Do We Need Proof about The Existence Of Allah?

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

Abdul-Rahman As-Sungiri



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 ****** 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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Abdul-Rahman As-Sungiri


Does Faith Contradicts Science?
As a matter of fact, science leads to faith. In his book, An Introduction to Islam, Ali Tantawi said: "Both a true scientist and an illiterate are faithful. Atheism and unbelief are seemingly adopted by those who are not well-learned. Thus, whoever acquires little science (and stops at some point, he might lose his faithful nature since he might not master the science that leads to faith."
Albert Einstein said, "Faith without science walks as a limb and science without faith crawls like the blind."
Albert MacCub Dinshtiz, Prof. of biology in the Faculty of Bailor and ex-dean of the Academy of Science, in Florida, said: "Working in the field of sciences supported my faith in God to such an extent that it became stronger and deeper than it had been. Science, undoubtedly, increases the Man's insight to realize Allah's power. The newer issues that Man may discover the more faithful a believer in Allah he becomes." Dr. Bas tor also said, "True science can never be materialized, but rather it leads to more knowledge of Allah."
The Chemist Wetsis, a staff member in the Academy of Sciences and the dean of the Faculty of Medicine said, "When I feel that my belief in Allah starts to shake I go directly towards the Academy of Science to fix it."
A statistical study was performed by German scientist; Denirt analyzed the philosophical point of view of the outstanding scientists in the last four centuries. The number of those scientists is 290. Denirt found out the following: "(38) were atheists, (242) accepted the belief publicly and (20) were disinterested concerning religion." This means that (925%) accepted Islam publicly. This great ratio indicates that the contradiction between faith and science alleged by the materialists is baseless. It turns out that faith and science are complementary.
A scientific theory can never contradict a Qur'anic verse or an authenticated Prophetic hadith. If it does, we should believe that such theory is not fully proved. Currently numerous scientific theories are believed as being authentic but later end up being disregarded because they turn out to be false.
In the 21st century, scientists in the fields of medicine, astrology, geography and other pure experimental sciences laid down their weapons and ceased to fight against religion and the Unseen. They then begin to admit the existence of Allah as a result of the scientific facts and space research. They have nothing except to believe in Allah who disposes of the universe and what it contains. Therefore, science leads to the existence of Allah and is compatible to the Unseen. All people have nothing except to surrender to Allah's Omnipotence. Allah has defied the Man to create even very simple things, before them science is still deficient.
Deficient Man and Omnipotent God
when speaking about power of the science which is adopted by some people as a god, we forget that science is still unable to do things by which Allah proves the inability of Man. In this respect, we will not speak about the spirit and its realm. This is because: science does not delve into such realm. Rather, we will study some material things to prove the inability of the Man who landed on the moon.
The first thing we can discuss is water. Water has two components: hydrogen and oxygen. Allah the Almighty said,
“See ye the water which ye drink. Do ye bring it down (in rain) from the cloud or do We?” (Surah Al-Waq'iah: 68-69)
Who created the water and brought it down from the sky? Allah did. Can science make water or make the rain fall? If we ask of this false god, (science) a cup of water will not be able to provide it!
Once, I was in New York, five years ago. There was a panic because of a shortage in the underground water and there was not sufficient rain. The people were asked to ration and reduce their use of water. Then science was introduced to try and solve the problem. They brought something thinking that it could form artificial clouds. They did their best and spent millions of dollars trying to make it rain. However, all of their efforts were futile. This is because clouds are created only by Allah. You may notice a cloud passing by a barren region but it does not rain but when it passes by a region full of water, springs, rivers, it rains. Why the scientists are unable to make such a cloud rain in the former, not in the latter or rather make it rain anywhere? The answer is that science is still experimental. But we emphasize that all sources that make life continue like water, clouds, heat, wind etc. are created by Allah, the Mighty Who grants life until a determined term. Eventually, it turned out that science was unable to match Al-lab's Omnipotence.
