Sunday, September 2, 2012

Some people do notwish to acknowledge the fact that Allah is everywhere. How can we explain this reality to such people?

Some people imagine thatthey themselves, matter and the world they see
allaround them are all absolute beings. But they regard Allah (surely
He is beyond that) as an imagination pervading that absolute matter.
Or else, since they cannot seeHim with their own eyes, they say:
"Allah must be somewhere we cannot see, in space or far away from
human eyes." (SurelyAllah is beyond that.) But these are all grave
errors.
As the sole absolute being, Allah enfolds the whole universe, all
peopleand places, the heavens and everywhere. He is manifested in the
whole universe. According to thehadith, our Prophet (saas) said that
someone who said that Allah was in the sky was telling the truth. But
this account in no way conflicts with the factthat Allah is
everywhere. That is because if someone at your location on Earth
raises his hands and prays to Allah and thinks that Allah is in the
sky, while someone at theSouth Pole turns to Allah in the same way,
while someone else at the North Pole raises his hands and yet another
individual in Japan, or America or Ecuador raises his hands to the sky
in thesame way and turns to Allah, then it is impossibleto speak of
any fixed direction. In the same way, if djinn, angels and demons at
various points in space and the universe also pray toward the skies,
it will again be impossible to speak of any fixed direction, and the
situation will be one that covers the entire universe.
We must not also forget that Allah is unfettered bytime and space.
Allah's Own Being is different. But the manifestations of Allah are
everywhere. If someone enters a room and says Allah is not there, he
is denying Allah. The manifestations of Allah are in that room
andeverywhere. Wherever you may turn, manifestations of Allah are
there. Several verses of the Qur'an state that Allah pervades all
places, that He is closer to us than our own jugular veins, and that
we will see His Face wherever we look. For example, in verse 255 of
Surat al-Baqara Allah says "... HisFootstool encompasses the heavens
and the earth...." Verse 92 of SurahHud says, "... But my Lord
encompasses everything that you do" meaning that Allah also pervades
what people do.

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