From: belal@silvercornish.engin.umich.edu (belal  khalid)
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Subject: Existence of God
Date: 10 Jan 93 16:28:44 GMT
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		BisMillahHirrahManNirraHim

Assalam-u-eleykum,

I wrote the following article to prove the existence of God to my
athiest friends. I am posting it so that it may sharpen the skills of
moslem brothers in their arguements with athiest friends.

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		      *	EXISTENCE OF GOD *
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1. All RELIGIONS BELIEVE IN GOD
Its an undeniable fact that all the religions on this earth claim to be from 
GOD. Muhammad (SAW), Moses, Jesus, Krishna, Budha, BabaNanak  and every 
religous leader taught people to believe and worship GOD. Although all 
religions have slight differences in the attributes they describe of God, but
 all the religions hold the common view that there is a God who has created 
this universe. Hystory shows us that even those ancient religions that no 
longer exist in this universe, they also held the view of God. Whether they 
were in ancient America, or in jungles of Africa or in England, or in Jawa or
 Samatra, or in Japan and China or in Siberia or in Hind. It is an important 
point that what's the reason for this thought provoking unity among so varied
 religions? In the ancient times people were not linked together through some
 means of communication or transport, then how is it possible that people 
living in isolation thousands of mile away from each other held the common 
view about the existence of God? Many of the lands were even not discovered 
at that time.Even now it is difficult for two persons to completely agree on 
any issue, how come this universal unanimity regarding God? All these facts 
drive us at the only possible conclusion that not only there is a living God
but also that God has always manifested Himself through some means to his men
to make them believe in Him. Hystorians agree that if there is such universal
unanimity about any issue then there is no reason to disagree with it.

2. WHO ARE THOSE WHO CALL PEOPLE TOWARDS GOD?
If we glance at the life of all those people, who have called people towards 
God, we shall find a surprising common thing about all of them, that they 
were very pious and righteous people. They were the people who were exalted 
in their nation. They were true people, who spent their life to guide people 
to the right path. They pursuaded people to leave opressing others. They 
taught to look after the poor and needy. They fought all their life against 
the unjust rulers of the time. They were invarialby opposed by the people in 
power at that time. They were highly honoured and valued for the purity of 
their lives even by those who later, on the announcement of their claims, 
became their enemies. It is conceivable that those who did not lie about men,
 began suddenly to lie about God. They were the people whose lives were 
exemplary for the others. Whether it is Indian Krishan, or Irani ZarTasht or 
Egyption Moses, or Israelite Christ or Punjabi Babananak, or Leader of the 
righteous Muhammad (SAW) who was given the title of TRUTHWORTHY by his 
nation from the very childhood and who challenged his nation that he had led 
all of his life among them and Could they point out to any single lie or 
felony in his life? So all these righteous persons who time to time came to 
this world, all of them say one thing in common... There is a GOD.... There 
is a GOD.... Not only they claimed that there is a God but also they claimed 
that they have talked to HIM. 

One may find great philosophers in the world who have done some great work, 
but there work cannot be compared to the work of those righteous persons. 
Actually if we study the lives of those philosphers we will find out that 
there are no noteworthy deeds compared to their great sayings. Why is it that
 these great philosphers were not able to show that righteousness which was 
shown by people from GOD? The people whose names I have mensioned above, all 
of them faced great hardships in the life due to their teachings but nothing 
could lead them astray from the true path. Their murders were planned, they 
were exiled from their countries and they were bycotted, but they never gave 
up their beliefs. Why did not they tell lie and relieve themselves from that 
hardship that was imposed on them just because of their belief. Their lack of
 interest in material desires has proved it that they were selfless people. 
When such truthfull and trustworthy people are saying it in one voice that
they have met with God, they have listened His voice and they have 
experienced his manifestations and it really leaves us with no escape. Even 
in this material world the people whom we know that they are habitual liars, 
whey they go to a court and speak something under an oath, they are believed,
 then why don't we believe in those righteous persons? 

3. EVEN DISBELIEVERS IN THEIR HEART ARE AFRAID OF GOD
Human nature in itself provides us with a strong inclination towards belief 
in God. There are certain sins which human nature does'nt like to get 
involved in. For instance, relationship with Mother, sister and daughters, 
uncleanliness owing to certain discharges from body, these are certain things
 which even a athiest will not like to do. But why if there is no God? Why 
not to lie all the time? What are the reasons that drive him away from these 
evils? If he does not feel the power of some unseen, then he should do 
whatever pleases him. Then truth and lie and justice and opression should be 
all the same for him. Its only God's fear that is ruling on his heart. 
Although his mind does not acknowledges the existence of God but the human 
nature created by God cannot defy it. So even an athiest at heart holds some 
view about God and judgement day.
 
4. EVERY THING IN THIS UNIVERSE HAS A CREATOR
If we deeply study this universe, we see that every thing culminates at GOD. 
He is the ultimate and every thing is working under his guidance. If we look 
at different stages of human birth and growth, we see that as we go backward,
 we find we are moving towards weaker and weaker stage. Eventually we shall 
find that the growth starts from a clot of blood. So human beings who 
themselves start from such a weak stage, how can they be their own creator. 
So it proves without any doubt that human beings are not their own creator. 
We shall see that if we start studying the birth process deeper and deeper, 
ultimately we will find ourselves at the limit of human knowledge. At that 
stage, all the worldly knowledges will reach their limit and will be totally 
quiet about what had happened? So that is a stage where divine hand is 
working. Every scientists have to believe that all the processes of this 
universe ultimately reaches a point where their knowledge becomes 
insufficient to describe them. Once somebody asked a bedouin that what point 
does he have about the existence of God. He replied that if he saw shit of a 
camel in the middle of a jungle, he could tell that a camel had passed 
through that jungle. Then after seeing so many different creatures in this 
universe, could'nt he tell that there is some creator of them?

