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In fact, if Allah is not thanked whom else will be thanked? If
Allah is not obeyed whom else will be obeyed? And it Allah is
not worshiped whom else will be worshiped?
How do you disbelieve in Allah! How do you disbelieve in the One
Who is that great (all greatness) and, Who is that able (all
ability)! How do you disbelieve in the One Who brought you to
existence and Who is to recreate you after death! How do you
disbelieve in the One Who owns you fully and nothing happens in
the universe except as a result of His will? He is indeed the
One to be conscious of and the One to be respected. How do you
disbelieve in the One Whom you will return to for accountability
and there is no escape from meeting Him?
Allah is indeed our Owner. We are His property. A property that
is completely dependent and is disparately in need of its Owner.
And an Owner Who is in no need to His property and His property
does not in any way increase His unlimited richness.
How do you disbelieve in Allah! How do you deny the resurrection
and accountability, knowing that you were dead and Allah gave
you life? It is extremely ignorant to doubt the ability of Allah
(glory be to Him) - the One Who originated you to give you life
again. And it is also foolish to ignore the seriousness and
purposefulness that is ingrained in creation that strongly point
out towards eventual accountability.
How do you disbelieve in Allah! How do you commit shirk
(worshiping others with Allah or giving the attributes of Allah
to others), which is one of the severest forms of kufr, whereas
Allah is the only One Who gave you life, the only One that will
cause you to die then live again, and the only One that will
bring you for full accountability.
The Prophet (peace be upon him) defined shirk saying- "That you
make somebody or something similar to Allah, while He created
you." In the Qur'an Allah (glory be to Him) says: "Yet they
ascribe as partners unto Him the jinn . Although He did create
them, they falsely, having no knowledge, attributed to Him sons
and daughters. Glorified be He and exalted above (all) that,
they ascribe (unto Him)," 6:100. We notice here, in the Qur'anic
verse and the Prophet's saying, the exclamation about the act of
giving the attributes of Allah or describing Him in human terms
(attributing to Allah human qualities), while Allah is the Only
Creator.
How do you disbelieve in Allah! How do you deny the existence of
the Creator, while you are created and surely you have not
created yourselves? Also nothingness can not be the Cause of
your existence. How do you deny the Cause of your existence? It
is like a machine denying the existence of its maker and not
obeying his or her commands.
It the universe and what it contains is not enough for any sane
individual, proving the existence of the Creator, then there are
only two possibilities. First, the individual's mind is not
functioning right, which means that the individual's faculty of
understanding is shielded by various desires and self interest.
The second possibility is that there is a problem of conception.
If the individual views God, for example, as a trinity or as a
white bearded being located at one of the far planets or stars,
then how would one prove the existence of such being!
In reality Atheism (denying the existence of God) grows and
flourishes in environments or situations where wrong beliefs are
being inherited or adopted. In a society where mysticism, for
example, is prevalent and being practiced one would certainly
find people reacting properly or improperly to such nonsense,
going to various directions like Atheism, Agnosticism or rarely
the correct belief and understanding.
At times one hears some Muslims talking about the difficulty to
prove the existence of God which is indeed unexpected and
saddening. This kind of claim should only come from people
following and promoting other belief systems that are not based
on understanding and evidence. This is because if such people
prove the existence of God logically, they would be unable to
continue this process for unproven illogical other aspects, like
for example, the trinity or the attributes claimed to be
acquired by the so called saints.
Proving the existence of God is so simple to demonstrate and
understand. One does not need to have a special experience,
study or training. What is needed is simply the life experience
of being here surrounded with the universe and its components
(including humans and their life supporting systems).
Some people also claim that the belief in God is something
internal; that is based on one's internal feelings. Surely the
human nature, the built-in nature (the Fitrah), is a factor in
the individual confirmation of the existence of God, but it is
certainly not the only evidence. Furthermore, the human's
built-in nature can be covered up with all kinds of whims and
desires and thus becomes unable to function property. Therefore,
depending on the inner feelings as the sole factor of proving
the existence of God is clearly erroneous.
What can be said here is that the Fitrah, the uncorrupted
built-in nature of the human, resonates happily with the Truth.
It resonates greatly with the overwhelming evidence proving the
existence of the Creator and describing His unimaginable great
attributes.
[1] Al Qur'an, 40:35, 40:56.
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