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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