(July 3, 2016 at 5:31 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:That depends on how you understand the word unseen. God is both hidden and manifest, we are both hidden and manifest. We are both manifestly there and we are unseen. In fact we are manifestly unseen. That is it's obvious we are unseen.(July 3, 2016 at 5:09 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: However Islam does NOT make sense without belief in the unseen. It revolves and is oriented around that.
These people can't understand it because they lack faith in the unseen. They themselves are unseen, so essentially they are denying themselves and neglecting their true reality.
The link with the divine is the greatest gift we have, not valuing that link as it ought to be valued, is not forgivable in Islam.
And what if that link with the unseen is not a link to God, but just a link to unseen natural processes? It being unseen means you can't be sure.
Quote: I wonder if half the reason you are drawn to seeing metaphysical bugbears in the unseen doesn't have to do with an emotional response.
I don't think I would of took the leap of faith without emotion involved. The issue was emotional for me, but I can easily fooled myself either way. That I can have perpetual identity, praise, objective value, etc, without God in as much as I can fool myself to believing I see God exist.
In the moments of distress, both possible outlooks my mind could of fooled me of. But I don't believe I was fooled. I believe I realized something that I will never doubt again.
