Faith and doubt

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I wonder how certain the people visiting this forum are about the existence of God. Are you 100% certain about His existence? Or would you rather say you are for example 99% or perhaps 99.9% certain?

The same question can be asked to the atheists, of course. Are you 100% certain there is no God?

Furthermore, do you think it would make someone a bad Muslim, when he cannot or doesn't one to believe fully, and keeps some degree of doubt?
 
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We cannot be muslims if we we say Allah has a partner which means if we have doubt then we cannot be called muslims. That is called Shirk when you relate someone to Allah.

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Having doubt will make you a hypocrite not a muslim. Im 100% certain that Allah (swt) is real if i doubted by just a half % i wouldnt want to even be part of this world i'll prefer to just jump off a cliff instead. Too much injustice happens in life just the thought people will go about will no punishment will make me extremely depressed. So its my 100% belief in the All-Just that gives me contentment in my everyday living.
 
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I wonder how certain the people visiting this forum are about the existence of God. Are you 100% certain about His existence? Or would you rather say you are for example 99% or perhaps 99.9% certain?

The same question can be asked to the atheists, of course. Are you 100% certain there is no God?

Furthermore, do you think it would make someone a bad Muslim, when he cannot or doesn't one to believe fully, and keeps some degree of doubt?
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I like you style of questioning, and I went through it once too.

Allah asks us in the Quran to consider the universe.

52:35 Were they created of nothing, or were they themselves the creators?

52:36 Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, they have no firm belief.

We know that the universe and reality are here. But when I think about it, what caused them to be here? What created the universe? The Big Bang? What caused the Big bang? What provided the substance and laws for the Big Bang? What created reality itself?

The existence of God is necessary to avoid infinite regression. The uncreated beginning.

In addition to this, the life of Prophet Muhammad, his actions, his prophecies which came true all right true to me. The Quran itself has never been matched in Arabic literature since its inception.

There is something called the Challenge of the Quran. Allah basically says, "If you think Muhammad made this up, then try and make something like it." And till this day, no assembly of scholars, intellectuals, or poets have ever been able to match it. It is a promise from Allah that they will not be able to and is a reason why the Quran, unlike the Bible, is a miracle for ALL GENERATIONS. We don't base our faith on miracles that happened thousands of years ago which we never saw. We hold the greatest miracle in our hands today.

Or do they say: "He (Muhammad(P)) has forged it (this Qur'an)?" Nay! They believe not! Let them then produce a recital like unto it (the Qur'an) if they are truthful. [Qur'an 52:33-34]



Indeed Math, the opening words of the Quran strike deeply into the hearts of men and show them that THIS is the truth from God.

This is the Book wherein there is no doubt. (Quran 2:1)
 
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We go through many hardships to keep our 100% faith on Allah:

Shaykhul Islam Ibn Taymiyah (rahimallah*) said in the Book of Faith:*“The believer is put to trial by the whispering of Satan, the whispering of kufr which causes him distress, as the Companions (radiallahu anhum) said: “Oh Messenger of Allah! o ne of us has thoughts within himself of such a nature that he would rather fall down from the heaven than speak of them.” The Rasool (*alayhi salatul wasalam) said:“That is true faith”And in another narration: “he considers it too grave to express.” He (alayhi salatul wasalam) said:“All praise and thanks are Allah’s who has reduced his (shaytan) intrigue to (evil) whispering)”*That is, the occurence of his whispering along with this great hatred for it and repelling it from the heart is a part of true faith, like the warrior in Allah’s Cause who met the enemy and fought him until he overcame him, for that is a great Jihad up to his words.*
 
Greetings and peace be with you math;

The creation of the universe and life is history, either God exists fully and totally and he created the universe, or there is no God.

We cannot change history, whatever you or I think is almost pointless. One thing for sure, there cannot be an agnostic God, a possibly God. If he exists he is as real as the chair I am sitting on, but he has a far greater meaning.

In the spirit of searching for God

Eric
 
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To have faith in ALLAH is to trust Him in good times and bad times, in prosperity and poverty, when we have made intelligent decisions or dumb mistakes.* Things don’t always go as we plan.* Sometimes we can do something so stupid that we doubt our sanity.* But keeping faith in ALLAH by using our conscious minds can save us and help get us back on track.

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No doubt :)

There is no room for doubt...

