Who Made God?
If you believe in the Quran to be the word of God then the answer is obvious – because God Himself has claimed these attributes. If that is not the case then an uncreated God is the only logical explanation of this universe and everything that exists within it. Contingent existence has to have a prior cause. Contingent existence is that which exists but it did not have to. Or it could have existed in a different manner. For example, you and I did not have to exist but we do, so we are contingent. Similarly, this universe did not have to exist, or at least not with the same set of physical laws that we find in this universe. Everything we see around us, therefore, exists contingently. To sum it up, this universe and everything within it can only be explained in terms of something prior, and is therefore contingent . If, however, we believe that everything that really exists is dependent upon some prior existence then nothing would ever exist. An infinite number of objects in the causal chain would prevent any existence at all because infinity has no existence in reality. Since we know that there is existence, it implies that something must necessarily exist – a cause that explains all existence. A necessary existence , as opposed to a contingent existence, is that which has always existed without a prior cause. Without postulating such an existence, any investigation into what exists is irrational because in that case no existence can be justified. This necessary existence is precisely what God claims to be in Quran 112:1. Without believing this to be true, it is not possible to believe in our own existence, the existence of our universe, the laws of nature, the scientific inquiry, or any other existence at all.