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The Simple Message of GOD

This blog has been created with the sincere intention of conveying the simple message of 'Submission to GOD'.The Message that has been revealed to all the prophets starting from Prophet Adam(PBUH) and then continuing with many other including Moses(PBUH) and Jesus(PBUH) and finally ending with Prophet Muhammad(PBUH) .That message is..."There is no god but GOD", meaning that there is only ONE GOD with no partners.

Friday, April 22, 2005

The Signs of GOD

THE SIGNS OF GOD : THE CONCEPT OF AYAT IN THE HOLY QURAN

-ZIAUL HUQ QUTUBUDDIN

I. INTRODUCTION :

"In the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day, there are surely signs for men of understanding. Those who remember Allah standing and sitting and (lying) on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth: Our Lord, Thou hast not created this in vain! Glory is to Thee! Save us from the Chastisement of the Fire." (3:190-191).

The ultimate destiny of man is to return to his Creator, Allah, and the Lord of the worlds, the Beneficent, the Merciful, to whom man belongs. The destiny of man in this world is to complete this short sojourn called al-hayat al-dunya, the life of this world, with constant remembrance of his Lord and Creator and in complete and full submission to His will. Out of the vast ocean of His Mercy and Grace, Allah, the Beneficent and Merciful (Al-Rahman and al-Raheem) has sent for the human kind, and shows man, innumerable of His signs in the created universe and in man himself so that man is enabled, through deciphering the Signs of God, to fulfill his destiny and achieve the true purpose of his creation.


II. DICTIONARY MEANING OF AYAT :

PENRICE: To betake one's self for rest or shelter, have recourse to.

Ayat : A sign, miracle, a name given to the verses of the Quran, each of which is held to be a miracle.

Plural - Ayat : Signs.

LANE'S LEXICON (Vol 1, Page 135) : He put, or set a sign, token or mark, by which a person or thing is known. Its synonym is 'Alamah.

(I) It properly signifies any apparent thing inseparable from a thing not equally apparent, so that when one perceives the former he knows that he perceives the other, which he cannot perceive by itself, when the two things are of one predicament: and this is apparent in the object of sense and in that of the intellect (Raghib).

(II) A sign as meaning an indication, an evidence, or a proof.

(III) A sign as meaning a miracle and a wonder, for Ayat Allah means the wonders of God-an example or a warning.

(IV) A message or communication sent from one person or party to another. Its synonym is ‘Risalah’.

(V) The body or corporeal form or figure or substance of man which one sees from a distance (as being a kind of sign) or a person or individual.

Hence, a verse of the Quran, as being a collection of the words of the Book of God, or a connected form of words of the Quran continued to its

breaking off, so called because it is a sign of the breaking off.

III. SIGNIFICANCE OF AYAT :

1) In eternity, Allah took a covenant concerning themselves from the descendants of the children of Adam, i.e. all the humanity, born or unborn, without any limit of time, and made them testify that Allah is their Lord. This was done lest they should say on the Day of Judgment that they were not aware of this: " And when the Lord brought forth from the children of Adam, from their loins, their descendants, and made them bear witness about themselves: Am I not your Lord? They said: yes; We bear witness. Lest you should say on the day of resurrection: We were unaware of this.” (7:172)

2) This event of confirmation and acceptance of Allah's Lordship was not allowed to be retained in full in every person’s consciousness after his or her birth in this world because that would defeat the purpose of test for which human beings were endowed with life and sent to this world. "Blessed is He in whose hand is the Kingdom, and He is possessor of power over all things. Who created death and life that He might try you-which of you is best in deeds. And He is the Mighty, the Forgiving." (67:1-2).

3) So, it seems, out of his All-Comprehending Mercy and Grace, Allah, the Beneficent and Merciful, provided the means through which human beings may remember the original covenant and realize, and re-confirm consciously that Allah is the Lord and He is the Truth and Reality which every person is seeking:

"Supremely exalted then is Allah, the King, the Truth."(20:114).

"That is because Allah, he is the Reality."(22:6)

4) The means employed by Allah for this purpose was the ayat, which He sends to all human beings and shows them everywhere so that they may consciously live according to their commitment of "Yes", which they said and confirmed in eternity.

5) Though the Holy Quran makes it amply manifest, still one of our major efforts should be to "try to decipher some of the signs, or ayat, which through their infinite variety point to the One Truth.... All the miracles that the seeing eye perceives in the created universe point to the necessity of God's existence; they are His signs, ayat, which He placed into the world." (Deciphering the Signs of God by Annemarie Schimmel).

