Islam As It Is
Belief in God
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BELIEF IN GOD
This world has one God. He is its Creator and
Master. The greatest proof of God’s existence is the
existence of the world itself. Spread around us in all
its vastness and complexity it bears witness to the
existence of a great God who, in His infinite power,
controls it. If we have no choice but to believe in the
world, we have no choice but to believe in God as
well, for the world would be meaningless if we did
not accept the existence of a Maker and Master
along with it. Look at how exquisitely the world has
been fashioned. How can it be that it has no Maker?
Look at the perfect order which it maintains. Could
it really be that no one is controlling it? The answer,
of course, is that it could not. The truth is that, just
as man is bound to believe in the world around
him, so also is he bound to believe in God.
Suppose we placed a pebble on a potter’s wheel,
and then spun the wheel around very fast. The
pebble would, of course, fly off, even although a
potter’s wheel can hardly reach a speed of 25 miles
