HOW DO YOU DISBELIEVE?
By ANALYS
"How do you disbelieve in Allah, seeing that you were
dead and He gave you life! Then He will cause you to
die, then He will give you life, then unto Him you will return."
[Al Qur'an (
How do you disbelieve in Allah!
How do you commit this act of kufr? How do you cover up this reality (the
reality of Allah), seeing that you were dead - you were lifeless, not existing,
not known or mentioned - and He gave you life?
How do you disbelieve in Allah!
How, with unlimited number of question marks and exclamation
marks. This statement demonstrates how strange and unnatural this act of
kufr (disbelief) is, being aware that one did not exist before and thus
ignoring the Cause of existence. How would you disbelieve in the One Who gave
you life and will cause you to die? And not only that but will give you life
again and then calls you for accountability.
How do you disbelieve in Allah!
How do you inflate yourselves with false pride, which is the main key of kufr,
knowing that you were dead and will certainly go back to that state? Being
aware of your beginning and of your end, and seeing that you have no control
over both, you are indeed expected to be humble without having one iota of
pride.
How do you disbelieve in Allah!
How come you are unthankful to the One Who endowed you with the bounty of life
and what it contains! Who endowed you with the faculties of hearing, seeing and
understanding. In fact, humans are completely
enveloped by God's favours. Thankfulness is the befitting and expected act from
you not kufr (ungratefulness).
When we see an individual treating his or her mother badly, we become
astonished and hate that kind of behaviour. Surely our astonishment and
hatefulness of such behaviour increase when we realize the continuous effort of
the mother and the care she provides her child with. The action of such
individual is clearly a severe act of ungratefulness. And if this is the case,
then what about the One Who created us and our mothers, the One Who provides
for us and for our mothers? It becomes then clear that the act of ignoring the favours
of Allah (glory be to Him) exceeds all limits of injustice and ungratefulness.
Ignoring the favours of the Creator is surely a crime beyond description.
In fact, if Allah is not thanked whom else will be thanked? If Allah is not
obeyed whom else will be obeyed? And it Allah is not worshiped whom else will
be worshiped?
How do you disbelieve in Allah!
How do you disbelieve in the One Who is that great
(all greatness) and, Who is that able (all ability)! How do you disbelieve in
the One Who brought you to existence and Who is to
recreate you after death! How do you disbelieve in the One Who
owns you fully and nothing happens in the universe except as a result of His
will? He is indeed the One to be conscious of and the One to be respected. How
do you disbelieve in the One Whom you will return to
for accountability and there is no escape from meeting Him?
Allah is indeed our Owner. We are His property. A property
that is completely dependent and is disparately in need of its Owner.
And an Owner Who is in no need to His property and His property does not in any
way increase His unlimited richness.
How do you disbelieve in Allah!
How do you deny the resurrection and accountability, knowing that you were dead
and Allah gave you life? It is extremely ignorant to doubt the ability of Allah
(glory be to Him) - the One Who originated you to give
you life again. And it is also foolish to ignore the seriousness and
purposefulness that is ingrained in creation that strongly point out towards
eventual accountability.
How do you disbelieve in Allah! How
do you commit shirk (worshiping others with Allah or giving the attributes of
Allah to others), which is one of the severest forms of kufr, whereas Allah is
the only One Who gave you life, the only One that will cause you to die then
live again, and the only One that will bring you for full accountability.
The Prophet (peace be upon him) defined shirk saying: "That
you make somebody or something similar to Allah, while He created you."
In the
Qur'an Allah (glory be to Him) says: "Yet they ascribe as partners unto Him the jinn.
Although He did create them, they falsely, having no knowledge, attributed to
Him sons and daughters. Glorified be He and exalted above (all) that, they
ascribe (unto Him)," [6:100]. We notice here, in the
Qur'anic verse and the Prophet's saying, the exclamation about the act of
giving the attributes of Allah or describing Him in human terms (attributing to
Allah human qualities), while Allah is the Only Creator.
How do you disbelieve in Allah!
How do you deny the existence of the Creator, while you are created and surely
you have not created yourselves? Also nothingness can not be the Cause of your
existence. How do you deny the Cause of your existence? It is like a machine
denying the existence of its maker and not obeying his or her commands.
It the universe and what it contains is not enough for any sane individual,
proving the existence of the Creator, then there are only two possibilities.
First, the individual's mind is not functioning right, which means that the
individual's faculty of understanding is shielded by various desires and self
interest. The second possibility is that there is a problem of conception. If
the individual views God, for example, as a trinity or as a white bearded being
located at one of the far planets or stars, then how would one prove the
existence of such being!
In
reality Atheism (denying the existence of God) grows and flourishes in
environments or situations where wrong beliefs are being inherited or adopted.
In a society where mysticism, for example, is prevalent and being practiced one
would certainly find people reacting properly or improperly to such nonsense,
going to various directions like Atheism, Agnosticism or rarely the correct
belief and understanding.
At times one hears some Muslims talking about the difficulty to prove the
existence of God which is indeed unexpected and saddening. This kind of claim
should only come from people following and promoting other belief systems that
are not based on understanding and evidence. This is because if such people
prove the existence of God logically, they would be unable to continue this
process for unproven illogical other aspects, like for example, the trinity or
the attributes claimed to be acquired by the so called saints.
Proving the existence of God is so simple to demonstrate and understand. One
does not need to have a special experience, study or training. What is needed
is simply the life experience of being here surrounded with the universe and
its components (including humans and their life supporting systems).
Some people also claim that the belief in God is something internal; that is
based on one's internal feelings. Surely the human nature, the built-in nature
(the Fitrah), is a factor in the individual confirmation of the existence of
God, but it is certainly not the only evidence. Furthermore, the human's
built-in nature can be covered up with all kinds of whims and desires and thus
becomes unable to function property. Therefore,
depending on the inner feelings as the sole factor of proving the existence of
God is clearly erroneous.
What can be said here is that the Fitrah, the uncorrupted built-in nature of
the human, resonates happily with the Truth. It resonates greatly with the
overwhelming evidence proving the existence of the Creator and describing His
unimaginable great attributes.
