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5- MONOTHEISM IS THE VERY SOUL OF ALL THE ISLAMIC COMMANDMENTS2- THE ATTRIBUTES OF HIS GLORY & BEAUTY

WE BELIEVE that He is an infinite existence in all respects, such as knowledge, power, everlasting. and pre-existence. Therefore He will not be contained in time and space, while He is in everywhere and at any time, for being above space/Time.

It is He who is Allah in heavens and Allah on earth, and He is full of wisdom and knowledge.

THE HOLY QURطN - S43: 84

And He is with you where ever you may be, and Allah sees all that you do.

THE HOLY QURطN - S 57: 4

Yes, He is nearer to us than ourselves. He is with our soul, and He is everywhere, and in the meanwhile,He has not a certain place:

It was we who created man, and We know the promptings of his soul .... For We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.

THE HOLY QURطN - S 50: 16

He is the first and the last, the visible and the invisible, and He has full knowledge of all things.

THE HOLY QURطN _ S 85: 15

Therefore if we read in the Holy QURطN that: `He is the owner of ARSH' (which means either throne or empyrean) or `He sat upon His throne'; or `His throne does extend over the heaven and earth;' none of these verses mean that He may have a certain place. (these are all metaphors) These are to express His sovereignty over every thing and every place. If we consider Him to have a certain place, we have limited Him by giving Him the attributes of His creatures, while we know that:- `nothing is like Him'. (Q - S 42: 11) And: there is none equal to Him! (Q - S 112: 4)

4- GOD HAS NO MATERIAL BODY AND NO EYE CAN EVER SEE HIM

WE BELIEVE that God can never be seen by the physical eyes; because the object of seeing by the eyes, is a material body that has to have place, colour, form and direction. These are all the qualifications of the creatures, and not that of the creator. God is really far from that. Therefore the belief that one may physically see God, is a sort of polytheism, and going astray in this field.

No vision can grasp Him, but He grasps all visions.

THE HOLY QURطN - S6: 103

This is why when the Israelites objected, asking Moses to let them see God: he took them to the mount sinai, and as mentioned in HOLY QURطN:--

And when Moses came to a place appointed by us, (ON THE MOUNT SINAI) his lord addressed him; and Moses said,o my lord! show thyself to me: (let me see you) that I may look upon You! Allah said, By no means can you see me; but look upon the mountain, if it abides in its place, then you may see me.

When his lord manifested His glory ON the mountain it turned into dust, and Moses fell down into a swoon. When he recovered his senses, he said, Glory be to thee! To thee I return and I am the first one to believe in you.

THE HOLY QURطN - S7: 143

And by such incidents it was proved that God can never be seen.

WE BELIEVE that our Islamic traditions denoting the observance of God, aim at seeing Him by the mind and by the heart, and not by the sense of vision of the eyes at all. In one of his sermons collected in the famous book: NAHJUL BALAGHA, Emam Ali says:- Eyes can not see Him, but He can be seen by the realities of FAITH.

WE BELIEVE that the attributes of the creatures, such as: place, direction, material body, and physical observance should not be ascribed to God. If done so, it shall lead to polytheism, and remoteness from the true knowledge of HIM, who is above all, and nothing is similar to HIM.

 

 

 

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