6) "We will soon show them Our signs in the horizons and in themselves, until it becomes manifest to them that it is the Truth. "(41:53). "For the Muslim, everything could serve as an ayah, a sign from God, and the Quran repeats this truth over and over again, warning those who do not believe in God's signs or who belie them. The creatures are signs; the change between day and night is a sign, as is the loving encounter of husband and wife; and miracles are signs (cf. Sarah 30:20-25): they all prove that there is a living God who is the originator of everything. These signs are not only in the 'horizons', that is, in the created universe, but also in the human souls, that is, in the human capacity to understand and admire; in love and human inquisitiveness; in whatever one may feel, think, and experience. The world is, as it were, an immense book in which those who have eyes to see and ears to hear can recognize God's signs and thus be guided by their contemplation to the Creator Himself.

"These signs are necessary, for the human heart longs to catch a glimpse of the Divine-even though God is beyond all forms and imagination-and yet one hopes to 'touch' the Numinous in some way or another: does one not respectfully kiss the copy of the Quran in which God's word is written down?

Everything can become an ayah, a sign, not only the verses of the Quran, which are called by this very name. To be sure, (God) can be found through them, He who reveals His will through His word; who has talked through the prophets; and whose guidance leads humankind on the right path to salvation.

Everything created praises the Creator with its own lisanal-hal, the silent eloquence-for this is the purpose for which they were created. Thus, the entire universe could be seen, as it were, in a religious light: that is why every human act, even a seemingly profane one, is yet judged from religious viewpoints and regulated according to the divinely revealed Law." (Deciphering the Signs of God by Annemarie Schimmel).

7) The concept of Ayat Allah, or the signs of God, is extremely significant also inasmuch as it provides not only the Islamic basis and methodology of Science, rather, the basis of Islamization of knowledge itself. Bereft of this fundamental concept and orientation, the science developed in the western world rid itself of God and religion and is now groping in the dark to find light so as to avoid self destruction and the destruction of the world and the whole human civilization.

8) Allah shows His signs so that we may recognize them (27:93) and through them know Allah and obey His commands. Those who believe in these signs surrender themselves to Allah (43:68-69)

IV. USAGE IN THE HOLY QURAN :

As-

(1) Message or Communication :

(i) "These are the messages of Allah- We recite them to thee with truth; and surely thou art of the messengers." (2:252); (ii) 2:39; (iii) 2:106; (iv) 6:39, (v) 6:130; (vi) 7:35; (vii) 23:105.

(2) Verses of the Quran :

(i) "He it is Who has revealed the Book to thee; some of its verses are decisive-they are the basis of the Book-and others are allegorical. "(3:7). (ii) "Alif Lam Ra. These are the verses of the Book, full of wisdom. "(10:1).

(3) Miracle, Evidence, Proof :

(i) "And certainly we gave Moses nine clear signs; so ask the Children of Israel. When he came to them, Pharaoh said to him: Surely I deem thee, O Moses, to be one bewitched. "(17:101). (ii) "And their prophet said to them: Surely the sign of his kingdom is that there shall come to you the Ark of the Covenant, with (an assurance) therein of security from your Lord and the relics left by the family of Moses and the family of Aaron, carried by angels. Surely there is a sign in this for you if you are believers."(2:248). (iii) "And to Thamud (We sent) their brother Salih. He said: O my people, serve Allah, you have no god other than Him. Clear proof has indeed come to you from your Lord. This is Allah's she-camel-a sign for you-so leave her alone to pasture in Allah's earth, and do her no harm, lest painful chastisement overtake you. "(7:73). (iv) 6:37, (v) 6:109, (vi) 6:124, (vii) 54:1-2

(4) Sign, token or mark, by which a thing is known :

A. Signs of God's Power : (i) "Or like him who passed by a town, and it had fallen in upon its roofs. He said: When will Allah give it life after its death? So Allah caused him to die for a hundred years, then raised him. He said: How long hast thou tarried? He said: I have tarried a day, or part of a day. He said: Nay, thou hast tarried a hundred years; but look at thy food and drink-years have not passed over it! And look at thy ass! And that We may make thee a sign to men. And look at the bones, how We set them together then clothe them with flesh. So when it became clear to him, he said: I know that Allah is possessor of power over all things." (2:259). (ii) 2:73; (iii) 3:41; (iv) 5:114; (v) 19:21; (vi) 25:37; (vii) 36:33.

