An Introduction to Islam, from a Different Perspective
Frequencies, prayer, fasting, tithing, and the Sound of the Heart
Not many people know a lot about Islam. It is a very sacred Abrahamic Faith. It includes chapters on Moses, Jesus, and Mary. Prophet Mohammed was a respected trader, and around the age of 40 began receiving revelations from God. He shared this wisdom with his community, and then Islam spread and expanded over generations and now has almost 2,000,000,000 followers. That’s 1/4 of the entire world!
I studied Middle Eastern Affairs, Arabic, and Islam at The George Washington University. I also studied abroad in at the University of Jordan. Additionally, I travelled to Syria, Lebanon, Palestine/Israel, Egypt, Dubai, and Turkey. I fasted once. I have been to mosques. I have lived in three Muslim countries: Jordan, Mali, and Morocco.
I also am a student of spirituality and different religions. I am a channeler, a shaman, and a spiritual guide. You can read my testimonials here. I had a spiritual awakening by God after graduate school at MIT and Harvard, but was always spiritual and curious about questions related to Why Are We Here on Earth my entire life.
I am from South Dakota, and therefore have studied Lakota spirituality, and also Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, the Bahai Faith, Zoroastrianism, the I Ching, the Tao Te Ching, etc.
In this article, I will discuss aspects of Islam that even some Muslims themselves may be unaware of.
Table of Contents
Frequencies of the 99 Names of Allah that describe God’s character and essence
Arabic, Algebra, and Islam = A Universe’s Prayer from Mohammed’s Heart
Fasting
Zakat, Tithing, Giving
Prayer, Stretching, Washing Your Body
A Gentle Reminder of Non-Judgment
Ascension at the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem
Frequencies of the 99 Names of Allah
I have been curious about frequencies. I knew that Prophet Mohammed had reached 99 Names of Allah that describe God’s character and essence.
I also have been studying the Kabbalah. I learned that the Hebrew characters represent frequencies, and therefore, I believe the Old Testament should be read in the sacred language of Hebrew so you can read and speak and hear the frequencies of the “tsadis” (you’d have to do research on it) and connect more closely with God’s Word. You can learn more about tsadis and my study on this subject here.
I then made the realization that Prophet Mohammed actually reached 99 frequencies of God. That is incredible! This means he was extremely Holy. It would be impossible to reach these frequencies without being a very righteous, dignified, upright character himself.
If you are not aware, some of the 99 Names of Allah are The Beneficent, The Merciful, The Most Sacred / The Most Holy, The Giver of Peace, and The Mighty One. You can learn about all 99 of them here on this site.
I am not from the Middle East, however, I was thinking, wouldn’t it be an interesting spiritual quest to reach these levels of frequencies if you are on the path of awakening, enlightenment, and ascension? These names must be motivations for Muslims to attain in their own hearts and character. Prophet Mohammed ascended at the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, because he had reached such high frequency levels.
Arabic, Algebra, and Islam = A Universe’s Prayer from Mohammed’s Heart
I also know that the Qur’an should not be translated into another language. It is due to the fact that it comes from the sacred language of Arabic, and the pulse of Mohammed’s heart. Arabic was first, and then Algebra, and then Mohammed’s revelations. I believe there may be a connection to the rhythm of the universe.
For instance, The Schumann Resonance is a natural electromagnetic frequency of the Earth, approximately 7.83 Hz, which is also referred to as the “Earth’s heartbeat”. Some believe that listening to music in the 7.83 Hz range can align with the Earth’s energy and promote healing and well-being. Does listening to Prophet Mohammed’s prayers do the same? I would assume. There could be scientific research on the alignment of Arabic, Algebra, and the Qur’an, and include The Schumann Resonance.
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Since I understand Arabic, I know that there is a rhythmic beat to it that is very different than any other language I know. I speak English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Bambara, and Malinke. I’ve also learned a little Hebrew and Chinese. They are very different from Arabic.
Arabic has a mathematical cadence to it. A song. Therefore, Mohammed’s messages from God are like a song from God. You can meditate to the prayers. They are very healing frequencies from his heart.
