In the past, after an evening meeting with a company, we all left the party with a conviction that we were up to date on a particular topic in Budapest. This is no longer true today. We can get together, talk about anything, but at the same time the machines are clicking, the info in the cyberspace is flowing and we may lose a lot of material just within the time we spent with talking.

People call me and ask questions as an expert about Africa, Iran and the Middle East, but I can't provide proper answers, because no matter the decades that I lived in these areas but for today not a word is true from the facts what I can give as information. A laptop may worth much more for them.

Therefore, I am trying to find my way in a direction that has given me stability and security throughout my life and that is the study of the Quran. However, regarding Quran the situation is reversed. The most creative and modern period of understanding and following Islamic teachings was the time when Islam was in its infancy. That time it served as a frame for the thinking where to put the daily information, and by that it provided a system for individual and social existence. Today the situation is reversed. The ever-changing, flowing mass of information is the skeleton, the Muslim thinking is trying to connect with it, and as a result it is breaks to thousands of pieces. When some create a rigid frame, they see such a small area from the world that, when information is hanged on that, they become ridiculous, anachronistic

Today, the place occupied by Islam in the world's consciousness is not Islamic. This place is occupied by Arabs, especially the tribes, the families. Occupied by Iran, especially tribes, families. Occupied by Turks, including city-states, villages. I could list it indefinitely. The world does not know Islam by its rank and place, but by the rivalry between some groups, how they want to put an end for one another! I'm up to date regarding this trend! Indeed! I can even foresee! The problem is that I find difficult to explain the trends, because in the system of the world the fact is that Muslims are followers of Islam! However, this is generally not true. The wording perhaps would be better that Muslims think that they are following Islam. In words they are followers, but arguers within themselves. Whatever direction they take, they say this is Islam. And the outside world concludes something what they can filter out of it.

We have explained in detail in this Qur'an, for the benefit of mankind, every kind of similitude: but man is, in most things, contentious. (Quran 18:54)

Islam cannot look, analyze anything on an earthly scale. It cannot have national identity or regard the aspect of any affiliation. It does not see bodies, but souls, not surrenders for earthly hierarchy, but only for the one Lord. It is not dominating, but retreating, does not roar, but chooses silence and action. It does not notice the money, the power, but it notices the pious virtue. The true follower does not consider himself to be superior, but seeks his place in a mosaic image composed by Allah and fits him/herself into it. The individual cannot leave every aspect in the formation of his/her destiny to Allah, but he/she has to act, work, invest the utmost, and only then he/she can rely on Him. He/she does look at and plan life for 60-80 years on earth, but in the infinity of times. He/she is aware of the death of the body but not the soul. He/she is not a citizen of a village, city, country, but of the universe. It wasn't your image of Islam, right? However, the teachings of the Quran give only in this context the meaning what Allah brought from time to time to the human mind, but finally man always put his boundaries around it. That is what our laws and regulations serve, and that is what you can ask the old man about, because I have a sort of limited knowledge, I can see a sort of timeframe, my brain has processed a related library, but the thing what is called Islam today is incomprehensible sometimes. Allah gave one last chance 1400 years ago, when Mohammed (peace be upon him) received the revelations in this spirit as I wrote above.

Thus, have We sent this down - an Arabic Qur'an - and explained therein in detail some of the warnings, in order that they may fear Allah, or that it may cause their remembrance (of Him). (Quran 20:113)

The Quran is in clear Arabic, so that even an unlearned people like the Arabs might understand and profit by its warnings, and the rest of the world may learn through them, as they did in the first few centuries of Islam and may do again when we Muslims show ourselves worthy to explain and exemplify its meaning. In the history there was a period of time when we Muslims were worth to explain the Truth. These days of today don’t belong to this period of time.

It took for the sheikhs of Al-Azhar in Cairo for years to blow up the boundaries of my thinking. They succeeded. I was liberated and was able to soar in places where soaring was a prohibited act. And here it is! Now I'm trying to do something similar in the digital space. This is a multi-man task. I'm glad if you read what I write, if the thoughts go through, but it's not enough to open the door of the prison, the prisoner must stand up and walk out.

Say: "Everyone acts according to his own disposition: But your Lord knows best who it is that is best guided on the Way." (Quran 17:84)