B. Natural Phenomena : (i) "In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night and day, and the ships that run in the sea with that which profits men, the water that Allah sends down from the sky, then gives life therewith to the earth after its death and spreads in it all (kinds of) animals, and the changing of the winds and the clouds made subservient between heaven and earth, there are surely signs for a people who understand. "(2:164). (ii) "And of His signs is this, that He created you from dust, then lo! you are mortals (who) scatter. And of His signs is this, that He created mates for you from yourselves that you might find quiet of mind in them, and He put between you love and compassion. Surely there are signs in this for a people who reflect. And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your tongues and colors. Surely there are signs in this for the learned. And of His signs is your sleep by night and by day and your seeking of His bounty. Surely there are signs in this for a people who would hear. And of His signs is this that He shows you the lightning for fear and for hope, and sends down water from the cloud, then gives life therewith to the earth after its death. Surely there are signs in this for a people who understand. And of His signs is this that the heaven and the earth subsist by His command. Then when he calls you-from the earth-lo! you come forth. And His is whosoever is in the heavens and the earth. All are obedient to Him. And He it is, Who originates the creation, then reproduces it, and it is very easy to Him. And His is the most exalted state in the heavens and the earth; and He is the Mighty, the Wise. "(30:20-27). (iii) 10:5-6; (iv) 12:105; (v) 17:12; (vi) 30:46; (vii) 36:37; (viii) 40:13; (ix) 41:37; (x) 41:39; (xi) 42:32.

C. Place : (i) "Certainly the first house appointed for men is the one at Bakkah, blessed and a guidance for the nations. In it are clear signs : (It is) the place of Abraham: and whoever enters it is safe; and pilgrimage to the House is a duty which men owe to Allah-whoever can find a way to it. And whoever disbelieves, surely Allah is above need of the worlds." (3:96-97).

D. People : (i) "And she who guarded her chastity, so we breathed into her of Our Inspiration, and made her and her son a sign for the nations." (21:91); (ii) 10:92; (iii) 18:9; (iv) 25:37

E. Events, History : (i) "Indeed there was a sign for you in the two hosts (which) met together in encounter-one party fighting in the way of Allah and the other disbelieving, whom they saw twice as many as themselves with the sight of the eye. And Allah strengthens with His aid whom He pleases. There is a lesson in this for those who have eyes. "(3:13); (ii) 12:7

F. Ships : (i) "And a sign to them is that we bear their offspring in the laden ship. "(36:41); (ii) 31:31; (iii) 29:15

G. Man's Creation : (i) "And in your creation and in the animals He spreads abroad are signs for a people who are sure. "(45:4); (ii) 30:20

H. Animals : (i) "And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and what He has spread forth in both of them of living beings. And He is all-powerful to gather them together, when He will. "(42:29); (ii) "And when the word comes to pass against them, We shall bring forth for them a creature from the earth that will speak to them, because people did not believe in Our message. "(27:82). (iii) 20:54

I. Earth : (i) "And of His signs is this, that thou seest the earth still, but when we send down water thereon, it stirs and swells. He who gives it life is surely the Giver of life to the dead. Surely He is possessor of power over all things. "(41:39); (ii) 51:20

J. Hearts of the learned : (i) "And thou didst not recite before it any book, nor didst thou transcribe one with thy right hand, for then could the liars have doubted. Nay, it is clear signs in the hearts of those who are granted knowledge. And none deny Our signs except the iniquitous. "(29:48-49).

K. The Unseen : (i) "Certainly he saw of the greatest signs of his Lord. "(53:18); (ii) "Glory to Him who carried His servant by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Remote Mosque, whose precincts We blessed, that We might show him of Our signs! Surely He is the Hearing, the Seeing. "(17:1).

L. Human Relationships : Love, Mercy : (i) "And of His signs is this, that He created mates for you from yourselves that you might find quiet of mind in them, and He put between you love and compassion. Surely there are signs in this for a people who reflect. "(30:21).

M. Diversity of Color and Language : (i) "And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the Diversity of your tongues and colors. Surely there are signs in this for the learned. "(30:22).