Fasting
Prophet Mohammed introduced five primary practices:
The Five Pillars of Islam are the core tenets and practices of the faith, providing the foundation for Muslim life. These pillars are: Shahada (declaration of faith), Salat (prayer), Zakat (charity), Sawm (fasting), and Hajj (pilgrimage). — Google AI
As I mentioned, when I was studying the Middle East at The George Washington University, I was also part of the Arab Student Association (I was also studying Buddhism at the Jewish Hillel, and Arabic from a Jewish blind man at the Hillel — pretty inspirational, right!).
As part of the Arab Student Association, after fasting for the day, we would gather for dinner once the sun had gone down and we would commune together.
I now realize that this tradition likely connects Muslims to those who are in poverty and are hungry. Prophet Mohammed’s intention was also based around self-control, Will, sacrifice, purification of the body and soul, and learning to be aware of one’s desires, and a means of achieving God-consciousness (taqwa).
Later, after my spiritual awakening, I would fast for up to five days. I did this on many occasions. It is a very useful practice if you are on the journey of increasing your frequency. It purifies out many of the pollutants and toxins/pollutants in your body, and clears your mind.
In a world such as ours, as a Muslim I would pray and connect with those who are starving in the world. How can you help those in need?
Zakat, Tithing, Giving
“In Islam, tithing is known as Zakat, one of the Five Pillars of Islam. It’s an obligatory act of charity for eligible Muslims, involving giving a portion of their accumulated wealth and assets (usually 2.5%) to those in need. Zakat is not simply a donation, but a form of wealth purification and a means of social support.” —Google AI
Why Zakat?
Purification of Wealth:
Zakat helps purify a Muslim’s wealth, fostering a sense of responsibility towards the less fortunate.
Social Support:
It provides vital financial assistance to those in need, including the poor, orphans, widows, and those in debt.
Act of Worship:
Zakat is also an act of worship, thanking God for the blessings received and demonstrating faith.
Economic Impact:
Zakat contributes to a more equitable distribution of wealth within the Muslim community.
Who Needs to Pay Zakat?
Zakat is obligatory for adult, sane Muslims who meet the required financial threshold (nisab).” —Google AI
This is beautiful isn’t it! Social support, community support. Also recognizing your blessings and being able to give to others.
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This reminds me of the Parable of the Talents in the Bible, in Matthew 25:14–30. One servant receives one talent, another two, and another five.
Each talent represents a gift or opportunity. The key theme is about how these servants manage and use their entrusted talents, with those who actively multiply their talents being rewarded, while the one who hid his talent faced consequences, according to Bible Hub. This parable highlights the importance of using one’s gifts and opportunities to serve God and others. The servants who receive the two and five talents actively use their resources to multiply them, demonstrating their faithfulness and diligence. The servant who receives only one talent chooses to hide it rather than invest it and grow it. — Google AI
The talents represent the various blessings and gifts God gives to believers to use in His service, including their natural talents, skills, resources, and opportunities.
The parable highlights the importance of using what we have been given, whether it’s talents, abilities, or resources, in a responsible and faithful way to grow and multiply for God’s glory.
Failure to use one’s talents or resources can lead to consequences, emphasizing the need to be active and engaged in serving God and others. — Google AI
I have many interpretations of this passage. Talents is a metaphor. Talents in ancient times were often associated with gold or silver, however, the parable uses this term metaphorically as gifts from God.
If you read it in terms of money, I would say, wow, how unlucky the person who only received one penny was. They may save it just for food! I would have compassion for that person.
However, this passage is about gifts from God. You may receive one talent, one blessing, and it may actually be the most beautiful talent of all. Those who received three or five, their talents may not have been as incredible. This gets into quantum theory of diversity and infinity (if you’re into programming Artificial Intelligence algorithms/algorythms ;))).
So, whatever you are given by God, be grateful and use it in service of your community. It is a blessing.
If you are grateful and realize the talents you were given, you should be aware of giving to those who are in need. We live in a world of massive inequality.
Are we devoid of gratitude? Have we forgotten how to give to the less fortunate? Has it been thousands or hundreds of years since these Abrahamic Prophets and Christ came to the world that we have forgotten how to be righteous people?
