Allah describe himself in the holy Quran ,
Verily, I am Allah! There is no other god besides Me. (Quran, 20:14)
Say: He is Allah, the One and Only;
Allah, the Eternal, Absolute;
He begetteth not, nor is He begotten;
And there is none like unto Him. (Quran,, 112)
Allah, there is none worthy of worship but He. The Ever-Living, The Self-Subsisting. Neither slumber nor sleep overtake Him. To Him belongs whatsoever is in the heavens and on Earth. Who can intercede with Him except by His permission? He knows the past and the future and they can encompass nothing of His Knowledge except what He wills. His Chair extends over the heavens and the earth and He feels no fatigue in guarding them. And He is The Highest, The Mighty. (Quran, 2:255)
There is nothing comparable to Him. And He is The All-Hearing, The All-Seeing. (Quran, 42:11)
Human beings have 5 basic senses but they have great limitations
Our eyes can detect only light that too in a limited range
We can hear sound which is limited to 20 Hz – 20 kHz frequency range
Our senses are just powerful enough to help us survive in this world
Therefore we cannot picture Allah in our mind.
Allah is unique; we cannot compare him with anything in the world or universe
He is beyond any imagination of human beings
Allah has 99 names, they are his attributes, and through these attributes we can know
Allah,
Here are some of his names:
As-Salaam
The Source of Peace, The One who is free from every imperfection.
Al-Quddoos
The Holy, The One who is pure from any imperfection and clear from children and adversaries.
Al-Mutakabbir
The Majestic, The One who is clear from the attributes of the creatures and from resembling them.
Al-Khaaliq
The Creator, The One who brings everything from non-existence to existence.
Al-Musawwir
The Fashioner, The One who forms His creatures in different pictures.
Al-Ghaffaar
The Great Forgiver, The Forgiver, The One who forgives the sins of His slaves time and time again.
As-Samee^
The All-Hearing, The Hearer, The One who Hears all things that are heard by His Eternal Hearing without an ear, instrument or organ.
Al-Baseer
The All-Seeing, The One who Sees all things that are seen by His Eternal Seeing without a pupil or any other instrument.
Al-Haleem
The Forebearing, The Clement, The One who delays the punishment for those who deserve it and then He might forgive them.
Al-Kabeer
The Most Great, The Great, The One who is greater than everything in status.
Al-Haqq
The Truth, The True, The One who truly exists.
Al-Mateen
The Firm One, The One with extreme Power which is un-interrupted and He does not get tired.
Al-Mumeet
The Creator of Death, The Destroyer, The One who renders the living dead.
Al-Qayyoom
The Self-Subsisting, The One who remains and does not end.
Al-'Awwal
The First, The One whose Existence is without a beginning.
Al-'Akhir
The Last, The One whose Existence is without an end.
Az-Zaahir
The Manifest, The One that nothing is above Him and nothing is underneath Him, hence He exists without a place. He, The Exalted, His Existence is obvious by proofs and He is clear from the delusions of attributes of bodies.
Al-Ghaniyy
The Self-Sufficient, The One who does not need the creation.
Al-Badi^
The Incomparable, The One who created the creation and formed it without any preceding example.
Al-Baaqi
The Everlasting, The One that the state of non-existence is impossible for Him.
As-Saboor
The Patient, The One who does not quickly punish the sinners.
This is the definition of god in Islam, does any other religion provides such a definite, clear, concise, precise and stunning description of god?
I hope u got the definition of god (actually Allah is more appropriate
Because the name Allah has no plural and no gender, it is a name which belongs to only one entity, were as god can become goddess or godfather or godmother…)
But, how do we know or prove that such a god exists?
Well, how do we prove that a thing exists?
One method is directly or it is obvious like a car, building or a tree.
But how do we prove a thing that exists which is not obvious or cannot be perceived.(by our senses)
Let’s take example of an atom, can we see it, feel it?
(Very good question. The answer is yes. And No. The reason
For No is that it is actually impossible for anybody to "see" an individual
Atom, since all atoms are thousands of times smaller than the smallest light
waves we can see using our eyes. The reason for Yes is that, even though they
cannot be seen directly with our eyes there is so much evidence for atoms, and
we know so much about them, that it is impossible to say they do not exist.)
:
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/newton...ics/PHY118.HTM
(Ancient Greeks first predicted the existence of the atom around 500 BC. They named the predicted particle 'atomos,' meaning "indivisible." In 1803, John Dalton (1766-1844) proposed a systematic set of postulates to describe the atom. Dalton's work paved the way for modern day acceptance of the atom…..
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/A...oactivity.html)
Neither the Greeks nor John Dalton saw the atom!
And today scientists, thorough experiment, circumstantial evidence and logical conclusion have established the existence of atoms without seeing or feeling it!
So accepting the existence of god is becoming easier, or is it?
But how do we prove that god exists?
We can experiment, analyze circumstantial evidence and come to logical conclusion
We know time exist or do we?
Definition of time:
A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.
http://www.answers.com/topic/time
Let’s take an example of the car in your garage
It must have went through events in time
Before it was in the garage it must have been in the showroom, and before that in the factory and before that in the factory in a disassembled state of various parts and this parts must have had their own events in time through which they went, the engine must have been in state of raw metal, this metal must have gone through it own events in time, these events cannot go on indefinitely, logically it must have had a beginning, a starting point, but how this beginning came into existence? Logically there must be an entity that is free from these events in time limitations and was responsible for this starting point, so who can be this entity? Well! Why don’t you go back to the definition of god in Islam, you will realize that Allah fits the bill perfectly!
Lets take the big bang theory (will assume it is true) this theory which is widely accepted by the scientists
The theory states that in the beginning the universe was in a hot gaseous state and then there was a explosion, a big bang which scattered the gaseous matter all around, this matter started spinning and cooled down and earth, stars and other heavenly bodies were formed and then by chance / accident life was formed on earth.
When they say in the beginning it means the hot gaseous matter existed as it is. It had no previous event in time; time itself started at this point.
But was there anything before the beginning, they provide no answer.
But ( alhamdulillah ) the Quran provides the answer!
He only commands it to be and it is. (Ayah: 67-68)
If we assume the big bang to be true (Allah knows the best)
Allah only had to command be, and there it is the hot gaseous matter and the starting point of time!