources for future development or expansion.
  • Contact professional advisors such as an accountant, banker and/or lawyer to provide expert information about your business.
  • Network with other small businesspeople; establish a support group. Remember, you are not alone.
  • Attend workshops, trade shows, and seminars to keep up-to-date on changes in the industry.
  • Adopt a team approach; work with others in pursuing common goals.
  • Understand the skills and qualities you bring to your business.
  • Develop a situation analysis of your company including its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to assist in the development of a strategic plan for the future of the business.

In general, a business manager is responsible for running the business day-to-day. Whether, a managing director in a medium-sized company or a business unit director in a large corporate organization, this general management role is crucial to hold the business together, and to lead the changes which will ensure future success. Many people have experienced a manager who may not be “up to the job.’

In most cases they were very effective in their previous role, but then struggle when they enter the management arena. In sales management, for example, there is an all too familiar pattern of the best sales operative being promoted to manage the team without adequate thought to the development needs of that person. Coaching could provide the new sales manager with the business management skills required for success in his role.

Prepare a detailed business plan so you will not lose sight of your goals and objectives. A successful business development manager should always be seeking clear objectives particularly for those areas of the job where there are outputs you will be required to measure and be answerable for. Keeping the main objectives constantly in mind is essential even if they evolve or change a bit over time. They should be able to identify the key actions that the department is going to pursue. This shows clarity. A business development manager should be able to present the strategy clearly to its customers. The strategy should contain a clear vision followed by a set of clear time-bound actions in order to achieve consistent success.

 

Rulers and the Ruled

‘What ever good befalls you is from God; and whatever misfortune befalls you is from yourself.’

(The Holy Qur’an)

Islam assumes that the governing elite should be an example upholding the highest level of Islamic ethical conduct, both in their outer rituals as well as in their personal qualities. When, however, this is not realized a clear division appears between the class of rulers and the ruled. Such divergence in the history of Muslims has often led to confrontation and revolt.

An institutionalized separation between the rulers and the ruled had begun from the death of the fourth Caliph’ Hazrat Ali (Razi Tal’ah Anhoo), when the objectives and the life styles of the Umayyad Caliphs and courtiers diverged from the general Muslim public. This state of affairs continued almost throughout the entire history of Muslims. In the early days it was the Byzantine and Persian Sassanian administrators and court advisors who helped Muslim rulers in fiscal and other bureaucratic controls. These were gradually replaced by other non-Muslims and foreigners who not only dealt with matters of finance but also military affairs and foreign relations.

The Ulama of the courts were all highly domesticated, often chosen for their tolerance, support, and ability to rationalize the rulers’ decisions and actions according to Islamic legal and theological precept. These Ulama were often held in contempt by ordinary people, echoing what prophet had said.

’’ I fear for my people (on account of) the Ulama who condone the rulers.’’

For the most part court life and public life continued in parallel giving rise to a culture of accord and mutual understanding. As long as the ruler appeared to be reasonably just and not too oppressive, the two tiers co-existed. Occasionally, however, confrontations erupted and in most cases the rulers resorted to brutality and sheer force, manipulation and certain compromising adjustments. Because the Shi’i maintained that the right to rule Muslims belongs to the qualified Imam, in whose absence only the most pious and knowledgeable could rule, the majority of the shi’is either opposed or ignored the institution of kings and sultans. The Sunnis on the other hand often accepted the rule of any Muslim as long as he professed Islam and the majority of the populace acquiesced.

The general population had their own hierarchy of Ulama as well as of leaders of commerce, artisans, and landowners. The ‘’people’s system was allowed to function as long as the ruler was paid his taxes and allowed to requisition his recruits. These Ulama and mosques maintained their independence from ruling interest through endowment, often in the form of shops and other sources of income.

This was general arrangements until the emergence of the twentieth-century modern Muslim, ‘’State. ‘The model for which was imported from the West and forcibly grafted on to Muslim lands, for it was not an indigenously cultivated model. From then on all mosques and other Muslim institutions were absorbed by the governments, thus coming directly under centralized rule. By the middle of the century, the new-style governments controlled every aspect of the life of the Muslim masses. This resulted in the rise of numerous opposition groups, frequent confrontation, and all kinds of social upheavals and disasters. In the past the alienation of the rulers from the ruled had seldom resulted in such major clashes because people had been left alone to live their ‘’separate’’ lives.

