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Zoheir Ali Esmail, Shaykh Zoheir Ali Esmail has a Bsc in Accounting and Finance from the LSE in London, and an MA in Islamic Studies from Middlesex University. He studied Arabic at Damascus University and holds a PhD... Answered 2 years ago
Bismillah
Thank you for your question. God is unlimited and superabundant. His Attributes, such as power, knowledge and beauty have no limit or cause and so in Shii theology they are considered to be the same as His Essence. What is discouraged in hadith is to think of His Essence in and of itself as a human is unable to comprehend anything without a point of reference. The Essence is therefore completely unknowable as there is no point of reference with which we can understand it. Rather, we have been encouraged to reflect on His creation and the aspects of the Attributes that are reflected in creation, like His power, knowledge and beauty, while realising that creation can only manifest a limited amount of perfection due to its limitations. When we speak of creation manifesting the Attributes of God, that is because nothing created essentially owns any perfection. Nothing is essentially powerful, knowledgeable or beautiful, let alone existent without God as the source of those attributes. They cannot have those attributes even momentarily without God and so they manifest what truly belongs to God alone. This framework of manifestation is accepted among many philosophers and mystics but other scholars may have different ideas on the issue.
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi, Sayyed Mohammad al-Musawi is originally from Iraq and heads up the World Ahlul Bayt Islamic League in London. Other than being involved in various humanitarian projects, he frequently responds to... Answered 2 years ago
1. Deep feeling of sorrow and sadness whenever you remember committing that sin. Such sorrow and sadness can make the sinner weep when he is alone especially at night and beg from Allah to forgiveness.
2. Firm decision not to do it again under any circumstances.
3. Repeating Istighfaar ( ASTAGHFIRULLAH) or it's meaning in your own language as many times as you can, day and night, especially during night and during prostration (Sojood).
Mohammad Zakaria, Mohammad Zakaria is a senior lecturer at the Islamic College where he specialises in Research methodology and Islam's Education Philosophy and Teacher Training. His doctoral work focused on... Answered 2 years ago
Allah (azj) is not an existence which has a location, as that would imply limitation and dependency.
limitation in the sense of being confined to a space, and dependency in the sense of needing a place within which to exist.
The presence of Allah (azj) is everywhere in the form of power (which manifests in numerous ways). As if it (the power) was not everywhere, there would be no existence for created beings(animate and inanimate). As everything is dependent on Allah (azj)for existence.
Zoheir Ali Esmail, Shaykh Zoheir Ali Esmail has a Bsc in Accounting and Finance from the LSE in London, and an MA in Islamic Studies from Middlesex University. He studied Arabic at Damascus University and holds a PhD... Answered 2 years ago
Bismillah
Thank you for your question.
When referring to God, eternal means that He is not restricted by the limitations of time as time is a factor of matter and God is not a material being. Ever living means that He is the source of life and is not brought to life.
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi, Sayyed Mohammad al-Musawi is originally from Iraq and heads up the World Ahlul Bayt Islamic League in London. Other than being involved in various humanitarian projects, he frequently responds to... Answered 2 years ago
Our duties towards Allah The Creator, is to know that He is The Only God, Who Created us and Showered and Showering on us every bounty and Protected us from every evil and harm. We must always thank Him and use His bounties in the proper way and never in doing wrong. Performing obligatory prayers on time and obeying Allah in each and every act or thought is the sign of the believers in Allah.
‘Fulfilling our duties towards His creation is to help others in every good cause we can and to talk to them in the same way we wish them talk to us, and treat them in the same way we wish them treat us.
Allah States in Quran: Verily, Allah Orders in Justice and Fairness and being good to kinship, and Forbids evil and wrong and injustice. (Sura 16, Verse 90).
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi, Sayyed Mohammad al-Musawi is originally from Iraq and heads up the World Ahlul Bayt Islamic League in London. Other than being involved in various humanitarian projects, he frequently responds to... Answered 2 years ago
The question of : Who created God is based on a misunderstanding which mixes between the creatures and The Creator. Every creature needs a creator. If you want to claim a creator who created The Creator, you will face the same question of: Who created that creator? Then who creator him and will continue to no end. You have no way but to submit to the fact that there must be A Creator Who was never been Created but He Created every creature.
'The reason leads that there must be a creator who was never been created.
