Mercy

A Practical Guide to Dealing with Demons

Every practical approach must begin with a foundation. If the foundation is wrong, everything built upon it will eventually collapse. My entire understanding of demons rests upon one principle that may initially sound strange, perhaps even offensive:

The problem of demonic affliction belongs foremost to the exorcist.

The Lost Opportunity at the Miʿrāj: A Critique of Humanity, Not of the Prophets

The story of the Miʿrāj may easily give rise to a misunderstanding. Some readers may conclude that the criticism is directed toward the prophets themselves—toward Muhammad for accepting the reduction of the prayers, or toward Moses for recommending it. Nothing could be further from my intention. In fact, the more I reflect upon the story, the more my admiration for both prophets increases. The criticism, if there is any, is directed elsewhere. It is directed toward humanity itself and toward a persistent feature of the human condition that the story so brilliantly exposes.

Shirk Explanation

Shirk explanation. What is shirk? Associating God with partners. Where is the problem? Is it a problem for God or a man? For a man. Man made idol does not have any effect for anything. Idol worshipper is actually the one who wants to make himself a partner to God. When God is so angry about it, it is not because He is hurt but because it is a downfall for a man to put himself in his own care. As idol does not have legs and arms to help even itself, this is an allegory of the idol’s worshiper inability to help himself in any way without God.

Jesus Without Atonement Theory

  1. God does not need to be reconciled to humanity.
    Humanity needs to be reconciled to life.
    God’s mercy is not triggered by payment; it precedes repentance.
  2. Sin is not a crime against God but a departure from God.
    It does not injure the Creator; it destroys the creature.
    Sin enslaves, blinds, and diminishes. Its consequence is death because separation from life cannot produce life.
  3. Death is not God’s punishment but sin’s destination.

We Felt So Bad for the Master

I do not think people understand how tired the Master often was.

When strangers speak of Him now, they speak mostly of power. They remember the healings, the signs, the authority in His voice when He spoke publicly. They imagine glory following Him everywhere He walked. But those of us who stayed near Him long enough saw another reality also. We saw dust upon His feet every evening. We saw how little He slept. We saw how people pulled at Him endlessly from every side until even eating a piece of bread in peace became difficult.

Hell as Self-Chosen Separation: Reconsidering Divine Judgment

The mainstream understanding of Hell is usually presented in a very rigid form: God judges people, condemns them, and sends them into everlasting punishment against their will. Hell, in this picture, functions as a kind of divine prison where the condemned are forcefully confined forever. The imagery resembles earthly courts of law. A judge pronounces sentence, officers seize the criminal, and the criminal is dragged away to punishment.

The Best Ever Opportunity Wasted at the Miʿrāj Story

The traditional interpretation presents the story as one of divine mercy. God initially prescribes fifty daily prayers for humanity, but after repeated requests by Muhammad, prompted by Moses, the number is reduced to five while preserving the reward of fifty. Mainstream theology celebrates this as compassion toward human weakness. But there is another way to read the story entirely. What if the tragedy of the narrative lies precisely in the reduction itself?

Demons, Attention, and Responsibility: A Practical Reframing

There is a simple but demanding starting point: we do not actually know what demons are in any mechanistic sense. Scripture affirms their reality, but it does not provide a technical “microscope” for their nature. Attempts to build detailed theories from encounters tend to circle back on themselves, reinforcing what the interpreter already believes. If that is so, then progress begins not by multiplying explanations, but by clearing them—refusing to treat demonic encounters as a source of new, objective knowledge about demons themselves.

Against the Devil’s Logic: The Only Way Out Is Mercy

A formidable enemy, and a losing strategy

The Devil is not a trivial opponent. He is not defeated by cleverness, nor by moral self-improvement alone. When calamity strikes—when life collapses in ways that seem targeted, layered, and relentless—people instinctively reach for what feels like the right response: a plea based on righteousness.

They protest. They argue. They appeal.

They say, in one way or another: this should not be happening to me.

But this is precisely where the mistake begins.

Mercy