The creation can not claim to be Allah, the owner of Universe. The paragraphs you mentioned from Memoirs do not claim that a human can call him self Allah. The spiritual power of greater love for Allah grants enlightenment, but does not allow to cross limits and claim him self Lord of Universe.kmaherali wrote:Yes there is no denying that Allah is Supreme. However he can be experienced and known by extra ordinary means attained through spiritual enlightenment.swamidada wrote: The quatrain quoted from Kalam e Mowla confirm Allah is Supreme. According to Surah Ikhlas, there is no one like Him in universe. Also this quatrain mentions the concept of Ham e Ost.
MSMS says in his Memoirs:
lbn-Rushd, the great Muslim philosopher, known to Europe as Averroes, established clearly the great distinction between two kinds of apprehensible human experience : on the one hand, our experience of nature as we recognize it through our senses, whence comes our capacity to measure and to count (and with that capacity all that it brought in the way of new events and new explanations); and on the other hand, our immediate and imminent experience of something more real, less dependent on thought or on the processes of the mind, but directly given to us, which I believe to be religious experience. Naturally, since our brain is material, and its processes and all the consequences of its processes are material, the moment that we put either thought or spiritual experience into words, this material basis of the brain must give a material presentation to even the highest, most transcendent spiritual experience. But men can study objectively the direct and subjective experiences of those who have had spiritual enlightenment without material intervention.
It is said that we live, move and have our being in God. We find this concept expressed often in the Koran, not in those words of course, but just as beautifully and more tersely. But when we realize the meaning of this saying, we are already preparing ourselves for the gift of the power of direct experience. Roumi and Hafiz, the great Persian poets, have told us, each in his different way, that some men are born with such natural spiritual capacities and possibilities of development that they have direct experience of that great love, that all-embracing, all-consuming love, which direct contact with reality gives to the human soil. Hafiz indeed has said that men like Jesus Christ and Muslim mystics like Mansour and Bayezid and others have possessed that spiritual power of the greater love; that any of us, if the Holy Spirit (*) ever present grants us that enlightenment, can, being thus blessed, have the power which Christ had, but that to the overwhelming majority of men this greater love is not a practical possibility.
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In the second paragraph as mentioned in Memoirs, it looks MSMS believed in the concept of 'HAM E OST' as he wrote,"It is said that we live, move and have our being in God. We find this concept expressed often in the Koran, not in those words of course, but just as beautifully and more tersely". It shows Ismailis do believe in the concept of HAM E OST (all is HE, nothing outside HIM).