Bismillahi rahmani raheem, assalamu alaikum
In reaching Allah a Muslims needs help to see, regarding this the Messenger of Allah said;
“A Muslim is a mirror to another Muslim” (Abu Dawud)
In Occult practice there is something called duality where they get a shaytan to mirror an aspect of you in order to control it, they call it duality because outwardly that is how it appears to them but like most things they know about the spiritual part of the universe they are mistaken.
In short a copy or mimic of something is not that thing and anything you learn or gain through this will fall short the deeper you look into the details because to have absolute control that is the only place to go, into the realm of the Angels who see the subatomic to the Jinn’s macroscopic view of the universe.
The most famous proof they use for duality which has been paraded around as if it is the proof of their existence is that black and white are dualities of each other, the opposites, many monuments have been built around this mistake.
“In physics, a color is visible light with a specific wavelength. Black and white are not colors because they do not have specific wavelengths. Instead, white light contains all wavelengths of visible light. Black, on the other hand, is the absence of (all) visible light.”
Nothing is not the opposite of Something, only two created things can be opposites of each other because opposite means they are connected like the Ying and Yang symbol influencing each other spiritually and “nothing” has no influence on the universe. But for thousands of years they have made this mistake and persisted in it, likewise is the reality of this occult practice it only goes as far as their eyes can see.
Duality is only as perfect as the mirror, as perfect as the mimic is, but it is not a universal truth of the universe, it is not a law written into it but something livings things choose to be.
This is something Jinn and Angels are good at because it supports the self of the Human, Jinn need to be dualities/mimics of Humans because they often loose themselves in fitnah and find themselves again in man, while the sahir abuses this ability of the Jinn to gain control of someone. Angels have no self so they can follow your choices to such perfection you think they chose to be your duality but in reality, that is their Ihsan in looking after you. The difference between Angels and Jinn is intention, the Jinn need while the Angels don’t.
If you can imagine the capacity of Angels then Imagine the Capacity of Allah who is more subtle and capable than them, He asks you to look inside yourself to find Him, think about what that means.
You can only find Allah in yourself when you annihilate it, destroy your nafs entirely, but isn’t that the opposite of Duality, one self mirroring another, isn’t that the opposite of the Angels supporting you.
The Answer is no, because Allah chooses to be your duality and mimics you particle by particle, the perfect mirror, until you see Him, He is the perfect guide.
The Prophet (saws) said, “Allah the Most High said, ‘I am as My servant thinks I am. I am with him when he mentions Me. If he mentions Me to himself, I mention him to Myself; and if he mentions Me in an assembly, I mention him in an assembly greater than it. If he draws near to Me a hand’s length, I draw near to him an arm’s length. And if he comes to Me walking, I go to him at speed.’”
This is a path you take, in reality you are clearing you self of preconceptions so you don’t assume or jump to conclusions when things occur, because when you are looking spiritually doing these things means you are directing your spiritual sight to delusions and mistakes.
Allah explains the path away from him as such;
“Satan has overcome them and made them forget the remembrance of Allah. Those are the party of Satan.” (58:19)
“And be not like those who forgot Allah, so He made them forget themselves.” (59:19)
You would think remembering you self is then the path to Allah while forgetting yourself is the opposite, but the people who forget Allah forget themselves. Allah is saying to His people when you remember Him you are only remembering/strengthening yourself because He is reciprocating your intent and giving your self qualities it never had before, “If he draws near to Me a hand’s length, I draw near to him an arm’s length. And if he comes to Me walking, I go to him at speed’”, Allah isn’t moving, He is talking about what the self is doing and it is acquiring qualities from Allah as it see those qualities in Him so in reality you are mirroring Him, becoming His duality.
Don’t be like the occultist who forgot Allah so Allah took away their qualities, that is the biggest thing they suffer from today and they go to great lengths to get any part of it back.
Shaykh Rami Al Rifai.