Allah

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Allah is great and praiseworthy
Allah is merciful and beneficent
Allah is all-knowing and all seeing
Allah is forgiving and merciful
Allah keeps all count
Allah knows best
Allah tests
Allah blesses who it wills
Allah pardons who it wills
Allah is not from any one, nor anyone is from Allah
Allah admonishes to meditate, do justice and be fair
Allah is the creator of all beings and life forms
Allah sustains the universe
Allah does not burden any soul beyond its endurance

Is it true that with due respect to Allah, Allah is not to be pondered upon a lot?
I know there is some verse in Quran sharif that indicates this?

Any tafsir on it, that anyone who has searched into religion for this?

dushwari

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very nice post..thankyou....

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very nice !

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thanks, i am so happy that i am able to recount Allah's qualities and draw myself closer to the one who i will return to.

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I was raised with the belief that Islam allows you to question anything and everything about hte religion but the wahadaniat of GOD! so God is off limits, otherwise u can question everything!

Which does not mean that if u have doubts you are sinful! everyone has doubts about everything it is only logical and even if it is for a split second, it feels like it is a split second too long b/c u feel so guilty! but just know the human mind is capabale of, and does question everything. so if u question, it is natural, but u have to warn yourself and stop. and just realize that is not a question that u are allowed to ask. atleast to the best of my knowledge

hope that helps

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thanks Farwah, it does help.

esp the wahdaniyet of Allah.

questions like how Allah came to the idea of creating humans is what is a mystery - the creation part i can only admire in nature and the human part - i have to ask God about.

:)

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Shouldn't "it" be replaced by "He" ??

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questions like how Allah came to the idea of creating humans is what is a mystery
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Allah created us for a sole purpose, to worship Him! Rasulullah (SAW) spent his whole life worshiping, even to his last breath!!!! Allahuakbar. We got to ponder on how we can better worship Him rather than these useless questions, the scholars say this.

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- the creation part i can only admire in nature and the human part - i have to ask God about.
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Allahuakber.

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when everything is controlled by Allah then why do we born :vivo:

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Hey CP, This is one of the things that I do not understand, Why children are being born into non-muslim families? It's a test theory do not hold water just because why the children born in muslim families are not in test. If you call it fate/qismat then it makes it only predestined i.e. No test at all.

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Allah is from no one nor anyone is from Allah.

this is amazing. that who is absolutely omnipotent - has created a world which is nothing but interdependent.

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Peace Sister Dushwari

The way I have understood it is that if something surpasses our understanding and we cannot see the wisdom in it then we should accept it, but ponder it we must do.

The only thing that we must not do with regards to Allah (SWT) is to ask 'how Allah' does this that the other or what is the Nature of Allah (SWT) because it will only lead us to conjecture and may even set us on the path to disbelief. I believe this to be the case because of two strains from within the Qur'an and Sunnah.

If you read the story of Moses (AS) and Khidzr (AS) this addresses the wisdom aspects.

Other aspects are such that when we talk about the Hand of God ... we should not attempt to understand what type of 'Hand' this is in reference to. May Allah (SWT) protect us from such wandering thoughts.

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^ we must also be able to acknowledge that it is true that regarding Alllah, our Maker, some things we cannot know. Allah did not program us for this baseeret.
I am content with this that Allah made me who I am.
Through Allah's scriptuture - i can begin to understand Allah more directly.
but, topics like after life, The Maker, the purpose of this world, are referenced in Quran in clear terms and how we as humans as Muslims and Musalimahs make interpretation of Allah's selfhood - is perhaps by recounting Allah's qualities.
that is what i attempted to do in creating this thread.

your perspective is nice. thanks for sharing it. & yes, may indeed Allah always protect us from thoughts that make us doubt anything about Allah. amen.
dushwari

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Jazakillah Sister

You have highlighted a very interesting point and I use this quite a bit when engaged in dawah activities. Is that, we can only speak of Allah (SWT) that what He has revealed about Himself to us.

He says He is All-Powerful, then we are questioned that 'if God is All-Powerful then He can become man'. The way we answer this is by pointing to other Attributes. That Allah (SWT) in addition to being All-Powerful is also One, Unique, not born nor gives birth, doesn't die or need rest. All of which humans do and need. Allah (SWT) is altogether consistent with all of Attributes, so the question being posed is one of a false or incomplete premise. Then the logic carries it home.

Just a side point.