The situation in contemporary ‘’ Muslim states’’ is such that the rulers version of Islam is often no more than a ritualistic veneer, bearing no resemblance to the divine prophetic model. Pious and serious Muslims often consider their Government as traitors to the true cause of Islam and all attempts to democratize or parliamentize their method of government have therefore resulted in failure or are mere cosmetic face-lift to ensure Western approval.

 

Metaphysical and Cosmological Doctrines

Pure Metaphysics, which is also the theoretical dimension of salvific knowledge, is the science of the Real and is therefore most essential for human beings, since they have ultimately no possibility of escaping from reality. In the modern West, metaphysics and gnosis soon became a branch of philosophy, understood in the modern sense, and this subordination was followed by the complete rejection of metaphysics by many schools of Western thought, especially from the nineteenth century onward, as we see in Marxism, Comptianism, logical positivism, Anglo-Saxon analytical philosophy, and the like. Soon real metaphysics was forgotten, not to mention the means of realizing its truths.

But the thirst for real knowledge continued to manifest itself in certain Western souls, who again turned to the Orient and with its help, to the forgotten metaphysical tradition of the West. In this quest for metaphysical knowledge Hinduism, especially the school of Advaita Vedanta, attracted many people. It is only during the past few decades that the metaphysics of Sufism, as elucidated primarily in the works of Ibn’ Arabi and his school (to which I shall turn more fully in appendix has become available to the larger Western public.

This vast body of metaphysical knowledge, along with traditional cosmology, which results from applying metaphysical principles to both the macrocosmic and microcosmic domains (not what is understood by cosmology and psychology today), is one of the great legacies of Sufism. This body of knowledge provides a key to understanding the nature of the Real, the reality of the cosmos, and our own being. It contains a map for getting from Here to There as well as the means of realizing that There is Here and Now, at the centre of our being and in the present moment.

In the traditional Islamic world this knowledge was known to only a few, but now with the spread of all kinds of modern secular philosophies and problems created by ill-posed questions that threaten the very citadel of faith, this metaphysical and cosmological knowledge bequeathed by over a millennium of Sufism to the present- day generation is of the utmost importance for psychology, the Islamic tradition as a whole. It also provides the necessary preliminary map for those, including non-Muslims, who want to know who they are, where they are, and where they should be going.

Metaphysics and cosmology is interconnected to some extent, therefore is launch the inner and outer world to be connected and be the part of logical mind to understand and soul to absorb it.

 

Present Day Muslims

‘’All things in the heavens and on the earth give glory to God, the sovereign Lord, the Holy One, the One Who possesses all power and knowledge’’.

(The Holy Qur’an)

The general condition of life for Muslims in the second half of the twentieth century can only be understood if we consider the totality of all the factors shaping their current situation. One of the most important points is the present geo-political distribution of Muslims. The majority are living in so-called Muslim states, many of which are Arabic speaking (nearly one-sixth of all Muslims are Arabs) joined together by a powerless political coalition called the Arab League (established in 1945). In 1971 over forty governments with Islam as their declared state religion joined together in an Organization of the Islamic Conference and by 1992 there were forty-six members of the OIC.

The reality is that Muslim states are continuously embroiled in the senseless controversy and even political or military confrontation with each other. There is very little real harmony between them or a common higher objective. Muslims with in these states are also divided in the broader sense along ethnic, racial, sectarian, and linguistic lines. Sectarianism within the Sunni majority, as well as between Sunnis and shi’is is often exploited. The unifying attributes of Islam—– Humanity, reasonableness, piety, submission to Allah, knowledge of the Qur’an and way of the Holy Prophet of Allah ——– are not the primary objectives of Muslims rulers or their state policies. Present day Muslims are divided by artificial geo-political lines and ruled by puppet kings, sultans, and presidents who are allied to or nominated by Western diktat, upon whose advice, technology, and economic control they are dependent.

Within these states much official propaganda and discussion about the glory of past Islam is indulged in. Thus, we see and hear of Islamic conferences, Islamic parties, Islam banks, and even enforced Islamic codes. As the Islamic sentiment of the masses grows their governments label most of their acts as ‘’Islamic’’, without any true spiritual conviction or transformation.

