Understanding the concept of God or Allah in Islam is vital to any understanding of the religion itself:
- Allah outlined in the Quran is one based on intelligent design i.e. Allah’s existence has been argued through the many arguments of intelligent design
- Allah has been described based on his attributes
- Allah is not masculine or feminine gender
- Allah can not do anything or everything - only what his attributes allow him to do
- Allah has a purpose
We will go through each of the above aspects one by one in a series of articles to follow.
One of the first questions posed by the athiest is why can’t we see God and empirically prove that he exists?
Existence itself requires form and Allah has no form and is limitless - therefore he cannot be physically represented in any way or any formula.
Why do we need to believe or have faith in a God that is wholly unable or unwilling to manifest himself in a visible form?
God cannot manifest himself as demonstrated in the earlier answer and even if he was to do so we would not need faith to believe in Allah. Allah however wants us to believe in him purely through our faith and reason. This act of faith cannot be tested by Allah if he made himself visible to all.
