|
He is the First and the Last, and the
Outward and the Inward
Quran 57:3
I, Jehovah, the first, and with the
last, I am he
Isaiah 41:4 ASV
I am he; I am the first, I also am the
last.
Isaiah 48:12 ASV
Allah is He, there is no god but He
Quran 59:21
Related
links:
Know
Allah from His Words ,
Allah's
Names ,
Allah's
Names (audio)
Jesus in the
Quran,
BELIEVE IT. God is the
Supreme Being perfect in power, wisdom,
knowledge and goodness, the One who is
worshipped as the creator, ruler and
sustainer of the universe. God knows the
past, the present and the future. He
knows everything about everything and
everyone.
He is eternal, uncaused,
un-originated and not restricted by any
physical limitations. He neither
acquires his existence from any source
nor depends on anything to sustain his
existence. Rather, it is He who sustains
everything and everyone. He is the
Ever-Living, Sustainer God who neither
dies nor ever sleeps. He is omnipotent
and omniscient.
Prior to the existence
of time and space and before anything
else was, God always has been. He needs
neither time nor space within which to
exist. The existence of God is written
on the tablets of our hearts. Thus it is
much more sensible and easier on the
mind to accept that God has always
existed, even before He created time and
space, and has then brought everything
into existence by his creative power,
than to accept that matter existed by
itself and then developed to such
incredible levels of sophistication by
chance. Actually, every human being
instinctively explains the existence of
the created order through the creative
power of God.
Human beings do not
instinctively explain the existence of
the created order through philosophical
naturalism, Darwinism or mere chance.
In our experience of the natural world,
everything else that has a beginning
must have a cause behind it. God is
eternal and therefore uncaused. The
light of the created order points to
God, who is the cause of all effects.
Moreover, the light of the human
instinct points to God. The messengers
of God also lead human beings to God.
Biblical passages identify God as
Jehovah or Yahweh. “That men may know
that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah,
art the most high over all the earth”
(Psalms 83:18 KJV). These names
refer to the God of Abraham. Just as
the Bible refers to God as Jehovah,
so quranic verses refer to God as
Allah: “Your Lord is Allah who created
the heavens and earth in six days then
rose over the throne” (Quran 7:
54). The word Allah describes
and identifies the LORD of the universe,
the God of Abraham.
Some people,
due to their ignorance, attempt to
demonize the name Allah, thinking
it refers to a god that has never
existed. Just as Jehovah and
Yahweh are two of the biblical names
for God, the LORD of the universe, so
Allah is the quranic and Arabic
name. Allah is not a stranger to
humanity. He is the Lord of Adam, Noah,
Abraham, Lot, Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob,
Joseph, Job, Jonah, Moses, Aaron, David,
Solomon, Joshua, Elijah, John, Jesus and
Muhammad. The bible says “You alone
are the LORD made the skies and the
heavens and all the stars. You made the
earth and the seas and everything in
them. You preserve and give life to
everything, and all the angels of heaven
worship you.” (Nehemiah 9:6 NLT)
Quran 7:54 says,
“Indeed, our Lord is Allah Who created
the heavens and the earth in six Days,
then He rose over the Throne. He covers
the night with the day, which is in
haste to follow it, and has made the sun
and the moon and the stars subservient
by His command. His is all creation and
commandment. Blessed be Allah, the Lord
of the worlds.”
You can detect a striking
similarity between these passages
because they refer to the same God, the
God of Abraham.
Excerpt taken from Radwan's upcoming
book "Live Your Life
on Purpose"
|
