Spirit of Islam · WHO CREATED GOD?

WHO CREATED GOD?

Spirit of Islam, Nov 2017, p. 11

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.

earth’s geophysical history, water, vegetation, its position in the solar system, its galaxy, its orbit, its axis, its satellite and a million other features are evident to prove this. How can such a formidably complex system of the universe come about without a creative intelligence behind it? How can we refuse to believe in an Organiser of an organised universe? The most elegant and simple explanation for reality is that of an intelligent mind designing a rational, ordered universe that produces intelligent beings capable of understanding that universe. God especially designed and crafted, through miraculous means, planet earth, so that it would support life and human beings. The earth is a product of divine design. Physicist Lawrence Krauss’ in his book, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing, treats the question of “First Cause” as a serious argument against God: Ultimately, many thoughtful people are driven to the apparent need for First Cause, as Plato, Aquinas, or the modern Roman Catholic Church might put it, and thereby to suppose some divine being: a creator of all that there is, and all that there ever will be, someone or something eternal and everywhere. Nevertheless, the declaration of a First Cause still leaves open the question, “Who created the creator?” After all, what is the difference between arguing in favour of an eternally existing creator versus an eternally existing universe without one? Krauss’s argument isn’t a very good objection because God, unlike the universe, is the sort of First Cause that accounts for His own existence. God is an infinite being, the Creator of time and space. It makes sense to say that He always existed (since He’s necessarily infinite). But the universe isn’t infinite, it’s bound by time and space, and it had a beginning. Now, what if the questioner accepts that the universe had a beginning, but not that it needs a cause? Nevertheless it is self-evident that things that begin have a cause—no one really denies it in his heart. All science and history would collapse if this law of cause and effect were denied. Also, the universe cannot be self-caused—nothing can create itself, because The universe cannot be self-caused— nothing can create itself, because that would mean that it existed before it came into existence, which is logically not possible.

The printed page

‹ Previous page Next page › About this issue Open in the reader

Printed page