Say: He is Allah, the One and Only; [112-1]
Allah, the Eternal, Absolute; [112-2]
He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; [112-3]
And there is none like unto Him. [112-4]
Allah! There is no god but He,-the Living, the Self-subsisting, Eternal.
No slumber can seize Him nor sleep.
His are all things in the heavens and on earth.
Who is there can intercede in His presence except as He permitteth?
He knoweth what (appeareth to His creatures as) before or after or behind them.
Nor shall they compass aught of His knowledge except as He willeth.
His Throne doth extend over the heavens and the earth, and He feeleth no fatigue in guarding and preserving them for He is the Most High, the Supreme (in glory). [2-255]
A being must be born/created to exist, we cannot imagine a being who was unborn, we just cannot. The being
must have come into creation
somehow and dammit we will not rest until we find out how. If such a being exists which is outside our boundaries of science and logic then it does not exist, it
cannot - everything
must have an answer.
Nor shall they compass aught of His knowledge except as He willeth.
Allah is beyond us, what we know as mentioned in the extract above is nothing except which He has given to us. So we are now trying to understand Him based on the limited knowledge that He has given to us.
It's like making a computer program which calculates 2+2, and then outputs the number '4'
The
only thing this program knows is that which I, the creator of the program have taught it to know. That when it puts 2 and 2 together it will compute 4 and then it will output 4, it is the only possibility.
Now, during the output process, I now intercede and instead of the output coming out as '4,' it comes out as '5.'
What the hell? The program is stunned! How is this possible? Everything we know is that when we put these two numbers togeter we
always get 4, it
has to be 4, there is no other possibility! Yet somehow the number 5 has appeared.
The program is confused, in its confusion it may attempt to understand how this has happened, but it doesn't realise that it simply cannot because all it knows is that 2+2=4. To understand how the 5 was output is beyond the scope and logic of the program.
The program fails to realise that I created it, and I can do whatever the hell I want, if I want 2+2 to equal 5 then dammit I'll make it equal 5.
Nor shall they compass aught of His knowledge except as He willeth.
Therefore any attempt to understand God has to result in trying to understand God through what limited knowledge we have, and by doing so we have to bring God 'down' to our level.
And when we bring 'God' down to our level, the 'God' we are then trying to understand cannot be God simply because He created our rules, He does not follow them and by trying to rationalise Him by the rules that He has created for us - is an impossibility.
To accept that we cannot imagine it is to accept that it is beyond our scope of science and of logic. This is where the arrogance stems from.
A being must be born/created to exist, we cannot imagine a being who was unborn, we just cannot. The being
must have come into creation
somehow and dammit we will not rest until we find out how. If such being exists which is outside our boundaries of science and logic then it does not exist, it
cannot - everything
must have an answer.
Chapter 112 of the Quran, and Chapter 2, verse 255 is more then enough to prove that God is beyond us and us as humans attempting to understand Him is a feeble attempt because everything we have, He has given us.
Just as the program cannot begin to comprehend how the result was 5, we cannot even begin to comprehend the Might of Allah.
Nor shall they compass aught of His knowledge except as He willeth.
How can you then deny?
Alhumdulillah