Grant wrote:
“…perhaps there is an antithesis to anthropomorphising Allah in the hadith of the Hidden Treasure, which happens to be the favourite of this artefact/human self and its Nafs.”
My point was not Allah making Anthropomorphising statements about ITSelf (HimSelf) e.g. the Hidden Treasure hadith, but about we Anthropomorphising Allah!
What you referred to is the other way around, indeed Allah does Tajalli (Lucent Manifestation) any which Allah likes to e.g. Allah spoke to Moses through the Manifestation of a burning tree.
Allah calls ITSelf The Light emitting from a lantern from an alcove. Allah calls ITSelf Al-Ala or Lofty High in altitude.
Wrong thoughts are those when we Anthropomorphise Allah by projecting our personal feelings and judgements, specially about others.
Peace be upon you and everyone.
I want to make four brief points.
1. The meaning of your original post on Anthropomorphising Allah was clear to me, hence I needed no further clarification.
2. I have always wondered about the Hadith “kunto kanzan makhfian …” and tried to look some Hadith references where it is narrated. I do not know its origin as a reliable Hadith. I will appreciate if someone shares this knowledge.
3. Same for the Hadith that says: man arafah nafsohu fqad arafa rabbohu. I would appreciate knowing its standing as a reliable Hadith.
4. When Allah talks about Himself to men, for example calling Itself a light, or referring to His appearance to Moses, or refering to Its Hands etc. In my very humble and admittedly very limited understanding, that description too, as a matter of contextual necessity, has an element of Anthropomorphism. Quran in my understanding refers to this possibility by declaring: latha kmislehi sha’an. In this situation all declarations about Allah become Anthropomorphic because of the contextual limitations that are necessarily present for all such declarations.
Salaam Sayyidi and Salaam everyone,
Is Tajalli something experienced only by highly spiritual persons or Tajalli does happen around us ordinary people but we are just blind to them.
Could you give a few examples of Tajalli?