The Criterion for Religions — Page 36
36 Mi'yiirul Madhahib then He must also be their Creator, because objects which do not need God for their creation do not need Him for their survival either. Neither can the 'God incarnate' of the Christians be their Sustainer in view of their beliefs. This is because it is necessary for a Sustainer to be nearby, while Jesus, the 'God' of the Christians, is evidently no longer here on earth. Were he present on earth, he must have been visible to people just as he was during the time of Pilate and in his country. Now that he is no longer present on earth how can he be the Sustainer of the people of the earth? As for the heavens, he does not even sustain them; how can he be present in all the heavens when his bodily height was a mere six or seven feet? When we address God Almighty as the Lord of the Throne, it does not mean that He is a physical being with a body, or that He is in need of a Throne. Rather, the Throne signifies the holy and lofty station, which relates equally to this world and to the hereafter. To say that God Almighty is seated on the Throne amounts to saying that He is the Lord of both the worlds. Just as a man sitting at a height or in a lofty palace commands the view on the right and the left, similarly, figuratively speaking, God Almighty is believed to be seated on the loftiest Throne from Whose sight nothing is hidden, whether of this world or of the other world. Yes, of course,