Proof of the Existence of God Almighty
Is there conclusive evidence that God exists? Is the existence of God a fact that can be proven like any other scientific fact that can be proven in a laboratory?
It is surprising that atheists and believers today share the same belief regarding one of the attributes of God that provides conclusive proof of His existence. In today’s world, it is a fact that everyone agrees upon, both atheists and followers of the various religions of the world, that God has stopped talking.
An atheist believes
that God does not speak because He does not exist, while others who identify
themselves with any one religion, except a few of course, believe that God does
not speak because, in a direct way of expressing this, they think that Allah
has nothing to say anymore. But those who claim that God has said everything He
had to say and that everything He wanted to say is already in their respective
holy books, then they do not understand the true nature of God’s words. They
generally consider the Shari’ah or divine law to be the only type of
word of God. Once the Law has been completed and perfected, then according to
them, in their minds, it is no longer necessary for Allah to talk anymore [i.e.
send other words – other types of revelations].
You will be able to
find such kinds of people in every religion in the world. Christians, for
example, generally believe that the Bible contains everything that God [for
them, it is, God the Father and the Son] wanted to tell people and that nothing
more is therefore necessary or required. That is why they have rejected the
Holy Quran. So, for them, the Bible is enough for them and God has stopped
speaking, and therefore, He could not have revealed His revelations to the Holy
Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh). So, for those kinds of people, God has stopped
talking.
Similarly, Muslims
today generally believe that Allah no longer speaks because the divine Law has
been completed in the Holy Quran and that the religion of Islam has been
perfected and that therefore nothing else is necessary or required. If we are
to accept this argument, then these people do not have any conclusive evidence
to prove that Allah exists today.
Some people, Christians
for example, seek to answer this question by pointing out that the fulfilment
of Bible prophecies in the present time is conclusive evidence of God’s
existence as stated in these prophecies which had been revealed thousands of
years ago. They (that is, the Christians) also use the well-known argument that
the universe is governed by laws that indicate that the universe proves by its
existence that it must have a creator, and that the fulfilment of the Bible
prophecies also proves that the Being behind creation must have had a vision of
the future.
If we are to accept
that God is the creator of the Universe and the Initiator of these prophecies,
then it will only prove that God existed at the time of creation and at the
time when these prophecies were revealed, but this does not necessarily prove that
the same God exists today. Perhaps that for one reason or another, His
existence has come to an end. The fulfilment of the prophecies proves that the
One who created those prophecies had advance knowledge of these events, but it
does not necessarily prove that He still exists today or even that He still has
the ability, the faculty to be insightful in the future. So, how then can we prove that God exists as we know Him
to exist, whether in the past, present and future, where He will continue to
exist as long as the human race exists, and even beyond our own creation, when
all humans and all other creatures’ existence will come to an end?
The only
conclusive proof of God’s existence is that He keeps speaking. Without this conclusive evidence, our faith will be
based on a “Maybe”: Maybe God exists but for some reason, He no longer speaks.
But on the other hand, the other possibility is also valid where people can say
that God no longer exists. In any case, neither in the first case nor in the
second case, there is a certainty concerning the existence of Allah. There is
no certainty in faith.
So, that is why Allah
has sent His Prophets and Messengers in different times, including in our time
with the advent of this humble servant as the Messiah and Messenger of my time
to prove His existence and grant believers certainty in true faith. This is the
main objective of all prophets: to reconcile man with his creator and bring
believers to certainty of faith by establishing communion with their Creator,
God, Allah. From the moment a true believer establishes a personal relationship
with God, he receives from God knowledge, according to his own faculties and
abilities, which proves to him beyond a shadow of a doubt that God [Allah]
exists. Here, I am talking about the One True God Who has no other partners in
His worship.
Some people agree that
God will speak to believers on Judgement Day and in the garden of Paradise, but
they refuse to believe that He can still speak in this temporal life [in this
world (on earth)]. The Holy Quran categorically disagrees with the argument
they hold.
It is said in the
Quran: 'Those who have believed and followed the
right path, for them is good news during their life on earth and in the life to
come.' (Yunus 10: 64-65).
Again, the Holy Quran
explains that communion with Allah is established both in this life and in the
Hereafter, and therefore, Allah speaks in this life itself, and that believers
receive messages from the part of Allah through His angels, as it is said: “But those who say: ‘Our Lord is Allah’, and then follow
the right path, the angels descend upon them (and say to them): Do not fear
anything and do not grieve, but receive the good news of Paradise, which has
been promised to you. We are your allies in this life, and in the life to come.
