Why did Charles Darwin a Christian dervish believed that man evolved from ape ?
Let me tell you a story first
Once Upon a time there was a Sufi ( He was a Dehlavi) devout who while giving lectures never used to look at the face of his followers.
One day a disciple of his asked "Guru why you don't look at the face of the disciple when you deliver lectures?"
The Sufi without giving any answer took of his namaz cap and put it on the head of his disciple.
When wore the cap the disciple looked at his fellow members and saw that each man is some sort of animal. par example some are panthers , some are wolves, some are bears ,some are tigers e.t.c That is the Kashf ( insight) of the disciple got opened and he could see the Nafs (soul) of people and soul of the people were mostly in animal level. this concept is similar to the concept found in the movie golden compass.The film is set in a world where a person's spirits resides outside their body in an animal-like form called a Demon.
Nafsi Ammara
In this first level of the development of man, the rational self and human conscience have been defeated by lust and carnal desires. At this stage, our self does not recognize any rational or moral barriers to get what it wants. It expresses itself in selfishness, arrogance, ambition, stinginess, envy, anger, cynicism, laziness and stupidity. Originally, nafs, ones self, identity, ones own personality and reality, is one of the Creator’s gifts to man. But because we allow it to lean towards material values, to take pleasure only in worldly life, and because we succumb to fleshly lusts, it has turned ugly and become almost animal-like, while its shape remains that of a human being. It is a fauve camouflaged in the appearance of man, a mad wild animal which bites and claws itself as well as others (source:- Sufi Path of Love Platform Naqshbandi Haqqani Rabbani Holland:internet)
Reader is familiar with the above illustrations , these are illustrations done by Beatrix Potter, here we can see she depicted the animals in human forms . Why did she do it ? where she got her ideas from? Now we look at the life of Beatrix Potter Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author, illustrator , natural scientist and Conservationist , best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life. She was an ascetic and a spinster, In 1913, at the age of 47, she married William Heelis, a respected local solicitor from Hawkshead.
So we can see Beatrix Potter was an ascetic, then it is logical that she had " kashf " (insight) like those of Sufis and could see man has an animal soul.
That is why she wrote her fairy tales.
The Bengali writer Sukumar Ray also wrote fairy tales ( Ha Ja Ba ra La ) where animals were depicted in human forms as in Beatrix Potter ,Aesop., Alice in wonder land .
Sukumar Ray was a saintly type , so he had insight like Sufi. he saw animal soul that resides inside man.
Lewis Carroll's Alice in wonder land has animal character which wear clothes and walks and talks like man . Mr. Carroll was a saint , then he had insight like Sufi ; could see the nafs ammara in men .
General Law : Beatrix Potter , Lewis Carroll , Sukumar Ray , Aesop , Dehlavi were all saints.
Therefore , saints and dervishes can see the beasts that resides in human body .
H.G.Wells wrote a novel The island of Dr.Moreau where a certain Dr.Moreau gave the animals ability to talk and walk like man by means of surgery. Now where did H.G.Wells got his idea from? it is plausible that he had insight like that of Sufi
so he could see the animals within man ,that's where he wrote the novel.
same thing can be said about George Orwell's Animal Farm.
in the satire animal farm , animals could walk and talk like men. so Orwell also had insight , could see the animal within men ,from there he wrote the book.
therefore we come to a general rule, saints can see the animal soul within men. then , Anthropomorphism in Science fiction comes from insight (Kashf)
So we can write : Anthropomorphism = Sufism.
The Island of Doctor Moreau is about Darwinism .Thus , Anthropomorphism = Darwinism.
Now we come to Darwinism.
Biologically man evolved from the apes , so man can be pictured as apes in clothes; walking and talking , as in the film planet of the apes or as in cartoon of Darwin's.
scientifically man is a walking talking monkey, like those found in fairy tales. loosely from Darwinism we can see that man are form of animals in clothes;walking and talking, like Aesop's fables. (then Aesop's fables are a form of Darwinism?) Aesopism says human behavior comes from the animal soul that resides in them ; similarly , Darwinism advocates that human emotions come from animal ancestors by means of Evolution. So Darwinism is "biological-ized" version of Aesop's Fables. it is also like the vision of Sufi Mr. Dehlavi , where men are spiritually animals.
Then Aesop-ism = Darwinism
and Aesop-ism = Anthropomorphism = Sufism
Therefore, Darwinism = Sufism.