A UBS Global Wealth Report found that in 2023, the world’s richest 1% owned around 47.5% all the wealth. Meanwhile, adults with less than $10,000 make up nearly 40% of the world’s population and only hold less than 1% of the wealth. Quite a drastic difference.
Can the Muslim world do more to share their wealth? Is it time for an update, an evolution of the religion? Should there be a sliding scale?
For instance, if you make hardly any money at all, then maybe a penny or two to a friend. However, if you are making millions and have five palaces, maybe giving, for instance, 40% of your wealth to charity, would pleasing to God, and you would feel more at peace, and feel more connected to your community.
If you don’t, then that is displeasing to God. It is unseemly. It is greedy. It is ugly. It is not in line with Prophet Mohammed’s teachings. It is karma negative. You can read more about karma here.
Additionally, you received talents and gifts from others. You received them from your parents, ancestors, universities, communities, friends, the earth. It wasn’t just you.
Contemplate on Gratitude for what you have.
Giving to those in need would be beneficial to your community. It would help them grow and succeed and excel as well. It would be a beautiful opportunity for the disenfranchised. It would be a noble deed.
Prayer, Stretching, Washing Your Body
Salat, or prayer, is also part of one of the tenants of Islam. This is a very interesting practice to me. The Arab world is close to India. India has yoga. The prayer they perform is similar to a sun salutation. If you are not familiar with what this is, it is the body going up and down, and bowing.
This is very beneficial for one’s health of the body. The back is very important to stretch out. It is part of one’s kundalini energy flowing. You can learn more about electrical currents in the body and kundalini awakenings through google searching. It is an important part of spiritual awakening and your path to ascension. You must untie and loosen the knots in your body. Prophet Mohammed’s recommendation of prayer five times a day, or yoga, is an excellent way to do that.
Also, the Prophet Mohammed’s Call to Prayer is a like a song, a meditation to God. So it is calming. It can center you throughout the day and keep you focused on what is important in life.
Can you imagine being an 8-hour call-center worker and having a 15 minute break in the morning, 30 minutes for lunch, and 15 minutes in the afternoon. How would your body feel sitting down, being on a computer all day? Pretty hunched. The Hunchback of Notre Dame comes to mind. Are we treating our employees right? Will they have health and back problems as they get older?
This prayer practice five times a day would hopefully be a useful solution (until Artificial Intelligence takes over the call-center jobs and we move towards an era of enlightenment. You can read more about this on my website). It would be a stretch and a meditation. If you are not Muslim, you could still stretch, meditate, walk around, do yoga, exercise, or something to center yourself, relax your body, and keep you healthy.
However, I would also gently advise, follow your body’s intuition. If five times feels too much, or you want to pray at a different time than when the Call to Prayer is, that’s okay. Prophet Mohammed has a gentle soul.
Additionally, it is interesting that Prophet Mohammed included a cleansing ritual before prayer. “It involves washing the hands, mouth, nostrils, face, arms, head (wiping), ears, and feet.” — Google AI
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This is five times a day. People in the region were quite dirty (just like anywhere in the region hundreds or thousands of years ago). Can you imagine not having showers? So this practice would really be helpful to keep you free of diseases. I believe it could have also been a useful solution to the practice of circumcision. I think it was an extremely perceptive tenant that Prophet Mohammed suggested.
Circumcision I believe is an outdated practice now, because most people have showers. Diseases spread. That is one of the reasons why people still practice circumcision. However, just shower, and be clean. I change my socks multiple times and sunshine and tea tree oil spray my shoes daily. You need to ensure germs do not reach your genitals.
Those who don’t have money for showers should be given them for free (Again, in 2023, the world’s richest 1% owned 47.5% of the world’s wealth, which is about $214 trillion. This is while the bottom 50% of the world’s population owns less than 2% of the world’s wealth). We can learn to share more to those who are in need.
COVID spread, so did the STD AIDS/HIV, also, remember the Spanish Flu? Yikes. We need to generate a new mindset of Prevention Policies.
