ex-l wrote:"Trust in God, but tie your camel down". It means, you can believe in whatever you like ... but don't forget to do all the practical things in life.
These days I trust in the camel and tie God down - to one thing. If someone uses the word ”god”, can it be replaced with the word ”Life” or ”benefit” or ”pragmatism”. If it can be, then we have a common association with the concept of God and please feel free to live by your God’s teachings. .
If their God is one that denies or devalues Life, that values abstract ideas above lives, human and otherwise, or the planet itself, or the blessing that is living fully, enjoyably, here, now, then sorry, that’s just a cover for your problems.
That is, it’s my camel that defines God!
The impenetrability of Allah is simply reminding us to keep ego and hubris in check. It is saying, in different language, what Shakespeare’s character Hamlet said :
"There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy”
or more recently
”groove is in the heart"