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Question:
Who
is God? |
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Answer:
God is One, Eternal and Absolute. He is everything,
everything is from Him. God, the Creator of all
things is the Sustainer of the universe. Allah:
there is no god but Him, the Living, the Eternal
One. Neither slumber nor sleep overtakes Him. His is
what the heavens and the earth contain. Who can
intercede with Him except by His permission? He
knows all about the affairs of men at present and in
the future. They can grasp only that part of His
knowledge which He wills. His throne is as vast as
the heavens and the earth, and the preservation of
both does not weary Him. He is the Exalted, the
Immense One. (2:255)
Say: ‘Allah is One, the Eternal God. He begot none,
nor was He begotten. None is equal to Him.’ (112:
1-4)Chapter 112 of the Qur’an, entitled Ikhlas,
gives us the essence of monotheism. Not only does it
tell us of the oneness of God, but it also makes it
clear what the oneness of God means. This chapter
presents the concept of God, purified of all human
interpolation, for, prior to the advent of Islam,
tampering with the sacred text had caused this
concept of God to be distorted for all would-be
believers. God is not many. He is only one. All
depend upon him. He depends on none. He, in his own
being, is all powerful. He is above to ‘beget’ or
‘begotten’. He is such a unique being who has no
equal or compeer. All kind of oneness belongs to
this Almighty Being. The concept of One God is the
actual beginning point and also the only source of
Islamic teachings. |
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Question:
Is
the Universe with God or without God?
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Answer:
We have the entire universe before us. We see it, we experience it,
and so are forced to believe in its existence. Even
when a man rejects the godhead, he still believes in
the universe. But when and how did it come into
being? Explaining its existence as the creation of
God is no final answer—so it is generally held—since
the very next question which arises is if God made
the universe, then who made God?
Can we believe in a causeless universe and a
causeless God? Belief in a causeless God as the
Creator of all things has more logic to it, in this
world of cause and effect, than belief in a
causeless universe and a non-existent God. It is by
believing in a causeless Creator that we save
ourselves from believing in the impossibility of a
causeless universe.
Belief in God seems to many to be a very strange
thing. But disbelief is even stranger. Sometimes it
is argued that belief must rest on proof. But, from
the purely scientific standpoint, nothing in this
world can be proved or disproved. So far as
believing in anything is concerned, the option is
not between the proved and the unproved, but between
the workable and the
non-workable.
For instance, scientists in general believe in the
concept of gravity. They do so, not because of proof
of its existence, but because of the demonstrable
predictability of effects. They do not know why
gravity has the effect it has, or how it came into
existence. They simply accept its existence as a
useful theory. This
is the case with all scientific concepts, and belief
in them does not mean uncritical acceptance of
established as opposed to unestablished ideas.
It simply means believing in a working hypothesis as
opposed to an unworkable theory. Exactly the same
principle is applicable to the concept of God.
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