I like the way you think, i need you to question god existence now. you want everything for a purpose but why can't god have a reason to be here? Did he exist from the beginning? What was beginning? When was the beginning? How can a beginning start without a thing? What existed before god? So on.
you get the point, Everything needs a reason as you claimed.
"The universal origin story known as the Big Bang postulates that, 13.7 billion years ago, our universe emerged from a singularity — a point of infinite density and gravity — and that before this event, space and time did not exist (which means the Big Bang took place at no place and no time)."
An atheist point view of existing is, you won the sperm game and happened to be here. Depending on the place, time, and actions you took, your life would have been so different. The action you took the day you joined this site, changed a lot. Spending time on sites, and on
1.Allahs existence mentioned in the Quran is الصمد this means he is the only existence upon which every other existence relies on.
He always existed.Why?
Because time is a creation of Allah, time doesnt actually exist, if Allah was subject to time, he would be limited and therefore not God, and something else that controlled time would limit God. But thats not the case.
No God would be subject to another otherwise they would not be God they would be a slave like us.
Allah never began to exist and will never end, He just exists, thats it. But everything else that exists, relies on him, as they themselves are weak, and cannot rely on themselves, if something is finite, and limited, and has no will, then they are subject to something elses power, and will.
When you say why doesnt God need a reason to be here, the real question is, why does anything need a reason. The thing is, a reason necessitates that something else created/used this thing for a purpose or reason. Since our whole universe is created, we would question why this action of creation took place and why.
But since Allah was not created, not moved or acted on, nothing has power or will over him, nor is he limited by finite things, he does not need a reason, bc if he has an external reason, then he would not be الصمد bc asamad doesnt rely on anything, whereas a reason would necessitate a specific reason for asamad to exist meaning their is something external that caused God to be God, which means their is something which has will and power over Gods existence, which would now make God “not-God” once again. So God needing a reason to exist is like saying can u have a squared circle.
You got the atheism bit wrong. What you explained is that the sperm met the egg and blah blah. Muslims believe the exact same thing, that everything in the universe happens, and causes other things, and that dictates our life.
the difference between atheism and Islam, is that atheism says all of these natural events are reliant upon themselves to exist, whereas Islam says God is the one that causes all of them in the first place.
Lets look at verse 55:5
The sun and the moon [move] by precise calculation,
An atheist would say the sun and moon move by precise calculation bc something b4 the sun and the moon like the big bang or particles caused it, and thats it.
A Muslim goes one step further, he says, the bug bang may have caused it, and the particles b4 it aswell, and there may have been other proccesses b4 that which have caused it, but ultimately, Allah was at the start of the chain of all of those events, bc if it was reliant on cause,effect, then there would be infinity events backwards, causing infinite regress, there has to be one ultimate causer, which muslims say is God. Also that all of the power in the universe is relying on the power of God to exist, bc if the finite power of the universe relied on itself, it would make 0 sense, u need an infinite power source to supply finite power, u cannot have a self reliant finite tangible universe bc it would cease to exist in the first place. But since Allah isnt limited, he doesnt need a source of power to exist, since he is the source of all power and never runs out nor is it limited, ygm?
its even more interesting how mostly everybody in the thread has explained the experience to be “peaceful” and “cozy” or “eternal nothingness.”
