Do We Need The Quran To Believe In God?
We don’t need the Quran to believe in God. The concept of God is ancient. We need The Quran to believe in the real God.
We have a-priori knowledge in our fitrah about our Creator. Also through empirical evidence that everything in this universe seems to be created, we hypothesize that there must be a Creator. Once we have established this much, then our investigation must begin in order to find out who that Creator is and what does He want from us. This inevitably leads us to prophets who claim to be sent to earth with divine communication for the inhabitants of the earth. When we investigate this further and find evidence beyond any reasonable doubt that prophets are in fact representatives of the Creator then our attention naturally shifts to their message which we can find in the scripture. The scripture then provides us with undeniable evidence that our hypothesis about a Creator was in fact accurate. It further explains the scheme of the Creator, why He sent us to this tiny planet, and tells us how to succeed in this scheme and achieve an ultimate kingdom that awaits us on the other side of this life. Our conclusion about the Creator and His scheme is in turn validated by the a-priori knowledge within our fitrah, and this completes the entire loop with unquestionable knowledge that we call faith or belief.