Thank you Ahmad. So far, I found answer to be the most interesting. This is what I meant when I asked about GOD Experience.
However, I would like to ask if there is a method or a certain kind of Meditation or Prayer to experience GOD which is beyond thought and any description of Thought.
Please let me know or direct me to someone who actually does know.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience.
Anytime. As a Muslim, I can honestly say there is nothing better than the five times daily prayers which we Muslims do. I can't stress enough how when I often get stressed with the daily tasks I have, in dealing with others and in my work, that I get overwhelmed. I get so stressed sometimes I wonder, "where does this stressful feeling come from?" When I go to pray, then I feel at peace. I feel better when I pray then at any other time.
Here is why. I first direct my attention to God and leave everything else. Then I pray standing reciting the First Chapter of the Qur'an and then second I always recite Chapter 113, about the Oneness of God. I love to say them, and saying them brings peace. Hindus speak of mantras in which they prescribe certain verses to recite over and over again. Maybe that's not the right way to look at that, but our prayers as Muslims repeats the same verses all the time during the day, so we already have our mantras in which we recite and feel at ease. There is probably a very good reason why we humans like this. It might have to do with the fact that we like repetition and patterns.
When I bow in prayer, I feel at ease. It brings humbleness. It reminds me that however stubborn I may get, or any feeling of arrogance I have, it's nothing. It means nothing at all. Who am I when I know I should go so low in humbleness as to press my forehead to the ground in front of my Creator?
Then when I sit and recite prayers I am in an easy state and I am meditating by reciting my prayers. They flow from my tongue and the recitation of these words is like the taste of honey or even better. it is something sweet and pleasant. Same when I recite the Qur'an. It is like I am reading words which while reciting them, taste sweet. I don't know if that makes any sense, but this is who I feel about it.
As for anyone else who would know about any ways to experience God in some meditation or prayer, I would say any Muslim on this forum. I have heard of Buddhist meditations, Hindu meditations, etc. But in the Islamic form of worship, we combine prostrations, mantra-like recitations, sitting meditations and standing meditations as part of our form of worship to God. Every position has a deeper spiritual significance as well. But i find nothing more comprehensive than this prayer.
I say this truthfully, since I have tried reading up on Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Taoism, Confucianism, etc. I have seen what they all say, but the one prayer which has what any of these religions have as well, is the Islamic prayer. The words are full of deep wisdom, the concept of Oneness and the negation of multiplicity in the Divine, the concept of guidance to what the righteous have attained, the repetition of it, the poetry behind the verses we say, etc. Everything is in the Islamic prayer.
The other thing is the concept of the Islamic prayer. If one does what is required of them, all is good. But if they go beyond that and pray voluntarily doing more besides what they have done necessarily, then God is said to become the ears with which that person hears with, their feet with which they walk, their hands with which they grasp, cubit by cubit, inch by inch. There is this closeness with God which is so profound that no words can fully describe. This is why for some in the past, during their prayers they experienced visions. Specifically the Prophets of God. The saints in the past also achieved profound divine experiences.
In the Qur'an, Mary, the Mother of Jesus spoke to the angel Gabriel. Zakariyya received revelations, Moses' mother received revelations, etc. These were people who were not Prophets, yet they received revelations from Allah and His angels. So the experience of God is vast.
(*sending a HUG back*)