For the first time in the twentieth century, however, the shock of the Islamic revolution in Iran brought the decaying conditions of Muslims sharply into focus and triggered attempts to arrest this decay and possibly renew and revive the Din of Islam. The rise of Islam in Iran, and its challenge to the techno-imperial power of America, resulted in a decade of war against Iran, fought of course by proxy of the brutal Iraqi government with aid and encouragement from Arabs Muslim states under the supervision of the West. The events in Iran brought about widespread interest and debates throughout the Muslim world.   (Continue Part II)

The superficial divisions among Muslims are perpetuated by the lack of proper basic education. This lack is comprehensive for it includes the Qur’anic and prophetic teachings, in particular the higher spiritual values of the Din. The historical neglect of the education of Muslim women has ensured that the mother is left ignorant and thus bound to raise children in an un-Islamic manner.  The Holy Prophet (PBUH) said: ‘’ The true school is the mother’’.

A tradition which, like many others, is often repeated and little acted upon. The Holy Prophet (PBUH) also called upon Muslims to seek knowledge ‘’even if it was a china’’ (I-e, far away), but as we have seen, The Qur’anic and spiritual knowledge of Islam, have become the preserve of a few specialists while the majority of Muslims remain content with outer Islamic cultural or ethnic trappings.

A contribution factor to the lack of Muslim mass education is the dominance of a class of professional ‘Ulama and Mullas ——-the so—- called ‘’clergy.’’ As they established themselves as the guardians of the Din, People complacently delegated their religious duties to this class of experts instead of fulfilling the prophetic injunction for everyone—-man and women alike — to strive to gain full spiritual knowledge. And so we now have dismal but common scenario of Muslims paying someone else to recite the Qur’an once in a while, usually on the occasion of bereavement, instead of learning and acting upon the Qur’an itself.

Islam teaches that it is the community that has to perform all functions of the life-transaction for themselves and by themselves and not to rely on the specialist professionals. In fact, it is blame worthy act to be paid for teaching religion, reading the Quran, or even being an undertake. The community is beholden to serve itself and thereby increase human interaction and interdependence.

The slow erosion of Islamic values and way of life during the twentieth century, coupled with Western material, monetary, technological, educational and political dominance over Muslim lands, has caused most Muslims to imitate Western culture wholesale as  an act of ‘’progress’’. Blind westernization has naturally resulted in frustration, disappointment, anger, and nostalgia and sometimes a desperate desire to revive the Din at any cost. The average educated Muslim continues to be confused about the possibility of modernization without de-spiritualizing westernization.

A natural outcome of this confusion is seen in frequent upheavals, usually accompanied by ineffective anti-Western slogans and various other forms of emotional and sometimes violent defiance, ranging from small demonstrations to hostage-taking and major revolutions. Many Muslims feel nostalgic for the past, disappointed in the present, angry with unjust rulers, and despairing as a result of poverty, exploitation, and other inhuman and un-Islamic conditions. Large numbers of Muslims also live in non-Muslim states throughout the world. For example, the population of Muslims in India, which is secular, is greater than that in Muslim Pakistan.

Most Muslim living in the West is economic emigrants from Asia or Africa, with the exception of a small but increasing number of converts. Although these immigrants have brought with them some of their national, ethnic ways and customs peculiar to their individual cultural backgrounds, their descendants are gradually rediscovering original Islam and its high values and moral standards, as their inherited cultural baggage is gradually peeled off.

Younger Muslim generations in the West are no longer hypnotized by the myth of an alternative system for honorable and fulfilling human interaction other than the sublime path of Islam. In a shrinking world where it is becoming increasingly clear that the emperor has no clothes, their awakening is gradually being shared throughout the Muslim world. The myth and collapse of Communism can only be followed by the discovery of the falsehood of apparently civilized Capitalism. The idol of Capitalism is being dethroned.

 

The Pre-Mature Burial ;Pre-Mature Death

There is no need to be taste death obviously to have burial. In today’s world the death is on the way. In fact death is the over period of this world but the world has the sign for another.  Alive beings are also buried among walls or under the false materials of social systems. The pathos upon world is that they are generating each ambiguity by themselves due to their mistakes. World is going on astray, working for the so called establishment and developments but there is nothing to be last forever.

