Jazaak Allah for sharing. I need to read Nahjul Balagha .
I heard a scholar saying that a guy was praying this which is Mashallah a great way of praying “Ya Allah teri rehamat mairay gunahoon sary bohat bari hay lihaza mairey gunahoon ko bahkh day”
" Allah your mercy is grander than my sins therefore please pardon all my sins."
Taking a cure from it I would say Allah is way grander than my imagination and I take it as a proof of Allah’s existence for myself that I could never see Allah in dreams.
If I imagine Allah in my conscious state that is my human weakness and limitation of human imagination.
و إن رحمتک اوسع من ذنبي meaning “Your mercy is greater than my sins” is from one of the known supplications of Sha’ban of Imam Ali. You should look at a very beautiful dua known as ‘supplication of Kumayl’ which Imam Ali taught to Kumayl Ibn Ziyad Nikhai to be great on thursday nights.
*The foremost in religion is the acknowledgement of Him, the perfection of acknowledging Him is to testify Him, the perfection of testifying Him is to believe in His Oneness, the perfection of believing in His Oneness is to regard Him Pure, and the perfection of His purity is to deny Him attributes, because every attribute is a proof that it is different from that to which it is attributed and everything to which something is attributed is different from the attribute. Thus whoever attaches attributes to Allah recognises His like, and who recognises His like regards Him two; and who regards Him two recognises parts for Him; and who recognises parts for Him mistook Him; and who mistook Him pointed at Him; and who pointed at Him admitted limitations for Him; and who admitted limitations for Him numbered Him.
When I was a kid, I always imagined god to look like a puffed up cloud. Then slowly he morphed into an alien looking creature that had all the technology in the universe to control human beings. Then he took the form of the devil himself and now he doesn’t exist.
This is interesting and disturbing both at the same time.
I’m quite intrigued to know what traumatic experiences you have lived through to taint your vision of Him in such a way.
Perhaps you just needed a hug somewhere along the way and didn’t get one?
Perhaps there was an experience but you simply don’t recall it…or you’ve blocked it somewhere cuz nobody goes from fluffy clouds to the devil without cause…I’m sure of it.
Maybe it wasn’t a single event but a series of events…like being neglected by those that you wanted attention from and this caused you to create a persona of uniqueness that demands attention…
^ Not believing in Him is one thing…but seeing Him as a “devil” is entirely another thing…unless of course that comment was made for th e purpose of sensationalism…
I was a weird child though.