Guide-to-Sound-Creed-A-Book-on-Muslim-Creed-and-Faith

Principle 1: Belief in Allah, Mighty and Exalted be He
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Moreover. Almighty Allah says:
(~ they rejected them, while their [inner] selves were convinced
thereof, ou<strong>to</strong>fmjumaumdhaughtiness .. :' (Qur'an: An-Namh 14)
In principle, those who denied the presence ofAllah never relied on a proof,
but it was their obstinacy that prompted them <strong>to</strong> do so. About this Allah, the
Almighty says:
(~nd theysay, 'There is not bu<strong>to</strong>ur worldly life; we die and live, and
nothing destroys us except time:Andthey haveofthatno knowledge;
they are only assuming:' (Qur'an: Al-Jathyiah: 24)
Thus, those people did not deny Allah's presence out of knowledge, sound
reasoning or the pure nature they had. As a matter offact, the claims ofthose who
denied the presence ofAllah are all refutable since this universe and the cycle of
life attest <strong>to</strong> the Oneness ofAllah and His Lordship, for a creature must have had
a Crea<strong>to</strong>r, exactly as a deed must have had a doer. Allah, the Almighty, says:
"Or were they created by nothing, or were they the crea<strong>to</strong>rs [of
themselves], or did they create the heavens and the earth •••"
Moreover, a poet says:
And in every thing there is a sign
That attests that Allah is One
(Qur'an: A!-lUr: 35)
Since these facts are evident, atheists or those who deny the presence ofAllah
become confused and fail <strong>to</strong> give answers <strong>to</strong> the questions set by the monotheists.
Those atheists may, sometimes, say, "This universe has existed as a result of the
nature, which consists ofsuch things as plants, animals and the inanimate beings;
according <strong>to</strong> these atheists, such things comprise the nature which has originated
itselfl" At some other times, those atheists may claim that nature consists of the
qualities of the things and their characteristics such as heat, coldness, moisture,
solidity, smoothness and roughness, and that nature is a group ofabstract things
such as motion, stillness, growing, marriage and multiplication. Those atheists
claim that nature is made up ofthese qualities and abstract things, and that nature
has originated things.
Undoubtedly, the above-mentioned claims are baseless since the two
considerations are unreasonable. According <strong>to</strong> their first consideration, nature
in itself will be regarded as a creating and created object, thus it may be said
that the earth created the earth or heaven created heaven, which is circular
and impossible. Furthermore, the second consideration is more impossible, for