Re: Where is the Only One ‘True God’?
Peace Sister
It is classed as a major misunderstanding of Islamic tawheed. By saying He is Everywhere without clarification - we compromise one of the groups:
Rabbubiya, Uloohiya or Al-Asma-Wa-Sifaat.
Now when looking at the whole set of Attributes we use interpretation to say that “wherever we look we see the Face of Allah” cannot be taken in the literal sense, because this causes complications, firstly with Pantheism and secondly with absurdities such as if there is a wrong doing or something debasing or horrible that cannot be taken as the seeing of “the Face of Allah” … so we are forced to consider this phrase as “wherever we look we see the Signs of Allah”'s “Presence” - through the beauty and perfection of creation. We cannot “look” at the Divine you see … our eyes can only see other forms of creation and we cannot possibly capture the sight of Allah wherever we look.
Also by taking a hard stance on the idea that Allah (SWT) is everywhere then we cannot say that Allah (SWT) is over the Arsh and likewise if we take a hard stance on the idea that Allah is over the Arsh we cannot reconcile the idea that wheresoever we look we see the Face of Allah … Some people argue the “Face” should be taken literally and others argue not, yet others say let’s not even think about whether the “Face” is to be taken literally or not.
The only reason why Mr.Popat is insisting that we say we believe that “Allah is everywhere” is so he can turn around and say that Isa (AS) could not have been “taken up” … but this is his wishful thinking … even if we said that “Allah is everywhere” it does not remove the meaning of Isa (AS) being taken up …