It is a known fact that every language has one or more terms that are used in reference to God and sometimes to lesser deities. This is not the case with Allah. Allah is the personal name of the One true God. Nothing else can be...
“Am I not your Lord?” They said: “Yes, we bear witness.” (Araf 7:172) Islam addresses to the primordial nature and calls mankind to remember the affirmation given before creation, as stated in the above Qur’anic verse. Every human being is born into this world with this pure...
The existence of God is too evident to need any arguments. Some saintly scholars even have stated that God is more manifest than any other being, but that those who lack insight cannot see Him. Others have said that He is concealed from direct perception...
When we study the universe, we see that all beings utterly refute the false claims of materialist and atheistic reasoning through their order, mutual relationship, and duties. They affirm that they are nothing but the property and creatures of a Single Creator. Each rejects the false notions...
•Why can we ascribe a thing to its antecedents in time but not to its neighbors in space? •Why should a thing be able to produce another thing just because it happened before? All modern scientists know that space and time are fully equivalent and unified into...
All religions revealed to the Prophets have the same essence. Over time, however, the original message was misinterpreted, mixed with superstition, and degenerated into magical practices and meaningless rituals. The conception of God, the very core of religion, was debased by anthropomorphism, deifying angels, associating others...
Implications of Tawhid Monotheists, those who believe in Tawhid, cannot be narrow-minded. •Their belief in One God, Creator of the heavens and Earth, Master of the east and the west, and Sustainer of the universe, leads them to view everything as belonging to the same Lord, to...
Monotheism inspires bravery, for it defeats the two factors that make people cowards: •fear of death and love of safety; •the belief that someone other than God can somehow be bribed into postponing one’s death. Belief in the Islamic creedal statement that “there is no deity but God” purges the...
Mediaeval European conceptions about the nature and existence of the universe were strongly underpinned by the authority of the Church which in turn relied upon arguments from scriptures that had long since deviated from their true originals. As modern scientific thinking developed, it met a...
All contingent entities are contained in time and space and therefore have a beginning •All contingent entities are contained in time and space and therefore have a beginning. Anything that has a beginning must certainly have an end also, and cannot therefore be eternal. Natural causes are...
Natural causes have neither knowledge nor will nor power so that they can be responsible for things to come into existence which evidently require knowledge and will to come into existence •Materialists take the conjunction of events for causality. That is, if two events coexist, they...
God Almighty should be considered from five perspectives. One is His “Essence” as Divine Being (Dhat in Islamic terminology), which only He can know. A Prophetic Tradition says: “Do not reflect on God’s ‘Essence’; instead, reflect on His works and acts.” God has no partners, likes or resemblance, as pointed to by...
Some of God’s Names are as follows: Allah: Translated as God, Allah is the proper Name of the Divine Being Who creates and administers His creatures, individually and as a whole, Who provides, brings up, sustains, protects, guides each and all, Who causes to perish and...
(Al-)Habib: The All-Loving and Loved (Al-)Hadi: The All-Guiding (Al-)Hafiz: The All-Preserving and Keeper of records (Al-)Hakim: The All-Wise (in Whose every act and decree there are many instances of wisdom) (Al-)Halim: The All-Clement (showing no haste to punish the errors of His servants) (Al-)Hamid: The All-Praiseworthy (as the Lord Who...