At best, the question is based on perceived "cause and effect" relationships. Everything can be thought of as an effect and attributed to a prior cause that, in turn, is attributed to a prior cause, and so on. However, we must remember that cause is only a hypothesis, for it has no objective existence. All that objectively exists is a particular sequence of circumstances that is often (but not always) repeated. If such a hypothesis is applied to existence, we cannot find a creator of the first cause, because each creator must have had a prior creator. The end result is a never-ending chain of creators. [2]

The Creator must be Self-Subsistent and One, without like or equal. If any created being "causes" anything, that capacity was created within that being, for only the Creator is Self-Existent and Self-Subsistent. Only the Creator truly creates and determines possible causes and effects for His creation. Therefore, we speak of God as the Sustainer, who holds and gives life to all of His Creation. All causes begin in Him, and all effects end in Him. In truth, created things are "0"s that will never add up to anything, unless God bestows real value or existence by placing a positive "1" before the "0".

In the sphere of existence, what we call causes and effects have no direct or independent influence. We may have to use such words to understand how a part of creation is made intelligible to us and available for our use. But even this confirms our dependence upon God and our answerability before Him. God does not need causes and effects to create; rather, we need them to understand what He has created.

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Ibrahim Tarikh  - infinity   |04-12-2009 03:47:07 if mankind would be able to understand infinity clearly, then we wouldn't ask this kind of question.There is no begining and ending in infinite life just like in math.Therefore there wasn't previous before God and there won't be next after God, because God is infinite. Reply 1   1

melly  - about god   |03-29-2009 08:31:07 Dear sir,thanks for your article,from it I learn more about GOD,I am a gril from China,I will read it carefully.I think GOD is the creator of the world. Reply 2   1

murat aydogdu  - love.lynette@hotmail.com   |03-20-2009 04:20:50 selamunaleykum my wife read thats plz Reply 0   2

Hikmatullah Amin  - Guidance needed   |02-26-2009 04:53:56 Hello Dear Sir, My name is Hikmatullah Amin and I am from Afghanistan, currently living in Afghanistan. I am a student at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul. this semester, we are studying a course called "Comparative Religious Thought" in which we are supposed to study the concept of God in different religions from a "philosophical" point of view, I therefore need to request you to answer the following question; We have been exposed to the question of "Multiplicity in Divine" now my understanding and belief is that God is One, He is the Creator, The Sustainer, however, in order to have a productive discussion in the class, I need your help on this issue and your input on this. I have already pasted your article about The Unity and Multiplicity but would really appreciate if you can provide me with more readings or books that can help me prepare well to answer this and such questions.... Reply 0   3

Ahmed Tahir  - Hocaeffendi or the GREAT SOUL   |10-26-2008 05:27:56 salamun alaykum; may Allah bless those unknown soldiers who devoted thier life and thier most precious capital for the sake of spreadin LOVE and guiding shoked humanity to the purpose of their life. you are the doktors of treating the deep wounds.with the "Gonul insani" life has a Meaning... O,humanity wake up and come to your sense... Reply 5   2

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