Monday, February 14, 2011

The Almighty - Short Ducumentary by Taufik Kamarudin



Allah is the creator of all things including the seen and the unseen world. Everything in creation worships and submits to him. The faith of Muslims is Islam. It means submission to the will of Allah.

Allah is beyond the grasp of human vision.He is unlike anything that the human can imagine.Therefore drawing pictures or making statues that represent him as a human, a semi-human or an animal is unacceptable and considered a major sin in Islam.

If you speak English, you use the words “him” and “she” a lot and it is very easy to give people wrong ideas about God.The female equivalent for ‘God’ is ‘Goddess’. Some believe that God has female partners. Reducing God to a human family person is unacceptable in Islam.

The Almighty calls himself “Allah” in the Quran. This Arabic word has no plural and no male or female equivalents. Oh, by the way, The Almighty is not an old man who posed for Michelangelo!.

Some books refer to the “99 names” of Allah. These names are attributes of Allah. Allah is referred to as The Merciful, just and compassionate. More than 99 attributes of Allah are mentioned in The Quran.

Allah is eternal. He was not created. He existed before He created. His creations need Him but He doesn’t need them for his existence. Allah does not have a son or assistants. If He needs the help of others, then He would not be self-sufficient and be in need of a creator. Nothing is like Him.The Creator cannot be of the same nature as the things He created. His creations have a beginning and an end.Allah existed before the beginning and will remain after the end.

The notion that The Almighty needed a rest day after creating the heavens and earth is a human innovation and not The Almighty’s view of Himself.It is those who were not involved in Creation that are taking the rest!.Created things ‘burn out’. Allah is ever living.

Allah is a proper noun unique to The One True God Who alone deserves all worship. He is the God of all Prophets that He choose to convey His Message. Among the well-known Prophets are Noah, Abraham, David, Moses, Jesus and the final Prophet, Muhammad (peace be upon them).

Our suffering is caused by our failure to adhere to what He has permitted and refrain from what He has prohibited. There are times when, for example, we cannot explain why bad things happen to good people. Allah knows Best. We must seek His help in prayer.

In The Quran. The Almighty states that He will forgive the sins of the Believers who repent sincerely and do not repeat their sins. Many will say that they to believe in The One True God but their daily lives are infused with idolatrous practices such as wearing talismans and worshipping statues. The Almighty declares in The Quran that He will not forgive the worshipping of false gods.

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