What kind of a response is that?

 

If I asked you, “who are you?”

 

And you answered “I am who I am”!

 

Well if I knew who you were, would I be asking?!

 

But such was God’s response to Mosses, when he requested to know God.

 

“I am who I am.”

 

And here is the exceptionally profound meaning of “I am who I am.”

 

You see, most of us are actually somethings, who are really nothings; yet God is a nothing, who is really everything.

 

In other words, as soon as I define myself, be it Jew, atheist, Christian. American etc. what I have done is go from the state of non-being to the state of imprisoned being.

 

We all want to be a somebody, hence, we seek identities.

 

But the very identities we create, don’t make us greater than the nothingness we truly are; they in fact reduce our nothingness into a parameter which is almost impossible to escape (which is why we see these stupid Muslims turned absolute savages, for in their parameter, they believe, that is what Allah wants from them.)

 

However “I am who I am” means as follows: I always do the right thing.