I would like rational answers, not answers quoted from religious textbooks. That doesn't necessarily mean that those textbooks are wrong. I just want people to think for themselves. Please take some time, and reason through what you really think "God" means.
2007-05-20 04:11:20 · 23 answers · asked by Mystine G 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God is that which nothing greater can be thought.
2007-05-20 04:14:50 · answer #1 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Praise be to Allah Haraam is that for which the one who does it will be punished and the one who abstains from it will be rewarded, if the reason for his abstinence is following the prohibition of Allaah. 'i believe things like " love"(attraction to the opposite gender) is haram too(including loving your own wife/husband).Because it wil never benifit me in the hereafter,since its not a form of worship.And it makes you forget about Allah and hereafter.Noone is worthy of getting more attention then Allah!' 2nd part of your question: You misunderstood! Islam teaches us to be truthful and realistic. Usually, we love because of Allah and we hate because of Allah. Islam teaches us that a male and female can build up a good relationship founded on marriage. All those stories of media and movies are not helpful to make a person comply with the teachings of Islam. We do not say love is halal or haram because it is a feeling. Maybe it is not under control. You can judge what is under control. But people who fall in love are in many episodes away from the cleansed and pure atmosphere. Marriages that are usually good and lasting marriages are those that start at the least affection. That affection grows after marriage and maybe it will grow until the couples continue their companionship at the Jannah. And Allah knows the best! Jazakallah!
2016-05-22 00:14:21 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is beyond the imagination of us poor beings, we cannot think, see or hear as He Thinks, Sees and Hears.
Heres a definition which may interest you, God is the one who lives forever, no fatigue or sleep ever overtakes him, he surrounds every thing in this Universe, HE knows what you do and what you are thinking, He knows when you will die and when you will be ressurrected. He protects the Universe and no fatigue overcomes him in that task.
There are seven heavens above us .... we haven't been able to see the end of the first one even with the hubble telescope, after that there are 6 more and than outside of that is God all around in all directions (Don't think of him as corporeal) ...... now imagine that and try and imagine the size of God .......... Now give up and surrender to HIM :-)).
2007-05-20 04:21:27 · answer #3 · answered by Asad 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Each community defines God in its own way, to reflect its own values and ethics.
If two communities have a similar set of values (useful for the survival of those communities within the general civilisation) then their concept of God may be similar.
2007-05-20 04:16:58 · answer #4 · answered by Iain 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The heartbeat of the universe. The spirit. The energy. The pulse. The force. The power.
Not a person (or being).
2007-05-20 04:31:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
God: An imaginary deity created by man in his own image to explain the unexplainable and to give an authoritative voice to man's beliefs and prejudices.
2007-05-20 04:44:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Rational: No one can define God.
The Ol' Hippie Jesus Freak
Grace and Peace
Peg
2007-05-20 04:14:25 · answer #7 · answered by Dust in the Wind 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To me my God is a form of energy that wonderful things can happen to you when you seek him whole heartedly he is about indepth love and compassion and a fire that burns within me. And I love to talk about my God and to incourage everybody to get closer to him in love and truth of the spirit of his rightousness.
2007-05-20 04:23:58 · answer #8 · answered by Fisherofmen 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is the light of the heavens and the earth. His light is as if there were a lustrous niche, wherein is a lamp. The lamp is inside a glass-globe. The globe is, as it were, a glittering star. The lamp is lit from the oil of a blessed tree -an olive - neither of the East nor of the West, whose oil well-nigh would shine forth even though fire touched it not. Light upon light! God guides to His light whomsoever He pleases. And God sets forth parables for men, and God knows all things hidden.
Holy Quran
Praise is due to Allah whose worth cannot be described by speakers, whose bounties cannot be counted by calculators and whose claim (to obedience) cannot be satisfied by those who attempt to do so, whom the height of intellectual courage cannot appreciate, and the divings of understanding cannot reach; He for whose description no limit has been laid down, no eulogy exists, no time is ordained and no duration is fixed. He brought forth creation through His Omnipotence, dispersed winds through His Compassion, and made firm the shaking earth with rocks.
The foremost in religion is the acknowledgement of Him, the perfection of acknowledging Him is to testify Him, the perfection of testifying Him is to believe in His Oneness, the perfection of believing in His Oneness is to regard Him Pure, and the perfection of His purity is to deny Him attributes, because every attribute is a proof that it is different from that to which it is attributed and everything to which something is attributed is different from the attribute. Thus whoever attaches attributes to Allah recognises His like, and who recognises His like regards Him two; and who regards Him two recognises parts for Him; and who recognises parts for Him mistook Him; and who mistook Him pointed at Him; and who pointed at Him admitted limitations for Him; and who admitted limitations for Him numbered Him.
Whoever said in what is He, held that He is contained; and whoever said on what is He held He is not on something else. He is a Being but not through phenomenon of coming into being. He exists but not from non-existence. He is with everything but not in physical nearness. He is different from everything but not in physical separation. He acts but without connotation of movements and instruments. He sees even when there is none to be looked at from among His creation. He is only One, such that there is none with whom He may keep company or whom He may miss in his absence.
2007-05-20 04:16:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
the word god means someone or something superior or that exercise control over you, money , sex , a person, the spirituals being evil and not evil can be gods.
God almighty is the most powerful beign in the universe.
2007-05-20 04:18:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
That which provides the material for an infinite number of posts on the R&S.
2007-05-20 04:14:30 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