6.1. A NATURAL PROOF
Man, from the Islamic viewpoint, is born with certain natural tendencies and is not merely a product of his environment. This fact is based on the Qur’anic passage in which Allaah explained that when He created Adam, He extracted from him all of his descendants and made them bear witness to His unity. This concept is further emphasised by the Prophet’s statement that every new born child is born with an inclination to worship Allah, but its parents make it a Jew, a Magian or a Christian.Therefore, man’s natural reaction to the implications of the “god is everywhere belief” may be used, to some degree, as a measure of its accuracy.
If Allah exists everywhere and is present in everything, it would imply that His essence could be found in filth and filthy places.. When confronted with this implication, most people are naturally unable to accept any statement which points to the fact that Allaah, the Creator of the Universe, is present in man’s excrements or in any other items or places not befitting His majesty. Therefore, it may be concluded that since man’s natural instincts, placed in him by Allah, reject the claim that Allah is everywhere, it is highly unlikely that such a claim would be correct. Those unwilling to give up the “God is everywhere belief”, however, might argue that man’s repulsion towards this concept is a result of upbringing and conditioning, and not really a result of natural instincts. But, the vast majority of young children automatically reject this concept without any hesitation or contemplation, even though most of them were previously indoctrinated with the idea that Allah is everywhere.
By Bilal Philips
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