Creator Been Created??

Indeed, [O Muhammad], you do not guide whom you like, but Allah guides whom He wills. And He is most knowing of the [rightly] guided.

[AL-QASAS C.28 : V.56]

          Alhamdulillah, praise to Allah as we have given another chance to meet in this blog. For Muslims, we must be grateful because we got the greatest graces that are Iman and Islam. For the non-Muslim, do not give up on the grace and the mercy of Allah as He is the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful.

          This blog generally and my entries specifically are not totally my ideas. There are many things that inspired me to write in this blog, so I took the ideas from various places and combined together with my ideas to produce entries. So all these things are just sharing my ideas, not to teach others. Based on the above verse from Quran said that only Allah can give guidance (hidayah) to people He wanted. The prophet and other people can only deliver the messages but not to open others hearts.

He is Allah, the Creator, the Inventor, the Fashioner; to Him belong the best names. Whatever is in the heavens and earth is exalting Him. And He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.

[AL-HASHR C.59 : V.24]

          In the above verse, Allah claimed that He is the Creator and He claimed He is the true God. In other religion they believe in other God with different name, different in terms of characters and others. There are also people that does not believe in God. So insyaAllah, today we are going to discuss about how God come to an existence. Before going further, we must know a few definition that may and may not related to God first.

God - being conceived as the perfect, omnipotent, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith.

Created – bring (something) into existence.

Born – existing as a result of birth.

Birth - the emergence of a baby or other young from the body of its mother; the start of life as a physically separate being.

          People said that everything have the creator. It sounds nice, but it is not true statement. The true statement is, every created thing have the creator. Allah is uncreated; therefore there is no creator of Allah. The true definition of God is, He is uncreated. The moment you ask, who create God, he is not God. I brought along the definition of born and birth because some believes that God was born. That is not true.

          I want to give an example from Dr. Zakir Naik. If your friend name John, he said that he admitted in hospital. He gave birth to a child. Can you tell me or can you guess, he gave birth to baby girl or boy? Can a man give birth to a child? So now you can realize that you make a mistake. God cannot be created. When you ask a wrong question, of course you will not get the right answer forever.

          When we say that Allah the Almighty, the most powerful, then we must think that if something created Allah, he must be greater than Allah. For example we have 60V bulb, to light it we must have electric source more than 60V. If we use 10V battery the bulb will not going to light up. Similar here for Allah, where we can find something that more powerful than Allah to give Him “the most powerful” title? Where to find the most extensive knowledge to give to Allah so that He has the all knowledge? You will never find it.

Say, "He is Allah, [who is] One (1). Allah, the Eternal Refuge (2). He neither begets nor is born (3). Nor is there to Him any equivalent (4).”

[AL-IKHLAS C.112 : V.1-4]

          In the Quran, Allah already mention in one chapter about Him. We can use the verses in this chapter as the definition to the creator or God. If there are someone claims he is God, we can identify it using these verses. The shortest chapter in the Quran, but with powerful meanings. Hold firmly this chapter and insyaAllah it gives many benefits to you.

          Let’s take a look on the first verse, Allah said He only one. It is going to be very long if I want to explain this. Maybe it needs another entry to talk about that. But in other religion, they believe in one God. However their God is three God, the father, the son and the holy spirit. There are three, but they claimed to be one. It is illogical for most of us, but in reality there are people can accept that.

          The second verse said that Allah is eternal. If something or someone claims to be God, ask him whether he going to die or not. Of course all things and all human beings going to die, so he will never be a god. Only to Allah we hope, we rely on, we depend on and we pray to. The third verse said that Allah does not give birth and not born. This verse we already discuss above. All human beings come to earth when their parents gave birth, except Jesus (pbuh) because he was born without father and Adam and Eve as they are the first human beings. Although Adam and Eve are special, but they are not god as they died.

          The last and the important verse, there are nothing equivalent to Allah. If my brother has 1 dollar and I have 5 dollar. That means I am richer than my brother. I wanted to say that it still can be compare. 1 to 5 or 1 to thousands or 1 to millions or 1 to infinity, all this can be compare. But Allah, we cannot compare even a single drop of water. His is the greatest, how great He is? We cannot even think about it. Allah is not like others, and nothing like Him. If you can imagine something, and you call it God. You are wrong, that is not God.

He is the First and the Last, the Ascendant and the Intimate, and He is, of all things, Knowing.

[AL-HADID C.57 : V.3]

          Allah has no beginning and has no end, He is eternal. He is the first and also the last. All of us are difficult to accept this statement as we always see things that have beginning and have the end. Human is born and die, trees grow and die, even the earth has the beginning and going to be perish one day and so on. Even angels and devils also will be taken their soul. So for our logical, it is difficult to accept this fact. The conclusion is, that is Allah. Only He can do the impossible things. When our mind is impossible to think about, that is Allah.

          I hope that from this entry we can learn something. To believe it or to refuse it, totally is your choice. No one is forcing you to accept all these things. I just only deliver this message, and only Allah that gives you the understanding. That’s all from me for the time being. Thank you for giving your time to read this. Hope to meet you again, insyaAllah.

 Indeed, those who disbelieve - it is all the same for them whether you warn them or do not warn them - they will not believe (6). Allah has set a seal upon their hearts and upon their hearing, and over their vision is a veil. And for them is a great punishment (7).

[AL-BAQARAH C.2 : V.6-7]

~Wallahua’lam~