Islam is the meeting between God as such and man as such.
God as such: that is to say God envisaged, not as He manifested Himself in a particular way at a particular time, but independently of history and inasmuch as He is what He is and also as He creates and reveals by His nature.
Man as such: that is to say man envisaged, not as a fallen being needing a miracle to save him, but as man, a theomorphic being endowed with an intelligence capable of conceiving of the Absolute and with a will capable of choosing what leads to the Absolute.
Understanding Islam by Frithjof Schuon, page 1.
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“Islam is the meeting between God as such and man as such.God as such: that is to say God envisaged, not as He manifested Himself in a particular way at a particular time”
? Last time I checked, Islam and Muhammad appeared in a particular way at a particular time. Also, the Qur’an is bound to a particular language.
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The quote is speaking of ‘God as such’ reread it again.
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Calvin says something similar.
“It must be acknowledged, therefore, that in each of the works of God, and more especially in the whole of them taken together, the divine perfections are delineated as in a picture, and the whole human race thereby invited and allured to acquire the knowledge of God, and, in consequence of this knowledge, true and complete felicity.”
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Great quote
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I agree with the 1st point but the 2nd point, one thing I would like to say is that man was fallen.
According to the Quran, Allah banished Adam and his wife from Paradise:
Surah 20:123 – [ Allah ] said, “Descend from Paradise – all, [your descendants] being enemies to one another. ).
They descended to Earth; which means they were fallen.
The miracle that saved us is that God still chose to guide them after they fell astray:
Surah 20:122 – Then his Lord chose him and turned to him in forgiveness and guided [him].
Surah 20:123 – And if there should come to you guidance from Me – then whoever follows My guidance will neither go astray [in the world] nor suffer [in the Hereafter].
This is a miracle because without the guidance of God, many if not all of us would be lost, as the Bible says, like sheep gone astray (Isaiah 53:6, Matthew 9:36).
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