Between me and God.

When you give God a name you have lost a third of humanity in faith and when you give God an image you loose yet another third, when you give God a personal character the whole of humanity is lost. Only in absolute silence can you hear God speak, so the wisdom of age has said and to be in absolute silence you have to make room for silence to happen which simply put empty you heart and mind from all thoughts. God may not speak in words and He may not make you feel of Himself or His presence, but when He does it will be in the sound of silence itself; like the Universal Sound of Om,(I say like). Like an electrical energy vibration the permeates all through your consciousness moving every single subatomic particle within and without in synchronicity shifting your entire spiritual state into a higher level of consciousness like you are being hit by a lightning bolt  and if you survive this experience, some say you have become enlightened, while others may say you have been touched by Divinity and yet others may send you to the lunatic asylum, if you do not survive the experience.

When you are capable of attaining absolute silence and peace of mind, God speaks to you from every corner of the galaxies and every form of sound, and His presence you will feel in taste and touch in all its pure entirety as though you are no more present to the experience, you become the experience itself, you become like God. You become one with God, you return to God. In the flash of a lightning you are God and there is not much difference as being who you truly are. The difference is only you being who you are trying to capture the moment and describe the experience, you are attached to the experience and want to remain so while trapped in this physical reality. Your mind is the next most powerful entity that you worship after God or the Divine. This is your Demigod, the deity in you that governs the reality that you live in. In this state of being, you worship yourself, In this state you strive to become God; herein lies your hubris.

This hubristic pride is man's downfall from his state of grace, it is the ultimate desire of desires. As the Buddha is said to have said, "The very desire to become a Buddha is a desire and desire is the ultimate cause of suffering." Man's hunger for immortality has kept him chained to this cycle of life, death and rebirth and for so long as he clings to this desire, man will never taste immortality or Enlightenment. An immortal is desire-less free from clinging and attachment to the very idea of what is a desire; he is empty, he has shed his mortal soul and free of his spiritual claims: "I, am no more." Even the Vedantic claim of 'Tat vam Asi' or I am that, I am, or I am Brahman, is invalid as only as the Divine claims, I Am That, which is the Tao, the Unborn. In the words of the Buddha, "Suffering Is, none who suffers. Enlightenment is, but none who attains it."  In the teachings of the Buddha, the 'self' does not exist. In Islam man has to attain the state of 'Fana' or absolute annihilation of the self before he can be one with God, for as long as he is identified with a personal being he will remain two, man and God. In essence God is One in the Abrahamic religions, but for so long as man believes that he is an entity separate from God, he will remain as such, a deity worshiping himself while striving to become one with God; this is 'shirk'.

Fanaa (Arabic: فناء‎ fanāʾ ) in Sufism is the "passing away" or "annihilation" (of the self).^[1] Fana means "to die before one dies", a concept highlighted by famous notable Muslim saints such as Rumi and later by Sultan Bahoo.^[2] Fana represents a breaking down of the individual ego and a recognition of the fundamental unity of God, creation, and the individual self.^[1] Persons having entered this enlightened state obtain awareness of the intrinsic unity (Tawhid) between Allah and all that exists, including the individual's mind. It is coupled conceptually with baqaa, subsistence, which is the state of pure consciousness of and abidance in God.^[3]

In Islam, shirk (Arabic: شرك‎ širk) is the sin of practicing idolatry or polytheism, i.e., the deification or worship of anyone or anything besides God, i.e., Allah. Literally, it means ascribing or the establishment of partners placed beside God.   

This is purely my own speculation and am answerable to none others as it is my on going quest for the truth as my very soul depends on it and only God knows the truth. WallahuAllam.
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