RE: Theists, what does faith mean to you?
August 8, 2015 at 10:58 am
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2015 at 10:58 am by Mr.wizard.)
(August 8, 2015 at 12:16 am)MysticKnight Wrote: Imam Sajjad [as]: "And you do not veil yourself from creation except that their actions are done for other then you".
Seeing God is one thing, and to understand how you see God and are connected to God and what faith actually is another. And being veiled from God is all together a different thing.
Faith to me is the degree of God's Name/face in my heart and the degree of vision of I have through it. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob have been described to be men of sight. They saw through the power of the heart.
Through the souls eyes, they saw the real kingdom of the heavens and the earth.
The true life is not matter nor is it simply an experience created by matter, the true life is God, and he is by what other life exists.
When you see true life, true existence, the light, the glory, the beauty, and the power and his weapon within you, his connecting face and name in you, this is called faith.
In the heart of the kingdom, the true Leader and Guide is the light.
If it's belief without sight power, then this is not true belief as no soul truly believes in things without knowledge. That is why it is questioned when it follows what it has no knowledge of, and it goes against it's nature.
Believing Quran is the word of God is not faith, only seeing the Quran is the word of God through insight and reflection is faith.
God's Holy Names and their holy station, the sight of them is faith. Simply knowing words and believing them to reflect God's attributes is not faith.
And the only way to see is through God himself, for he is the light/guide of the heavens and earth, the light of all light.
You sure do type a whole lot of words, without making a whole lot sense.
