Peace NK,
How do you guys tackle this question?
CHILDREN’S Q&AIf the god created everything, who created the god? How can it be no one?What is north of the North Pole?
Of course, children (and sometimes adults) will be perplexed by this question.
The answer is that the North Pole is what defines “north” for us. Therefore, the question itself is meaningless.
It is the god who created and defined the concept of “creation” itself and what it means to us. Our knowledge about the concept of creation is what he willed that we know:
2:255. ...and they do not envelop/know a thing from his knowledge, except with what he willed...As a result, we can only comprehend some of the god’s attributes through what he tells us about himself in the great reading.
If I want to learn about you and hear what you have to say about yourself, for example, what you like and don’t like, then the best way is to ask you and not ask somebody who never saw or met you.
Nobody else other than the god can tell you absolutely true information about the god. That is why it is important to study the god’s written words, the great reading, and learn Arabic. It is also important to study the god’s unwritten words, which is the natural world that he created, by learning science, math, etc. at school. With this purpose in mind, everything that you do serves the god.
I wonder why the god created me.The god created you and me, and every human to serve him:
51:56. And I did not create the fantasies and the humankind except to SERVE ME.Our purpose in life is to fulfill the promise we made to serve the god:
36:60-61. Did I not entrust/make a covenant with you, Adam’s descendants, that you do not serve the devil, he truly is for you a clear/evident enemy, and that you SERVE ME, that is a straight path?If the god already knows who is going to heaven or hell, why doesn’t he just put them there? If the god already knows I am going to do a bad thing tomorrow, how can I not do it? Why will the god punish me for it?Think of it like a story where you can choose among several paths what happens next.
The god is the author of the book called life. He already created and knows all possible endings and paths. We only get to choose which path to take. The path of serving the god (the straight path) is the only path that leads to a happy ending.
If we could read ahead to the ending of the story, we would all select the path that leads to a happy ending and avoid the one that leads to a sad ending. People who choose the wrong path do it not because of the author but because they are not reading the story correctly.
The great reading is like a “cheat sheet” that tells us about the endings and helps us choose the path that leads to a happy ending and avoid the many paths that lead to a sad ending.
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