God (Allah)

Allah (الله‎, romanized: Allāh) is the Arabic word for God in Abrahamic religions. In the English language, the word generally refers to God in Islam.

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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 5 months ago

Our religion is never based on people's opinions or culture but on clear orders from Allah which came in Quran as explained by the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his holy progeny0. Our scholars never state any act as forbidden or permitted or recommended or disliked or obligatory without very clear evidence from Quran, Sunnah, Aql or Ijma'a (consensus). Sexual relationships without marriage is no exception as Allah in Quran said about the pious believers '' And those who guard their chastity (i.e private parts, from illegal sexual acts).Except from their wives. Sura  70 Aya 29. Social and cultural factors differ in different countries and different times, while the Islamic rules are always unified as code of conduct for humans everywhere and every time.

Wassalam

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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 6 months ago

Our existence  has been created by Allah, The Creator of all creatures. Creatures are never part of The Creator. We exist by His help and Mercy and can never live without His help and Mercy. That can never mean that we are part of Him. Allah Says in Quran : Nothing is like Allah ليس كمثله شيء.

Wassalam.

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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 6 months ago

You have to always keep the respect of your parents but not obey any order which is against the orders of Allah (SWT). The Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) said: No obedience to any creature in the disobedience of The Creator. If you are sure that the order given to you by your parents leads to sinful act, then you must refrain from committing sins.

Wassalam.

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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 6 months ago

No. We must ask and beg to Allah to forgive our sins. Without being humble to seek and beg to Allah for forgiveness, our sins will not be forgiven. Not asking Allah for forgiveness, means that the sinner is still arrogant even if he decides not committing the sin again, but as he has already committed the sin, he must seek and beg to Allah (SWT) for forgiveness.

Wassalam.

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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 6 months ago

Those who shut down the Masjid Al-Haraam during the Covid 19 crisis were not the real religious leadership of the Muslim world but just officers in a government and they are responsible about their acts. They never represent the Islamic jurisprudence.

'Wassalam.

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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 7 months 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.

May you always be successful 

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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 7 months 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).

Wassalam.

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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 8 months 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.
 
And Allah (azj) is free from all dependence!

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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 9 months 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.

May you always be successful 

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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 9 months 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).

Wassalam.

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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 9 months 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.

Wassalam.

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 9 months 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.