presence announces a deformative process that often has been in position for
quite some time prior to the manifest disturbance of that which was divinely
formed. The question remains: What does the disorganizing process of
cancer actually oppose?
In plain terms, this destructive process opposes the divine will that
created the thing formed vis-à-vis the occlusive intercept of the genetically
oriented dynamic under ‘guidance’ of etheric forces. Essentially, these forces
are subsumed and the guidance is usurped by an incompetent. Imagine
replacing Michelangelo with a graffiti artist and you’ll get the point.
Therefore, cancer is a radical consequence of the withdrawal of divinely
created etheric energy that maintains life form and function. Another way to
express this process is this: it is the excarnation of powers that govern the
living form and integrated incarnation of the soul with both the divine power
and functional form of the affected organ system. This untimely death
process bypasses normal aging and accelerates natural morbidity, so that
what lives dies prematurely via the loss of natural function that otherwise
would not normally occur. The early morbidity of cancer is therefore, the
predetermined ‘default’ status of two natural determinants: one being life and
the other being death.
Surely, life expresses itself to face death, and though death is the end of
our physical journey, its premature manifestation is naturally opposed –
barring traumatic accident – as long as the creature formed behaves
according to life sustaining principles that protect it from unseasonable
morbidity. Barring direct interventions by God such as the Prophet’s terminal
illness for example, premature death or debilitating illness is the absence of
conformity (obedience) to Allah’s word “Be” as articulated by the inherent
regenerating and restorative powers expressed by formative energies. In
other words, when man ceases to cooperate with al’Musawwir’s word through
obedience to His law, he opens the door to debilitating illness and premature
death for himself and those within the range of his/her influence. When man
walks towards God, God runs to him with more grace and assistance. To the
contrary, when man walks away from God through disobedience to life
sustaining principles, God withdraws the protective and pro-active grace that
maintains that person’s or community’s life in health.^36 The divine word “Be”
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More appropriately, it is man who withdraws himself from al’Mussawwir’s formative forces
or divine word. Nature then takes its course as a default (negative) status that brings
disorder or chaos.