There are so many cases which known by world already where the innocent people are suffering a lot, to the excess and to the heights. There is no jury no law and order which can save them because law is blind. So called jury is paralyzed. Infact, this world is getting mean day by day having no certain objective for the humanity. People who are talking about humanity they are just delivering lectures for the sake of nothing or for the sake of their own means.

Today’s Human is greedy; his perspective is to search his own means among others and in the traits where he can enhance his own greed to be fulfilled. This greedy spirit has been spread all over due to which the most element to eat up the humanity and humanism.

Due to which one human is getting strong in his will and considering others just salve to his will and causing damage not only to their identities, but also to their self dignity. Due to this major reason today humans not need to be buried under the earth but most of them are buried alive into four walls. Buried alive into their own mentalities, buried alive into their own disorder psyche.

Imperialism or the superrich source human from the world has been begins wish to the supreme power to get control over, to rule to make humans like himself to be enslaved. This lead to astray; the path of satin to over whelm the negative sources and approaches. What is enhanced somewhat merely in the world with focus. This world has been picturesque today apparently the graphic world where humans are not needed but the machines or manmade marvels. Man made mentality is over ruling this world. Machismo and mechanical approach is the most vital.

Man is away from the nature and its instincts. Away from religious aspects, away from natural resources, away from instinctive and impulsive natural system. Though man is considering this his success but having all this and seeing all this the day is not far when Sun will rise from West as per the promise of Almighty, as a sign that this mortal world is near to End.

Gather on the plat forum where we all need unity, faith, discipline, courage, dignity and above all humanity. We don’t need to led down our own species as the salve one to one of us out of greed but to Almighty Creator.

 

Appreciation Column

~ Next to excellence is the appreciation of it ~

“True Spirit is revealing, and the revelation leads to the path where Knowledge and Quest for Divinity begins. The ecstasy of Knowledge is hidden in Learning and Learning maketh the TRUE Spirit Extravagantly Genuine Esoteric.’’

Teaching the most respectable, honorable and most dignified career that provokes the school of thought to understand the materials and materialistic outwardly and worldly affairs.

The one, who is learned, qualified in understanding the ebbs and flows of life and having intense experiences that open the doors to the world and window to the ecstasy of spiritual world, can and could achieve the Reality and Truth; which is fundamentally the citadel of faith.

This metaphysical and cosmological knowledge bequeathed and beseeched with the intensive, instinctive and intuitional ideas and capsules of thoughts. This body of knowledge provides a key to understanding the nature of the Real, the reality of the cosmos, and our being. It contains the map for getting from Here to There as well as the means of realizing that There is Here and Now, at the centre of our being and in the present moment.  Generally what is this world? The place of temporary transaction of spirit in the body containing so many Realities absorbed in.

The serene objective is obviously the vital soul of the Reason. Primarily, the learning, seeking, searching, questing are the fibers of knowledge enchantment, enhancement and adhering the provoked hidden realities. Teaching becomes the circle of this as it is impulsive that whatever one seeks should vibrate.

This vibe ration was once conquered the world, when Prophet (PBUH) has taught the world lessons of Realties and widespread the Light of Knowledge. Thought, is a seed in a soil which fertilize the land with the heavy and healthy crops, the culcated thought based on Reality and Truth should be vindicate generations to generations, so that we can have the self dignified live as well as a staunch sco- economical system based on Din, with lead role of Islam.

Though, this is the best of times yet the worst as yet to come to believe. We have been far away the teaching taught to us by Almighty Allah through Islam, Holy Prophet (PBUH) The Holy Quran our Spiritual path. It is important to analyze that we are victim of social and cultural optimized pseudo-imperialistic approaches. However the Realities are over curtain today and all the way to the people who remember their Lord and recall His favor to proceed.

Consequently, above compliance is an attempt to sprang the complimentary clause for the beginning of the institution where the gathering of the seniors or juniors should be the not enough than a vow to be on the platform to seek to learn to gain and to be not empty vessel but the jar full of milk of knowledge.

For the organizational setup or the pre-oriented management the personalities and their profound traits and magnetic idosyncraisis must needed. For the purpose to elaborate the materialistic realities to the junior beings this is vital most. Furthermore, psychology is such labyrinth which is much known today but still stays a mystery and it traps if its’ grooming not done on the patterns of said or taught entities or identities.

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune.

‘Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It takes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.

Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.

Appreciation is one the most remarkable source of support.

