Then there is the idea of God being a personal God. Some find it very difficult to imagine God as a person; they feel it is like limiting God, whereas another will think that if God is not a person He no longer exists for him, and that He might just as well be air, space, or time. Both of these have their reasons, and the Sufi prepares himself to look at both from their own point of view. He comes to the conclusion that from the personal ideal one can rise to the complete ideal; the complete ideal embracing the seen and unseen, within and without, the Absolute.