Amina Inloes, Amina Inloes is originally from the US and has a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter on Shi'a hadith. She is the program leader for the MA Islamic Studies program at the... Answered 2 years ago
The nature of Allah, or God, is such that Allah always existed and did not have a creator. However, all (other) things are created and non-eternal. This is why God is sometimes referred to as the "First Cause".
Jews and Christians share this belief.
As for other prominent religions today, I am not sure of their views about the nature of ultimate divinity, but it would be an interesting conversation topic.
Infinity can be difficult for the mind to grasp. However, the idea that God existed eternally is not more difficult to grasp than the idea that the universe existed eternally without a creator, which is held by some atheists.
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi, Sayyed Mohammad al-Musawi is originally from Iraq and heads up the World Ahlul Bayt Islamic League in London. Other than being involved in various humanitarian projects, he frequently responds to... Answered 2 years ago
The miracles of Quran are countless covering every dimension of the Holy book from its linguistic miracles to the members of related words and meanings to the scientific facts mentioned in Quran to numerical miracles to miracles to medical facts to facts in every field of science. The scientific facts in Quran had amazed many scientists and made them accept and confirm the fact that Quran can never be written by any human being but it is from God.
There are hundreds of books written in this subject e.g. This is The Truth by Akram Hamed published by Amazon and many and many other books which can easily found in the in the internet if you just sear : Scientific facts in Quran.
'You can tell your schoolmates to read the statements of leading scientists after discovering the miraculous facts mentioned in Quran.
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi, Sayyed Mohammad al-Musawi is originally from Iraq and heads up the World Ahlul Bayt Islamic League in London. Other than being involved in various humanitarian projects, he frequently responds to... Answered 2 years ago
There are different types of depression. Some of the depression cases can be avoided or treated by remembering Allah and sincerely seeking His Help. Some depression cases are out of control and can not be treated but by medical experts. Such uncontrolled depression is an illness like other uncontrolled illnesses. If the person loses control and goes out of his senses, then he will be considered behaving out of his senses. Allah only Knows the real feelings and status of the senses of people. Allah Judges people and we are not entitled to judge others. We just pray for the well-being of depressed people and for the forgiveness of late believers.
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi, Sayyed Mohammad al-Musawi is originally from Iraq and heads up the World Ahlul Bayt Islamic League in London. Other than being involved in various humanitarian projects, he frequently responds to... Answered 2 years ago
We should not mix between free will which covers our behaviour and destiny which covers other sides of our life which are out of our choice. Everything which out of our choice like our parents, our place of birth, our gender, our ethnic background , our skin color, our language, our body etc are destined, hence no question will be raised on any destined matter. Our faith and acts and morals are not destined on us but left to us to chose and decide, that is why we are fully responsible of our faith, acts and morals.
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi, Sayyed Mohammad al-Musawi is originally from Iraq and heads up the World Ahlul Bayt Islamic League in London. Other than being involved in various humanitarian projects, he frequently responds to... Answered 2 years ago
Failing an exam does not mean a sign to stop trying. We need to put more efforts to reach to our lawful aims as much as we can. There is no question of haunting our efforts to achieve more as far as the aim is practicality possible and good for us and others.
‘Failure should encourage us to work harder avoiding the reasons of the failure.
‘Supplication and seeking from Allah (SWT) is our weapon as the Hadeeth states: Supplication is the weapon of the believer الدعاء سلاح الؤمن
We need to seek help from Allah to achieve our noble aims.
Zaid Alsalami, Shaykh Dr Zaid Alsalami is an Iraqi born scholar, raised in Australia. He obtained a BA from Al-Mustafa University, Qom, and an MA from the Islamic College in London. He also obtained a PhD from... Answered 2 years ago
Bismihi ta'ala
Firstly, I would recommend you watch this presentation, and although it might be bit technical for her, you would be able to hopefully explain it in a way that she understands:
Basically, in Arabic language, pronouns do not always necessarily need to refer to gender, and we most certainly know that Allah ta'ala is above gender, but we must refer to Him with something.
In the English language, he/she in most cases only refers to gender, so the problem could be due to the language as well. Whatever the case may be, we still need to address Almighty God with something, as long as we know and understand that it is not a gender based usage, because Almighty God does not have a body or a gender.
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