About God

# 7 Obeying God is the most rational thing to do “And obey God and the Prophet[1] so that you may be given mercy.” (Quran 3:132) When I travel by plane, I usually hear the pilot announce—via the inflight audio system—to fasten our seat belts due to oncoming turbulence.  My typical response involves sitting down, fastening […]

Special Mercy Connected to Ar-Rahmaan is Ar-Raheem.  These names share the same root as the previous, which comes from the Arabic word for womb.  The difference in meaning however is significant.  Ar-Raheem refers to a special mercy for those who want to embrace it.  Whoever chooses to accept God’s guidance has essentially accepted His special mercy.  This special mercy is

# 3 God provides us with innumerable favours “And if you should [try to] count the favours of God, you could not enumerate them.  Indeed mankind is [generally] most unjust and ungrateful.” (Quran 14:34) We should be eternally grateful to God because we could never thank Him for His blessings.  The heart is an appropriate

7 Reasons why God is worthy of worship # 1 God is worthy of worship by virtue of who He is The best place to start is to understand who God is.  God, by definition, is the One who is entitled to our worship; it is a necessary fact of His own existence.  The Quran

The gravest sin Associating partners with God is the gravest sin.  The consequence of this sin is that the one who dies in such a state and has not repented dies in a state of disbelief.  This will never be forgiven by God.  (This applies to major forms of associating partners with God.  There are

God makes it very clear that the purpose of our lives is to worship Him, “And I did not create the jinn (spirit world) and mankind except to worship Me.” (Quran 51:56).   The concept of worship in the Islamic tradition is profound.  Worship entails that we must know, love and obey God, as well as single out

Detachment from the world According to the Islamic tradition, God has created us so that we may worship and draw near to Him.  A fundamental principle concerning this is that we must detach ourselves from the ephemeral nature of the world.  Known as dunya, meaning low or lowly, the ephemeral world is the place of limitations,

Does God give us reasons for why He has allowed evil and suffering to exist? A sufficient response to the second assumption is to provide a strong argument that God has communicated some reasons to us about why He has allowed evil and suffering in the world.  The intellectual richness of Islamic thought provides us

In addition to contrasting our limited wisdom with God’s, this story also provides key lessons and spiritual insights. The first lesson is that in order to understand God’s will, one has to be humble. Moses approached Khidr, and knew that he had some Divinely inspired knowledge that God had not given to Moses. Moses humbly

Comparing man with God exposes their inability to understand things holistically. The atheist would probably at this point exclaim that this means man has more compassion than God. This further highlights their inability to see things from beyond their perspective, and exposes their failure to fathom that God’s actions and will are in line with