WHO CREATED GOD?
Spirit of Islam, June 2020, p. 12
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.
Origin of Matter, Space and Time It has been established that time and space had a coincident beginning. The universe was created from nothing through or after a ‘Big Bang’. The discovery of the ‘Big Bang’ is proof that time, space and matter are temporal and not eternal. The universe appears to be an effect and, thus, is seemingly dependent upon something outside of and beyond itself (a transcendent causal agent). The universe therefore, implies the need for a Creator or Originator outside of space-time. The following is a very interesting paragraph from a lecture by Stephen Hawking: “Events before the Big Bang, are simply not defined, because there’s no way one could measure what happened at them. This kind of beginning to the universe, and of time itself, is very different to the beginnings that had been considered earlier. These had to be imposed on the universe by some external agency. There is no dynamical reason why the motion of bodies in the solar system cannot be extrapolated back in time, far beyond four thousand and four BC, the date for the creation of the universe, according to the book of Genesis. Thus, it would require the direct intervention of God, if the universe began at that date. By contrast, the Big Bang is a beginning that is required by the dynamical laws that govern the universe. It is therefore intrinsic to the universe, and is not imposed on it from outside.” (The Beginning of Time) Even if we refuse to accept a ‘God’, reason demands that we acknowledge a Prime Mover or a power that caused the universe to happen. How can we acknowledge the universe and fail to acknowledge the cause of the universe? Feigning ignorance like many people do is turning a ‘blind eye’ or ‘looking the other way’. Order and Design in the Universe After the Big Bang, the delicate balance of uniformity and irregularity in the inflationary expansion of the universe, the balance of matter, dark energy and dark matter that is responsible for keeping the universe stable as it expands, the perfectly tuned cosmological constant, hydrogen and carbon formation, the sun’s luminosity, the forces and laws in nature, the value of the various constants that determine the nature of nature, and a million other features of the universe demonstrate order and intelligent design. God is the uncaused Being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the uncreated Creator who created the universe and everything in it.

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