N. Other Things :

1. Trees : 14:24; 53:14

2. Bee, Gnat Spider, Dog, Camel, Hoopoe : 16:68-69; 2:26; 29:41-43; 18:17-18; 88:17; 27:20-26

3. Rains : 24:43-44; 39:21

4. Breeze, Winds : 34:12; 69:6

5. Thunder, Storm, Lightning : 30:24

6. Oceans : 16:14

7. Water : 56:68-70; 39:21

8. Mountains : 16:15; 59:21

9. Stones : Hajr-e-Aswad, the Black Stone.

V. SIGNS ARE FOR :

A. Believers : (i) 2:248, (ii) 3:49; (iii) 16:79; (iv) 29:44; (v) 30:37; (vi) 39:52; (vii) 45:3

B. Those who fear the punishment of Al-Akhirah : (i) 11:103, (ii) 51:37

C. People who reflect : (i)10:24; (ii) 13:3; (iii)16:11; (iv) 16:69; (v)30:21; (vi) 39:42

D. People who are mindful : (i) 6:126; (ii) 16:13

E. People who listen : (i) 10:67; (ii)16:65; (iii) 30:23

F. People who ponder : (i) 2:164; (ii) 3:118; (iii) 13:4; (iv) 16:12; (v) 16:67; (vi) 29:35; (vii) 30:24; (viii) 30:28; (ix) 45:5

G. People who know : (i) 6:98; (ii) 7:32 (iii) 9:11; (iv) 10:5; (v) 27:52; (vi) 30:22

H. Every Servant Turning (To Allah) : (i) 34:9

I. Men of under-standing : (i) 3:190

J. People who understand : (i) 6:99

K. People who give thanks : (i) 7:58

L. People who are God-conscious : (i) 10:6

M. Every stead-fast, grateful one : (i)14:5; (ii) 34:19; (iii) 42:33

N. Those who take a lesson : (i) 15:75

O. Men of under-standing : (i) 20:54; (ii)20:128

P. In the hearts of those who are granted knowledge : (i) 29:49

Q. People who are sure : (i) 45:4; (ii) 51:20

R. Those who inquire : (i) 12:7

S. Mankind : (i) 2:187

VI. SIGNS ARE SENT, SHOWN, MADE CLEAR AND REPEATED SO THAT :

A. You may understand : (i) 2:73; (ii) 2:242

B. You may be guided : (i)3:103

C. You may give thanks : (i) 5:89

D. You may be certain : (i) 13:2

E. You may reflect : (i) 2:219; (ii)2:266

F. They may be mindful : (i) 2:221

G. They may be God-conscious : (i) 2:187

H. They may understand : (i) 6:65

I. They may return : (i) 7:174; (ii) 46:27

VII. DENIAL OF, AND DISBELIEF IN, THE SIGNS :

(1) Severe chastisement for those who Disbelieve. : (i) 3:4; (ii) 8:52

(2) Rejecters of Signs, destroyed; they are companions of Fire. : (i)2:39; (ii) 3:10

(3) Those headless of Signs : (i)7:146; (ii) 10:92

(4) Those who strive in opposing signs. : (i) 34:5

(5) Those who deny signs : (i) 7:51; (ii) 41:15; (iii) 41:28

(6) Those who make mockery of signs. Not to take Allah's signs for mockery. : (i) 18:56 (ii) 2:231

(7) Most of the people do not believe in signs. : (i) 26:8; (ii) 26:67; (iii) 26:103

(8) Signs do not profit those who disbelieve. : (i) 10:101

(9) The works of disbeliever's in signs are vain and get no weight on the day of Judgment. : (i) 18:105

(10) Those who forget signs will be forgotten on the day of Judgment :(i) 20:126

(11) Those who disbelieve in the signs are losers. : (i) 39:63

(12) Disbeliever's dispute about signs : (i) 40:4; (ii) 42:35

(13) Those who make the signs of Allah a jest. : (i) 45:35

(14) Those who reject signs are deaf and dumb and in darkness. : (i) 6:39

(15) Those who treat signs with pride and reject. : (i) 7:40; (ii) 7:146

(16) Those who distort the truth in the signs. : (i) 41:40

(17) Not to ask for hastening the signs. : (i) 21:37

(18) Which of the signs will man deny? : (i) 40:81

(19) If the disbeliever's saw every one of the signs, they will not believe in them. : (i) 6:25

(20) Signs are repeated but disbeliever's turn aside from Allah's Signs. : (i) 6:46

(21) Turn away from those who are engaged in vain discourses about Allah's Signs. : (i) 6:68

(22) Do not follow the vain desires of those who reject Allah's Signs. : (i) 6:150

(23) Those who turn away from Allah's Signs do great wrong and injustice. : (i) 6:157

