REALIZATION OF GOD

REALIZATION OF GOD Innate in Nature MOSES was an Israelite prophet who is acknowledged in all the Abrahamic religions. He had the unique experience of conversing with God on Mount Sinai. According to the Quran, at that time Moses said: “My Lord, show Yourself to me so that I may look at You”. (7: 143) Experience and analysis of human history and psychology show that every human being is born consciously or unconsciously with a desire to behold one’s Creator. Even the prophets are no exception to this desire. However, human eyes can only perceive another being or creation similar to oneself; to visually comprehend God directly is beyond human capabilities. For the direct observation of God in the present world, man will have to become another God and this is not possible for anyone, even if one is a prophet. In this matter, according to a tradition of the Prophet, someone asked Aisha (Prophet’s wife) if the Prophet Muhammad had ever seen God. Aisha replied, ‘I am bewildered by what you ask. Why do you persist with asking about this? Then she said whoever has said that the Prophet has seen his Lord has lied. Then she recited these verses of the Quran… No vision can grasp Him, but He takes in over all vision; He is the Subtle and Aware One. (6: 103) and It is not granted to any human being that God should speak to him other than by revelation or from behind a veil. (42: 51) The fact is that man cannot directly see his Creator. But it is also a fact that man can get the same kind of conviction of the existence of God through other models. This is through a model that may be called ‘conviction without observation’. This is the very same model with which one has conviction about one’s mother. Everyone has complete conviction in one’s mother despite not having witnessed or observed Experience and analysis of human history and psychology show that every human being is born consciously or unconsciously with a desire to behold one’s Creator.