Secondly, let us consider the following verse:
“From what is within their bodies, between excretions and blood we produce, for your drink, milk, pure and agreeable to those who drink it.” (Surah An-Nahl: 66)
Milk is another Divine Miracle. Cows and buffaloes do not feed on a special kind of fodder to produce it. They feed on any kind of fodder, yet they give us milk, from which we can live. Could science make milk? They managed to decompose it and describe its components. They could also after some experiments increase its production. But could they make it? In one American laboratory they carried out an experiment in order to make milk. They brought all milk components and mixed them in the same way as they are found in the natural milk. Then, they brought twenty mice. Ten of them were fed on natural milk and the other on the artificial milk. Afterwards, they found out that the mice which feed on the artificial milk became feeble and then died. On the other hand, the mice which feed on the natural milk grew healthy and strong. Although we need milk science is yet to provide our children a cup of such milk. As for the canned milk, it is made from natural milk.
Some recent students in the University of Harvard examined and then emphasized the bad results of artificial milk that affect babies' health physically and psychologically.
However we would like to conclude that Allah, Exalted be He, has facilitated science to Man though He is the Ever-Omnipotent and just says to anything "Be" and it may be that Allah the Ever-Lasting knows that Man will be deluded the same science and worship what he has made by science which Allah has granted to him. Therefore, Allah has posited many miracles in his creation to challenge the delusion of Man whose eyes may bleed because of a fly or because a tiny thorn may hurt his hand. Yet he can do nothing about it. Then he realizes that whatever progress he achieves (even after he landed on the moon or Mars) he is always deficient before the Creator's Omnipotence and he will remain unable until the Day of Resurrection. This is shown in the Glorious Qur'an in the following verse,
“O men! Here is a parable set forth! Listen to it! Those on whom, besides Allah, ye call, cannot create (even) a fly, if they all met together for the purpose! And if the fly should snatch away anything from them, they would have no power to release it from the fly. Feeble are those who petition and those whom they petition! They do not have right estimate of Allah.” (Surah Al-Hajj: 73-74)
Allah the High Exalted has denied the whole world with all that it contains the ability even to create a fly. Science enabled Man to overcome the nature and land on the moon and provided him with the T.V. and the radio through which he can watch and listen to men in several places at the same time. Yet it could not create a fly, or even the wing of a fly. Thus, Allah emphasizes that although He facilitated science to Man, yet he is just a human and in turn unable forever with regards Allah's Omnipotence.
What the scientists discovered from a long, thousands of years is just and iota when compared with the qualities and laws set by Allah up on the universe. This is because, science did not develop the law of gravity nor does it keep up the heavens and the earth. It did not make a magnet of iron nor did it create the atmosphere in which we fly. It did not produce electricity or make the water evaporable, extract oil and its derivatives, give the air the oxygen required for life. Distribute hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen around the earth and the plant in fixed and accurate ratios, make the air have pressure so as to carry heavy loads like mountains, or make the water have density or weight. But rather it found out only the names and some laws created by Allah for the good of Man.
Can we use Allah's favors to deny His existence and Glory? Despite the fact, that the universe is full of endless hidden affairs. Sheikh Mutawalli Ash-Sha’rawi said; "The forthcoming intellectuals after many centuries to come will witness secret discoveries of Allah's hidden affairs as shown in the Qur'an, Allah Almighty says:
“Soon We will show Our signs in the (furthest) regions (of the earth) and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the truth. It is not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things.” (Surah Fussilat: 53)
This verse is read as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did in the future form. Ever after thirty centuries it is read as it is. This means that the hidden affairs of the universe are endless and will continue to be discovered until the Day of Judgment. Therefore, if something comes to our knowledge but we cannot realize it we should not assume that it does not exist. Such renunciation is out of stupidity and it contradicts reason and nature.
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Abdul-Rahman As-Sungiri


