Aroj Ali Matubbar - Writings and Publications

Writings and Publications

Matubbar had to take a lot of trouble for publishing his books. He himself drew the cover of his first book which was written in 1952 and published twenty one years later in 1973 under the title Satyer Sandhane. This book gained him reputation in the locality as a "learned man". In the preface he wrote:

“I was thinking of many things, my mind was full of questions, but haphazardly. I then started jotting down questions, not for writing a book, but only to remember these questions later. Those questions were driving my mind towards an endless ocean and I was gradually drifting away from the fold of religion.”

He made six propositions in this book which reflected the nature of his philosophical questions. These are:

Proposition 1 : dealt with soul containing 8 questions
Proposition 2 : dealt with God containing as many as 11 questions
Proposition 3 : dealt with after-world (paralok) containing as many as 7 questions
Proposition 4 : dealt with religious matters containing as many as 22 questions
Proposition 5 : dealt Nature containing as many as 10 questions
Proposition 6 : dealt matters containing as many as 9 questions

The eight questions he posed in the first proposition exemplify his approach. These are (a) Who am I (self)?, (b) Is Life incorporeal or corporal ? (c) Is mind and his/soul one, and the same? (d) What is the relationship of life with the body and the mind? (e) Can we recognize or identify life? (f) Am I free? (g) Will the soul without body continue to have ‘knowledge’ even after it leaves the body at death? and finally (h) How does life can come into and go out of the body?