WHO IS ALLAH (GOD)

The Holy Prophet PBUH said that the first step to 'deen'(Islam) is the 'maarefat' of Allah JJW. How can we have this 'maarefat'? To have some idea about Allah we should think about some of His creations. This earth, where we live, is one of the 12 planets revolving around the sun. The earth is quite small as compared with the bigger planets. Jupiter, with its 62 moons, is 1000 times bigger than earth. Collectively, all these planets of our solar system have .15% of the total mass; the remaining 99.85% is held by the sun. Light, traveling at 186,000 miles a second, will go around our earth seven times in one second. But we are so lonely in this universe that the same light, traveling at this dazzling speed, will go in the empty space for about five years to reach the next sun (Star) nearest to us. (A rocket traveling at 20,000 miles per hour will cover this distance in about 1,70,000 years.) There are a large number of stars in our galaxy ------- estimates range from two hundred billion to four hundred billion stars. And the estimate for number of galaxies range from 140 billion to 200 billion. The universe is believed to be about 90 billion light years in its expanse. All the galaxies are traveling outwards at accelerating velocities, some traveling at about 50% the speed of light. The galaxies towards the the periphery have more acceleration than the ones located inwards. Quran informs us in Chapter (Sura) Zariyat Verse (ayet) # 47 that Allah created this universe and He is giving it expansion. All the visible matter in space is less than 4% of the accounted mass in the universe; the remaining being the dark matter and something which is still beyond our comprehension. It has been postulated that all this matter was concentrated at one point about 14 billion years ago. At this stage there was no 'time' and no 'space/ distance' in the universe. Then a huge explosive Big Bang triggered the expansion. At that point the 'time' and 'space' (distances) were created. All our physical and conceptual existence is enclosed in this capsule the parameters of which are defined by time and space. It is almost impossible to have any concept of state of things when there was no space and no time or what lies beyond the outer limits of universe where time and space have not reached yet? Our earth is a speck of dust in this huge and mind boggling universe. We live on a small patch of land for a short duration in the cosmos. Comparatively, in this cosmic calendar of billions of years our life of 100 years is only a small fraction of a second. Yet we are so important that our body is a miracle. The working of our heart, liver, lungs or any other organ of our body is wonderfully amazing. Our brain has more than 100 billion neurons which transmit information by electrical and chemical signaling processes. Each neuron is connected to other neurons by about 7,000 connections (synapses). Thus a brain can have 100 to 500 trillion connections for the flow of information. Comparatively, a super computer which transmits information only electrically has a few million connections. The instructions for the life of a human being are encoded in 3.16 billion "letters" in each of about 80,000 genes on 46 chromosomes in each cell. The sequence of four colors of this genetic code of 3.16 billion "letters"/molecules determines everything like height, color of eyes and hairs, the immune system, structure of brain or heart, etc. Despite of great achievements the scientists do not know anything about the nature of life which so mysteriously and beautifully differentiates a living body from a dead one. Nobody can ever believe that just by heating a few metals you can produce very sophisticated computers or aircrafts. Similarly it is inconceivable that this beautiful and amazing cosmos, the unceasing motion since billions of years of electrons and galaxies, the orderly and marvelous existence of life, the empty space and all other things could have been possible without the will and design of a supreme being. That ultimate eternal reality, the awe inspiring, mind baffling, stunning and incomprehensible Supreme Being, you call Him by any name, is Allah. It is simply not possible for us to have even a remote conception of our creator. Our minds have not been programmed to cross this barrier. He created in us the potentials and limits of our thinking. Only He knows what else He has created. When Imam Jaffer-e-Sadiq was asked, What is the meaning of Allah-o-Akbar?". He replied," He is much higher than being conceived by our intelligence." ( Bahar-ul-Anwar- 18/345 ). In fact, whatever concept of Allah we may develop, then we are the creator of that concept and therefore that cannot be Allah. Quran says in Sura Al-Saafat, ayat 180 that Allah is much above than whatever they describe Him.
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Imam Baqar A.S. said," Do you think that Allah has created only this universe and you believe that He has not created any other human being? By Allah, He has created thousand thousand universes and thousand thousand Adams." (Bahar-ul-Anwar 57/ 321, Al-Khasal page 652 hadith 54, Al-Touheed page 277 ). Quran says," Those only are believers whose hearts become full of fear when Allah is mentioned". ( Chapter (Sura) Anfal Verse(ayat) # 2 ).
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