Establishing That God Doesn't Lie
I would like to add up to this as: Ghamidi sahab said in his recent live Q&A session that we can ascertain that God does not lie since we wouldn’t like it if someone lied to us- so how could the master of the worlds be lying to us? But ironically this goes against his own argument of “Fitrah is a source of deen” because if fitrah or our moral self tells us that its bad if someone lies but what about some body being arrogant(متکبر),do we like that and the answer should be that in this case too our fitrah will tell us that being arrogant is bad,but as we know (المتکبر)is an attribute of God. علامہ قرطبی لکھتے ہیں۔ فی الصحیح عن ابی ہریرہ ان رسول اللہ (صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم) قال فیما یرویہ عن ربہ تبارک وتعالیٰ انہ قال الکبریاء ردائی والعظمۃ ازاری ومن نازعنی فی واحد منھما قصمتہ وقذفتہ فی النار۔ حضور (صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم) نے فرمایا اللہ تعالیٰ ارشاد فرماتے ہیں کہ کبریائی میری چادر ہے اور عظمت میری ازار ہے۔ جو ان کو اوڑھنے کی کوشش کرے گا میں اس کی کمر توڑ دوں گا اور اس کو دوزخ میں پھینک دوں گا So if something bad for us is not bad for God in every case then whats the value of Ghamidi Sb’s argument in todays live session.
I am sure when you grasp the hikma part of Meezan, a lot more clarity will set in.
Laisa ka misli shai. God states that he is unique and nothing can explain him, there are no similitudes. He explains himself as light upon light etc. He is not Zeus or Odin. He is all good. It is not like WE give him attributes, it is the other way around. He defines what is truth, what is hope etc. Why stop at a lie, ask “does God fear, or get jealous etc.” How many explanations will be provide for each of the negativities. This renders the original question redundant. We cannot project our negativity on to God.