(24) Those who take a miserable price for Allah's Signs. : (i) 9:9

(25) People who devise plans against Allah's Signs. : (i) 10:21

(26) Those who rejected signs drowned. : (i) 10:73

(27) Disbelievers call the signs manifest sorcery : (i) 27:13

(28) Disbeliever's reject the signs and hold them up in ridicule; their end will be evil. : (i) 30:10

(29) Disbeliever's turn away from the signs of their Lord. : (i) 36:46

(30) When disbeliever's see a sign, they mock at it and call it sorcery. : (i) 37:14-15

(31) In what exposition will the disbeliever's believe after Allah and His signs? : (i) 45:6

(32) Disbeliever's dispute and mock at the signs. : (i) 46:26

(33) When the signs are rehearsed to the disbeliever's they say these are tales of the ancients. : (i) 68:15

(34) Those who reject the signs are people of the left hand. : (i) 90:19

VIII. SIGNS OF GOD AND THE MODERN WESTERN SECULAR WORLD :

(1) Corruption and abandonment of the revealed sources of knowledge and the proper methodology and purpose of study of man and nature led the western world to develop and evolve science as we now find it and the modern secular liberal point of view which was its inevitable consequence. According to this point of view there is no design or purpose in creation. The creation of the universe, the existence of life and the creation of man-all are as a result of blind chance. According to the proponents of this philosophy, there is no Creator, and even if some of them believe in God, the Creator, their concept of God is extremely limited inasmuch as they consider that He has nothing to do with the creation after the initial act of Creation.

(2) According to the Holy Quran and the point of view of Islam, Allah, the Creator of the Universe, is the All-Powerful, Living and Eternal God Who is ever-Active. The universe, life and man were created for a purpose. He has a design and purpose in creation and this can be discerned through a study of the Signs of God.

(3) In a brilliant analysis of the genesis, development and culmination of western science and the modern secular western philosophy of life, Bryan Appleyard states in his book "Understanding the Present": "Science itself has no morality or faith and can tell us nothing about the meaning, purpose and significance of our own lives... Hard scientific truth denies us a place in the world, an ultimate significance and a sense of the worth of our own actions; it subverts values by insisting upon the contingency of all that we do and are. " He emphasizes the urgency and the need for "an understanding of the appalling spiritual damage that science has done and how much more it can still do ... Science, quietly and inexplicitly, is taking us into abandoning ourselves, our true selves.... it has gone too far .... it is potentially out of control, ... it now threatens to throw our civilization out of balance. That is why now is the time to resist."

(4) The Holy Quran tells us that Allah is the Real, the Truth, the Lord and the Creator. The entire universe was created for a purpose and with a design. It has a meaning. Man was created to worship God, to know His message, to understand His signs and to live in this world in accordance with His commandments. Man has been honored and accorded a central place in the creation as the vicegerent of God but he has the potential to fall into "the lowest of the low" if he does not properly understand and decipher the signs of God for leading life of full commitment (Iman) to One True God and righteous conduct.

(5) Following the Greco-Roman tradition and failing to decipher the Signs of God in nature and in man himself in the proper manner, science in the western world evolved as it did with enormous and dangerous consequences for the entire human race and civilization. "One clear message that science has wished to pass on to us ever since Galileo applied his eye to the telescope:" says Appleyard," that we are nothing but trivial accidents, and that each man must hope and believe what he can in the grim certainty that nobody and nothing will ever be able to tell him whether he is right or wrong".

In this view of life, "modern man could only see a great vacancy ... a world in which meaning cannot be found. Just as the material benefits of science and technology were invading our lives in force, transforming our economics and our health, the terrible vacuum beneath their achievements was suddenly being made dramatically apparent to us all ... Only the most willfully insensitive could be unaware that something had gone badly wrong with the nineteenth century's dream of material progress. For we have not only inherited that century's legacy of the cold shock of a meaningless universe we have also to cope with the discovery of a range of potential evils unknown to the world before the advent of science and technology." This was, we may say, a direct result of the severance of knowledge and value which "had been a common place of philosophy for two centuries.".



(6) In arriving at the conclusion that the western liberal scientific society is unstable, inadequate and in deterioration and that the western scientific understanding as a basis of human life is radically inadequate, Appleyard writes:

'One of the greatest benefits that science confers upon those who understand its spirit', wrote Bertrand Russell, 'is that it enables them to live without the delusive support of subjective certainly. That is why science cannot favor persecution'.

