"Let her learn Arabic, so she can talk to her father and some verses from the Koran", Mahmoud asked me when he saw his daughter when she was three months old.
The first part was more then logic to me. The language is part of her being and talking to her father in his language would be a gift for both of them.
The second part I felt resistance. Why I couldn't say yet. I didn't know myself.
Till a couple of nights ago. I lay next to her and remembered his words. Then it became clear what the resistance was all about. It has nothing to do with the Koran or the Islam. Her father had showed me the beautiful and loving side of this religion.
If I would teach her about the Islam, or any other religion, I would lead her immediately away from her own inner knowing of God.
She just came from the Source.
She remembers much better what it is and how it feels then I may do. She will move away form this knowing as soon as a grown-up will tell her from a book written by other grown-ups what or who God is and how we should live by His rules.
No. I can not do this.
She may be here to tell me about Her! To remember us what we have forgotten, because we were moved away from our own inner knowing since we were very small.
When the time comes when she is going to ask questions about this subject, I may answer her:
"You tell me, you know all about it."
What a beautiful challenge that will be, to keep my thoughts about this to myself. Thanks to Boudewijn Leliveld who said this to me, when I asked something I knew myself:
"You tell me, you know all about it.". He taught me not to take the most easy way by asking another person for the answers. But check your own inner library. You may have to wait for a while to get answers. But the answers will be the right ones for you.
