Originally Posted by
HabibUrrehman
Another good question and I appreciate that you are constantly thinking. Critical thinking is the key to Islam.
Human beings are intelligent enough to recognize the design features because we design several things on daily basis. What we can do is compare the design in mad made thing to Divine design and see if we can unearth the truth?
Let's start with an example of design of a house. Engineers from several disciplines( Civil, structural, architect, mechanical, plumbing, fire protection etc.) will get together to provide design which should meet local City/County codes. I takes years of education and experience for someone to be able to design and stamp these drawings. This way we understand and appreciate the value of design in our daily lives. No is it possible to built this house without any purpose? Will it make sense to design anything without purpose? Answer is NO. Ask yourself another question, is it possible to built this house without any material? Answer is NO again. Is it possible for this house to come into existence by itself. Answer is NO.
Let's move to the Divine design and take myself for example. Is my design in any way and shape even close to the design of the house? No, it is too complex. Just think every human being have different finger prints. If all human get together, they can't produce a single hair. We came into being from mixing of male and female sperms. From those sperms Allah created me and brought me up to be a 6 feet tall man today. Where did this material came from? Allah unlike us creates things from nothing. If the house we created will have a purpose and designer, it will be silly to think that human beings came into existence without a designer and have no purpose.
Allah is unseen but He is the most obvious truth. Are you only denying Allah because you can't see Him? Are there things in like you have not seen and you still believe? Microwaves, radio waves, electricity etc.?
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The key to this is to realize we have a purpose in this life. every designed thing has a purpose and we are not an exception. What is our purpose, is to find God and live life based on the principles He told us in Quran. Why Quran? I have mentioned in my reply to your posts somewhere else that Quran is a living miracle. It is preserves by memory and in text form even since it is revealed. No one can make a change of even a single letter in Quran because we have millions of memorizers who will catch the change. This is very easy to test and verify without getting into textual preservation of Quran. I believe Prophet Muhammad PBUH was illiterate because Quran says so. First thing in this regard is to witness the miracle of Quran and believe it is a miracle and if it is then it has to be from God and everything in it has to be true.
Do We Need to ‘See’ to ‘Know’?
I have heard the phrase “I’ll believe it when I see it” so many times and it makes absolute no sense. There are countless things that are around even if we can’t hear or see them we know they’re there. You turn on the radio and know you can tune into a variety of stations. You can’t see the radio waves as they are invisible. It’s the same with the law of vibration. You can’t see energy but it’s there. Having absolute faith that you can achieve goals you set your mind to knowing it’s possible will attract positive energy towards you.
It is an everyday experience that when you do not know a thing, you look for somebody who knows it and you repose faith in his word and follow him. If you get ill and you cannot treat and cure yourself, you look for the doctor and accept and follow his instructions without question. Why? Because he is properly qualified to give medical advice, possesses experience, and has treated and cured a number of patients. You, therefore, stick to his advice, do whatever he asks you to do, and avoid whatever he forbids.
Similarly, in matters of law you believe in whatever your legal advisers say and act accordingly. In educational matters you have faith in your teacher or instructor and you accept his instructions as true. When you want to go to some place and do not happen to know the way to it, you ask somebody who knows it and follow the way he points out.
In short, the reasonable course that you adopt in the whole of your life about matters which you do not or cannot know is that you approach one who knows them, accept his advice, and act accordingly. As your own knowledge of that matter or problem is inadequate, you carefully search for one who knows that and then silently accept his word. You take every pain to select the proper person. But after selecting the right man, you accept his advice unquestioningly. This kind of belief is called “belief in the unknown.” For here you have relied upon one who knows, in matters you do not know.
As you probably already know, to manifest something you want, you must first believe that you will have it!
Now the only one who has true knowledge of all unseen in God and He has revealed this knowledge in the guidance He has given to humanity in the form of Quran. If you don't believe it then do your honest research. Read religious book of all religions including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism etc. Truth is not hard to be recognized as long as you are sincere to yourself and once you find this truth then the answer to all these unknown should be very clear because it is from God who knows what we don't know.
We don’t need to ‘see’ in order to believe. Faith is to believe in unseen. Believing in something you can see is called evidence not faith.