some comments about myngath

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Return to The Numinous Way?

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What intrigued me the most about your recently published autobiography,Myngath, was your return to Islam after having developed your ownphilosophy, The Numinous Way. This return considering its importance seemed somewhat glossed over. Can you explain why you didnt go into moredetail?

Basically because I did not want to make excuses for my behaviour, my failure,my errors. For the weakness which saw me stray from the noble Muslimguidelines regarding personal behaviour and thus become involved with acertain lady, and which involvement ended in her suicide.

Also because I know that Allah Al-Hakeem, As-Sabur, Ar-Raheem will judgeme and that it is the judgement of Allah Subhanahu wa Taala that matters, notwhat some people may think, or believe, or assume about me.

Suffice, therefore, to say that after the death of a certain lady and followinga years-long interior struggle between humility and pride I strayed for abrief while because my pride won; strayed briefly until I was given someguidance and advice, in private, by some brothers I respected who had becomeconcerned about me, may Allah Subhanahu wa Taala reward them.

Thus, it was not in essence a leaving and a return to Islam, for I, inwardly,never renounced my Shahadah. Instead, I had certain serious doubts, which Isometimes foolishly and rather arrogantly expressed in letters and variousessays; had ceased to follow certain Muslim guidelines, and publicly allowedmyself to become associated with the mystical philosophy of The Numen I haddeveloped during and because of the years of that personal interior struggle.Indeed, twice, during this brief period, two people who were not Muslim wroteto me to enquire if I still considered myself Muslim, and to both I answered inthe affirmative, although I have to admit that at that time I inclined toward acertain tariqat, the interior way. Furthermore, the more I developed myphilosophy of The Numen, the closer I seemed to come to such an interior wayso that, for instance, what I had termed The Cosmic Being was Allah,Al-Khaliq, and empathy simply a remembrance oftawadu andDhikr, and thusof ourselves as Ibaad Ar-Rahman.

Hence, in a sense before I received such necessary guidance by learnedbrothers I was possibly moving again in the right direction. Although it is

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also possible, or more probable, given my arrogance, that I would have goneeven more astray were it not, Alhamdulillah, for such guidance.

That development of The Numinous Way sounds most interesting. Would I becorrect in thinking youve written about this, and if so, do you intend topublish these new writings?

There are various scribblings concerning it, yes but I do not intend to publishthem because they now, like most of my non-Muslim scribblings over theyears, seem to be the work of an arrogant pontificating individual whomistakenly prided himself on his intellect, his knowledge, and hisunderstanding, when what he needed was humility to accept he was just oneerror-prone creation of Al-Bari, who should have been content with theknowledge, the understanding, of being one of the Ibaad Ar-Rahman.

Would it be fair to say that your drift away, however brief it was and theinterior struggles you mentioned were caused by you falling in love?

Yes, to an extent but it was the death of the lady in question, the manner ofher death, my part in it, which led to the three long years of personal,philosophical, turmoil. I really felt in the immediacy of the days followingthat tragic event responsible, and that it would be just too easy, not somehowright, for me to simply rely on Allah Subhanahu wa Taala, and thus ask forforgiveness; to thus have the burden of remorse, the responsibility, alleviatedor so taken away. I felt I had to work things out for myself personally come toterms with the tragedy, and my part in it.

In retrospect, this was arrogantly presumptuous of me. A manifestation of mystill living, thriving, pride. A manifestation of my failure inwardly, in my verybeing to fully, humbly, submit to only Allah Subhanahu wa Taala; to rely onlyon Allah Subhanahu wa Taala. Instead, I relied, also, on my intellect on whatI assumed was my ability to discover, by means of my intellect, learning andexperience, certain answers to questions which perplexed me.

Furthermore, for quite some time I subsumed with emotions stupidly failedto understand the most obvious thing, which was that I should not have strayedfrom the noble, the most wise, Muslim guidance regarding personal behaviourwhich Allah Subhanahu wa Taala had given us to prevent such personal

turmoil and such personal problems, and which problems can obscure thesimple trust and reliance on Allah Subhanahu wa Taala that we should have.Had I then relied solely on Allah Subhanahu wa Taala as, intellectually, Iknew I should and in my weakness and lust thus found the strength to followthose noble guidelines, the lady might well not have died.

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tawadu; of what being Muslim means. Perhaps not for perhaps assumption ofhaving acquired a better understanding of such things is just another arrogantpresumption on my part.

So all I can do now is remember Allah, Ar-Rahman, Ar-Raheem, and trust inAllah, Al-Aleem, and hope that my pride, my arrogance, my lust my manifold

weaknesses some of which I have mentioned inMyngath will not cause me tostray from such perfect guidance, again.

In respect of such matters, there is real wisdom in these words, from the nobleQuran:

(39:53)

Why did you write Myngath?

Basically because people kept asking me about my past, about my marriages,and especially about my involvement with National-Socialism and the reasonswhy I supported that particular cause for so many decades. As the clich goes,it seemed a good idea at the time, although in retrospect it was probably a badidea, sheer vanity, even though I tried to be as honest as possible about mymistakes.

At the end ofMyngath you wrote that had learned the true meaning of boththe numinous and of wyrd. Can you therefore explain the terms numinous andwyrd in the context of Islam?

As I wrote in another essay, the term numinous is a synonym for the sacred,for what is revered and what reminds us of our true nature, as human beings;what places us in the correct Cosmic context, evident in Tawheed and thepromise of Jannah. Thus, Al-Quran is numinous; all Ayat, all Signs of Allah, arenuminous reminding us of Allah Subhanahu wa Taala; reminding us of the

beauty, the purity, of Emaan; reminding us of the truth, the perfection, thenuminosity, of the Deen that is Al-Islam.

