What is addressed is the true, historical and unified essence of man. It is for this reason that in their essence and substance, divine religions are not different from each other. Their differences arise from religious edicts and laws which pertain to man's social and legal life. Some of these stories have been posed in the east, and some in the west. The important point, however, is that eastern stories explain the eastern aspect of man's existence and essence, while western stories narrate man's western aspect.
Man is the fluence of the soul of the east and the reason of the west.
The denial of any aspect of man's existence renders our understanding of the meaning of his existence flawed and inadequate. On the other hand, collectivism, as against individualism, in fact has been the result of the development of this very concept of the individual. Consequently, both concepts are derived from an identical philosophical source. For this reason, from the standpoint of our spiritual wisdom, we consider the conflict between individualistic liberalism and collective socialism to be merely superficial and accidental. Muslim gnostics view man as a universe.