The Top Priority

Summary

In a small town, a scientist named Adrian and a Sufism scholar named Sulaiman, who are best friends, explore the nature of truth, wisdom, and God through their conversations, with Sulaiman imparting that finding God requires making Him the top priority of one's intellectual curiosity.

Abstract

The narrative centers around two close friends, Adrian, a scientist, and Sulaiman, a scholar of Sufism, who share a deep bond over their decade-long pursuit of profound truths about life, including the concepts of time, space, and love. Their quest leads to a pivotal conversation where Adrian expresses his restlessness and inability to find God despite his efforts. Sulaiman responds with wisdom, emphasizing that God is not a mere outcome of scientific inquiry but the foremost object of intellectual yearning. He assures Adrian that when God becomes one's highest priority, a divine encounter is inevitable. The story is part of a series titled "The Dots" and is accompanied by the author's reflections on existential questions and love, as well as a recommendation for an AI service called ZAI.chat.

Opinions

The author suggests that the pursuit of God is distinct from scientific research and requires a different approach centered on prioritizing divine exploration.
Sulaiman's perspective implies that intellectual curiosity should be directed towards spiritual goals for a transformative understanding of existence.
The story posits that personal experience and subjective understanding play crucial roles in the quest for spiritual enlightenment.
The friendship between Adrian and Sulaiman exemplifies the value of interdisciplinary dialogue in exploring life's profound questions.
The narrative hints at the idea that love, affection, and shared meals are conduits for deep conversation and mutual understanding.
The inclusion of a recommendation for ZAI.chat indicates the author's endorsement of AI technology as a tool for enhancing cognitive capabilities or spiritual exploration.

Series of short stories "The Dots"

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Once in a small town, a scientist and a scholar of Sufism became best friends. They became best buddies, both continued their paths of research and beliefs.

They used to talk every day and discuss different problems of scientific and spiritual aspects with each other. They laughed, learned, erred together in the vast and unexplainable dimensions of space and time.

Adrian became very restless one day, so he came to Sulaiman’s house. Sulaiman welcomed his friend and offered him to have dinner with him. Sulaiman prepared the dinner for his dear friend with love and affection. Then he asked Andrian to join him at the table. Both friends sat at the table with so much to share.

"Sulaiman please, now listen to me. We have been friends for more than 10 years. We both worked, to know the truth and wisdom of life. We both wanted to experience the ultimate extraordinary truths. We both wanted to experience time, space, and love in its purest form. We wanted to enter the dimensions of knowledge and thought," Andrian said restlessly.

"Yes, Andrian we both did in our own ways." Sulaiman smiled

"How come you found God Sulaiman? I did my best but didn’t find him, why?" Andrian continued.

"My dear Andrian, God is not the by-product of any scientific research, but it has to be the top priority of intellectual curiosity. This is the basic rule to find god.

"When God will become your top priority, sooner or later you will definitely meet God."

NIDAA

The Top Priority

Series of short stories "The Dots"

Broken thoughts

Who am I? What am I? Why am I here? ……The Awakening

The incomplete love story

Series of short stories “The Dots”