Our God — Page 41
Logical Arguments for the Existence of God 41 That is, O man! Stay focused on moderation so as to maintain the nature according to which Allah has fashioned mankind. Now, everyone should look into his inner self to discover whether or not his fi t rah tells him anything about the existence of God. In solitude, let him ask himself: Do I owe my existence to mere chance or to creation by a Higher Being? In response, in the absence of any preconceived notion based on logic, does he hear the voice of fi t rah or not? The Holy Quran says: َو ْذِا َذَخَا َكُّبَر ْۢنِم ْۤيِنَب َمَدٰا ْنِم ْمِهِرْوُهُظ ْمُهَتَّيِّرُذ َو ْمُهَدَهْشَا ىٰۤلَع ْمِهِسُفْنَا ُتْسَلَا 1 ْمُكِّبَرِب١ؕ اْوُلاَق ىٰلَب ١ۛۚ اَنْدِهَش١ۛۚ ْنَا اْوُلْوُقَت َمْوَي ِةَمٰيِقْلا اَّنِا اَّنُك ْنَع اَذٰه َنْيِلِفٰغ That is to say, when God started the human race, He made them witnesses against their own selves by asking them: Am I not your Lord? And they said: Indeed, You are our Lord. This He did lest they should say on the Day of Judgement: We never knew any- thing about God. This verse means that, when God created man, just as He inscribed in man other qualities and attributes, similarly He inscribed in man’s fi t rah that he has a Creator and a Master, of whom he should not remain oblivious. God did this so that no one could present an excuse on the Day of Judgement that they were unaware; otherwise, they would have certainly paid atten- tion to God. In short, like other natural qualities, this special nat- ural quality has also been endowed in us, to realize that we did not come into existence by ourselves and it is the creative power of a Higher Being that has brought us into being. Everyone whose 1. S u rah al-A‘r a f, 7:173.