This remark embodies the liberal creed in its most abject form -- expressed in the trappings of high philosophy ... It demands that we disregard everything that is truly our selves-everything that is utterly real to us, that outside the reach of science ... It never occurs to Russell to consider that it is the terrible things that should be eliminated rather than the 'subjective certainty'."

(7) Appleyard concludes: "In answer to the question: What more is there to worry about? My first answer was that it is inhuman not to worry about our spiritual impoverishment. My second answer is that liberal society is unstable and in deterioration. The scientific understanding as a basis for human life is radically inadequate, yet it continues to triumph. As a result human life itself will become inadequate. That is what there is to worry about.".

(8) The Holy Quran urges man to think, to understand and to decipher the Signs of God so that man may realize his potential and fulfill the destiny for which he was sent to this world as a vicegerent of God. Man is told that whatever there is in the earth has been created for him. He has been asked to acquire knowledge, to make use of everything but in complete submission to the will of God, the Creator of man and the universe so that there is a perfect balance and harmony in the universe and in his own self.


Published in the Muslim World League Journal, Vol 24, No.8
SHA'BAN 1417 - DEC 1996, Makkah Al-Mukarramah
A Journal of Rabitat Al Alam Al Islami

- By

Mr. Ziaul H. Qutubuddin

References:

1. Deciphering the Signs of God: A Phenomenological Approach to Islam. By Annemarie Schimmel. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1994.

2. Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Man by Bryan Appleyard. Pan Book Ltd., London, 1993.

7 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Thank you for the comment, but I must say that I believe I may have not been clear... It is not a simple faith in A god, but a belief in THE God, Lord Jesus Christ whom I place my faith. I believe that He is the only way that we may enter Heaven and His Holy Word, the Bible is the only true word of God. Romans 10:9-13 says "9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame." 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 13 For "whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved."

10:32 PM  
Blogger loverOfTruth said...

You got me a little confused here. I thought you worship and praise the ONE and ONLY GOD who created everything on the heaven and the earth. I consider my creator, the most powerful, the most mercyful as my GOD.

As per my understanding, All the religions teach us that There is only One God and no other besides Him.

In the Holy Qur'aan, (2:163), Allah(GOD), the God says: " And your God is one God; there is no God except Him, The Beneficent, The Merciful. "

And in Christianity, the very first commandment as per Deuteronomy 6:4 of the Old Testament of the Holy Bible, is: " Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is One Lord."

And in the New Testament of the Bible, Jesus (peace be upon him), repeats it in Mark 12:29, by way of an answer to a question: "The first of all the commandments is: Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is One Lord."

Moreover, Jesus(Peace be upon him) never claimed to be the God:

1- Mark 10:18 Jesus said "And Jesus said to him, 'Why do you call
me good? No one is good but God alone."


2- John 14:28 Jesus said "My Father (GOD) is greater than I"


3- John 8:28 Jesus said "I do nothing of myself"


4- Matthew 24:36 Jesus said "No one knows about that day or hour, not
even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."

This clearly shows that GOD is certainly greater and more powerful than Jesus.

7:33 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Pure superstitious Crap !!!
And an insult to the intelligence of humanity.
Define your god theory what is it
what is it not.? What was its origin. Explain it in scientific terms or in your blind stuper do you reject scientific thought?
Do not tell us what you think it may have done but what is its essence.
And do not reference your ancient superstitious texts We have read them all and found them soarly wanting.
What you call "the signs of god" we know as the ignorant utterings of primitive minds.
We detest what you have done to our world and the FACT that Your superstitions are tearing humanity apart.
No evil has ever surpassed that done by superstiouis religionists
We do not hate you but the evil you do.
Psychonomist

6:47 PM  
Blogger loverOfTruth said...

Hi Psychonomist,

First of all, you shouldn'
translate your lack of understanding and knowledge as 'Superstitious Crap ' ...
same can be applied to what you say. Any civilized person would argue with
respect, manner and logic. Look at the language of your argument - that clearly
demonstrates who lacks intelligence. You guys can't prove your point, so just
ignore everything and start rants and raves.

My response to you will be in three parts. The first part consists of the proof
of the validity of the Qur'an/GOD, the second part argues that non-existence of
GOD is not possible and the third part is a CHALLENGE to you or anyone who does
not believe in GOD.

Part 1:

We muslims believe that the Qur'an is the exact word of GOD as revealed to
Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago. It doesn't even
have Muhammad's word or his own account of events. Everything in it is directly
from GOD uncontaminated by any human
alteration.

