Re: Does God Exist?
- From: "Torpedo" <guest@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:41:17 +1000
....which one?
"All praise is due to Allah Lord of the Worlds, the Owner of all of the
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Does God Exist?
Shahul Hameed
One important point we need to understand in the first place is that
the existence of God cannot be proved in the same way you prove the
existence of a physical object. This is simply because God is not a
physical object. Any physical object is subject to your five senses.
In simple terms, you can see, hear, smell, touch or taste a physical
object. This is not possible in the case of God, as He (swt) is a
Transcendental Being [existing on a level beyond our sensual
perception].
There are people who argue that the only form of knowledge available
to humans is experiential knowledge or experimental knowledge, gained
primarily by the use of outer senses. This led to the belief that
human beings are constituted in such a way that the knowledge of
reality is always unavailable to them; and so it resulted in a renewal
of attention to the everyday world of appearances. The knowledge of
here and now became the only object of human knowledge and concern.
Thus from this point of view, the project of seeking knowledge of
reality behind appearances must be abandoned, because it is beyond the
scope of human understanding.
Now think: Can't there be a way of "being" [existing], that is not
susceptible of being perceived by the limited capabilities of humans
through their defective senses?
I hope that the implications of the two expressions I used above
['limited capabilities' and 'defective senses'] are evident to any
thinking person. The claim that something does not exist, because you
haven't seen or heard it, etc. is untenable. When we consider the
limitations of our sensual perception and of our reasoning powers, it
is not necessary that we understand everything. We can speak
meaningfully about everything simply on the basis of our perception.
So to speak of "proof" with regard to a Transcendental Being becomes
irrelevant.
What we can do is to point out facts which lead to a constant and
inescapable awareness of the presence of God. It is clear that
logically we cannot rule out the possibility of more things existing
than can be perceived by our senses or can be arrived at by our
reasoning. As for Man, there are two dimensions to his existence: One
of matter and the other of spirit.
Reduced merely to the level of material existence, Man becomes a
machine, or a mere animal at best. But think of a machine that rebels
against being a machine; or of an animal that refuses to be an animal.
That is what man is! What is it that makes him rebellious, angry,
disappointed, frightened or hopeful? What is his dimension that gives
him his imagination, his artistic genius, his creative urge? Why does
he have nightmares and sweet dreams?
It is not matter that does it; evidently it is his spirit that makes
him so different from animals. So to base our knowledge of the world
and our philosophy of life simply on the material side of our
existence to the complete exclusion of the spiritual dimension, is
undoubtedly faulty. The strength of Islam as a philosophy and as a way
of life is that it does not separate man's material life from
spiritual life, and that it seeks a balance between the two dimensions
of human existence.
We should understand that human spirit is a reality incommensurable
with material realities, and that it owes its existence only to God.
Thus dear brother, if we ponder over the phenomena of the world around
us and over the complexities of our own existence, we are bound to
conclude that God is the Reality behind all appearances. The Holy
Qur'an says in Surah 2, verse 164, the meaning of the following:
*{Behold! in the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the
alternation of the night and the day; in the sailing of the ships
through the ocean for the profit of mankind; in the rain which God
Sends down from the skies, and the life which He gives therewith to an
earth that is dead; in the beasts of all kinds that He scatters
through the earth; in the change of the winds, and the clouds which
they Trail like their slaves between the sky and the earth;- [Here]
indeed are signs for a people that are wise.}*
That is to say the external signs we see in the universe should
necessarily lead a wise person to the Ultimate Reality behind it all.
And that is how we arrive at the realization that Allah Almighty is
the Moving Power behind all life and all existence.
And Allah knows best.
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