1- what is immanence of God? are you talking about wahdatul wajood as in what Ibn Arabi was teaching?
2- are Sufism and Hinduism similar in your opinion?
3- How do the sikhs manage to be so violent and nobody ever talks about this. we have way more Muslims than sikhs where I live and the Muslims are perfectly peaceful people. meanwhile the sikhs apparently did some violent stuff towards the indian embassy and meanwhile it's Muslims who get wrongly stereotyped as the violent ones.
also- most importantly- basis of Islam is Tawheed. all the prophets called to tawheed. Quran is all about tawheed. la ilaha illAllah. tawheed.
1) Allah's Immanence are Attributes which are shared within creation on the macrocosmic and microcosmic levels. Rahma being the primary one.
Bismillah IrRahman IrRaheem
literally the 'trinity' in it's true form.
However the Logos itself, or what ibn arabi referred to, was not a literal 'unity' because the Spirit of Allah (Allah breathed HIS SPIRIT into man) is not strictly speaking, from a logical pov, Allah's Immanence, but rather the medium through which Allah Immanrntly reveals His qualities.
The whole point about wahdat al wujud is that it surpasses 'self consciousness' and hence there i no 'i' in that experience, the only thing in the experience is a pure experience of Allah's Immanence.
everything the new testament says about the LOGOS (the symbolic 'Son') is basically just that same truth.
There's a hadith of the prophet, where he said 'when you sleep your spirit returns to Allah'. in hinduism they call it 'turiya consciousness' and the unity is with Brahman. It's the same idea, Brahman is the Trancenent Essence beyond 'attributes'. it is that which cannot be described.
ibn arabi was condemned by other sufis. Ahmed Sirhindi said that the correct term is 'unity of perception' as opposed to actual unity of 'being'.
2) the way i see it, there is one cosmological and metaphysical truth..and all humans share in it. everything else is an interpretation.
hinduism is an open source philosophy which means all the abrahimic religions can be considered branches of hinduism. although i say 'hinduism', it is actually called DHARMA..and dharma, shariah, torah..have the same meaning. the lack of theological truth within hindu/vedic philosophy is because whilst they did plant the seeds towards that greater truth, they didnt receive it, it went outside of india. ive read stuff by advaita vedanta hindus and they actually praise islam and consider it to be a lesson from above, for mainstream hindus. like 'this is what we were trying to tell you, but we couldnt do it like they did, if only you were more like them'.
i also believe sikhism is the aftermath of advaita vedanta, like a compromise..because by that stage hindus hated muslims for their mass murdering tendencies..and i dont blame em.
no matter how righteous and pious we've been told that islamic historical figures were, most of em were despotic bastards. those persian and turkic type warlords would murder their own family. so i kind of look at hinduism and india as a whole, as a story that shadows the failures of the muslim world. the trajectory india was on, it could have been won over.
i used to chat to a hindu guy, most of his group online were haters. this guy got heavil into dealing with sorcery that was attacking him. he dissed islsm to me, talking about how islam doesnt touch on this topic the way hinduism does.
i broke down hindu metaphysics for him, the chakras, explained how they match the 7 heavens in islam and their corresponding prophets. i went in more depth about how it relates to the astral plane and all entities within it. i shared sufi stuff with him inc things azis nasafi (a 13th century sufi) was saying. this guy converted to islam the next day. i didnt ask him to. he told me he was blown away by my understanding of hinduism and that my confidence and ability to navigate through various metaphysical systems whilst remaining true to islam, meant that islam had to be the glue to the hold it all together.
im critical of sufism because ive seen so much pretense and self angrandising bs by so many sufis. in sufi islam, the crux of the matter is that a murshid has to be a man so close to Allah, that there is direct welfare evidence from him. it doesnt mean that person is God. it means that a person like that can transform a sinner to a true muslim very fast.
if you're thinking 'but many prophets failed to change their people', the argument there is that we're talking about fellow muslims who are already on haqq in terms of their tawhid.
look at it from another pov...faith is like planting a seed..and belief/iman is like the light. there is a deeper process that takes place, a tilling of the soil which itself is an extremely difficult experience that no one else can do for you..
however if a person is starving and in need of 'fruit', the most abundant tree will lower itself for others to enjoy its fruits. it isnt the same as just being given things for free. a person still has to tend to his own garden.
if you extend this to Jesus, Jesus was 'the true vine' and the believers (in him) were like branches, united in him. in a Tariqah/order, you become bigger than yourself. in islam a leader/ruler of a town, is considered responsible for the entire town inc their sins. However again this is only applicable in a context where everyone is already muslim and hence they accept his authority over them.
extend this to sufi islam, the murshids, pirs, sheikhs etc. they are openly tolerant of sin because they themselves are deeply sinful but they do love to pretend they are practicing muslims.
we're all sinners, but us guys arent trying to be leaders.
3) we're all products of post colonial post modern revivalist religious and nationalist movements.
the khalistan movement fanaticised a lot of sikhs. a lot of sikhs were brainwashed to hate muslims.
i know a pakistani girl who went to Wolverhampton (in england), as she was parking up, an old sikh guy saw she had Allah's name displayed in her car..he came at her with a sword literally.
they've taken advantage of western propaganda already attacking us. however i know good sikhs who have defended islam aswell.
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