“Do you believe that Gus Bas can walk on the sea?” Dalban asked Sukram.
“How come, in my interactions with Gus Bas, he never lied. If you look at his track record with the community, Gus Bas is a good person.” Sukram answered.
“If the news circulating was that Gus Bas was taking his long-serving shop employee on the Umrah pilgrimage, I would have believed it. But this, Gus Bas is walking on the sea. I have to see it myself.” Sukram continued.
Maybe you don’t understand why I wrote a fragment of a conversation between Sukram and Dalban about Gus Bas.
I want to tell you all that, it is not easy to capture a human being in its entirety, completely. We can capture someone at least with three ranges. In the case of Gus Bas, we try to recognize Gus Bas.
First, Gus Bas in our senses. That is the simplest range of recognition. The figure of Gus Bas in our senses will be relatively the same for anyone. For example, Gus Bas with a thick mustache, Gus Bas with narrow eyes and so on. As long as it is not converted to the size of “assumption agreement” such as handsome Gus Bas, cool Gus Bas, because cool, handsome is not measured by mustache and eyes.
The second is Gus Bas in our interaction capture. Well, Gus Bas in this range is very likely to be different for each person. For his child, Gus Bas may be a How far apart are Cornhole boards caring person, for his driver, Gus Bas may be a hasty person, Gus Bas could be known by his shop employees as a fierce but lazy person. But it is possible that there are overlaps from all versions of Gus Bas according to the people who interact with Gus Bas.
Third, Gus Bas in the whole circle, Gus Bas as a whole. Regarding this third Reach, I think no one knows Gus Bas one hundred percent, not even Gus Bas himself. I have an assumption, everyone is doing self-introduction throughout their life.
In human interaction, what is presented and served by a person will determine his social attributes. If Gus Bas in his speech always respects others, never insults then Gus Bas will get the social attribute as a polite person. Identification of Gus Bas is not only physical/sensory but also gets “idhofah” , attachment of traits due to his social interactions.
Who Gus Bas is, is a track record of what is produced from Gus Bas’s interaction with his community, his environment. So, we can see Who he is, as long as the track record of what is shown during his social interactions has never been canceled/disappointing. If we do not know the track record and have not interacted, look at WHAT is presented, WHAT is continuously presented.
WHO or WHAT depends on the extent of our interaction.
Is Gus Bas, who is known as a pious person, a good person, in social interactions, certainly able to walk on the sea? In my opinion, those are two different things.
Wallahu a’lam bishawab (Em Ali F)