Man and God

Wrong Comparison between God and Man unity-loving people put together. God cannot tolerate any sort of dualism, under any circumstances whatsoever. Who are those fortunate people who will be declared as God’s accepted servants in the Hereafter? It is they who have shattered the shell of self and have agreed to lose themselves in God’s Self, who are selfless and have prostrated before the one God. They have made God their sole concern and are no more enmeshed in the superficialities of the material world. It is difficult for a person to acknowledge anyone but himself, thinking it to be an affront to his self. Whenever someone appears to acknowledge someone, often it is just out of fear or some self-serving motive. An individual hesitates to offer his self to anyone. But the Creator has demanded of a person this gift of the self which he is not ready to give to anyone. This is the meaning of Islam. A Muslim is he who is willing to give his very self to his Creator, who surrenders himself totally to God, who obeys God in every situation. There is no doubt that for a human being this is to make what he otherwise simply cannot tolerate into something that he can. God had made this very thing the price of His Paradise. The blessing of Paradise is for those fortunate souls who can offer its price in the form of this gift. Wrong Comparison between God and Man A human being has always erred in trying to understand God, and in understanding himself, too. He has thought