GOD, PROPHETHOOD AND LIFE AFTER DEATH

GOD, PROPHETHOOD AND LIFE AFTER DEATH Unseen but Comprehensible W E live in a materialistic world where symbols, richly representative of life’s realities have been given concrete forms. Those who are sincere in their search for truth will look deeply into things and recognise their significance. They will find a great diversity of proof of God’s existence that will satisfy their intellectual curiosity and silence their skepticism. Tentative beliefs will get converted to unshakable conviction. A Likeness of God A Likeness of God is to be found in man, even as the existence of man is proof of the existence of God. What is the nature of God? He is a live, self-sufficient Being, with a mind that is all-knowing, eyes that are all-seeing and ears that are all-hearing. His power is infinite, reaching the furthermost corners of the universe, and no object of His will, great or small, can escape its force. And quite independent of all objects of creation, God has His ego. Man may not be omniscient and omnipotent, but he certainly thinks, sees, hears, has a will, acts of his own volition and understands quite precisely what is meant by the ‘ego—the ‘I’. To believe in God is to have faith in a higher form of the ‘I’. Man’s experience of himself, his attributes, his characteristics, make it possible for him to comprehend the eternal Being who possesses these very attributes and characteristics but to a superlative degree. This is the Being whom we call God, or Allah. If one is sure of one’s own existence, why should one not be sure of the existence of God? Here am ‘I’, sitting in one place, observing the universe. Why, then, should there not be a Being greater than I am, situated elsewhere in the universe, watching over it? We direct the movements of machines in outer space by remote control, so why should we have any difficulty in accepting that there is a God who controls the universe? Man metes out punishments and gives rewards as per his concept of justice, so why should there not be an all-powerful God who administers reward and retribution according to his unique concept of justice? Our present world is a natural model where we can understand supernatural realities.