We distinguish a thing by comparing it.
We know "fat" by comparing it to "thin".
Allah cannot be compared to anything
as Allah does not resemble anything.
Worshipping physical representations of
God is considered shirk or the act of
associating partners with God. It is the
only unpardonable sin in Islam.
Others worship statues and pictures of God.
Islam rejects these man-made works
as false gods that cannot create even
"a single fly" and describes those who
worship them as "feebleminded." [22:73]
Muslims don't try to imagine God
because God is beyond the grasp of
human imagination. Nothing is like Him.
They focus instead on the attributes of Allah
What is Allah like? What is His nature?
What does He do? The descriptions are
in Allah's Names and Attributes.
Of the Beautiful Names and Attributes
of Allah, two well-known ones are
The Most Merciful [Ar-Rahim] and
The Most Compassionate [Ar-Rahman].
Muslims know that their every act of mercy
towards things created by Allah brings
them closer to Allah The Most Merciful.
Seek nearness to the Divine by walking
The Straight Path of Islam.
The Almighty says, "If the Believer comes
to Me walking, I go to him running."
Dr. Y. Mansoor Marican, Ph.D
www.hajtips.com
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