As Allah Subhanahu wa Taala says:

These are the Ayat of the Book [al-Kitab] of al-Hikmah. 31:2Interpretation of Meaning


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Our true nature is Muslim, and this nature is manifest in the beautifulsimplicity of the KalimahAhadu an la ilaha illa-llah, wa ahadu annaMuhammadun Aabduhu wa rasulu.

As for the Old English word wyrd often rather incorrectly understood as Fateor The Fates (more accurate perhaps is the Greek, as in

, ) I meant, in Myngath, whatis implied by the Arabic expressions la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah andal-qada wa al-qadar.

In summary, the initial draft versions of Myngath were never intended forpublication I simply circulated copies to a few friends, for comments, andone or two of them passed copies on to others, and, as often seems to happenthese days, unfortunately, copies ended up on the Internet. So, when I hadfinished revising the work, I had to issue the revised work, dated 25 Shaban1431, myself.

It has been suggested - in a review of your autobiography - that the reason youended your relationship with the lady who committed suicide some hours afteryou had left, was because she did not want to convert to Islam. Is that correct?

Yes. We discussed, many times and over a period of many weeks, travellinginto the Western Desert, moving to live in Egypt, as I tried to explain to her,during those weeks and before, the beauty, the numinosity, of the Deen that isAl-Islam, and how it might be the solution to at least some of her problems.

Obviously, I failed - to explain such things or show them by my personalexample.

Have your how shall I say? your recent experiences changed your viewsregarding Jihad and supporting the Mujahideen?

On the contrary, they have strengthened my support for the Mujahideen andthose who lead and who advise them (hafizahumullaah) and for the view that Ihave inclined toward for over ten years, which is that the kuffar of the West

are probably the most dishonourable, bloodthirsty, conniving, insolent,hypocritical, people in human history and that cooperation with them inharam given their invasion of our lands, their killing, torture, andimprisonment of our brothers and sisters, their determination to export theirdysfunctional way of life to our lands, and their insolent demand that we bowdown to and accept their Tawagheet, such as democracy, and that we abandonour duty to implement the hukm of Allah in favour of their fallible kaffir


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manufactured laws.

What continues to annoy me is how the sheeple of the West continue to believethe propaganda of the hubriati about Al-Islam, the Mujahideen and theso-called war on terror, and continue to support the invasion and occupationof Muslim lands, and the implementation of so-called democracy by force,

when the governments of the West cannot even solve fundamental problems intheir own lands, such as rampant drug and alcohol abuse, violent crime,rampant domestic violence against women, racism, the misery andwage-slavery caused by usury, rampant prostitution and sex trafficking,and soon, etcetera. Islam has the solution to all these things or rather, Al-Islam andthe implementation of the hukm of Allah are the solution to all these things.

Hubriati? What do you mean?

The term refers to the privileged oligarchy, the minority, who effectivelycontrol the power in the societies of the West and who accept that the valuesand ways of the West are superior, and should be exported to other lands (ifnecessary by force, bribery, bullying and blackmail) even if they sometimeshave to pretend otherwise, in public. Some of these people are elected by theso-called democratic process, some such as Media moguls and those who run

agencies such as the CIA, are not. Classic examples of hubriati were Bush andBlair, while a current example is the tame house negro Obama.

According to the hubriati, their savants and the sheeple of the West, defiantMuslims who seek to do their duty and so implement the hukm of Allah andwho refuse to bow down and accept the Tawagheet of the West, are the enemy;the new heretics.

The term hubriati effectively defines who such people are for the hubriati, intheir arrogance, commit the fundamental error of hubris, and confound this

error by their utter hypocrisy and their profane privileged life-style, while theysanction or support or condone or excuse the killing, the imprisonment, ofIbaad Ar-Rahman such as the honourable and modest Mujahideen whosedevotion to Allah Subhanahu wa Taala, to their duty of Jihad, and whose puredesire to implement the hukm of Allah, make them examples for Muslimseverywhere.


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In the first part ofMyngath in theApologia section you seemed to suggestthat you had at last found an inner peace. Is that correct and is that as aMuslim?

That is correct, and yes as a Muslim. For several years after my reversion I

was happy, even content, and arrogantly, in my presumption, assumed Iunderstood certain things, especially myself. Then came doubt, inner turmoil,and falling in love with someone I, as a Muslim, should perhaps not have fallenin love with. All of which seemed to reveal that my basic character had notchanged as much as I had assumed, because of my reversion, that it had.

Now, I seem to have acquired, Alhamdulillah, what I can only describe as adeeper, a simple unaffected, appreciation of the perfect guidance given to usby Allah Subhanahu wa Taala in Quran and Sunnah, and thus an awareness ofjust how error-prone, arrant, and pathetic my own answers were. Which hasled me to a deeper, simple, unaffected, love for and respect of the Prophet,Muhammad, . All of which imputes a desire for Namaz.

Indeed, I would go so far as to say that I feel that in Namaz especially inJumaah Namaz we have the perfect manifestation of the numinous; theperfect way to remind ourselves of our true nature, as human beings, and theperfect way to be at peace with ourselves. Thus, Namaz becomes not anonerous duty, but rather an expression of our very humanity. Wa Allahu Alam.

David Myatt

(Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt)17 Ramadan 1431


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