Most of us are coming from particular background and I suppose nobody was enlightened by birth. Our journey is to unlearn, learn, unlearn and then relearn. It is a continuous process of learning, at least for me. As far as I know this tiny group is without any labels or specific ideology.
There are different stages or levels of learning. In my observation 99.99% of masses are content with what they already know. Every sect of Islam is content, same way every sect of Christians, Hindus, Jews, Atheists are content.
For example almost every Muslim knows that the meaning of word Kitab is a book. But very few of us know the nuance of this Quranic terminology of the word Kitab. Al-Kitab is not a simple book of information or book of instructions but it is a book of guidance for entire mankind who are muttaqeen. If the claim is that the Quran is for entire mankind, and it is also claim that it is kitab i mobin (with no ambiguity) then it must be in all the native languages of the world, but it also says that only muttaqoon can decode or discover it.
Now the question is are we not muttaqeen? In the context of the book Quran, "Muttaqeen" (ٱلْمُتَّقِينَ) refers to individuals who possess a strong sense or presence of God consciousness (taqwa) in them 24x7. They are diligent, take precaution and are aware what they do.Man, infact the entire planet Earth is very insignificant in this infinite galaxy. Ego and superiority complex make us think we are something, the fact is we are nothing. We quarrel among ourselves because we have lost our state of humbleness (sajda). Arrogant people don't want to think and come out from their self-made well or from the self-made cocoon. To each sect their ideology is dear and they hold it close to their heart. Anything contrary to their ideology is offensive to them.
I am still learning and consider myself to be still in the cocoon in spite of thinking many times that I finally broke the cocoon but then after sometime I realizes that I am in a new cocoon. I am not able to fly yet or feel the experience of liberation. I am still imprisoned in words, chained in books and different philosophies. In the age of IT revolution we are drowned in information and starving for knowledge.
If we cannot experience, we cannot testify (shahadah) this is the backbone of almost all the religious philosophies including Islam. There is no shortcuts for gaining experience. We have to go through many internal incidents / narrations / happenings (hadith) before settling down on to one narration and that in Quranic terminology is called the Quran / Furqan. Note this narration is not 114 chapter Old Arabic language compilation recognized as the book Quran. The best narration is our own personal Quran which called accounts / happening (hadith) or events / occurrences / happenings in our mind. (39:23), (52:32-35), (53:59-62), (56:76-81), (68:44), (77:50), (4:78), (4:87) and (31:6) - (diverting talks in our mind are also hadiths)
Our personal compilation or downloading of our clear thoughts that continuously speaks, guides, warn, differentiate to us in our own language is our original Quran, Furqan. Our Quran is part of our inner script (Al-Kitab), our inner accepted direction (Qibla) and Kaba (our inner protuberance that acts like a beacon).
