Of Being Closer To The Supreme Being

I personally do not hold any negative views on people from any religions who try to be a religious abiding faithful.
I found that a good thing. No, great thing.
But in similar, I also don't find anything wrong to those who reject to be ruled by religions and live their life how they want it.
I found that to be one's freedom of believing in the best of one self.

I am then, in a way, use a humanistic approach on religion, though that can be debated as well.

As a Muslim, I believe that Rasulullah Prophet Muhammad is the greatest individual who has achieved greatness in spiritual and worldy matters in his 22-year-old struggle in bringing back the essence of "submission to God" - something that long ago was practiced by Sabeans who follows Zabur and follow Prophet Noah and  Prophet David, practiced by Jews who follows Torah and follow Moses and later Prophets such as Elijah and Ezre, and practiced by Christians who believes in Bible as their good news and follow the footsteps of the Twelve Apostles alike . It was only to us, upon age and millenia, the essence waned due to corruption in the institution of the mentioned great religions above.

My personal conviction is that the true God is one and only one- the being who is not a 'being' referred to as Allah- but I hold no harsh judgment to the believer of the same God albeit different traditions and paradigm- the Trinity-believing Christians and the Yahweh-believing Jews for example. Or the other version of God.

I do not hate Christians at all. I do not hate Jews at all. I do not hate atheists at all.

I respect Muhammad, Jesus, Moses as great prophets, and at the same time, I respect Plato who was among the earliest philosopher who talks about morality, Aristotle who talks about truth- and in contrast, though disagreeing with him, I respect Freidrich Nietszche the philologist who is famous for his anti-moral thesis "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" or Michel Foucault on his postmodern views on morality and the substance of materialism and socialism.

They are all great philophers of our time- and I aspire to be one.

In my personal opinion, I enjoy and feel peaceful reading on how the Great Four Imams of Sunni fight for the truth, how the 12 Imams of Shia persevere through the obstacles imposed by the Umayyad and Abbasid regime; how Saint Francis Assisi dares to meet the great ruler of Egypt who is a Muslim , to convert him towards his belief Christianity- much to the respect of Nizam al-Kamil himself, the ruler; how Buddha walks around India spreading the holy message of ennlightenment; how the Sufis with their mystical quotes attract thousands of admirations that Rabiatul Adawiyah and Hassan Basri and Jalaludin Rumi were so popular.

I believe, regardless , that this feeling of peace, serenity and divine inspiration by reading stories of religious people is not because of their religions or their God created it so, but because their act towards affirming and obeying their religion.

That's what matters, to me.

Their religions matter not as we will believe what we want to believe. What counts are the experience of euphoria and exhilaration of trying to be close to their respective version of supreme being.

Thus spoken.