Now I know that your first question is What's the proof that GOD exist and the
validity of the claim that the Qur'an is indeed the word of GOD ? Right ? Here's
a few points to ponder which should shed light to prove the validity of the
Qur'an.

1. I hope you atleast believe in the History and historically proven facts and
events - be it regarding a man or nation or
science. So from all accounts it is proven that Muhammad is the man who came
1400 years ago and preached the Message of GOD
(for now, lets disregard whether it is indeed from GOD or not). And it is also
known that He was an illiterate man.

How can a simple, uneducated man like him become the #1 amongst the 100 most
influential person on earth without some miracle? And that's according to non-muslims.
Here's the URL to the book...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0883656361/qid=1142739389/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-0536313-0774508?s=books&v=glance&n=283155


For further information about Muhammad from both Muslim and Non-Muslims visit
the following site :

http://www.islamic-paths.org/Home/English/Muhammad/Other/WhatSay.htm


2. There are many scientific indications in the Qur'an that scientists are only
discovering recently. I am sure an illiterate
man would not have any knowledge about these things 1400 years ago. I'll just
give a quick example here, but you can go to the following site for details and
more example. http://www.islam-guide.com/

(Read the section under the Scientific Miracles of the Holy Qur'an)


God has said in the Qur'an:
"The heaven, We have built it with power. Verily. We are expanding it."
'Heaven' is the translation of the word sama' and this is exactly the
extra-terrestrial world that is meant. 'We are expanding it' is the translation
of the plural present participle musi'una of the verb ausa'a meaning 'to make
wider, more spacious, to extend, to expand'.

It was first suggested by the general theory of relativity and is backed up by
physics in the examination of the galactic spectrum; the regular movement
towards the red section of their spectrum may be explained by the distancing of
one galaxy from another. Thus the size of the Universe is probably constantly
increasing and this increase will become bigger the further away the galaxies
are from us. The speeds at which these celestial bodies are moving may, in the
course of this perpetual expansion, go from fractions of the speed of light to
speeds faster than this.

As we all know, science tells us that the heavenly bodies have their own fixed
orbit. For example, it is a very common fact
that all the planets orbit the sun and their moons orbit them. So, let's see
what the Qur'an says about this: "(God is) the one Who created the night, the
day, the sun and the moon. Each one is traveling in an orbit with its own
motion." (21:33)


3. The Qur'an that was revealed to Muhammad 1400 years ago, still exist word for
word with no change. Moreover, if you wanna
know more about the traceability and proof of preservation of the qur'an. Please
visit this site :

http://www.iol.ie/~afifi/BICNews/Sabeel/sabeel3.htm


These should suffice to prove the authenticity of the Qur'an to any sensible
person.

Part 2:
When we look around at everything we can sense, these things share one factor,
and that is that they are all limited. By limited we mean that they have
restrictions, a starting point and an ending point, and they all have definable
attributes, i.e. they are finite. Man is born and he dies. There is no one alive
who will not die. During his life span, he will grow to a certain shape, height
and volume. The universe is defined as all the celestial bodies and plants. All
these objects have
a certain mass, shape, volume and so on. The life span of a star may be very
long, but a point in time will come when it will cease to exist.

The universe is large, but is still a 'finite' space. No scientist could ever
prove using hard facts that the universe has no bounds. In fact when they say
the universe arose from a Big Bang and is expanding they inherently admit it is
finite in size, otherwise it could not expand! There is nothing in reality that
is unlimited. No matter how
hard we try, man is unable to find anything unlimited around him. All
he can perceive is the finite and limited. A further attribute of
everything around us is that they are all needy and dependent in order to
continue existing. They are not self-sustaining or independent. Man has needs.
He has to satisfy in order to survive. He has organic needs. Man must eat and
drink if he is to survive. If he does not he will die. We see need and
dependency in plants and animals. They depend on other
parts of the food chain for existence. The water cycle is dependent on the sun,
which is dependent on the laws of the galaxies and burning mass, and so on...
Nothing man can perceive is self-subsistent. So things exist, but do not have
the power of existence. They cannot control when they die or when other bodies
die.