It does not need money, materialism or heavy investments to deliver or to have smiles on other’s faces.

This is another name to devotion and dedication.

It is much enhancing and much elaborating. It is the most probable and morally it is all about Gratitude; which is parent among all other behaviors.

Magnetic words that create the harmonized and the utmost gratitude for the complimentary sequence are the worth of human psychological fulfillment.

Because unless we as humans appreciate each others for worthy abilities and the growth of the collective social growth, that will lead path towards the achievement and the betterment of the learning future.

It is not essential that only juniors need words of appreciation to grow and to move forward with confidence and self dignity.

Everyone needs it at every stage for the self satisfaction and exploring his unique identity among other beings to be differentiated. These honors of getting the true remarks that make us grow, there is no other substitute and it will add on the ever remembrance in human’s mind. Whenever we recall the moments of our success we will not be able to forget the words of the appreciations related to that sequence.

Above column has been dedicated to an institution which got the beginning as a learning centre and all the best wishes and amiable desires for the working team and the management who will guide the new generation towards the future to have broader vision and to capture the wider horizon.

Congratulations! May Almighty Allah bless you to lead this up to the conquering level where the worth of it must be recognized well and you, your team would be differentiated among others with their own self dignity, hard work and unique style and with true commitments, unconquerable will and convictions. Yet;

‘Vicegerent of Earth’ —— The Man master piece of Creator —- Living or surviving —– Alive or dead —– Make so ever —– The story of Mankind—- History of history — Chapters of chapters —– All narrates but still hard to elaborate ………..’

Human is an amphibian, (psychologically) having many senses of world and each world of sense has its own language of salience and noise and these all senses of world of one single human needs identity, recognizations and illumination to the outer course of the other effecting sense of another human.

By understanding such hidden mysteries, Human mind and soul achieve the originality of this worldly life, Of Lord Almighty of him/herself above all the objective to be here and the success and the goal here after in next world.

This column is an appreciation, an effort and complimentary graph for a generous, amiable, and pragmatic and thought provoking beings…… Hope that above column will achieve its true purpose to be remaining a part of ever sustaining appreciation applause and clause.

Wishing them all the very best with heartily prayers to up front the world with your exploring reality the way truly beings you are not with the cultural adaptation.

Thanking you, in advance for providing me an opportunity to share my views with you and be the part of your remembrance as my writing.

Yours Truly! ……….Farah Tufail

 

Rulers and the Ruled

‘What ever good befalls you is from God; and whatever misfortune befalls you is from yourself.’

(The Holy Qur’an)

Islam assumes that the governing elite should be an example upholding the highest level of Islamic ethical conduct, both in their outer rituals as well as in their personal qualities. When, however, this is not realized a clear division appears between the class of rulers and the ruled. Such divergence in the history of Muslims has often led to confrontation and revolt.

An institutionalized separation between the rulers and the ruled had begun from the death of the fourth Caliph’ Hazrat Ali (Razi Tal’ah Anhoo), when the objectives and the life styles of the Umayyad Caliphs and courtiers diverged from the general Muslim public. This state of affairs continued almost throughout the entire history of Muslims. In the early days it was the Byzantine and Persian Sassanian administrators and court advisors who helped Muslim rulers in fiscal and other bureaucratic controls. These were gradually replaced by other non-Muslims and foreigners who not only dealt with matters of finance but also military affairs and foreign relations.

The Ulama of the courts were all highly domesticated, often chosen for their tolerance, support, and ability to rationalize the rulers’ decisions and actions according to Islamic legal and theological precept. These Ulama were often held in contempt by ordinary people, echoing what prophet had said.

’’ I fear for my people (on account of) the Ulama who condone the rulers.’’

For the most part court life and public life continued in parallel giving rise to a culture of accord and mutual understanding. As long as the ruler appeared to be reasonably just and not too oppressive, the two tiers co-existed. Occasionally, however, confrontations erupted and in most cases the rulers resorted to brutality and sheer force, manipulation and certain compromising adjustments. Because the Shi’i maintained that the right to rule Muslims belongs to the qualified Imam, in whose absence only the most pious and knowledgeable could rule, the majority of the shi’is either opposed or ignored the institution of kings and sultans. The Sunnis on the other hand often accepted the rule of any Muslim as long as he professed Islam and the majority of the populace acquiesced.

