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HOW DO YOU DISBELIEVE ?
By ANALYS
"How do you
disbelieve in Allah, seeing that you were dead and He gave you life! Then He
will cause you to die, then He will give you life, then unto Him you will
return." [Al Qur'an (2:28)]
How do you disbelieve in
Allah! How do you commit this act of kufr? How do you cover up this
reality (the reality of Allah), seeing that you were dead - you were lifeless,
not existing, not known or mentioned - and He gave you life?
How
do you disbelieve in Allah! How with unlimited number of question marks
and exclamation marks. This statement demonstrates how strange and unnatural
this act of kufr (disbelief) is, being aware that one did not exist before and
thus ignoring the Cause of existence. How would you disbelieve in the One Who
gave you life and will cause you to die? And not only that but will give you
life again and then calls you for accountability.
How do you
disbelieve in Allah! How do you inflate yourselves with false pride,
which is the main key of kufr, knowing that you were dead and will certainly go
back to that state? Being aware of your beginning and of your end, and seeing
that you have no control over both, you are indeed expected to be humble without
having one iota of pride.
How do you disbelieve in
Allah! How come you are unthankful to the One Who endowed you with the
bounty of life and what it contains! Who endowed you with the faculties of
hearing, seeing and understanding. In fact, humans are completely enveloped by
God's favors. Thankfulness is the befitting and expected act from you not kufr
(ungratefulness).
When we see an individual treating his or her mother
badly, we become astonished and hate that kind of behavior. Surely our
astonishment and hatefulness of such behavior increase when we realize the
continuous effort of the mother and the care she provides her child with. The
action of such individual is clearly a severe act of ungratefulness. And if this
is the case, then what about the One Who created us and our mothers, the One Who
provides for us and for our mothers? It becomes then clear that the act of
ignoring the favors of Allah (glory be to Him) exceeds all limits of injustice
and ungratefulness. Ignoring the favors of the Creator is surely a crime beyond
description.
In fact, if Allah is not thanked whom else will be thanked?
If Allah is not obeyed whom else will be obeyed? And it Allah is not worshiped
whom else will be worshiped?
How do you disbelieve in
Allah! How do you disbelieve in the One Who is that great (all
greatness) and, Who is that able (all ability)! How do you disbelieve in the One
Who brought you to existence and Who is to recreate you after death! How do you
disbelieve in the One Who owns you fully and nothing happens in the universe
except as a result of His will? He is indeed the One to be conscious of and the
One to be respected. How do you disbelieve in the One Whom you will return to
for accountability and there is no escape from meeting Him?
Allah is
indeed our Owner. We are His property. A property that is completely dependent
and is disparately in need of its Owner. And an Owner Who is in no need to His
property and His property does not in any way increase His unlimited richness.
How do you disbelieve in Allah! How do you deny the
resurrection and accountability, knowing that you were dead and Allah gave you
life? It is extremely ignorant to doubt the ability of Allah (glory be to Him) -
the One Who originated you to give you life again. And it is also foolish to
ignore the seriousness and purposefulness that is ingrained in creation that
strongly point out towards eventual accountability.
How do you
disbelieve in Allah! How do you commit shirk (worshiping others with
Allah or giving the attributes of Allah to others), which is one of the severest
forms of kufr, whereas Allah is the only One Who gave you life, the only One
that will cause you to die then live again, and the only One that will bring you
for full accountability.
The Prophet (peace be upon him) defined shirk
saying- "That you make somebody or something similar to
Allah, while He created you." In the Qur'an Allah (glory be to Him) says:
"Yet they ascribe as partners unto Him the jinn. Although He
did create them, they falsely, having no knowledge, attributed to Him sons and
daughters. Glorified be He and exalted above (all) that, they ascribe (unto
Him)," [6:100]. We notice here, in the Qur'anic verse and the Prophet's
saying, the exclamation about the act of giving the attributes of Allah or
describing Him in human terms (attributing to Allah human qualities), while
Allah is the Only Creator.
How do you disbelieve in
Allah! How do you deny the existence of the Creator, while you are
created and surely you have not created yourselves? Also nothingness can not be
the Cause of your existence. How do you deny the Cause of your existence? It is
like a machine denying the existence of its maker and not obeying his or her
commands.
It the universe and what it contains is not enough for any
sane individual, proving the existence of the Creator, then there are only two
possibilities. First, the individual's mind is not functioning right, which
means that the individual's faculty of understanding is shielded by various
desires and self interest. The second possibility is that there is a problem of
conception. If the individual views God, for example, as a trinity or as a white
bearded being located at one of the far planets or stars, then how would one
prove the existence of such being!
In reality Atheism (denying the
existence of God) grows and flourishes in environments or situations where wrong
beliefs are being inherited or adopted. In a society where mysticism, for
example, is prevalent and being practiced one would certainly find people
reacting properly or improperly to such nonsense, going to various directions
like Atheism, Agnosticism or rarely the correct belief and understanding.
At times one hears some Muslims talking about the difficulty to prove
the existence of God which is indeed unexpected and saddening. This kind of
claim should only come from people following and promoting other belief systems
that are not based on understanding and evidence. This is because if such people
prove the existence of God logically, they would be unable to continue this
process for unproven illogical other aspects, like for example, the trinity or
the attributes claimed to be acquired by the so called saints.
Proving
the existence of God is so simple to demonstrate and understand. One does not
need to have a special experience, study or training. What is needed is simply
the life experience of being here surrounded with the universe and its
components (including humans and their life supporting systems).
Some
people also claim that the belief in God is something internal; that is based on
one's internal feelings. Surely the human nature, the built-in nature (the
Fitrah), is a factor in the individual confirmation of the existence of God, but
it is certainly not the only evidence. Furthermore, the human's built-in nature
can be covered up with all kinds of whims and desires and thus becomes unable to
function property. Therefore, depending on the inner feelings as the sole factor
of proving the existence of God is clearly erroneous.
What can be said
here is that the Fitrah, the uncorrupted built-in nature of the human, resonates
happily with the Truth. It resonates greatly with the overwhelming evidence
proving the existence of the Creator and describing His unimaginable great
attributes.
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