MAN’S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

In the last few centuries, faith in God was regarded as a mere personal belief that had no relation to intellectual thinking. But in recent decades, such scientific evidence has continuously emerged that testifies to the fact that conviction in God’s existence is rational and that it is not some belief without any scientific basis.

But scientific research is taking man only till that abstract reality that God exists, that God is. Beyond that, there is the question of what His relationship with man is when God exists. Scientists do not give any information about this, and nor can they. This is where the frontier of science stops and that of religion begins. In principle, all religious traditions are a standard answer to this question. However, various religious traditions have not remained preserved in their original form. Some claim the existence of several gods, even though all fields of knowledge prove that He must be just One if God does exist. The existence of a multitude of gods is scientifically an impossibility.

Scientific realities lead man to God, and after accepting God, the only correct choice is taking the protected path of willing self-surrender to the One God taught by all the many prophets of God. When the intellectual study reveals that this world has a God, then godless traditions are automatically proven to be false. When research on the universe reveals that its entire system is functioning according to unity, then traditions that posit the existence of several gods are shown to be meaningless. In such a situation, the right course for man is to turn to the path of willing self-surrender to the One God. This path, described in the Quran, is not only based on the correct conception of God but also very clearly tells us what sort of relationship there should be between man and God.