Re: What draws people near to God?
As I said you need to have Tawheed to understand Allah (SWT) … Fana fillah is not an intellectual or rational thing … So the two are not equatable … It is like saying “We come from God” but “God made us from nothing” … As we draw close to God … without solid Tawheed we might think that approaching God is the same as approaching God likeness Auzdubillahi … The moment that happens we are actually moving away from God not towards Him.
The more unveilings He gives us the greater the test that we start to think the miracles are coming from us … Fana fillah is an experience but it should not be consciously attempted it comes through a natural progression … Adab keeps us away from Allah (SWT) love keeps us attracted to Him … There must be a balance … If we break that balance … which is possible then we lose the purpose … The Fana fillah is hence not a condition that is linked to losing ourselves completely … It has to be understood in the context of what is permissible … The annihilation in God is not to be taken literally … And it has to be understood in context to Tawheed not in isolation to it.
To put it simply …
We can only be lost in God when we know we can never be lost in Him …
The moment we think we are lost in Him we are actually lost in our own ego.