It is not one of the topics on which I typically write. It is more like a metaphysical topic revolving around the concept of God. The definition of God for everyone is different; it depends upon our way thinking, our culture, our personal knowledge, and most importantly our religion. Another dimension is our own existence as a human species. Our most attributions towards God are human-specific and that’s why we deem God as a superhuman kinda being, one who is like a giant human with enhanced human-like powers. We humans create certain things, theories, and ideas, so we think God can create mighty things like the universe. It is similar like if someone asks a bird to define God, it would reply, God is a bird with mighty wings.
The human race has a purpose of life ranging from physical needs to spiritual satisfaction. That’s why when we see the mighty universe we think God also has a purpose. Now stop! And think about a scenario, there was a God and right few moments before the creation of the universe HE decides not to create it, not to create anything including time, space, angels, materials, non-materials, Etc. now what? God will be bored because there is nothing for entertainment — that is how we humans think. Does God has nothing else to do except creating a universe, Or creating a universe was the only purpose of God?
Please don’t take me wrong, I am not arguing that God should not have created the universe, I just want to say that God would have been equally happy if he had not created life and hereafter. I am not sure if he was happy or not because happiness again sounds like a human attribute.
When Quran says, God is the first and the last; and he is visible & invisible, from one angle these attributes are mutually contradictory, How can anything be visible and invisible at the same time, it means Quran is trying to tell that God is beyond all attributes and we should stop imposing our humanish attributes towards him, he is attributeless, the singularity has no attributes at all. We humans have a purpose, God is beyond all purposes, as the Quran says, ‘’God is self-sufficient.’’
It will be unjust not to mention Spinoza, a Dutch philosopher, who held that God is attributeless and he possess infinite features. But be careful as he was regarded as an atheist by many contemporary clerics. I would not recommend anyone to believe his ideas as you may meet him in hell one day. Interestingly, Spinoza may be burning in hell right now but all those who are plundering God’s wealth, the capitalists, the corrupts, and the believers of Super-humanish-God, and those who are dividing the humanity will enjoy paradise.
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