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Hundred Questions - God, may He be exalted
God, may He be exalted
Q11
- What is the reason for there being a God for the universe and existents?
- Is it possible to create a universe in six days?
- Why does God not appear to us?
- Why are there such people who deny the existence of God?
A11 There are four questions here, which are wonderful and interesting, for they reflect the background and environment of the questioner. There are thousands of reasons and proofs for God's existence. However, here we will discuss whatever is possible space permitting.
- The first question implies that the universe and the existents came into existence by themselves and everything is subsistent and surviving by itself, therefore, what is the need of God's existence, whereas this concept is utterly wrong. For had it been true, then in accordance with this principle the manufactures (masnu`at) would have automatically come into existence without a maker (sani`). But we all see that no manufacture comes into existence without a maker. This establishes the concept of the world coming into existence without a creator as basically false and absurd. Thus the correct concept is that God granted existence to the universe and He brought into existence everything in it. The concept of the autogenous of this orderly and complete universe is so baseless and absurd that even an individual of ordinary intellect dislikes it, because it is based neither on proven scientific research nor on any sound logic; it is rather the imagination of those who are blind with respect to their inner intellect.
- As for the answer to the second question: "Is it possible to create a universe in six days?" it is not impossible for God to create this huge universe in six days while He created it only by the command of "kun (Be)" in the twinkle of an eye. By the six days are meant the cycles of the six great Prophets, in which the world of religion (`alam-i din) is created as a whole. The six great prophets are Adam (May peace be through him), Noah (May peace be through him), Abraham (May peace be through him), Moses (May peace be through him), Jesus (May peace be through him) and Muhammad (May Allah send blessings and peace through him and his progeny) whose six cycles are the duration of God's six days in which He completed the world of religion. These days of God started from Sunday and ended on Friday, and Saturday is that day of God in which He manifested Himself on the throne of knowledge and recognition.
- The answer to the third question: "Why God does not appear to us", is that either you should create in yourself the eye which can see God, or you should rely on the words of such mu'mins who can see God everywhere with the eye of intellect; just as with respect to science, either you do research yourself and propound a theory, or you accept someone else's theory. You cannot properly see the sun, which is apparent in the sky. If you want to see it, look at its reflection in the water, or look at it through such glasses, which reduce its intense light. Also if you want to see those stars that are very far and high, you have to use a powerful telescope. Similarly, there is the need of a special eye to see God. The human eye opens the day he is born, but despite this he cannot see with it, for as yet he is still a baby who, with respect to recognition, is weaker than even an animal's child. The animal child is stronger in recognition than the human child, in the sense that it has been endowed naturally and innately with its limited power, whereas in the human child the capacity for knowledge and recognition is such that it can become limitless and infinite by education. If proper religious education is not given to the human child, or it has been neglected to a great extent, he remains inferior to the animal, just as he was at the time of birth.
- Regarding the fourth question: "Why are there such people who deny the existence of God?" the answer is why should there not be such people, whereas in contrast to faith there is disbelief and in contrast to the day there is the night, and it is necessary to have the opposite of everything in this world so that people may be tried in the recognition of God.
If according to you the existence of infidels is the proof of the non-existence of God, why do not the entire people of the world deny and reject the existence of God, as there are many who believe in God?
Further, if the question implies: "Had God existed, the infidels would have no name or trace, and the faith would have had sway everywhere", such a view also, is not correct, because human beings are given free will, due to which they are divided into two groups, that is, in this world there are believers as well as infidels.
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