Where is God?
Mom, how about our God?. Big or little?. Where are here?.
We often get some questions like that from our child. We need the good answered to response it. As the parents we must have education to answer it. We must have knowledge about the God. We can't answer with carelessly. We must be carefull to response it. The good responses will make good faith the child. The mistake on the answered will make down the faith on the child.
So, how we must answer the question?
From the "Demystifying Islam book" created by Dr Ali Shehata, I find an interesting story.
An atheist professor of phyloshopy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God.
He asks on of his Muslim students to stand.
Prof : You are a Muslim, aren't you, young man?
Student: Yes Sir.
Prof : So you believe on God, or as you call him, God?
Student: Absolutely, Sir.
Prof : Is God good?
Student: Sure.
Prof : Is God all powerfull?
Student: Yes.
Prof : Well, I should tell you that my mother died of cancer even though she prayed to God that he might heal her. Most of us would attempt to help others who are sick or in need. But God didn't. How is the God good then? Hmmm?
(Student is silent).
Prof : You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young man. Is God good?
Student: Yes.
Prof : Is Satan good.
Student: No.
Prof : Where does Satan come from?
Student: From God.
Prof : That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.
Prof : Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.
Prof : So who created evil?
(Student doesn't answer)
Prof : Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?
Student: Yes sir.
Prof : So, who created them?
(Student has no answer)
Prof : Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me..... have ever seen your God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof : Tell us if you have ever heard your God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof : Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelled your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for the matter?
Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Prof : Yes, I'm afraid no one has. Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.
Prof : According to empirical, testable, demonstrable, methodology, science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say that?
Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.
Prof : Yes. Faith. And that is is the problem science has. Why don't you sit down then as I think you've said enough.
Upon this exchange, another student stands up unexpectedly and courageously addresses Professor.
Student (2): Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Prof : Why yes, of course.
Student (2): And is there such a thing as cold?
Prof : Yes......
Student (2): No sir. There isn't.
(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events)
Student (2): Sir, you can have lost of heat, more heat, superheat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degress below zero wich is no heat, but we can't go any futher after that,. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We can't measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre)
Student (2): What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Prof : (cautiously) Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?
Student (2): You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, ang bright light. But, if you have no light constantly, you have nothing ang it's called darkness, isn't?. In reality darkness isn't. If it were something distinct, then you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?
Prof : So what the point you are making, young man?
Student (2): Sir, my point is that your philoshopical premise is flawed.
Prof : Flawed! Would you like to explain to me just how that is?
Student (2): Yes. You are working on the premise of duality. You argue that threre is life and then there is death, a good god and a bad god. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something that can be measured. Sir, science can't even explain a thought or an idea. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a separate entity. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it. Now tell me, Proffesor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Prof : If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course I do.
Student (2): Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Proffesor shakes his head with a sly smile, beginning to see where the argument is heading)
Student (2): Since no one has ever observed the process of evalution at work and cannot even even prove that it is an on-going process, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not then a scientist, but a preacher?
(The class is in uproar)
Student (2): Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?
(The class breaks out into laughter).
Student (2): Is there anyone here who has ever hear the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smalled it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable methodology, science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures?
(The room is silent. The Proffesor coldly stares at student (2), his face expressionless)
Prof : I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.
From this story, we have conclusion if we can see our God with a faith. With increase our religious, apply his command and keep away from his prohibition. See his creation in the sky and in the world. So you can feel existence your God.
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