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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]Rumi wrote:

"All night long, a man called 'God'
Until his lips were bleeding.
Then his Adversary said, 'Hey!
How come you’ve been calling all night
And never once heard God say, 'Here, I am?'
You call out so earnestly and, in reply, what?
I’ll tell you what, nothing!'

"The man suddenly felt empty and abandoned.
Depressed, he threw himself on the ground
And there, he fell asleep.
In his dream, he met an angel, who asked,
'Why are you regretting calling out to God?'

"The man said, 'I called and called
But God never replied, 'Here, I am.''

"The Angel explained, [b]'God has said,
'Your calling my name is My reply.
Your longing for Me is My message to you[/b].
All your attempts to reach Me
Are in reality My attempts to reach you.
Your fear and love are a noose to catch Me.
In the silence surrounding every call of 'God'
Waits a thousand replies of 'Here I am.'[/quote]

SO God is off the hook in terms of a direct response!  What about people who DO hear directly from God?  How are they different from the ones who only call out to God?

And what's with the angel?  Any reason to think it's a real angel instead of just a character in a dream?  Why would god send an angel to explain why he doesn't directly respond[/quote]

Obviously the way you understand/interpret this depends on your own personal belief system. In Islam, we are told that God said : "I am as My servant thinks I am. I am with him when he makes mention of Me. If he makes mention of Me to himself, I make mention of him to Myself; and if he makes mention of Me in an assembly, I make mention of him in an assembly better than it. And if he draws near to Me an arm's length, I draw near to him a fathom's length. And if he comes to Me walking, I go to him at speed." If God talked to you specifically, and showed Himself to you in His own magnificence, then this life wouldn't be a test now, would it? You would have the evidence to believe in Him since you would Know He exists. Faith comes in Not knowing and still believing.  To a Muslim, the whole design of this universe is made up for a TEST of human beings. And that test is whether we believe in our Creator or not after watching billions of signs of His existence in ourselves and as well as in the whole universe. If there was a clearcut incontrovertible proof that was acceptable to everybody, then this life wouldn't be a test which kind of defeats its purpose and the purpose of Faith.[/quote]

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