Hakim Sinai, the revered Sufi declared, "No human will ever be able to comprehend truly, the real supreme entity whom he refers by the word 'God' " .
God is merely a word to express the Supreme Being. All His names whether The Merciful (Al Rehman) or The All Compelling Subduer (Al Qahaar) are merely his attributes.
We try to understand His Being via His attributes. But the identity of 'God' is unimaginable and incomprehensible due to limited senses we have.
Imagine if God grants you the freedom to create a sense of your own, something besides 5 senses of smell, touch, sight, taste and sound. Our mind will not be able to create the unknown sense. Just as someone deaf from birth cannot truly understand the secrets of what we know as sound.
Our understanding of God is limited to what he has granted us. It is the 'Ilm-ul-Qalaam' , as he revealed in the first Surah (Surah Alkhalaq), 'I taught man what he knew not'.
The Sufi is the man of God, a man of the true path, who is on his way to seek the Supreme Being through senses beyond the five senses as known to us. His 'spiritual degree' is what God has granted him, by His divine mercy and favour. And as he climbs the ladder of divine truth, he also understands the secrets of the self (Khudi, as referred by the great sufi poet, Allama Iqbal).
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