Reasons To Believe


The following are three rational reasons for believing in a creator.


1. Beginning of the Universe
The first evidence that points to the existence of a Creator relates to understanding the origin of the universe. Imagine walking in a desert and finding a watch. We know a watch consists of glass, plastic and metal. Glass comes from sand, plastic from oil, and metal extracted from the ground – all these components are found in the desert. Would you believe that the watch formed itself? That the Sun shone, the wind blew, lightning struck, the oil bubbled to the surface and mixed with the sand and metal, and over millions of years the watch came together by random or natural coincidences? "Were they created from nothing, or did they create themselves?"Quran 52:35-6 According to modern science, the universe is finite and has a beginning. Where did the universe ultimately come from? Human experience and simple logic tell us that something that has a beginning does not simply come from nothing, nor can something create itself. We can reason that a higher "being" created the universe. This "being" must be powerful and intelligent as it brought the whole universe into existence and created the 'laws of science' which govern it. We can also reason that this "being" is timeless and spaceless, because time, space and matter began at the creation of the universe. All of these attributes make up the basic concept of God, the creator of the universe.

Some may ask, "Who created God?" God, the Creator, is different to His creation. Unlike the universe and the rest of creation, God is eternal, has always existed and has no beginning.


2. Perfection of the Universe
The second evidence of a creator is the order and perfect balance of our complex universe. Could a large complex universe form by coincidence, without supervision?

Many features in the universe clearly indicate it to be specially designed to support life, such as the earth's distance from the sun; the thickness of the earth's crust; the speed at which the earth revolves; the percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere; and even the earth's tilt. If these measurements were slightly different to what they currently are, life could not exist.

In the same way that a watch has an intelligent maker to keep accurate time, so too must the earth have an intelligent maker to keep accurate time around the Sun. Could this occur by itself?

When we see the order, the precise laws and systems within ourselves and throughout the universe, is it not rational they have an organiser? This 'organiser' is again best explained by the existence of God – the one who brought about this order. It should be noted that Islam encourages scientific research and reflection. The role of science helps us describe the many observed patterns that God places in His creation and appreciate the extent of His power and wisdom. Advances in scientific discoveries, just like any mechanism or process we find in the natural world such as the water cycle or gravity – provides signs of an organiser and designer, not an argument against God.


3. Revelation from God
The third evidence is the actual revelation that has been sent by God to humankind as a sign of His existence.

One of the main purposes of the book of Islam, the Quran, is to invite people to reflect and appreciate God's creation as a way of believing in Him. Throughout the Quran, God calls our attention to His marvelous designs and complexities in the universe and within ourselves, which are sufficient to indicate that we are a product of design, purpose and intelligence. For example, God says:
"Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and earth, and the alternation of the night and the day, and the great ships which sail through the sea with that which benefits people, and what Allah has sent down from the heavens of rain, giving life thereby to the earth after its lifelessness and dispersing therein every kind of moving creature, and His directing of the winds and the clouds controlled between the heaven and the earth, are signs for a people who use reason."Quran 2:164

The argument that the universe must have a creator based on certain observation is different from saying the creator is one God who is timeless and this God sent Jesus or Mohammed as his messenger and this God wants us to worship him bla bla bla...

U have tried to analyze why u think the universe has a creator, a reasoning pattern that is OK for u brain to do.

However, u can't know if this creator is one or belongs to a larger family, we can't know why he chooses not to be seen, we can't know it's reason for creation because we simply used our of deductive thinking pattern to assume the universe must have a creator...

It's okay to find a watch in the desert and assume the watch was created based of its sophistication... But u will be making a mighty extra leap by saying the watch was created by just one scientist and this scientist's name is Musa and Musa wants to be worshiped and Musa likes rice and Musa gets angry when the watch moves anticlockwise instead...

That being said... Why is it so important to assume the universe has a creator? What does this simple knowledge to for u in ur daily hustle?

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Reasons To Believe




Some may ask, "Who created God?" God, the Creator, is different to His creation. Unlike the universe and the rest of creation, God is eternal, has always existed and has no beginning.

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You tried. But quran made a funny statement which suggests that Allah has a beginning.
هو الأول والأخير

He's the first and the last. We may interpret this to mean that Allah started existing at some point in the past

This verse contradict other verses that claims that Allah had no beggining.

That aside.

Existence of God (however plausible) does not necessarily mean such God sent down imperfect books such as Qur'an and bible.
It does not mean such God want us to worship him.
It does not mean such God care about us