Belief in God
A finite thing cannot grasp an infinite object.However,we know Supreme being through his attributes given in the Quran.Accordingly,belief in Allah Almighty means to accept the sovereignty of One Whose attributes are described in the Quran.The concept of a supreme authority exists amongst people all over the world,even amongst the most primitive tribes; and all of them bow down to it, although the picture of that authority is different in the minds of people belonging to different tribes and different religions, Yahawa of Jews, Father of Christians, Ishwar or Paremeshwar of Hindus and Yazdan of Zoroastrians. All bear a different concept but on the other hand Allah Almighty described in the Quranis different from all of them.It appears that the Messengers (Rasools) who appeared on the earth from time to time for the guidance of mankind, has introduced the same concept of the Supreme Authority as given in the Quran but that it was gradually adulterated by man-made ideas and baser human sentiments and ultimately made to disappear.
Questions about the nature of God, the creation of the Universe, the creation of mankind, the purpose of creation and the relationship of humans to God and the universe have fired human curiosity and imagination from times immemorial. Is God immanent? Or is He transcendent? Or is He both? How can God’s presence be felt? Did God create human beings in His image? What is meant by the image of God? Does God have an image or is it just in our imaginations? Does God sit on a throne above the heavens? Abu Dawud and Thirmidhi in Hadith No. 5480 Mishkat give physical details of the throne of Allah. According to them, Allah’s throne rests on the back of mountain goats that are standing in an ocean above the seventh heaven!
Thus the self oriented concept of God in one religion becomes different from that of the other.Thus the real concept of Allah Almighty is the one that arises out of the manifestation of the attributes of Allah Almighty as laid down in the Quran.Since the concept of God amongst the non-Muslims is of their self derived, therfore their belief in God is not the same as pescribed by the Quran.
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