“We said above that Islam aims to base itself on the element “Truth” –that is, it puts the ascent there according to its own point of view and intention –and that is the “impersonal” character of this element which “decentralizes” Islamic “mythology.” In Christianity it will be doubtless be thought that the “divine reality” –manifested by Christ –has precedence over “truth”, the first being “concrete” and the second “abstract”, and this is the case when “truth” is reduced to the level of thought; but we must not lose sight of the fact we have a priori no knowledge of the divine Reality in the absence of metaphysical truth, whatever the degree of our understanding; from another angle, the word “truth” is often taken as synonymous with “reality” –“I am the way, the truth, and the life” –and this is how Islam understands it. It is precisely because we have to begin with no knowledge beyond the “truth” that we have a right to call “true’ what is “real”, a terminology that in no way prejudices the effective—and eventually “concrete” –quality of our apparently “abstract” knowledge. Be that as it may, the “subjective” manifestation of the Absolute is no less real than its “objective” manifestation: certitude is nothing less than a miracle.”
–F Schuon (Gnosis divine wisdom, page 9)