A Brand of Islam with a Difference

agreed to refer the matter to a certain pious Muslim scholar of the same town. On invitation, that scholar came to the place. He stood among the youth and simply recited this verse from the Quran: “Is there any doubt about God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth?” (14:10) The result was miraculous. The youths were left speechless. They found this argument from the Quran so convincing that they needed no further arguments to believe in God. Why it happened that the assertion alone was sufficient to bring them to belief. It is because God is self-subsisting. He needs no proofs for His existence. The reason for God being self-evident is twofold. One, the existence of the universe itself is a proof of the existence of God. Secondly man believes in God because he is bound to believe in God. Man’s existence in itself is a proof of God’s existence. His inner nature speaks for God. Hence, most often, a simple assertion about the existence of God suffices for a man with unbiased mentality to believe in God. Keeping one’s nature intact; one cannot afford to deny God, as it is tantamount to the denial of one’s own nature. At the same time, in the external world man sees clear evidences of God in nature all around him day in and day out. God is so evident that the denial of God becomes an artificial situation. That is why those who apparently deny God, they too come to believe in God, when confronted with utter helplessness. (31:32; 10:22) One concept of God is that which has been handed over to man by the Prophet. This is the concept of pure monotheism that is “There is no god but one God.” This Prophetic concept has been briefly described in a short chapter of the Quran: Say: He is God, the One God. The Eternal, Absolute. He begets not. Nor is He begotten. And there is none like unto Him. (112:1-4)