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- Islamic beliefs are simple, rea-
sonable and logical.
- Belief in Allah is the only logical
explanation of the existence of
the universe.
AN IMPORTANT
POINT TO
REMEMBER
Regarding the question as to who created the
Creator, understand that it is incorrect to imagine the
Creator as being subject to the laws which govern his
creatures. It is Allah who created the law of causation
and we cannot consider Him as subject to the law He
created. Causation is a law for us who live in space and
time. The primary constitutive elements of our universe,
which is just one of the innumerous creation of Allah,
are matter, time and space. Allah, who created space
and time, is necessarily transcendent in relation to both
and it is an error on our part to think that he is bound
either by them or by their laws. In fact it would be pre-
posterous to ask the question as to what was there
before Allah or who created Allah for there existed no
time before Allah created time itself, thus the question
of 'before' outside time, is not possible. In our misun-
derstanding we are like those dolls who, seeing that
they move by springs, imagine that the human-being
who made them must also derive his motion from the
action of springs. If they were told that he is self-moved,
they would retort that it is impossible for anything to
move spontaneously since everything in their world is
moved by a spring. Just like them, we cannot imagine
that Allah exists in His own Essence with no need of an
efficient cause, for this is because we see everything
around us in need of such a cause. Aristotle followed
the chain of causality tracing the chair from wood, wood
from the tree, the tree from a seed, and the seed from
the planter. He had to conclude that this chain, which
regresses into infinite time, must have begun with an
'uncaused' cause, a primum-mobile in no need of a
mover, a creator who has not been created. This is the
same thing we assert of Allah.
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