Do We Need Proof about The Existence Of Allah? (1/3)

Once, a scholar of sacred knowledge was asked, what is the proof for the existence of Allah. 'Allah', the scholar replied.  Then, he was asked again, what about the apparatus of mind?  'It is deficient and leads only to something like', he replied.

lbn Ata' As-Sakandari  said, "O  Allah! How can they cite  what  needs  You  as  an  evidence  for  You?!  Is there anything more evident than You to be cited as an evidence for You?!  When  did  You cease  watching  the  world  that we  need  an evidence  for  Your  existence?!  And how far did you go that now we have to pursue Your traces to find You?!  How can He be veiled while He disclosed everything?!  How can He be veiled while He is evident anywhere?!  How  can  He  be  veiled   while  He  is  the  ever Evident  and the only One Who has no peer?! How can He be veiled while He is nearer to us than anything else?! How can He be veiled while we owe our existence to Him?

Thus there is no comparison between those who know Allah as a source of evidence or as an end   of evidence.  The former return the right to its owner, whereas the latter are misled. When did He cease watching the world that we need evidence for His Existence?! How far did He go so that we have to pursue His traces?!

Between Faith and Atheism

Once, an atheist teacher said to his disciples, "only what you see really exists.  They answered, 'yes.' You notice the tablet, the pen, the notebook and the chair?  All of them are visible and touchable, aren't they?' 'Yes,' They replied.  Then he said, do you see God?  They replied, no. hence, God doesn't exist. The students were perplexed, because they believed in the existence of Allah by heart. Meanwhile, Allah disclosed the falsehood of these teachers at the hands of one of his disciples. A student after having permission   asked, do you understand what the teacher has said, they said, yes.  Ok, do you see the teacher now?  Yes, they replied.  Does the teacher have a mind? 'Yes,' they answered. 'Do you see his mind?' They said, 'No,' he said, following the teacher method i.e., "Only what we see does exist." Our teacher has no mind because it is invisible.  Then, all students laughed and the teacher was amazed and never mentioned that again. The  following  is also  another useful  discourse:  you assume  that Allah  exists  depending  totally  on  the  law  of  casual  influence   which  states  that  everything  made  or  created should  have  a maker  or  a creator.  Likewise, the textile leads to the weaver, the painting leads to the painter, and the statue leads to the sculptor. Following the same law the universe leads to the Omnipotent God.  We,  then,  believe  in  this Creator,  but  we  might  follow  the  same  law and  ask,  who  creates  the  Creator?   Who created   Allah Whom you talked about? Does your evidence and the law of casual influence not lead to such a result? To refute this false assumption,  we can  say that  it is incorrect  analogy, this  is  because  you  first  acknowledge   that  Allah  is  the Creator  then you ask about the creator of Allah.  How can you adopt Him as a creator and created at the same time.

This assumption can also be refuted in the following manner: How can you imagine that the Creator is subject to human laws. The casual influence is a human law and does not apply but to human beings.  Also, time and place on earth differ from time and place outside. Thus, the Creator can never be described in terms of time or place nor their laws.  More  than  that,  Allah  has  created   such laws,  therefore,  it is incredible  to  describe  Allah  by  the Jaws created by Him.

Aristotle mentioned the sequence of these causes by saying, the chair is made from wood, wood from a tree, a tree from a seed, and a seed is cultivated by a teller. Then, he was obliged to say that this sequential causes in the course of endless time must lead to the necessity of the Creator, so is Allah.

Ibn Arabi when answering this question “who created Allah?" He said, "It is an incredible question since Allah Himself is a source of evidence. Allah is a Supreme Being transcendently beyond all creatures’ qualities, just as light is a proof for the day-time and not the opposite.”

Why Is Allah Invisible?

To answer this question, let us refer to science concerning matter and the like in this life. If only what we see does exist, there are many invisible things that are beyond our senses. For example, if you put a magnet opposite  to a piece  of  iron,  you  will  notice  that  the  magnet  pulls  the iron. Where is that power placed between the iron and the magnet? Is it touchable, visible or testable? We just realize it because of its effect as it pulled the iron.  This gravity is created as colors. Colors cannot be visible, because of its great darkness, before being reflected as an object like a cloth, a wall, a plate or something else. For example,  if we have a green cloth, we should bear in mind that the matter in the cloth has absorbed  all colors  save the green,  therefore,  we  notice  it  as  being  green  and  so on.  Electricity also, is invisible.  Only after lighting a lamp do we notice electricity conducted through wires. But, where is electricity? It is certainly invisible as are ultra violet rays, gravity and many other things that we can only notice them by the effect they leave.  Behold,  although  these  created  things, gave a small example with regards to the whole world,  are invisible,  no wonder  Allah Who created  such things  is invisible.

How Is Allah's Figure

We do not know Allah's form.  He is beyond any intellectual activity.  Actually,  having  realized  the  nature  of the above  created  things,  we come  to a result  that  there must be a Creator,  Allah. As for the visibility of Allah, it is beyond our minds and perception. Therefore, Allah can never be seen in this world. This issue is also contravene the sacred knowledge and law.   For example, we believe that the pen with which we write is designed by someone and made by a certain machine.  Although, we believe that there must be a machine that made the pen, yet we ignore the shape of the machine. Thus, we believe that there must be a machine that made the pen without seeing it, and that is the point.

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