When Prophet Mohammed Said That Allah Is a Light, Why Is Calling Allah a Light Not Permitted?

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

Q. How to explain the following sentences from Quran?

[Shri Anil Antony asked: To a question, Did you see thy Lord? Prophet Mohammad said: ‘He is a Light, how could I see Him?’

Another place in Quran it is written that: ‘His veil is the light’

‘You are the Light of the heavens and the earth (wa man feehin) and whoever is in them’.

‘So believe in Allah and His Messenger and the Noor (light) which We have sent down (i.e. the Quran). And Allah is Acquainted with what you do.’

Some muslim devotees say that calling Allah a Noor (Light) is not permissible. It's is Shirk. Then how to explain the above sentences?]

Swami replied:- Allah is the absolute and unimaginable God, called Parabrahman in Hinduism and Jehovah in Christianity. Allah can’t be any imaginable item in the imaginable creation. Mohammad is human incarnation like Krishna in Hinduism and Jesus in Christianity. The light mentioned here is the knowledge with the help of which you can see and distinguish items. Hence, the Q’ran is the light or divine knowledge like the Gita of Hinduism and the Bible of Christianity with the help of which one can distinguish right and wrong and true and false. There is no difference between Allah and Mohammad because Allah merged with a selected devotee is Mohammad or the human incarnation. Allah can’t be the imaginable light or the imaginable spiritual knowledge or the imaginable Q’ran. Allah is only the possessor of light or knowledge. Even Mohammad is also the possessor of knowledge or light and not directly the knowledge or light. A possessor is called by the possessed item. When you call “O apples! Come here”, it means that you are asking the possessor of the apples to come and not apples directly! Possessor of excess knowledge is addressed by the possessed knowledge to indicate that the possessor is the embodiment of knowledge. Hence, it is not wrong to say that Allah is light or knowledge even though actually Allah is not the light or knowledge or any imaginable item of this creation.

Mohammad did not like to be called as Allah (monism) or as the son of Allah (special monism), but liked to be called as the servant of Allah (dualism) in order to avoid the attack from the egoistic and jealous devotees, who crucified Jesus. Jesus told that He is Jehovah (I am the truth and light) after telling that He is Son of Jehovah. Both these states (that human incarnation is Son of God and God Himself) are not tolerable to egoistic, jealous and ignorant devotees. The maximum that can be tolerated by them is to say that the human incarnation means the servant of God. There is no problem if the human incarnation is called as servant of God as far as Pravrutti is concerned. In Pravrutti, only existence of unimaginable omniscient and omnipotent God is sufficient and the spiritual knowledge can be passed on to the devotees as the message sent by God through the servant-human incarnation like a letter sent to some body through the postman. Only in the Nivrutti, the human incarnation as God is required. If the receivers are of the level of Pravrutti only, the dualism must be only projected and the human incarnation must say that He is servant of God and this will not enrage the other devotees because every devotee feels that the devotee is a servant of God. Seeing the cruel fate of Jesus, His preceding prophet, Mohammad took care about the risk and projected Himself as divine messenger only and not as God or not even as Son of the God.

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