[ The path of the mind to God from the point of view of Sharia is closer to it than from the point of view of thought ]

We learned that the mind has nothing in terms of itself. And that what he acquires from the knowledge is due to his having the quality of acceptance. If it is of this status, then accepting it from his Lord, whom He Almighty has not informed about Himself, is better than accepting it from his thought. He has known that his thought is an imitation of his imagination and that his imagination is an imitation of his senses, and despite his imitation, he is not strong in grasping what he has. The preserving and evocative power did not help him in this, and with this knowledge that the powerful do not go beyond their creation and what they give them is their reality, and that looking at himself, he has no knowledge except the necessities with which he was born, he does not accept the words of anyone who tells him that there is another power behind you that gives you something other than what the thinking power gave you, the people of God have attained it. From the angels, the prophets, and the saints, and the revealed books spoke of them, so accept from them this divine news, for imitating the truth is better. I have seen the minds of the prophets, despite their abundance, and the saints have accepted them, believed in them, believed them, and saw that imitating their Lord in knowing Himself is better than imitating their thoughts. So why, O rational person who denies them, do not accept them from the one who brought them. Especially minds that say they are in the place of faith in God, His Messengers, and His Books

[ Mathematics, retreats, and struggle, and its impact on true knowledge ]

And when the minds of the people of faith in God Almighty saw that God had asked them to know Him after they had known Him with their theoretical evidence, they knew that there was another knowledge of God that they could not reach.