GNOSIS OF ALLAH

Gnosis of Divine attributes is associated with the realm of creation and slavehood. This involves captivating humanity through limited spiritual allure, inadvertently diverting from one's spiritual purpose and wrongly equating problem-solving ability as the final destination.

This is gained by excessive rounds of recitals, extended periods of solitude, meditational exercises and physically demanding devotional struggles, etc. The final level of gnosis of Divine attributes is reading the Guarded Tablet and communicating with Allah at the Lote tree (Sidrat al-Muntaha). The possessor of the knowledge of Divine attributes is a man of mystic struggles and ranks but is deprived of the Divine vision and union.

Gnosis of Divine Essence is associated with the realm of non-creation and Lordship. It includes absorption in Divinity and the vision of Allah. The gnosis of the Divine Essence is possible only through the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. Its initial stage is Divine vision and presence in the Mohammadan Assembly.

True scholar is the one who has attained exoteric as well as esoteric knowledge of Divine gnosis. One who has not attained the gnosis of Allah is not a scholar in the true sense. A person cannot be a scholar if he only has the bookish knowledge.

When the recognition and gnosis of Allah are achieved and He is pleased, the attainment of world and heavens become a trivial thing.

That is why, the religious scholars with just superficial knowledge are always contradicting each other regarding the matters of hidden knowledge of the Holy Prophet, reality of Miraj, miracles, possibility of vision of Allah in this world etc. To know all these hidden facts, the best and easiest way is the invocation and contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat.