Risalah Tauhid 8 June 2008
Continuing with Proof that God is Uncreated (Qidam)
If God had been created, then the creator must have been created also - by another creator. This predicament is called Tasalsul or ‘chained’ – Hassan created Hussin, who created Muhsin, who created Khalid, who created Jamal, who created Fulan and so on. It is unacceptable that an object is created by another object, which itself is a product of some infinite creator.
Since we have proven that Dur and Tasalsul are a fallacy, here we conclude that God is indeed uncreated.
3rd Dalil – Proof That God is Everlasting (Baqa’)
God has to be everlasting. If we deny that, we might as well deny that God is uncreated.
If God could ever die off, that brings a notion of "existence time frame". Outside this timeframe, God did not exist. At an arbitrary point of time, God may or may not exist.
Ask yourself, at the very moment God ceased to exist, who took the responsibility to create and renew everything else? And who took that same responsibility afterwards? Did God recreate Himself so that He can create and renew things? This brings back notion of Dur and Tasalsul – which has been rejected.
Dalil naqli is the ayat al-Qur’an:
كُلُّ مَن عَلَيهَ فَان وَ يَبقَى وَجهُ رَبِّكَ ذُوالجَلاَلِ وَ الاءِكرَامِ
(الرحمن اية 26-27)
Everything on the face of the earth will perish, while your God (O Muhammad)
will be everlasting in His full glory and splendor.
(Surah Ar-Rahman ayat 26-27)
Wallahu a'lam
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