It is known fact that Charles Darwin was a christian Dervish , in other words a sufi . then Darwin had insight (Kashf) he could see animals within men , this way he realized man is a form of animal.similarly H.G.Wells saw animal within men, based on that idea He wrote The island of Dr.Moreau , from same idea Beatrix Potter wrote her fairy tales.
Understanding that man is an animal , he turned his attention toward comparative anatomy , figured out the cause of anatomical similarity, and formulated theory of evolution.That is he Biological-ized Aesop's ideas.
Understanding that man is an animal , he turned his attention toward comparative anatomy , figured out the cause of anatomical similarity, and formulated theory of evolution.That is he Biological-ized Aesop's ideas.
It is academically accepted that Darwin traveled the globe on H M S Beagle , saw many varieties of a same species , specially in the Galapagos , and read Lyell's idea on slow geological change and there he got the idea that species have a common origin and Man evolved from a lower form. But the Mystical knowledge existed in his mind long before his voyage , he just gathered biological data to support his insight ( Kasf).
So our discussion shows the fact that knowledge of Darwinism came from the spiritual plane.
Epistemology:
Charles Darwin , was a christian friar, He was Dervish Like Mr. Dehlavi , He achieved the intellectual soul (Aql) and insight ( Kashf ) . So he could see the souls ( Nafs ) of Man , which are in animal forms , He like Aesop realized that the Cause of human ethos is this animal soul . Then He Biological - ized his mystical insight by gathering data from Comparative anatomy and paleontology . He showed that man evolved from beasts , that's why man has beast like emotion. it is something like biological explanation of Aesop's fables.
Origin of social Darwinism:
Social Darwinism is a term commonly used for theories of society that emerged in England and the United States in the 1870s, seeking to apply the principles of Darwinian evolution to sociology and politics. It especially refers to notions of struggle for existence being used to justify social policies which make no distinction between those able to support themselves and those unable to support themselves. The most prominent form of such views stressed competition between individuals in laissez-faire capitalism; but it is also connected to the ideas of eugenics, scientific racism,imperialism, fascism, Nazism and struggle between national or racial groups.
(see Wikipedia)Why , Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) an English philosopher, biologist,sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era promulgated theory of social Darwinism ??
consider the comics Maus,
Maus: A Survivor's Tale, by Art Spiegelman, is a biography of the author's father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. It alternates between descriptions of Vladek's life in Poland before and during the Second World War and Vladek's later life in the Rego Park neighborhood of New York City. The work is a graphic narrative in which Jews are depicted as mice, while Germans are depicted as cats and the polish as pigs. It is the only comic book ever to have won a Pulitzer Prize.
Mr. Spiegelman had insight like a Sufi ,He could see that every man is some form of species , some are rat , some are cat ,some are dog . etc. based on it he wrote MAUS.
(see Wikipedia)Why , Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) an English philosopher, biologist,sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era promulgated theory of social Darwinism ??
consider the comics Maus,
Maus: A Survivor's Tale, by Art Spiegelman, is a biography of the author's father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. It alternates between descriptions of Vladek's life in Poland before and during the Second World War and Vladek's later life in the Rego Park neighborhood of New York City. The work is a graphic narrative in which Jews are depicted as mice, while Germans are depicted as cats and the polish as pigs. It is the only comic book ever to have won a Pulitzer Prize.
Mr. Spiegelman had insight like a Sufi ,He could see that every man is some form of species , some are rat , some are cat ,some are dog . etc. based on it he wrote MAUS.
Now Mr. Spencer was a sage like Darwin, Spencer = Darwin =dervish
so he also had insight , like The Sufi when he saw that spiritually ( Nafs) every man is different type of species , he thought that there should be struggle for existence within societies like there is struggle for existence in jungle , for men are different species .This will cause Social and spiritual evolution of man.
Religious belief of Hitler is a bit confusing, He was Nihilist but also was influenced by Islam and The eastern mysticism ( See Wikipedia).
Never The less , Hitler had Insight (Kashf ) and could see the Fauve (Nafs) that reside in human body. .
Each man has the soul of the wild beasts.
Influenced By social Darwinism He Grouped Each race as each species , Like Germans are Cats and Jews are mice.
So, The Nazi thought,Like the cats kill the mice mercilessly and becomes strong , the Germans would kill the Jews mercilessly and become spirituality powerful..
