O you who have believed, if there comes to you a disobedient
one with information, investigate, lest you harm a people out of ignorance and
become, over what you have done, regretful.
[AL-HUJURAT Ch.49:V.6]
May peace and bless from Allah be upon
you. I start this entry by praising Allah as He gives me the chance to deliver
my ideas and messages and also gives you chance to read my entry again. Praise to
Him also for always giving me the knowledge, the understanding and thoughts to
share with others. Sorry for the late because I had a few problems last week
that obstructed me to write this entry. I am going to fulfil my promise that is
to write the entry with title that I already gave in the previous entry.
I will try my best to deliver my ideas
in this entry. We always hear people talking and saying that Allah can do
everything. He can do that; He can do these and many other things. Then, there
will be people that going to ask, if Allah can do everything, why He cannot be
a man? Why He cannot have a son? Why He cannot have a sexual feelings or
activities? There are many more questions, but these just examples. When people
ask all these questions, we are going to stuck or pause for a minute to think
back what we have said earlier. There will be a problem and there are going to
be a misunderstood again about Allah.
…Neither drowsiness overtakes Him nor sleep…
[AL-BAQARAH Ch.2:V.255]
Let me bring you into the real
statement. We are not limiting Allah’s capability or limiting Allah’s power, but
Allah the one who gives His characteristics to us. He is the one who gives
requirement to be a God. He is the one who we looks like limiting Himself. But actually
He is not limiting Himself; He is making us clear the differences between God
and creatures. The borders He puts just to clarify and to make us clear that He
is the Real God. All the creatures cannot be like Him even a drop of water or a
dot of black spot.
Allah says in ayah Kursi, He not even
feels sleepy and He will never sleep. This is not the issue that Allah cannot
sleep after He can do “everything”. But this ayah shows the different between
the creatures and Himself. All the animals and human feel sleepy and they must
sleep. There is a border between the creatures and God. God gives us the clear
evidence for the man that looking for the truth. People always looking for
logical answer, but at the end they refuse to accept the truth.
The Messiah, son of Mary, was not but a messenger; [other]
messengers have passed on before him. And his mother was a supporter of truth.
They both used to eat food. Look how We make clear to them the signs; then look
how they are deluded.
[AL-MAIDAH Ch.5:V.75]
It goes the same with eating. Allah
does not eat. He did not feel hungry and not even what to eat. He did not have
to eat to survive. That is the main idea here. But people always look at the
un-important things. Always want to question or argue the unnecessary things. To
prove that someone or something is a God, he or she or they must not eat. Eating
is human, animals, plants and other creature behaviour. Then people will say
that angels also did not eat and they have no feeling of hungry also. This
shows the different between us and angels. There are also differences between
God (Allah) and angels. The clearest evidence is that Allah created them.
Maybe angels also did not sleep. So from
the behaviour looks like no difference between them and Allah. We need to look
on the other side. Angels have shape or form or figure but Allah does not have
it. The above ayah was sent down to earth to show and prove to the people that
fanatic about Jesus. Allah already shows the important characteristics and
important clues, which are Jesus and his mother Mary eat. This ayah has a message
to say that Jesus is a normal human being, not God. I know that people
(Christian) going to be sensitive about this issue, but this is the truth.
It is not [befitting] for Allah to take a son; exalted is He!
When He decrees an affair, He only says to it, "Be," and it is.
[MARY Ch.19:V.34]
He neither begets nor is born.
[AL-IKHLAS Ch.112:V.3]
The same goes with the case Allah not
have son. There must be a reason behind that. Of course, the reason goes the
same that is Allah want to differ and to make sure the human being know Him
well. With many differences, borders or maybe you want to say “limit” that
Allah shows to us, I can say and dare to say that still people did not know
their God very well. There are still plenty more mistakes or misunderstood
about Allah. They did not see with their eyes and not hear with their ears. Their
heart and mind closed to accept the truth.
There are going to have similarities
between Allah and human. Such as Allah sees and human also see, and Allah hears
and human also hear. But the different now are not about see and hear, it is
about how Allah and human see and hear. That is the different. Human see and
hear with their organs. However Allah is not like creatures that have organs.
Allah sees and hears with His own Zat (sorry I don’t know the real word for English).
Only Allah knows how He sees and hears.
The Prophet (ﷺ) said,
"My Lord says, 'If My slave comes nearer to me for a span, I go nearer to
him for a cubit; and if he comes nearer to Me for a cubit, I go nearer to him
for the span of outstretched arms; and if he comes to Me walking, I go to him
running.' "
[Sahih al-Bukhari 7536]
There is hadith that says Allah comes
to His slave running. If we just want to take the text, we will misunderstand
about Allah. I want to say that other religion always taking the text from
their scripture without knowing and understand the real context. That leads
them to error or to the religion that never brought to them. In this case, the “running”
just a symbolic to show and to make His slave feels happy and excited to do
good things. Imagine that when we do good things, our beloved person running to
us to hug us. Of course we are going to feel very happy and always want to do
the good things.
Conclusion for this entry I want to quote
Ahmad Deedat words. He said that people always ask the truth but did not want
to see the truth. For example, people ask to see sun. Then we show to the
people the sun. The person looks at the sun but with the closed eyes. Do you
think the person see the sun? Answer it by your own. Allah already shows to us
the truth; Prophet Muhammad also brought to us the truth and so many people out
there always telling the truth. Now depend on us to accept it or not.
And of His signs is [that] He shows you the lightening
[causing] fear and aspiration, and He sends down rain from the sky by which He
brings to life the earth after its lifelessness. Indeed in that are signs for a
people who use reason.
[AR-RUM Ch.30:V.24]
~Jazakumullah~
~Wallahua’lam~
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