The fact that this this universe even exists is reason enough for me to have no doubts :)
 
I admit, when I was younger I used to have my doubts and I was fairly confused. As I got older my doubts cleared up and I believed in Allah. 100%! No room for doubts. My belief in Allah got stronger.

BTW I was 6-8 years old when I had these doubts =/
 
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No doubt, at all. God is there 100%.
I ask of him everyday and he gives me everyday everything I ask for, except sometimes when I contradict myself.:giggling:
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It depends on how much knowledge you have, both Islamic knowledge and scientific knowledge. The more knowledge you have, the stronger your faith, insha-Allah. It's very important, btw, to ask God for guidance and faith.
 
From what I’ve read on this thread, it seems to me that the popular opinion is that someone with faith in God can have “no room for doubt.” But without doubt and questioning, aren’t you following your faith blindly?

In general, I think the more you know about any given subject, the more you realize how little you know. Think about it—when you were in elementary school, you learned all about adding and subtracting, multiplying and dividing. And that was great! But then you started to learn algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, and possibly a slew of other mathematical subjects. The further you go, the more you realize that you really do have a limited knowledge of what you’ve studied for so long. The same is true in religion—the more you know about Islam (or Christianity, etc.) the more you wonder about things. Is Allah necessary for morality? Is the Qur’an really inerrant? Does this verse in the Qur’an really mean what these non-Muslims are claiming? The list goes on and on (these same questions can be asked of Christianity, too)…

So what do we do? There will always be unanswered questions in our finite lives, and we must learn to live with them. But it is a good idea to tackle the doubts that you have one at a time. Pursue it to the ground. I think that’s where this forum is especially helpful for the Muslim—you can learn from each other and see what others are facing in their daily lives.

Someone needed to write a dissenting opinion! :)
 
I have no doubt Alhamdulillah. The more I learn and understand Islam and see how and why Islam says things...it increases my faith in Allah.
 
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The same question can be asked to the atheists, of course. Are you 100% certain there is no God?
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Nope. I am 100% certain that, if there were, He wouldn't take it personally if I don't believe He exists, though.
 
hmm, I agree with some of what Ben said, but again, having doubt is the basis of faith.

the more I learn, I have faith in some areas, and less in others. it's a continuous process though, and to this day, I have moments of doubt, which i welcome, without them I wouldn't have started learning in the first place, but they aren't about God as much as about my own idea of him.

it seems we will always be anthropomorphizing at some levl regardless of how much we try not to, thus I stopped thinking about God's 'essence' or attributes that seem to have no direct relation to us humans. doing that really solved much of what was troubling me before, since our knowledge is forever limited, I decided not to indulge too much in musings about God that I had no way of knowing were true or not.

still a lot to learn though :)
 
100% believe and have faith in Allah swt. and loving islam all the way :)

i too...still have long way to go.
 
I agree that the cosmological argument for the existence of God is a good one. And rightly so—it’s been defended by some great minds like Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and many others. But I don’t think these people just looked up into the sky and were satisfied by saying, “Oh, yeah, God exists…moving on now.” They had to actually THINK about WHY they believe what they believe. That is what I’m trying to say we all need to do. You have to think.

Just because you have faith doesn’t mean that you can throw all the rules of logic and reason out the window. You were given a mind for a reason. You must ask how you know Islam is true. Can it simply be a leap of faith or on the authority of the Qur’an, both unrelated to reason?

(Atheism and any other religion are not excluded from asking how they know belief in X is true.)
 
I just say "where did reality come from?" and then I remember these physical things can't create themselves and there is no way the universe or big bang events are eternal. You need the uncreated beginning.
 
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I agree that the cosmological argument for the existence of God is a good one. And rightly so—it’s been defended by some great minds like Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and many others. But I don’t think these people just looked up into the sky and were satisfied by saying, “Oh, yeah, God exists…moving on now.” They had to actually THINK about WHY they believe what they believe. That is what I’m trying to say we all need to do. You have to think.

Just because you have faith doesn’t mean that you can throw all the rules of logic and reason out the window. You were given a mind for a reason. You must ask how you know Islam is true. Can it simply be a leap of faith or on the authority of the Qur’an, both unrelated to reason?

(Atheism and any other religion are not excluded from asking how they know belief in X is true.)
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It can't be automatically assumed that we don't "think." Plenty of us have thought about it.

A lot of things require a leap of faith, great or small.
 

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