Closeness to God | Ayatollah Jawadi Amoli

Transcript:
"Oh you who believe, take care of your souls. Those who have gone astray will not harm you when you have been guided. To Allah you all will return, then He will inform you of what you used to do" [Qur'an 5:105].

The discussion in the first sentence of this blessed verse is that it invites us to be careful of our souls [nafs], because the soul is the best and most direct path to the inner knowledge [ma'rifat] of God. And the other paths, although they are useful, do not have the [same] effect as self-knowledge.

In the discussion of narratives, we have come to a narration which is from Tuhaf al-Uqul. From that narration, it follows that if one does not have the problem of their nafs, then knowing God is easy. Because the Known has no veil...

The Known, who is the Divine Essence, is closer to the gnostic than everything else. He is even closer to the gnostic than the gnostic is to himself. So if there is a discrepancy, it is from the side of the seeker himself, not from the side of God.

God, who encompasses all things and is close to all things, some are far from Him while God is equally close to all. For example, one person is blind while another person is seeing, and the blind one and the seeing one are sitting together. But the seeing one is close to the blind one, but the blind one is far from the seeing one, because the seeing can see the blind, but the blind does not see the seeing. And the blind one keeps asking if you have any knowledge or information about the seeing one or not.

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