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>The individual who has realized fana' ceases to exist as a person in the ordinary sense (like you and me) and is now a conscious manifestation of the Divine.

This is one of the most presumptuous and ill-fated beliefs across multiple faith systems. The persons who are and/or reach this state are categorically NOT the ones that say this about themselves, nor usually the ones about who other people say manifest Divinity (not just divine will, which can be a spotaneuous and different thing to discuss).

In Orthodox Christianity there is a thing called "prelest", describing the fake perception of high (self-)spirituality. What is interesting is that this fake spirituality can also occur in degrees of self /soul degradation which are not really ego death but rather forms of depression, extasis, or succumbation towards negative collective aspects (translucent forms of impersonation).

So while there certainly was and can be such a phenomena as baqa state (human in divine sustenance), boddhisatvas and the likes, the chance of one such figure being real and not a qualified form of self-delusion is 99.9% if not more. Most people just confuse empowerment and/or ascetic results to divine transcendence which frankly is not something an aunt can attain after Sunday yoga class that easy -- but neither a lifelong monk. Only God can tell, not humans