Re: Why would God…
Peace TheNoodle
InshaAllah I’m going to add other questions to your main question … I hope it is okay … It is because the answers and questions are intertwined … They relate to testing humans, the purpose of life and suffering … First, I want to give a brief answer to the main thread question however …
Allah (SWT) is All that His Attributes are … Some of which He has revealed to us about Himself. Allah Created out of Mercy … Created life is linked to Him in such a way that it takes pleasure in getting close to Allah (SWT) … All angels many billions and trillions there are … Indeed worship Him like a nourishment for them. Verily all Creation are Created with a thirst to know Him, and through knowing Him they are elated to worship Him …
Such Majesty and Beauty is deserving of being known … And it is said that He ‘Desired’ to be known … through His Attributes … in a manner of ‘Desire’ that is befitting to Him alone. Now if God wanted to be praised all the time … then Creating angels would have been enough … But Allah Created heathens like us … To show ‘perhaps’ that He is Needless of us and our prayers …
and for sure He is Self-Sufficient … Which means He has NO need for His Creation, but His Creation has every need for Him.
For sure if He wanted praise it would only be to suit our design purpose in order for us to benefit in the sweetness of worshipping Him … Now His direct Presence is magnetically drawing His Creation to a state of worship … So Allah (SWT) Created many barriers between Himself and the humans and even Jinn to show that He will still give life to beings who are unaware of Him and heedless of Him … But out of His Mercy He allows Himself to be accessible through faith … which can traverse the boundaries of the many veils He has setup to separate us from Him …
That’s all for now … I hope that is satisfying TheNoodle … Be good and take care ..