There is no such thing as falling outside God

There is no such thing as falling outside of God, for this would mean that there is somewhere that God is not. The only place we can fall is in consciousness, and as soon as we rise back into God-consciousness, we see that He was with us always; we were just not looking at Him.

There are lessons, in fact, to be learned in every place. The mark of spiritual mastery is the ability to remember God wherever we go, and through whatever we experience. We are living in a world of permanent change. Everything changes, and the more firmly we have this understanding imbedded in our consciousness, the easier it is to remember God as we go through all of the transformations that are necessary for our total evolution.

Recommended Literature

Recommended literature for adults and children by SHY
1. The Country of the Blind
About perception and reality.
2. A Separate Peace
3. Alice in Wonderland
In this court, we judge you, then start the trial.
4. Amazing Grace
This true story is the backbone of many Christian American Hymns. The story of a slavetrader who repents.
5. Billy Budd
About Envy

`People will admit to fellonious crimes, before they admit to envy.` - That Hikma is worth the Book
7. Charles Dickens/David Cooperfield Studies in English Literature
SHYH has mentioned Uriah Heap at least twice in his speeches (Daajal and the new World Order, Purification of the Heart), once even comparing the Dali Lama to him
8. Chronicles of Narnia
9. Crime and Punishment

10. Dantes Inferno
Dante lumped `userer` (bankers) in with homosexuals - both are unnatural acts. Back when Christianity still forbade Interest.

SHY spoke about the concept `life being like a mountain`, and how this is the physical reality in the book.
12. David Copperfield
How everything is about Domestic Violence
13. Hero with a 1000 faces
How the same archtype hero shows up in every story
14. Jane Austen: The Complete Novels
How most families try to keep their wealth within their family, specifically about the English.
15. Moby Dick
(Herman Melville) Possibly the greatest American Author
16. Selected Short Stories
I will never forget that story (SHY speaking about `The Necklace`)

On further study, I`m not sure if this was recommended.
18. The Brothers Karamazov
How this book is about Domestic Violence

The Greatest Western Writer
20. The Chronicles of Narnia
21. The Civil War: A Narrative : Fort Sumter to Perryville Civil War

22. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume 1

23. The Illiad
Shy quoted Achilles on lieing
24. The Odyssey of Homer
Its an incredible journey home

SHY mentions this book alot, but never really recommends it.
26. The Sea-Wolf
How SHY`s children preferred the book version over the cinematic adoptation.
27. War and Peace

Knowing God - Islamic perspective

Basic to the doctrine of Islam is the transcendence of God and the inability for His creation to know Him. Instead, what can be known about God is merely his attributes as are revealed in the Qur'an. What does al-Ghazali mean by "knowing" God? S.R. Shafaq argues that al-Ghazali "rejects the idea of crude pantheism" which the more extreme forms of Sufism claimed, such as identification or unification (ittihad), incarnation (hulul), inherence or joining (wusul) with God (1954:46). This claim receives credibility in Deliverance from Error when al-Ghazali says: "In general what they manage to achieve is nearness to God; some however, would conceive of this as inherence, some as union, and some as connection. All that is erroneous" (Watt 1982:61). And yet, al-Ghazali seemingly embraced the experiential state of the Sufis. Al-Ghazali has often been accused of paradoxical statements, but on this point it is not a paradoxical dilemma but rather a different meaning of the term to "know". For al-Ghazalii, knowing God is knowing His revelation. It is not personal, relational knowledge. Love for God is to love the revelation He has given in the Qur'an. David B. Burrell confirms al-Ghazali's affirmation in an unknowable God when he says: "So if God be unknowable, the way to God is unchartable, except as a set of invitations to set out on a journey of self-becoming, which defines our central task in life" (1987:178-179). In other words God is not knowable in the familiar sense, but more in a sense of "gnosis". The excursions into the realm of experiencing God is more of ecstasy induced by reflections on what is known about Him. According to al-Ghazali, obedience to the commands of God affords the "seeker" to maintain a "polished mirror" and thereby facilitating him in his/her pursuit of "loving" God. Loving God compels the Muslim to obedience. Al-Ghazali defines this reciprocal relationships in terms of science of revelation and science of action.

Divine Assistance

Divine assistance is always available if sought as the Sign says that God turns to those who turn to Him. AlGhazali goes so far as to say that without Divine assistance, there is no communication between the Creator and the trustee. In other words without consciousness of self, communication of the regulations of the trust remainsindirect, preconscious or even perhaps unconscious. AlGhazali defines Divine Assistance as "the harmony, agreement or concord of the slef's will and the action with God's Will". It appearsas a Sign"That the grace of God, a free gift which He gives to whom He wills (Quran, 5:54) and consists of four stages: Guidance from God (hidayah, Direction (rushd), Leading (tasdid) and Confirmation (ta'yid)..(Bakhtiar,1995,p.5)