The following verses from the Qur’an are very clear and straightforward:
“Verily, for the righteous are Gardens of delight in the Presence of their Lord. Shall we then treat the people of Faith like the people of Sin? What is the matter with you? How judge you?” [Al-Qur’an 68:34-36]
Islam rejects characterizing God in any human form or depicting him as favoring certain individuals or nations on the basis of wealth, power or race. He created the human beings as equals. They may distinguish themselves and earn His favor through virtue and piety alone.
The concept that God rested on the seventh day of creation, that God wrestled with one of His soldiers, that God is an envious plotter against mankind, or that God is incarnate in any human being are considered blasphemy from the Islamic point of view.
The unique usage of Allah as the personal name of God is a reflection of Islam’s emphasis on the purity of the belief in God. This belief in the Unity of God, is the essence of the message of all the Prophets of God. Because of this, Islam considers associating any deity or personality with God as a grave sin that God will never forgive if the person dies without repenting.
The Creator must be of a different nature from the things created because if He is of the same nature as they are, He will be temporal and will therefore need a maker. It follows that nothing is like Him. If the maker is not temporal, then He must be eternal. But if he is eternal, He cannot be caused, and if nothing caused Him to come into existence, nothing outside Him causes Him to continue to exist, which means that He must be self-sufficient. And if He does not depend on anything for the continuance of His own existence, then this existence can have no end. The Creator is therefore eternal:
“He is the First and the Last, the Evident and the Immanent: and He has full knowledge of all things.” [Al-Qur’an 57:3]
He is self-sufficient or self-subsistent or, to use a Qur’anic term, He is Al-Qayyum. The Creator does not create only in the sense of bringing things into existence. He also preserves them and takes them out of existence and is the ultimate cause of whatever happens to them.
“Allah is the Creator of all things, and He is the Guardian and Disposer of all affairs. To Him belong the keys of the heavens and the earth: and those who reject the Signs of Allah,- it is they who will be in loss.” [Al-Qur’an 39:62-63]
“There is no moving creature on earth but its sustenance dependeth on Allah: He knoweth the time and place of its definite abode and its temporary deposit: All is in a clear Record.” [Al-Qur’an 57:3
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Posted by Maskerade on March 6th, 2010 at 6:14 AM
Circular argument is circular. He is self-sufficient because he is eternal because he is uncaused because he is self-sufficient (repeat ad infinitum).
Manipulating logic pathways is all good and well, but in practical terms accomplishes nothing. For instance, I could say:
1. The number of pirates has been decreasing each year.
2. The average global temperature has been increasing each year.
3. Therefore, the loss of pirates has contributed to global warming.
Sure, it *logically* makes sense, but any sane person would recognize that pirates and global warming have absolutely (barring any new piratical-scientific breakthroughs/conspiracies) nothing to do with each other.
Besides that, how would something outside of time/space/matter interfere with it at all? It's like putting a blind man in a box and telling him to open it, but it's latched from the outside. Sure, he's in the box and there, but he can't interact with the outside world (this assumes the man doesn't yell/shake/etc... to attract something/someone else curious enough to open the box).
It's easy to point to a book and say it has the answers, but as evident by The Flying Spaghetti monster, Mormons, etc... New religions (including mock ones) are fairly easy to start. All it takes is one charismatic person and a bunch of people willing to let someone else think for them. Certainly in this day and age it would be much harder for a Joseph Smith to spread his particular flavor of delusion, but there are always those willing to believe rather than think and reason.
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Posted by alvaroqua on March 6th, 2010 at 6:27 AM
This category is called confessions, not confusion, it's very obvious you're confused, very confused.
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