Five Unseen Things
Now we are going to discuss a unique miracle i.e., the five Unseen aspects of knowledge which belongs only to Allah and is stated in the following verse:
“Verily the knowledge of the Hour is with Allah (Alone). It is He Who sends down rain, and He Who knows what is in the wombs, nor does anyone know what it is that he will earn on the morrow, nor does anyone know in what land he is to die. Verily with Allah is full knowledge and He is acquainted (with all things).” (Surah Luqman: 34)
The five Unseen things still only belong to Allah's knowledge and Glory until now.
Science might be able to calculate an approximate time for the beginning of the creation of the earth, but it can never specify the end. The knowledge of the Hour pertains only to Allah. Rain is also mentioned in the verse as an aspect of the Unseen. We have mentioned earlier that the science could not ******* the motion of clouds. If it could do so, it might turn the barren deserts into green gardens to solve the problem of starvation that plagues two-thirds of the inhabitants of the world in Asia, Africa and South America. Although the world witness great progress in the scientific and medical fields, they are still ignorant concerning the mysteries of wombs.
In one of the American hospitals in Boston they found out that they can disclose the *** of the embryo after being created when analyzing the excrements of the mother's womb and by using ultra sound technology. However, what is meant in the verse is that Allah knows what is in the wombs (when being created).
No sooner did this discovery glare than it lost its glamour. This is because the phase of pregnancy is still unknown regardless of their unsettled scientific suggestion and supposition. They specify an approximate range of tune between the maximal and minimal pregnancy, but this differs from mother to mother, from a natural birth to caesarean one or from one country to another. They are, actually, still conducting experiments to determine definitely the term of pregnancy? All predictions, despite using computers and ultra sound; are still just suggestions and suppositions. As for the knowledge of forthcoming earning, the Man cannot predict what he shall gain, despite the vast progress in the field of mathematics and statistics which are expected to predict the future of the industries and technology. No one, however intelligent scientist he is, will know what he shall gain.
No one knows when or where he will die. Although we achieved great progress in the field of hygiene and could predict the average of life expectancy. It is also difficult to predict that a specific disease will attack a man during the course of his life in order that he could be vaccinated against them.
Man can never know where he will die. Once, there was a wealthy Lebanese man called Emil Al-Bustani. He used to ridicule everything even death. All people were amazed at his property and wealth. At the beginning of his life Emil was so poor that he would walk many miles in order to save the price of a loaf of bread to feed his mother. Afterwards, he became prosperous and a famous millionaire. Emil wished to ridicule death, therefore, he built a luxurious grave. This grave still exists in Lebanon until now. He bought very expensive marble from Italy to build his grave, he spent hundreds of thousands sterling pounds to make it an everlasting monument. On his birthday he used to invite his friends to celebrate in the grave and they would drink wine until the break of day. Further, he asked them to commemorate his birthday annually. He foolishly said to them, "I will drink and celebrate with you even after death." After some time, Emil was on a flight, and the plane had an accident and fell in the sea. All the corpses of the dead were found except Emil's. Today, if someone wants to visit Lebanon he will find the grave, but Emil's corpse stays in the sea within the fish stomachs.
Chance and Nature
Allah the Almighty says:
“Were they created of nothing or were they themselves the creators.” (Surah At-Tur: 35)
Many atheists believed that nature created Man and granted him reason. Unfortunately, we heard such allegations from some teachers when we were young since the time of the First World war and after that as well. Those teachers were the disciples of the western civilizations of London and Paris. They thought that when they believed in such allegations they would be described as illuminated. This term (illuminated) is equal to the term "progressive" nowadays. Every age has its terms by which the people are deceived.
As I got older I asked, 'what is nature? They answered: nature is chance, the law of probabilities. I commented, "Do you know how this can be exemplified? It can be exemplified as follows:
Two people were lost in the desert. Then, they passed by a big palace with decorated walls, precious carpets and expensive clocks. Meanwhile, one of them said, someone has built this palace and furnished it. But the other told him that he is just a radical and uncivilized person. This was made by chance. How? The first man asked. The second said, "There were stones and then came the flood, wind, weather and other forces of the nature, thus the stones accumulated, as years and centuries passed the stones became a wall by chance. What about the carpets? He was asked. The other answered, "It was just some sheep whose wool was removed by the air and it came together, then ****ls mixed themselves to it. Therefore, they had the color and interested until it became such corpse. What about the clocks? He said, "They are just iron which was exposed to the factors of the weather and was cut into pieces and circles. The circles and pieces of this iron come together as shown in this form.
Another example is: what if someone told us that a publishing house has a cost of characters sufficient to compose a book. Then a violent earthquake shook the house. The characters were dropped on one another and a book was composed by chance. The book was composed in a good manner, containing chapters and sections that tackle various scientific fields. Similarly, when someone assumes that I saw a blind man who was given a thousand needles and they asked him after they had inserted a needle in a plate before him to throw the needles one by one on the condition that the needles must enter the eyes of one another and he was successful. Can you or any rational man believe these two examples? This is of course impossible and incredible, hence, how could they believe that the universe and all what it contains was created by chance or spontaneity?
How could a man who believes in such false allegations be counted as sane?
Ibn Al-Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) when arguing that nature is itself an evidence for the Creator Most High, said, "I wonder about the arrogance of those who believe that they were created by nature, how can they believe that the deaths created the living beings." (Abu Bakr Al-Jaza’ri, The Creed of the Believer)
Further, Ibn Al-Qayyim said, "Poor infidel, you believe that this is created by nature and nature has many wonders and mysteries? Behold, if Allah wants to guide you, you may ask yourself: what is nature? Is it self-dependent? Does it have knowledge and power to do such wondrous actions or not? To believe that it is just a binding attribute to some ******? If the answer is nature is an independent entity that has knowledge, power, will and wisdom, you should put into your account that these are the attributes of Allah, the Creator, why do you call Him nature?
But if the answer is nature is just an attribute that needs a Supreme Power Who has all attributes, you should ask yourself, how could an entity that has no reason, power, wisdom or feeling perform such wondrous actions? This is surely insanity in the whole senses of the word.