5. IS THIS UNIVERSE CREATED JUST BY CHANCE?
Some of the people believe that this universe was created just by good luck 
and they also try to prove it through science. But God says that all those 
things that happens just by chance, they don't have any order in them. 
Different colors are used together to make a picture. If we just throw the 
paints on a paper, will they ever make a picture? Houses are made of bricks, 
but if we just throw the bricks, will they form a house? This is true that 
sometimes some of the things are made by chance, but a close analysis of the 
universe clearly refutes this 'by chance' theory. Alright, for a moment, if 
we believe that matter was created by chance, and this world also came into 
being by chance, I will ask the readers to study deeply the creation of human
 beings, Is it possible that such a perfect being was created by chance?  

Even in this world we can easily judge the power and wisdom of a creator of 
anything by closely examining his creation. A good picture is painted by an 
excellent painter, a powerful computer is made by an intellegent team of 
researchers. Looking at the orderliness of any things tells us that how 
intellegent its creator is. God has given to every being an appropriate body,
 so that it can sustain itself. God kept the food for trees in earth, so he 
gave roots to the trees, so that they can get their food. God made flesh as 
food for tiger, so He gave strong nails to the tiger, so that it can kill its
 prey. God made grass as food for horses and camels, so He gave them long 
neck, so they can eat it. God created lungs for human beings, so He also 
created air, so that they can breath. Human beings depend on water, so God 
created Clouds, so that they can take water to them. Such an enormous order 
could never have been created just by chance.

6. BELIEVERS ARE ALWAYS EXALTED ON OTHERS
God said that he will always exalt His true believers on others. True 
believers are always triumphant on nonbelievers, they always overcome them. 
If there is no God then how are they successful.All the founders of different
 religions were men of slender means, so when Moses called Pharaoh towards 
God, Pharaoh replied that about which God was he talking about? "I am GOD" So
 God ruined Pharaoh, and made Moses as the King of that time. Incidence of 
Pharaoh has become an example for this world and also for the next world. 
Same happened with other prophets. Same happened with Muhammad(SAW). All of 
his enemies were ruined. All those nations of that time, who opposed him were
 conquered by him or his followers. The founders of religions did not posses 
those powers and accomplishments which ordinarily make for successful 
leadership. Yet it is inconceivable that a person innocent of ordinary 
accomplishments, as soon as they begin to lie about God, should come to have 
such tremendous powers that their teachings dominate all other teachings 
current in their time. Such a development is impossible without the help of 
a powerful God. Why were their prophecies and their promises fulfilled? No 
doubt there have been others, generals and dictators, who have attained to 
apparently similar sucess. But it is not success which is in point. It is 
sucess which is foretold, which is attributed to God from the beginning, 
success on which is staked the Prophet's whole moral reputation and which is 
achieved in spite of the worst opposition.

7. GOD LISTENS TO THE PRAYERS
God has always listened to the prayers of the righteous people of all the 
times. A nonbeliever may say that it might have been by chance that those 
incidents happened that were prayed for. But the listened prayers are 
different from the other ones. God has not only listened to the prayers of 
his chosen one, but also He has informed them about their acceptance. Many 
prophets have claimed about a number of things, and all those claims had been
 fulfilled. 

8. REVELATION
It has always been God's practice to communicate to people of every age. Not 
only He talks to the choosen ones (Prophets) but also to other righeous 
people and sometime even to very mean and filthy people, just to show his 
manifestations. Sometimes, God foretells people news about future and 
sometimes also about next world. Sometimes He has revealed news about the 
incidences, that are to come hundreds of year later. So God told in Quran 
some fourteen hundred years ago about the great progress of Christians, which
 was to occur sometimes later. It was fortold that a time will come when 
camels will be no longer used. Even it was told that the transportation that 
will be used in future should work with fire. It was foretold that a time 
will come when people would die in large numbers with earthquackes, storms 
and rains, and wars would also bring large number of fatalities. And such 
instances would have never happened before on this earth. And Islam is a 
religion, about which God has said, that there will be people in every 
century, with whom God would communicate.

9. UNIVERSE IS NOT FROM EVER
If this universe is in existence from ever, then it must have infinite source
 of power and energy, but we see that no material thing is infinite in this 
universe. The temperature of Sun is falling down, even the earthing is 
cooling off. All the sources of energy in this universe are being consumed up
 and coming to an end. So the world is approaching to its end as is 
prophecied by all the religions. It proves that the universe came into being 
a finite time ago and it also has a definite end. Someone planned it, created
 it and will bring it to its end.

10. PRAYER FOR GOD's MANIFESTATION
All the nonbelievers should think that if there is a God then they will be in
deep trouble on the judgement day and in the next world. So if anybody is 
interested in geting the true knowlege about God, then he should pray 
earnestly that if there is a God with infinite powers as the people claim 
then may GOD manifest Himself on him. May God show him the right path. If 
anybody does such prayes earnestly for 40 days, then we believe, whatever his
 origin, religion and country is, God will show him the true path and he will
 have no doubt about the existence of God.

I understand that it's been a very lengthy article, and I am sorry about
that. I believe, whoever has read it all is really interested to know about
God, and thats really a good thing and I apprecieate it.

I hope, it will help some truth seekers to find the right path to follow in 
this world.

Belal

All views are not mine, but as 'to err is human and to forgive is devine' I
might have comitted a lot of errs in producing this article.
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