The Sheikh:   The Existence of our Lord Allah Almighty is Absolute, Real, Eternal Existence,  while the existence of all appearances is relative:  they may be, or not be, according to their Lord’s will.   Knowledge of The Eternal Personality and Existence of Allah Almighty is beyond your reach.  How can our limited minds, our limited knowledge, limited personalities, encompass anything of the Personality, The one that is beyond the limits of our minds?    

              Our relationship with our Lord Almighty is the relationship of Lord to servant and servant to Lord.   The Lord is never going to be like His servant and the servant never like the Lord.  This distinction is never going to be blurred or diminished no matter how close the servant may draw, or how dear he is to his Lord.

             You are trying to grapple with such matters with your mind;  but all that you can know with your mind is that He is in existence, that His Existence is revealed through His Divine Attributes, that His Divine Attributes are known though His Holy Names, and that His Holy Names appear in this world though his Works or Deeds.

                    For instance :   We know that The Almighty is ‘The Light’ but don’t think that you can describe Him as ‘Light’  (‘Pure Light’ or ‘White Light’).   ‘The Light’ is only one of His Holy Names indicating just one of His Holy Attributes from among endless Names and Attributes.  Allah's Deeds and creatures are endless so don’t imagine that you can describe Him so simply.  To say that Allah is Light is like saying ‘Man is eye,’  or ‘Man is foot.’  Even if you describe a man as being the total sum of all his organs and limbs you have still not described him fully, so how can you describe him as being just one single organ?  That would be foolishness.

                  Allah Almighty makes Himself known to His creatures through His Divine Attributes (because) He has implanted His Attributes in mankind.  The Key to the knowledge God made available to man is embedded in our divine personalities. 

                 The Almighty has implanted one of His Divine Attributes in each person and this is that person’s key to opening their relationship with their Lord.   Everyone has a key-attribute in themselves and it differs from person to person.  Through your particular divine attribute you may be able to address your Lord Almighty, to be with your Lord Almighty – your whole relationship develops though that Attribute.  Therefore whoever seeks to approach their Lord must know the Attribute in themselves that is the key. 

Until we have that key in hand we may be in need of an intercessor to help us perceive what our Lord desires of us, but once you have learned about that Attribute you may open yourself up and clearly see who is in you, who is out of you, who is with you and with Whom you are.  …..