Islam Rediscovered
1. Search for Truth
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This makes it plain that God cannot enjoin
such a path to realization as would mean
nullifying the very purpose of creation.
5. The mystics hold that although the mystical
experience may be a great discovery for them, it
is, however, a mysterious, and unexplainable
realization which can be felt at the sensory level,
but which cannot be fully articulated. According
to a mystic: “It is knowledge of the most
adequate kind, only it cannot be expressed in
words.” (
EB
/12:786)
This aspect of the mystical experience proves it
to be a totally subjective discipline. And
something as subjective as this can, in no degree,
be a scientific answer to the human search for
truth. Those who have attempted to describe the
mystic experience have chosen different ways of
doing so. One is the narrative method, that is,
describing their point of view in terms only of
claims, without any supporting arguments.
Another method is to make use of metaphors.
That is, attempt to describe something by means
of supposed analogies. From the point of view of
