Dear friend,
It was a pleasure to me to have such a conversation with you, and I wish to clear out my own view in the issues you discussed where time didn't allow me to fulfill.
Concerning what you mentioned about God in different religions, you talked in general, but in Islam, this is different.
You might know that the word God is the translation of the word Allah in Arabic, and Arabs call God as Allah, weather they were Muslims or non-Muslims. But the word Allah in Arabic has no pleural, it is a singular word.
Allah is not everywhere or inside every creature as you said, and Allah isn't an energy, or something of no mass, no. Allah is there, on His throne, and controls that world through His own will:
“Allah! There is no God save Him, the Alive, the Eternal. Neither slumber nor sleep overtaketh Him. Unto Him belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth. Who is he that intercedeth with Him save by His leave? He knoweth that which is in front of them and that which is behind them, while they encompass nothing of His knowledge save what He will. His throne includeth the heavens and the earth, and He is never weary of preserving them. He is the Sublime, the Tremendous.”
When you assume that Allah is there and He is your creator, then why don't you accept that your creator is beyond you own sense and expectations? And you can't see him with such weak senses; our senses are even weaker than those of dogs, roosters, or even bats!
If I got sure by evidence and thought that my Lord is Allah, and no God but Him, and He is the one who created me, and He granted me with the directions that guarantee my satisfaction in life (I wouldn’t say happiness, coz life is always mix of happiness and sorrow), what else should I need to believe in Him, and follow His directions?
I don’t need to rationalize them!
And what for? If I believed in the basis, then why can’t I believe in the case as a whole?
Is it better to see my Lord or not to see Him?
In my opinion, I think not to see Allah is better, coz if I see Him everywhere, and in every place, then how would I live an ordinary life?, I’ll certainly fear Him, and my own self supervision will diminish, I think I’ll feel terrible viewing Him everyday, I can’t then even look at Him!
But when I worship Him without viewing Him, I’ll experience my honesty and self control, and check how much I can worship Him as if I see Him, then I should have such a mix and balance of fear, respect, and love, which I’m really trying to approach.
Allah promised His followers of viewing Him as a reward after they dwell to Paradise, where their senses change to suite that situation, and there is no joy in Heaven equalizes the joy of viewing thy Lord!
There, seeing my Lord will have another taste! When life of examination ends and life of reward starts, I would then be grateful when I see the one who always helped me, protected me, and guarded me during my life.
Believe me, it is a joyful feeling to know that while you are walking on earth, there is someone watching you there in Heaven, you then feel you have peace, and protection, you then feel that everything happens to you is for reason, and for you benefit, coz the One who caused it to happen is your Lord, and He loves you.
This is the meaning of the Quranic verse that says:
“Wherever you turn, there is the Face of Allah”
“Nay,-whoever submits His whole self to Allah and is a doer of good,- He will get his reward with his Lord; on such shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.”
Our ancient 1st followers of Islam, followed these directions without negotiating, once they believe in the whole case, then time revealed the benefits of such directions, but they need not to know such benefits to follow them, this is the true belief.
"Only those are Believers who have believed in Allah and His Messenger, and have never since doubted, but have striven with their belongings and their persons in the Cause of Allah: Such are the sincere ones."
But this doesn’t mean that Islam doesn’t urge people to think, learn, rationalize and meditate. On the contrary, Islam urged people to search earth for everything new, to discover and develop, and this is the meaning of the verse that says:
Behold, thy Lord said to the angels: "I will create a vicegerent on earth."
The story of creating mankind is also something interesting to know, and it is different in Islam than in other religions, and to my sadness, I found no site talks about the issue from the true opinion of Islam, which was revealed by the right understanding of our religious scientists of the Quranic verses:
In the garden (not the eternal garden as some may say), Allah created Adam, from mud coming from different places of earth, mixed with water, source of life, then breathed in him from His own soul.
Adam, living alone in the garden, felt lonely, so while he was asleep, Allah created Hawaa, or Eve, from Adam’s rib, them Adam woke up, he saw her, he asked: who are you? She said: I’m Eve, he asked: where did you come from? She said: I was created from your ribs, so he asked: what for? She said: to be your “sakan” (means dwell with her in tranquility).
Allah then warned them from listening to Satan
“Then We said: "O Adam! verily, this is an enemy to thee and thy wife: so let him not get you both out of the Garden, so that thou art landed in misery.”
But Stan seduced them both, and made them eat from the prohibited tree:
“In the result, they both ate of the tree, and so their nakedness appeared to them: they began to sew together, for their covering, leaves from the Garden: thus did Adam disobey his Lord, and allow himself to be seduced.”
The garden was an exam, for Adam and his offspring, to know that Satan is their enemy, that they should obey directions of their Lord, that when they mistake, Allah is there to forgive those who repent.
“o children of Adam! let not the Satan cause you to fall into affliction as he expelled your parents from the garden, pulling off from them both their clothing that he might show them their evil inclinations, he surely sees you, he as well as his host, from whence you cannot see them; surely we have made the Satans to be the guardians of those who do not believe”
Then both Adam and Eve dwelled to the earth,
“He said: get forth, some of you, the enemies of others, and there is for you in the earth an abode and a provision for a time” “he (also) said: therein shall you live, and therein shall you die, and from it shall you be raised”
every son of Adam is exposed to mistake, but every son of Adam was born pure, not born in sin as it is claimed by Christians.
And Eve was not the source of human misery, as claimed by other religions, nor did she seduce Adam to eat from the forbidden tree.
Last I must say, if you don’t trust English interpretations of the Holy Quran, then go on, learn Arabic, and you are able to, you are not of lesser capabilities than those who learn it, or those who went deep in learning other languages to be able to give the most near interpretation of the Holy Quran to such languages.
