Peace be upon you Ayman,
QuoteI generally agree with what you are saying and I see wisdom in it.
I don't see much difference between faith and trust.
The difference I was trying to point out was between "belief" and "trust". Trust adds the element of conviction to the belief. See, there are two kinds of beliefs, one where you are CONVINCED and one where you are not convinced. The one where you are CONVINCED becomes TRUST. And it is that which we TRUST that moves us. Our energies are motivated by this CONVICTION, wether for right or wrong.
Let me give an example, one is living in poor conditions and they asy "I believe one day I will get enough money to do such and such"...yes, they have that belief, but it does not really "MOVE" them per say....however, lets say this same person gets a call from thier brother or sister saying that they think they just came across an idea that will make them rich and they explain how this will work, etc...now this same belief of one day getting enough money has CONVICTION behind it and so when they say it now, there is EBERGY behind it, you can "feel" it. But this does not make it Truth(KNOWLEDGE), it is still a belief because it is not certain if you will make money. But the difference is the energy.
I will search for a better example to clarify this point.
>>> We should not have faith/trust in fantasies because they are not real.<<<
This is a point where we differ and I hope we can have good dialogue about this as we move foward. I am using the word Imagination rather than fantasy, because what I have come to understand is that what you do in your imagination and what you do in real life is NOT DIFFERENTIATED in your spirit!!! Meaning your imagination is VERY REAL as far as your spirit(nafs) is concerned, and that is why/how the imagination is used as a tool for programing/reprogaming the spirit(nafs). We can use the example of the "wet dream" where one is having sex in a dream (imagination) and wakes up to find they have literally ejaculated. Sports players use imagination to improve thier game. If you imagine yourself performing a perfect golf swing over and over again, your spirit registers that as perfect swings in real life, and you become better at your real performance.
We can go into that more but my point is that Imagination is very real, the problem is that the images that come to us in moments of adversity SUGGEST to us how to act, if we TRUST those images, we could be steered in the wrong direction.
