Questions Received Online

1. Questions Received Online God? The purpose of creation? Why we are examined? Evolution?

2. It does not seem consistent that God would make this immense universe for insignificant man! • Islam never claimed such a thing! • Yes, it is true that the fruit, the flower of universe is a human being. • However, given that God is infinitely wise and infinitely just, there can be no waste during the billions of years before the arrival of the human being. • There are a few aspects to this issue: • There are Jinn which are similar to humans. Also there are angles and spirit beings to the number of atoms in this universe. Their duty is to complete a particular worship.

3. It does not seem consistent that God would make this immense universe for insignificant man! Cont. • “99% of this universe look to God and 1% look to us...” This is a quote bySaid Nursi. • We require all of this creation to learn about God. It is pointing to the requirement of an infinite realm to learn about God’s names and attributes. • Part of the examination as it requires causes.

4. So why would God want to create this vast universe? • God’s being is infinitely beautiful and infinitely perfect. Beauty and perfection emanate from God. The beauty and perfection of everything that exists in this universe testifies to this. They all point to their Maker’s beauty and perfection. • In view of this, just like every possessor of beauty and perfection, God desires to see and display His own beauty and perfection. He creates, opens up exhibitions, and displays the marvels of His knowledge, the wonders of His art, the magnitude of His wealth, the sovereignty of His rule so that he can behold His beauty and perfection in two respects.

5. So why would God want to create this vast universe? Cont. • The first respect: so that He himself can behold His beauty and perfection with His own discerning eye. • The second respect: so that He can behold His beauty and perfection through the eyes of others.

6. Doesn’t evolution disprove the existence of God? • We discussed this question extensively a few weeks before with our presentations on the Necessary Existence of God. • If evolution is true, which may be case, does not provide an explain to how humans came about. • As we presented, the universe is finely tuned even from the early stages of the big bang. • This means that not only concepts like evolution depend on the fine tuning of the universe, but also natural laws like gravity, etc...

7. Doesn’t evolution disprove the existence of God? Cont. • Also, due to the examination we are under, everything has to have a cause. • Or else the exam conditions would be violated. • It would be silly if humans just fell from the sky.

8. Why do we need an exam? • In addition to the minor evils, there are numerous universal good purposes in the existence of this exam, and human attainments and perfections. Yes, however many the degrees from a seed to the huge tree, the degrees in the abilities lodged in human nature are more numerous. They range from a minute particle to the sun. For these abilities and potentialities to develop, action is required, a transaction is necessary. In such a transaction the action of the mechanism of progress is triggered through striving. And striving occurs due to the existence of evil spirits and harmful things. Otherwise man’s station would have been constant like that of the angels; there would have been no classes in humankind, which resembles thousands of species. It is contrary to wisdom and justice to abandon a thousand instances of good so as to avoid one minor evil.

9. Why do we need an exam? Cont. • For sure the majority of people embrace misguidance due to the exam, but importance and value look mostly to quality; they look to quantity little or not at all. If someone has a thousand and ten seeds which he buries, and under the earth the seeds undergo a chemical reaction as a result of which ten become trees and a thousand rot, the profit the man receives from the ten seeds which have become trees certainly eliminates the loss he suffers from the thousand rotted ones. In exactly the same way, through the struggle against the soul and Satan, the profit, honour, enlightenment, and value for humankind gained by ten perfect men, who are like stars, certainly reduce to nothing the harm caused to mankind through the people of misguidance embracing unbelief, who are so base as to be considered vermin. Since this is so, divine mercy, wisdom, and justice have permitted the existence of a exam.

10. Isn’t God deficient and limited if he can’t make every human pass this exam? • God does wish for every human to pass this exam. • He is on the side of humans. • He has made belief attractive. • He has made unbelief repulsively ugly. • There is overwhelming evidence for the existence of God. • There is no reason for us to accept unbelief as it makes life a torture. • A good act is recorded sometimes as being 30,000. • A sinful act is recorded at most as one.

11. Isn’t God deficient and limited if he can’t make every human pass this exam? Cont. • So what else can God do to allow us to pass this exam? • If God forces all of us to pass this exam means that we would lose our free-will. • Losing our free-will would be a greater loss for God than for most of us failing this exam. • God already has angles that serve side of his creation. • This would mean to the abolishment of the exam. • We just discussed the value of the exam.

12. Isn’t God deficient and limited if he can’t make every human pass this exam? Cont. • The above information clearly show that the reason why most of us fail this exam is not because God is deficient or limited. • Its due to our choice and our own deficiencies.