You will get what you want; and there you will receive what you ask: a
reception from One Who forgives and is merciful.’” (Fussilat
41:31-33).
So, we see how Allah –
God the One and Generous Creator – is a God Who lives forever, and how He does
not expect all people to die and come to Him to speak with them. He speaks
through the revelation that He sends to His angels to give to His chosen
servants, especially His messengers and those who have attained divine love.
When the angels say, “Do not fear anything, and do not grieve,” it does
not mean that believers on earth will stop experiencing any fear or grief. The
fear or dread or sorrow that the angels are telling believers is of another
level, which is not related to the fears that the human race usually
experiences. Believers are assured that despite the persecutions against them,
despite the questions about their faith, faith in the True God, but they,
believers must keep trust [have confidence] in the existence of the God Who is
always alive, and shall never die, and they must place their trust in Him
alone. And this promise of the companionship and friendship of angels is in
fact an expression of Allah’s love towards the believers who receive this good
news from the angels. Allah must love a person, so that He commands His angels
to love such a person too. And thus the reaction and actions of the angels
towards humans, the believers reflect the divine command [commandment of Allah]
to the angels to do such and such treatments on [to have such and such
behaviours towards] His servants.
Therefore, the angels
say to the believers, especially the Messengers of Allah, on divine order, “At
this time [Right now] do not have any fear, any grief because as your Lord has
promised, you will receive all that He has chosen as the best reward for you.”
Whether it concerns the prophet or the common believer’s present or future,
Allah is giving him the good news that he must wait for his reward, and that
his reward is not only reserved for him in the future life, but that the reward
is also valid in this temporal world as well. This Jannat (Paradise),
this garden of happiness, of tranquillity that Allah has promised him, he will
reap it in this life itself as well as in the hereafter, and he will taste what
is eternal for him in the future life as well.
Therefore, a believer
who believes in the existence of Allah, he not only believes in His existence
but he knows very well that Allah is not a God Who is dead. He firmly believes
that God will always continue to speak and show signs of His existence whether
in words or in Divine Manifestations on earth and in the heavens.
So, remember that the
friendship that an angel of Allah grants to a person does not come by itself,
but by the command of Allah. When Allah says “Salaam” (Peace) to a
person, that Salaam is not only reserved for the future life, but also
for the life of this world when a believer has completely immersed himself in
divine love. All the trials that he gets then become like water falling on a
waterproof object [literally [Creole Analogy], water falling on taro leaves
(which is waterproof) – which means to say that whatever a believer undergoes
as trials, those trials do not affect him in any way]. Thus, those trials
slides away like water on taro leaves, because the confidence or trust that he
has in His God is because His God is Alive and speaks with him and guides him
and shows him success in this life and in the future life, where Allah, God
gives him the faculty to distinguish the true from the false, the truth from
the lie, and where he stays away from the stupid and confused ideas of atheists
who have been deprived of divine mercy for only divine mercy can give a person
the clarity of spiritual vision, such a vision, as if he were seeing with his
own eyes the promise of Allah being fulfilled, not only in the future life but
also in this life itself.
Therefore, God exists
and will always exist in the true faith, in the truthfulness of the fulfilment
of His promises to His believing servants, where they receive the divine
essence in them, where they receive the faculty of hearing the voice of God.
In the time of a
Messenger of Allah, it is not only the Messenger who gets the faculty to hear
the word of Allah, a word that I must specify does not contradict in any way
the laws of Allah that He has established in His Holy Books that have not been
falsified by the hands of man through time [such a Holy and perfect Book as the
Holy Quran that no one can falsify]. I warn you however not to misinterpret the
words of Allah found in the Holy Quran. If there is much dissension today, even
among Muslims, it is mainly because they misunderstand the divine commandments
and messages of Allah in the Quran. But remember that even before the existence
of man on earth, Allah spoke. Even when there was no creature, no creation,
Allah spoke. Allah speaks in Himself; His word, His feeling as the Supreme
Being always remaining alive, whether one likes it or not. But Allah is Alive
and talks [speaks] and He will remain talking [speaking], and He loves to
converse with those whom He loves.
Insha-Allah, may Allah continue to enlighten me and all those who have sincerely believed in me, and in all the past prophets and who believe firmly in the eternal word of Allah, who believe that Allah will always speak and impose His presence on His creatures and all creation with Wisdom and Majesty. Insha-Allah, Ameen.