Who is Allah/God and what is Allah/God?

 It is very sad that in our current age we do not really know how our Creator is.  So as this is a missing or erroneous piece of info that we carry today I have decided to write about how I think our Creator really is. The current image of God in Western minds is that of an old man in the sky somewhere, who may have sent his son to earth to die for us and cleanse our sins, and for Jesus (peace be upon him) to be part god and part human somehow. While the Arabic version of God, Allah maybe the image of some big dictator who wants to punish people for some reason. Both of these images are completely false in my view. Firstly the Maker has no gender , so is neither male nor female. This is because He/It is the creator of gender and because It is a unique entity and there is only one of its kind. So assigning It creature-like qualities doesnt make sense. Because It is the creator of those creatures and thus their qualities. The best we can say maybe is that It is unknown and undefined. However there are characteristics about Its nature that can be described.

These are that It is free and can do everything that It wants. Has complete and absolute freedom. It is also uncreated (ie was never created, ie It exists without needing a maker ie It is truly eternal ie no beginning in time). This means that no one or thing ever sat down to design It. So It is undesigned as well as uncreated. Undesigned also means undefined, so no one gave any definition to Its qualities or attributes. So can we imagine something that is undefined and yet exists? The moment we imagine it we will have defined it in our mind from the picture we create for It. So that should mean we can never imagine It. So It is an entity we cannot see internally (with our imagination ie the internal eye), so thus we cannot see It externally with our external eyes. This is because everything we see is defined visually. So this may explain why we cannot see It, ie because Its nature is undefined. So immediately we should recognize that It is an abnormal entity ie very unique. And this is why it is said that it is one of a kind ie one, because of Its uniqueness and abnormality (or strangeness). But we believe It created us and everything, because how else can we come to be, we need this prime mover entity (the cause behind the effect), which itself is uncaused (because It was never created). And because It created things like us then we should realize that It can have all the qualities that we have and even more. Because It must be higher than us if It has created us. It cannot be lower than us. And being undefined it means that no limits have been set on It. No starting point in time (hence It is eternal), no location in space, and no limit to the qualities that It has ie It can have awareness, understanding,  feeling, intelligence, power, sight, hearing, knowledge and all the higher abilities that we have and beyond that too. And It will have these qualities to an unlimited extent. So It is a superior type of entity or being. And It has not been limited in Its superiority. So because It is the first entity (with no beginning) there was never anyone before It. And thus there was no one to limit it in any way. Thus It has no limitation put on it. It exists without limitations. This means that It can literally do anything. So It is super powerful. And anything we can do It can definitely do. So It can speak and think and talk to Itself, imagine, feel etc as well as be alive. Do you know of such a strange entity? Have you come across such a strange thing?

Being alive, this entity can also choose things for itself. For example , It can choose Its personality. Has It communicated with us? What has It said? Are there messages and messengers from It? This matter takes us into a whole new world. This is because It can create other creatures that come to us to deliver Its messages (for example Angles can be explained in this way), as well as humans to whom the entity has spoken or communicated with and who then are commanded to speak to society to let them know about the entity and what It wants from them (ie us). So obviously if people dont like what they hear as the message then they may not want to think about the entity or acknowledge existence of messages and messengers from It. Especially if what It wants is for us to obey It and worship It. I dont think many are ready to receive such a message. It would require us to see ourselves as very humble and small in order to accept such a thing. But when we see ourselves as gods and entities with very high potentials (maybe even super heros) then maybe we will not want to listen to such a message and prefer to turn a blind eye. I think this is what has been happening in this age of ours. We have gone back to worshiping ourselves rather than our Creator and as a result we may not even accept the concept that we were created by an entity. We would rather prefer a simpler answer that it just happened by chance and it was the natural thing to happen etc, and that we would take things on from here thank you very much Mrs Nature. So in a word we are in denial. And we dont want to know our real Creator. We prefer that Chance is our real creator.

But for those who do want to know It and want to understand why It wants us to worship It there is a very interesting journey to take. It connects with the personality of this entity. What follows now will be my view of this journey. The entity, I believe, has chosen for Itself to be good and beautiful with all of Its creatures. To be kind and understanding. Being unlimited It can supply Its creatures with all requirements for good living and for eternity too if It wanted to keep them that long. It never runs out of what It has because it is without limit. So It's infinite in knowledge, power, energy etc etc etc. So with us humans It wants to keep us with It for ever by giving us eternal lives. But It wants to put us in a first life where It would test us all to see how we behave and react to finding ourselves living a limited life on a lonely planet in a huge universe. Where we see many variants of us living on the same planet with different languages, skin colour and shapes. And where each human entity has the ability to think and talk to itself (and ask questions) as well as full freedom to take any decision it wants to and make any choice it wants.  We have the freedoms to be bad as well as the freedoms to be good. The freedom to do the right thing as well as the freedom to do nothing. We can choose our behavior. I think It wants to observe as to see how we perform individually. It wants also to intervene to guide us to It so that we can recognize It. And It would like that we learn about It and ponder about It. But without forcing us to. And then based on our performances It wants to judge us at a certain judgement date, and give each human their score. And according to their score there is an eternal life with a status that corresponds with that score. This is basically it I think. So it is a good opportunity for those who want to work hard for a good score so as to get a good position for an eternal life. But obviously they must first be convinced there is such an eternal future life (you will need to do some truth seeking here, it may take a while and I advise starting with Islam if you want to cut your journey short). 

So its an amazing thing really. But we , in this age, seem to have lost this knowledge about It, and have drifted far away from it unfortunately. We are currently busy running away from It. We dont want the control It tries to impose on us. We want to be free of It. Thus it seems there is a misunderstanding of how things really are (in my view at least) and how we are currently looking at it (in the West mainly). There is a big schism of understanding. We are told to run away instead of embrace this concept of a Creator. And thus we are in a loss, in my view. So what is going on? I think this comes from a projected view that the Creator is a dictator that simply wants obedience and diligent worship. As if It is needy of our obedience and worship and that without it It cannot survive. Where as the reality (in my view) is that  It wants us to know who is the boss of existence and recognize Him/It as the boss (because this is Truth) and to thus submit to It and acknowledge Its greatness and position. This should make us humble and modest and remove any bigotry or arrogance that we may carry (and I believe this is actually good for us too). And when we realize Its unlimited and super-being nature then worshiping It is a natural thing. Not to mention that It is giving us an opportunity for an amazing eternal life. So I see the creator as an amazing being that loves us and wants us to choose our way in this life and work for whichever eternal life option we want, whether it be Heaven or Hell. Those who dont want Heaven, there is Hell. So the decision is big and there is no room for arrogance and false pride, but there is every room for humbleness and accepting the truth about our reality, and that the boss has never been us. And then to search for the communication (the message from It)  and try to look at it.

Ali Twaij

Muslim Thinker