There is one fact that emerges from all this. If something is limited and
finite, and does not have the power to be self-subsistent then it must have been
created. Applying this to everything we see will bring
us to a conclusion. If everything in the universe is created because it has not
the power of being in existence on its own, and is finite and limited, then
there must be a creator. This creator by contrast has to be unlimited and not
needy and dependent on anything to bring it into, or sustain it's existence. The
universe; the sum of all finite and dependent objects is finite and dependent -
but dependent on what? Dependent on something to start and sustain life, and
something to plan and develop life. The only rational and intellectual solution
to the
question of creation is that there is a creator who has accounted for
all that we see and perceive. Ration tells us that nothing can be created
without a creator. Ultimately there must be a creator who is unlimited every
aspect. Some scientists challenge this with a theory that everything depends on
something for existence, which in turn depends upon something for existence, and
so on ad infinitum. This theory is irrational, as it does not explain how
anything came into existence in the first place. It uses an idea of 'infinity'
that we know does not exist in reality. It does not even make attempt, to
explain the very first step in the sequence. It is illogical and
incomplete in its theory, and far from being scientific. If at its
basis the theory is weak, how possible to trust the proceeding
theoretical argument for creation of the universe?

Part 3:
How'bout this for a challenge ? As GOD mentions in the Holy Qur'an...

"A Revelation (this Qur'ân) from the Lord of the Worlds. Is it such a Message
that ye would hold in light esteem? And have ye made it your livelihood that ye
should declare it false? Then why do ye not (intervene) when (the soul of the
dying man) reaches the throat,- And ye the while (sit) looking on,- But We are
nearer to him than ye, and yet see not,- Then why do ye not,- If you are exempt
from (future) account,- Call back the soul, if ye are true (in the claim of
independence)?" (Al-Qur'an 056:80-87)

Let's see what your science can do to help you.


Conclusion:

Science changes every day ... one day the scientists prove a theory and the
other day they disprove it. Therefore, the scientific understanding as a basis
for human life is radically inadequate. Moreover, You may believe whatever you
want but I refuse to believe that my forefathers or forefathers of their
forefathers were jumping from tree to tree or wagging their
tails as monkeys or dogs (i.e. the so called 'evolution theory' as you may
believe in). We humans who are created by the God Almighty are more intelligent
and superior than that. But again you are free to believe whatever you want. As
the Holy Qur'an says:

"O ye that reject Faith!
I worship not that which ye worship,
Nor will ye worship that which I worship.
And I shall not worship that which ye worship.
Nor will ye worship that which I worship.
To you be your Way, and to me mine. " (Al-Qur'an 109:01-06)


"Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error:
whoever rejects evil and believes in GOD hath grasped the most trustworthy
hand-hold, that never breaks. And GOD heareth and knoweth all things.(Al-Qur'an
2:256)"

7:42 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There is most definitely a God. If one would go back evoluation to the big bang, then this notion seems more clearer. There has to be a Creator for the big bang.

Perhaps, man did evolve, but only God almighty know the form of evoluation, if any. My guess on this issue is, like every day science and nature, new strains and species evolve. This evoluation is not on account of anything, but the making of creation by God. In other words, God made man, monkeys, apes, lions, tigers, etc.

As for science and religion, here are some relevent quotes by the famous physicist Albert Einstein.

1. The Lord is subtle, but malicious he is not.

2. God would choose to play dice with the world is something that I cannot believe for a single moment. (This is the correct wording of Einstein's supposition usually quoted as, "God does not play dice with the universe.")

3. I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.

4. Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

5. The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

6. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

Persoanlly, I think spiritualism (religion) evolves where science integrates with nature. The more one would refine science (and its consequential technology), the closer one would come to the creator - the one God.

One last point -- man and God (Lord) can never be the same. God is the creator of the universe and all things around us, including God's prophets. Christianity should correct this notion. Prophet Jesus (peace be upon him) is a special man - a messenger of God - and not beyond.

12:04 AM  
Blogger loverOfTruth said...

Very nice reply Anonymous. The problem with the current world is as Martin Luther King Jr. said

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." Martin Luther King Jr.
(1929 - 1968)

Also, as I understand with my little knowledge of christianity that "the notion of Jesus as son of God is something that was established under the influence of Paul of Tarsus (originally named Saul), who had been an enemy of Jesus(pbuh), but later changed course and joined the disciples after the departure of Jesus(pbuh).

Later, however, he initiated a number of changes into early
Christian teachings, in contradiction, for instance, to disciples like Barnabas, who believed in the Oneness of God and who had actually lived and met with Jesus."

6:49 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i am not sensible, and im probably stupid because im ranting and raving.

5:01 PM  

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