The general population had their own hierarchy of Ulama as well as of leaders of commerce, artisans, and landowners. The ‘’people’s system was allowed to function as long as the ruler was paid his taxes and allowed to requisition his recruits. These Ulama and mosques maintained their independence from ruling interest through endowment, often in the form of shops and other sources of income.

This was general arrangements until the emergence of the twentieth-century modern Muslim, ‘’State. ‘The model for which was imported from the West and forcibly grafted on to Muslim lands, for it was not an indigenously cultivated model. From then on all mosques and other Muslim institutions were absorbed by the governments, thus coming directly under centralized rule. By the middle of the century, the new-style governments controlled every aspect of the life of the Muslim masses. This resulted in the rise of numerous opposition groups, frequent confrontation, and all kinds of social upheavals and disasters. In the past the alienation of the rulers from the ruled had seldom resulted in such major clashes because people had been left alone to live their ‘’separate’’ lives.

The situation in contemporary ‘’ Muslim states’’ is such that the rulers version of Islam is often no more than a ritualistic veneer, bearing no resemblance to the divine prophetic model. Pious and serious Muslims often consider their Government as traitors to the true cause of Islam and all attempts to democratize or parliamentize their method of government have therefore resulted in failure or are mere cosmetic face-lift to ensure Western approval.

 

Metaphysical and Cosmological Doctrines

Pure Metaphysics, which is also the theoretical dimension of salvific knowledge, is the science of the Real and is therefore most essential for human beings, since they have ultimately no possibility of escaping from reality. In the modern West, metaphysics and gnosis soon became a branch of philosophy, understood in the modern sense, and this subordination was followed by the complete rejection of metaphysics by many schools of Western thought, especially from the nineteenth century onward, as we see in Marxism, Comptianism, logical positivism, Anglo-Saxon analytical philosophy, and the like. Soon real metaphysics was forgotten, not to mention the means of realizing its truths.

But the thirst for real knowledge continued to manifest itself in certain Western souls, who again turned to the Orient and with its help, to the forgotten metaphysical tradition of the West. In this quest for metaphysical knowledge Hinduism, especially the school of Advaita Vedanta, attracted many people. It is only during the past few decades that the metaphysics of Sufism, as elucidated primarily in the works of Ibn’ Arabi and his school (to which I shall turn more fully in appendix has become available to the larger Western public.

This vast body of metaphysical knowledge, along with traditional cosmology, which results from applying metaphysical principles to both the macrocosmic and microcosmic domains (not what is understood by cosmology and psychology today), is one of the great legacies of Sufism. This body of knowledge provides a key to understanding the nature of the Real, the reality of the cosmos, and our own being. It contains a map for getting from Here to There as well as the means of realizing that There is Here and Now, at the centre of our being and in the present moment.

In the traditional Islamic world this knowledge was known to only a few, but now with the spread of all kinds of modern secular philosophies and problems created by ill-posed questions that threaten the very citadel of faith, this metaphysical and cosmological knowledge bequeathed by over a millennium of Sufism to the present- day generation is of the utmost importance for psychology, the Islamic tradition as a whole. It also provides the necessary preliminary map for those, including non-Muslims, who want to know who they are, where they are, and where they should be going.

Metaphysics and cosmology is interconnected to some extent, therefore is launch the inner and outer world to be connected and be the part of logical mind to understand and soul to absorb it.

 

Wisdom Quotes

  • ‘Wisdom generates intellectuals’.
  • ‘Wisdom is a weapon for thinker ‘.
  • ‘Wisdom makes Man a Super being ‘.
  • ‘Best communication and better way of conversation itself is wisdom’.
  • ‘Wisdom is not only for wise people but by using it anyone can be wise’.
  • ‘Think, Read & Write these three major qualities and abilities lead to wisdom’.
  • ‘Voice of deep thought and the way of expression for it cultivate wisdom in the Soil that here after becomes tree of knowledge’.
  • ‘Breathing as Crown of Creation and knowing of nothing is befooling human  Identity and ridicules the fate lines of struggle where wisdom stay apart ‘.
  • ‘Perpetual, conceptional and liberal people remain and spend their lives in quest Of knowledge and wisdom’.
  • ‘Keep the wise people to spread knowledge and wisdom as they are the true sharers of truth and divinity’.