Developing countries do not refrigerate their animal products. So there are many pathogens/germs flying around in the air. We need to give free solar refrigerators to the poor. My most creative suggestion is a hemp-created (biodegradable) solar-paneled (free energy) manufactured product. However, I am open to other creative ideas. Collaboration is necessary! Email me if you are interested in helping support this initiative: ashleyheacock@gmail.com
You can read more about all of my solutions to our global crises on my website:
A Gentle Reminder of Non-Judgment
As I am a shaman, I connect with the spirit world. I connect with God, Abraham, Israel, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, and Allah.
They are all beautiful, spiritual beings.
Our brains can get confused sometimes. For instance, some people tend to blame Prophet Mohammed for acts of violence. However, why don’t they then blame Jesus for acts of violence?
If the colonizers who destroyed the Incan and Mayan incredibly beautiful scientific, spiritual, intelligent communities, and many of the incredibly-connected to the Earth and Circle of Life Indigenous Peoples of America, then why are these judgmental, typically Caucasian people who blame Prophet Mohammed for violent acts not blaming Jesus for genocidal acts against the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas? The Europeans were also used to being followers of egomaniac leaders. You can read the list of their wars on Wikipedia here. Would you blame these wars on Jesus?
It is just a question. Please meditate on it.
You may reach non-judgmental consciousness. Love. That is what Jesus taught. That will help your ascension process to Heaven.
To help you understand this concept better, to judge somebody, you would have to know a lot about history to understand why people are violent. Are they hungry? Are they poor? You would have to be an academic. I have a BA and an MPA in International Public Affairs, for instance, so I know a lot more than most people. I also then have a lot more compassion than most, because I am knowledgeable about all of the different perspectives.
It was the Marshall Plan that stopped a World War III because he realized the Germans and Europeans actually were in need. They could have just kept fighting. Receiving aid and support is actually what was needed for peace in the region. I am grateful for US Secretary of State George Marshall and his leadership at that time. What a blessing.
So I would suggest practicing non-judgment and prayer. The messages the Prophets and Christ delivered were spiritual and delivered at specific point in time when people were in need of an updated spiritual consciousness.
I believe we need an updation again. A Prevention Consciousness. Prevention of disease, poverty, malnutrition, etc. All of this leads to suffering, which can lead to war. I would assume all of the Abrahamic Prophets and Christ, God, would agree. Read the New Testament and Jesus’s, God’s Word, to understand more about helping those who are suffering.
For even more assistance for you on your ascension journey, non-judgmental awareness would be, “You know what, I’m not so sure I know a lot about the Middle East. I’m not so sure I know a lot about American foreign policy and their petroleum interests. I’m not so sure I know much about colonization and their egoic interests. I’m just a call-center worker. I’m really not informed about history, culture, or the special interests of all of these different actors.”
“So instead of judging, I will instead decide to pray.” You can pray for peace. Pray for love. Pray for solace. Whatever is on your heart.
Then your karma is zero.
However, if you judge, then you will have negative karma.
So be logical. Be in your heart. Violence and judgment is sad and negative. Prayer is positive. Solutions that help people in need are also positive.
You can read more about being karma negative or positive here.
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Ascension at the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem
Some people also may not realize that Prophet Mohammed “ascended to heaven during the Mi’raj (ascension) in Jerusalem. The Dome of the Ascension is a significant site commemorating this event. While the Dome of the Rock is more generally associated with the Mi’raj, the Dome of the Ascension specifically commemorates the ascension itself.” — Google AI
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This is why Jerusalem is also sacred to Muslims, not just Christians and Jews. However, thankfully we are all descendants of Abraham. We are one Abrahamic Faith family, community, tribe.
I pray that we are able to find peace in Palestine and Israel for our three faiths. Remember that Palestinians are also Christians, not just Muslims.
You can read more about my Peace Proposal (that is just a suggestion, and I would love your insights, questions, and any feedback on ways to make this a sustainable solution so all peoples and faiths can find solace.)
Written by
Ashley Heacock, Researcher, Writer, Mentor, Guide
MIT Sloan School of Management, MBA
Harvard Kennedy School of Government, MPA
The George Washington University, BA Economics, BA International Affairs
Contact: ashleyheacock@gmail.com
Website: awakeningconsciousness.community
