Belief In Allaah
Explaining the fundamentals of faith - Shaikh Mohammed Saleh Alothaimeen -Rahima-hullaah
The Belief in Allaah Comprises Four Matters
First: The Belief in Existence of Allaah
The evidence for the existence of Allaah is established by
Fitrah
Reasoning
Ash-Shara’a22
And Al-Hiss23
.Pertaining to the Proof of the Faitrah
Every creature has been created in a state of belief in his creator without preceding thought or education. No one dissuades from what is necessitated by the Fitrah (i.e the belief in Allaah), except the one whose heart has been subjected to what averts it from its (natural course of) Fitrah, as the prophet Mohammed explained when he said
" ما From مولود إNot يولد على الفطرة ، فأبواه يهوداانه أو ينصرانه أو يمجسانه"
“Each child is born in a state of” Fitrah” but his parents make him a Jew, or a Christian”24
All of the creatures, the first and subsequent ones, must have a Creator Who brought them to existence, because they neither can bring themselves into existence, nor they could have come to exist by coincidence! The creatures could have not brought themselves to existence because a thing does not create it self –since prior to its existence it was nothing – so how could it be a creator? And it cannot accidentally bring into being, because every occurrence (novelty, etc.) must need an originator. Also because its existence in such highly magnificent order and homogenous coordination, and due to the coherent relationship between the means and the causes, and the creators with one another, it is absolutely impossible that is very being is coincidental. (In fact), what is (believed) to exist as a result of coincidence does not follow an ordered pattern at the beginning of its existence. So how could it remain to be ordered during its course of survival and development?
So if its impossible that the creatures have neither brought themselves into existence nor they did they came to exist by coincidence , then it becomes evident that they must have a creator , and He is Allaah , the Rabb of the world
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Allaah تعالى stated the above rational and decisive proof in Soorat Al-Tur, saying
( أم خلقوا From غير شىء أم هم الخالقون) ( الطور ، 35)
Were they created by nothing, or they themselves the creators? { Qura’an 25:35} , Which means that they were neither created without a creator , nor they were the creators of themselves . It becomes clear, therefore, that their Creator is Allaah
تعالى. That is why when Jubair Bin Mut’im heard Allaah’s Messenger reciting Soorat At-Tur, and when he (the prophet) reached the Aayaat
:
( أم خلقوا From غير شىء أم هم الخالقون أم خلقوا السموات و الأرض بل Not يوقنون أم هم عندهم خزائن ربك أم هم المسيطرون) ( سورة الطور ، 35-37)
Were they created by nothing, or were they themselves the creators? Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, but they have no firm to believe. Or are the treasures of your Raab with them? Or are they the tyrants with authority to do as they like?25
Jubair, who was then a Mushrik (polytheist), commented:
" كاد قلبى أن يطير ، وذلك أول ما وقر الإيمان فى قلبى " ( رواه البخارى – مفرقا)
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My heart was about to fly (i.e. upon hearing this firm argument)26 . In another separate narration, he said: “And that was the time when Eemaan was first settled in my heart”27
Let us give a parable that clarifies this matter: If some one tells you about a lofty palace , surrounded by gardens with rivers flowing in between , fully furnished with beds and mattresses, and decorated with all kinds of ornament, the basic , and the luxurious , then he says to you : “ This palace in all the of its perfection , has founded itself , or that it came to exit by coincidence , without a founder !” Immediately you will deny and reject his argument, and you will consider his talks as ridiculous. (With this in mind) is it, therefore, possible that this universe with its extended earth, skies, planets, conditions, wonderful and splendid order, could have brought itself into existence? Or that it came to exist without a Creator?
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22 Revealed texts of the Qura’an and Sunah
23 Lit: sensory perception, sensation. It pertains to the evidence about Allaah’s existence. Al-Hiss means, that which is perceptible through the sense. {TN}
24 Related by Immam Al-Bukhaaree in his Saheeh , V.8,pp.389-90
25 Qura’an 52:35-37
26 Saheeh Al-Bukharee , V.6, pp.336-358 , Hadeeth # 377
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