GOD AND MAN
The most outstanding evidence for God’s existence is man’s existence. It is as strange to accept a Being like God as it is to accept a being like man. If we accept a being like man, we must be ready to accept a being like God.
According to the Quran (15:29), God breathed His spirit into man. This means that man is a human reflection of God’s attributes like existence, life, knowledge, power, will, choice, and other attributes of perfection. The real manifestation of these attributes is God’s Being alone. A reflection, not a part, of these attributes has been given to man. Man is not, in any sense, a part of God; however, in his being, he serves as tangible evidence of the God whom he is asked to believe in, even though God remains in the unseen. That is to say, man possesses all those characteristics at the visible level, which he is asked to accept in God, who is in the Unseen.
A human has an independent existence. He possesses the ability to see, hear, and speak. He thinks and plans. He acts according to his own will. He transforms matter into civilization. He operates space machines through remote control systems. He is aware of his own existence. He knows that “I am.” God is another name for these attributes in their complete and perfect form.
However, man’s existence is unreal in the absolute sense, and God’s is real in the absolute sense. Man is a creature, while God is the Creator. Man is limited, while God is unlimited. Man is powerless, while God is All-Powerful. Man is mortal, and God is immortal. Whatever man has is a gift from God, whereas whatever God has is His own; it is not given by someone else.
Believing in man, without ascription, is believing in a mini-god. A person who does not accept God indeed negates his own existence. It is akin to negating human existence. There is no argument or evidence not to accept God for the person who accepts man. By acknowledging man’s existence, he has also accepted the existence of God, irrespective of whether or not he has expressed this in words.
The fact is that denial of God is a denial of oneself, and who is there who can deny himself?
