Belief in the reality of God is a principle held in common by all heavenly religions: herein lies the decisive distinction between a religious person (no matter what religion is followed) and a materialist.
The Holy Qur'an asserts that the reality of God is a self-evident fact, one that does not stand in need of proof; doubt and obscurity on this question should not, as a rule, enter into this axiomatic principle. As the Qur'an says:
Can there be doubt concerning God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth? (Sura Ibrahim, 10)
Belief in the reality of God is a principle held in common by all heavenly religions: herein lies the decisive distinction between a religious person (no matter what religion is followed) and a materialist. The Holy Qur'an asserts that the reality of God is a self-evident fact, one that does not stand in need of proof; doubt and obscurity on this question should not, as a rule, enter into this axiomatic principle.
This dazzling self-evidence of divine reality notwithstanding, the Qur'an also opens up ways of removing contingent doubts from the minds of those who seek to arrive at belief in God by means of rational reflection and argument. To begin with, the individual normally has the sense of being connected to, and dependent upon, some entity that transcends the domain revealed by his own particular consciousness; this sense is as an echo of that call from the primordial human nature. It is this call that leads man to the source and origin of creation. The Qur'an says:
So direct your face toward the religion, inclining to truth. [Adhere to] the fitrah of Allah upon which He has created [all] people. No change should there be in the creation of Allah. That is the correct religion, but most of the people do not know.(Sura al-Rum, 30)
It also says:
And when they board a ship, they supplicate Allah, sincere to Him in religion. But when He delivers them to the land, at once they associate others with Him (Sura al-'Ankabut, 65)
Man is continuously invited to study the natural world and meditate upon its marvels, all of which clearly point to the existence of God. These wondrous signs indicate and, in principle, prove the existence of a Being possessed of transcendent knowledge and supreme power, Who establishes and determines all things in harmony and perfection within the realm of existence:
Man is continuously invited to study the natural world and meditate upon its marvels, all of which clearly point to the existence of God. These wondrous signs indicate and, in principle, prove the existence of a Being possessed of transcendent knowledge and supreme power, Who establishes and determines all things in harmony and perfection within the realm of existence.
Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day are signs for those of understanding. (Sura Al 'Imran, 190)
There are many other verses regarding this point, but we shall confine ourselves to this one alone as being altogether representative of the Qur'anic exhortation to meditate on the creation. It is clear that the ways of acquiring knowledge are not confined to what we have briefly alluded to; there are many ways of proving the existence of God, and these can be studied in detail in theological treatises.
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