Re: Questions for desi atheists
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The prophets did not need convincing and certainly were not convinced by miracles … it was reason … Muhammad (SAW) doubted his miraculous encounter with Jibreel (AS) he was not convinced by it … rather it was reason of Khadijah (AS) that gave him comfort and remove his doubts. The Qur’an addresses this response … it is an age old question … “If God exists, or if you are from God then prove it” … In one account either Abu Jahl or Abu Lahb asked Muhammad (SAW)to prove that he was a prophet by telling him what was in his hand … He picked up a rock earlier …
Muhammad (SAW) said, I’ll better than that … I’ll get what is in your hand to tell you who I am, and the rock spoke … “O so-and-so the man who you address is the Prophet of Allah (SWT)”
He threw the stone and cried magician … magician … miracles don’t prove the truth of God. There is another reason why God does not show Himself to us … In the account of Musa (AS) God revealed a glimmer of His reflecting Light on the mountains and they became rubble and the mere suggestion of that Light sent Musa (AS) unconscious. We in this world are living in a temporal system and our temporal bodies and existences cannot render sheer infinity … the attempt of doing so will be catastrophic. Our human existence makes seeing God impossible. And had we seen Him, our choice to worship Him would carry no weight … we would fall into unrelenting worship we will be unable to resist and unwilling to resist His Light and we will fall prostrate … One of the punishments on the Day of Judgement to those who were too arrogant to worship God in this life will be prevented from it on that Day … when their whole selves will be forcing them to submit, but the chains they will be in will prevent them and keep their backs straight … On that Day there will be no choice but to submit … so we should be wise and CHOOSE to submit in this life … Why ask out of arrogance show me a sign and then if you do not accept then surely the punishment should be increased … Such was the case of earlier generations they saw clear proofs but in their denial they were destroyed.
Who are we to question the Wisdom of God?