Thank you for your patience,
It was a pleasure to me to have such a conversation with you, and I wish to clear out my own view in the issues you discussed where time didn't allow me to fulfill.
Concerning what you mentioned about God in different religions, you talked in general, but in Islam, this is different.
You might know that the word God is the translation of the word Allah in Arabic, and Arabs call God as Allah, weather they were Muslims or non-Muslims. But the word Allah in Arabic has no pleural, it is a singular word.
Allah is not everywhere or inside every creature as you said, and Allah isn't an energy, or something of no mass, no. Allah is there, on His throne, and controls that world through His own will:
“Allah! There is no God save Him, the Alive, the Eternal. Neither slumber nor sleep overtaketh Him. Unto Him belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth. Who is he that intercedeth with Him save by His leave? He knoweth that which is in front of them and that which is behind them, while they encompass nothing of His knowledge save what He will. His throne includeth the heavens and the earth, and He is never weary of preserving them. He is the Sublime, the Tremendous.”
When you assume that Allah is there and He is your creator, then why don't you accept that your creator is beyond you own sense and expectations? And you can't see him with such weak senses; our senses are even weaker than those of dogs, roosters, or even bats!
If I got sure by evidence and thought that my Lord is Allah, and no God but Him, and He is the one who created me, and He granted me with the directions that guarantee my satisfaction in life (I wouldn’t say happiness, coz life is always mix of happiness and sorrow), what else should I need to believe in Him, and follow His directions?
I don’t need to rationalize them!
And what for? If I believed in the basis, then why can’t I believe in the case as a whole?
Is it better to see my Lord or not to see Him?
In my opinion, I think not to see Allah is better, coz if I see Him everywhere, and in every place, then how would I live an ordinary life?, I’ll certainly fear Him, and my own self supervision will diminish, I think I’ll feel terrible viewing Him everyday, I can’t then even look at Him!
But when I worship Him without viewing Him, I’ll experience my honesty and self control, and check how much I can worship Him as if I see Him, then I should have such a mix and balance of fear, respect, and love, which I’m really trying to approach.
Allah promised His followers of viewing Him as a reward after they dwell to Paradise, where their senses change to suite that situation, and there is no joy in Heaven equalizes the joy of viewing thy Lord!
There, seeing my Lord will have another taste! When life of examination ends and life of reward starts, I would then be grateful when I see the one who always helped me, protected me, and guarded me during my life.
Believe me, it is a joyful feeling to know that while you are walking on earth, there is someone watching you there in Heaven, you then feel you have peace, and protection, you then feel that everything happens to you is for reason, and for you benefit, coz the One who caused it to happen is your Lord, and He loves you.
This is the meaning of the Quranic verse that says:
“Wherever you turn, there is the Face of Allah”
“Nay,-whoever submits His whole self to Allah and is a doer of good,- He will get his reward with his Lord; on such shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.”
Our ancient 1st followers of Islam, followed these directions without negotiating, once they believe in the whole case, then time revealed the benefits of such directions, but they need not to know such benefits to follow them, this is the true belief.
"Only those are Believers who have believed in Allah and His Messenger, and have never since doubted, but have striven with their belongings and their persons in the Cause of Allah: Such are the sincere ones."
But this doesn’t mean that Islam doesn’t urge people to think, learn, rationalize and meditate. On the contrary, Islam urged people to search earth for everything new, to discover and develop, and this is the meaning of the verse that says:
Behold, thy Lord said to the angels: "I will create a vicegerent on earth."
The story of creating mankind is also something interesting to know, and it is different in Islam than in other religions, and to my sadness, I found no site talks about the issue from the true opinion of Islam, which was revealed by the right understanding of our religious scientists of the Quranic verses:
In the garden (not the eternal garden as some may say), Allah created Adam, from mud coming from different places of earth, mixed with water, source of life, then breathed in him from His own soul.
Adam, living alone in the garden, felt lonely, so while he was asleep, Allah created Hawaa, or Eve, from Adam’s rib, them Adam woke up, he saw her, he asked: who are you? She said: I’m Eve, he asked: where did you come from? She said: I was created from your ribs, so he asked: what for? She said: to be your “sakan” (means dwell with her in tranquility).
Allah then warned them from listening to Satan
“Then We said: "O Adam! verily, this is an enemy to thee and thy wife: so let him not get you both out of the Garden, so that thou art landed in misery.”
But Stan seduced them both, and made them eat from the prohibited tree:
“In the result, they both ate of the tree, and so their nakedness appeared to them: they began to sew together, for their covering, leaves from the Garden: thus did Adam disobey his Lord, and allow himself to be seduced.”
The garden was an exam, for Adam and his offspring, to know that Satan is their enemy, that they should obey directions of their Lord, that when they mistake, Allah is there to forgive those who repent.
“o children of Adam! let not the Satan cause you to fall into affliction as he expelled your parents from the garden, pulling off from them both their clothing that he might show them their evil inclinations, he surely sees you, he as well as his host, from whence you cannot see them; surely we have made the Satans to be the guardians of those who do not believe”
Then both Adam and Eve dwelled to the earth,
“He said: get forth, some of you, the enemies of others, and there is for you in the earth an abode and a provision for a time” “he (also) said: therein shall you live, and therein shall you die, and from it shall you be raised”
every son of Adam is exposed to mistake, but every son of Adam was born pure, not born in sin as it is claimed by Christians.
And Eve was not the source of human misery, as claimed by other religions, nor did she seduce Adam to eat from the forbidden tree.
Last I must say, if you don’t trust English interpretations of the Holy Quran, then go on, learn Arabic, and you are able to, you are not of lesser capabilities than those who learn it, or those who went deep in learning other languages to be able to give the most near interpretation of the Holy Quran to such languages.
Thank you for your patience,
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