How could one realize Him?

How could one realize Him?” “Your denial of Allah, then is”, said I, “because, you have not felt Him with the senses given to us for knowing objects, I too have not felt Him with either of them. But my belief is as strong as your disbelief, both cannot be right; do you admit this?” “Most certainly” he replied. “Either you are mistaken or I am”. “Very well”, said I, “If you are right, there is no danger for me in threatening you with Allah's displeasure for your disbelief”.

“No”, said he, “You shall be in no danger.” “If I am right”, asked I, “Do you not think that you will suffer the punishment for your disbelief, and I shall receive a reward, for being away from your opinions?” “Quite possibly” he replied. “Will you tell me”, I asked, “which of us is the wiser, granting the possibility of both the situations?” “Oh”, He replied. “Your belief is a presumption, a groundless assertion, while mine is a truth, based upon common sense.

I do not perceive Him by my senses, therefore He does not exist”. “When your senses”, said I “could not perceive Allah, you disbelieved Him, While I, on the contrary, believed in Him, because my senses failed to discern Him. The very theory that made you disbelieve, compelled me to believe in Him”. “How is it possible?” he asked. “Because”, I replied, “things are ' murakkab ' (compound, made of parts). Every murakkab possesses shape and color that attracts the senses.

Therefore, that which is felt or known by the senses, having shape and color, cannot be Allah. Your argument for disbelief is foolish, because Allah cannot be like any of the things perceived by the senses, nor can He be said to bear any resemblance to anything which has to undergo an ordeal of change and decay. For, everything is under the one and the same law-the law of transformation and decline.

Allah, our creator cannot be perceivable by the five senses you mention; for, He is not a thing-which is murakkab or created. ……………If He was visible to the eye, and perceivable to the senses, He would have resembled the things that are visible and perceivable to the senses on account of their being murakkab and created, and in that case He would no longer have remained a creator”. “What nonsense you talk?” said he. “No, I cannot believe unless I perceive by any of these five senses”.

Since he so persistently adhered to this theory, the folly of which I strove to point out, I said, “I charge you then for the very defect you accused me of.