In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate
The question, ‘Who created God?’ is both nonsensical and
self-contradictory. The inquiry, for all intents and purposes, is illogical and
meaningless. The question can be translated to mean, ‘Who created ‘the
uncreated’?’ How can something be created if it claims its origins as an
uncreated being? The question assumes the existence of an entity that is at
once created and uncreated. By definition, God is uncreated. If a god was
created, then he would not be a god because another creator or god would stand
over him. The question is assuming the existence of a limited god. The idea of
a ‘god being created’ produces in its essence a circular fallacy.
Whereas creations claim definite beginnings and ends, God
does not. He is not confined to time and space, as we are. He is the One that
created time and space, just as He created everything else. When it is stated
that everything has a Creator, the statement refers to everything that is
created. God, however, is uncreated. Our God, our Master, our Creator by
definition cannot be created. He is the One performing the Creation, He is the
Supreme Being. God exists in an uncreated form. He has no beginning nor an end.
He is the First, the Last, the Eternal. He is Self-Existent, Self-Sufficient.
God is independent. If he was dependent on something or someone, he could not
be God.
Quran clearly says the definition of Allah:
"That is Allah your Lord! there is no god but He, the Creator of everything, Therefore worship Him, for He is Guardian over all things." (Quran 6:102)
“Surely Allah alone is the creator of all things and he is the One, the Most Supreme” (Quran 13:17)
Say, "He is Allah, [who is] One,
Allah, the Eternal Refuge.
He neither begets nor is born,
And there is none comparable to Him.” (Quran 112:1-4)
The universe is made up with pairs. We can see in every creation or anything, even an atom has made with pairs. Every particle has its antiparticle of opposite charge. Quran 37:36 also confirms that. So creations are made with pairs, so it need a cause. Then the cause must be 'ONE'. That is why Quran says: "Say, "He is Allah, [who is] One,". So everything we observed in this universe are made in pairs, then the One without pair must be outside of our observation and imagination.
So Quran clearly says that Allah is the "ONE", He is the cause of everything, he is uncreated and there is nothing like him. So how can we imagine something to him when he is outside of our imagination? How can we ask this illogical question, who created the uncreated one? At the end there must be an uncreated cause for everything. Actually questioning about the creator who made life and death, beginning and end, time and space etc, is a baseless argument.
"…There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the Hearing, the Seeing."(Quran 24:11)
We imagine things by relating it to something we know from
our observable universe. We imagine angels as a person with wings, the person
and the wings are known to us and do exist. But Allah told us there are nothing
in your universe like Him. That is why we can not imagine Him. Same as we can
not imagine a 4th, 5th or more spatial dimensions, we can not imagine existence
without time, what is beyond our universe and many others.
This Question is like some one asking you:
Where is the starting and ending point in the surface of a sphere? it is impossible to find the starting or ending point in surface (not radius) of a ball or a sphere.
It is the same error as if one asked: What does the color
blue taste like? These properties does not interact in the way the question
assumes. Atheists propose this flawed question because they do not grasp or accept
the solid logic of the cosmological argument for the uncreated Creator’s
existence.
When an atheist asked this same question, who created God? to Dr. Zakir naik, He just asked another question to the atheist.
Zakir naik: brother Tom was admitted to the hospital and he conceived and gave birth to a baby: guess, is the baby a girl or a boy?
It is an absurd statement. Only females can conceive and
give birth to a baby. It is impossible for Tom, who is a male, to conceive and
give birth to a child. One of the qualities and characteristics of a male is that
he cannot conceive nor give birth to a child. Similarly one of the characteristics
of Allah is that He is uncreated and does not have a beginning. Therefore
asking a question, “Who created the uncreated?” is as absurd as asking, “My
brother Tom conceived and gave birth to a child, is the child a girl or a boy?”
Every human being knows intuitively that everything in
existence has a cause and an explanation for its existence. There is sufficient
reason to explain any occurrence in the universe; it is impossible that the
universe came into existence without any reason, agent, or cause.
Allah said:
Were they created by nothing? Or were they the creators of themselves? Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather, they are not certain. (Quran 52:35-36)
Here Allah asked 3 logic question,
Our eyes have limitations, we can’t see infra-red or below
and ultra-violet or above electromagnetic radiations.
Our muscles have limitations, we can’t lift a ton or tons.
Same is the case with our brain, we can imagine things to a
certain extent even impossible things. We can’t even demonstrate more than 3
dimensions properly.
So we can easily assume that past, present and future and also eternity in future. Because these are related our experiences and related to time and space. But we can't fully grasp pre-eternity because it is not related to our experiences.
But I can just give you an example. But not exact, because we have limits. And Allah said in the Quran "There is nothing like unto Him", So he is beyond our imagination.
For example: Somebody saying to you, there is a medicine invented for preventing death or for eternal life. Then you can assume that we can live forever. "Forever" means without an end in "future". But you can't find the end, because it has no end. That same can be in "past", and that only suitable to uncreated cause. That is our LORD.
“Put your trust in the Ever-Living, Who never dies, and glorify His praises. Sufficient is He as All-Aware of the sins of His servants.” (Quran 25:58)
In sum, the question, ‘Who created the Creator?’ is a
logical fallacy based upon a mistake of category. The cosmological argument
definitively concludes that the uncreated Creator must exist and, hence, asking
who created the uncreated Creator is nonsensical. It is like asking what sound
do colors make; these properties do not relate to each other in the way the
question presumes.
“They ask you about the spirit. Say, “Its nature is known only to God, and you have been given but little knowledge.” (Quran 17:85)
After thousands or millions of years, that verse will be
still valid “you have been given but little knowledge.” We have some limits to observe something beyond our capacity. The one example is 'soul'. We all have a soul but we can't define it. We can transplant our body parts even after our death. For example: Eyes, we can transplant it to another person even after our death, it will may work. So death is not a process of breakdown of our body parts. If that is the case, then science can help a person to come back after death by transplanting such body parts. But that is not the case there is something beyond our under standing. That is our souls.
So there are metaphysical and physical world. We are living in a physical world, So we can observe anything we can reach within the physical world. But we can't assume metaphysical world and laws except the little knowledge given by Allah through his messengers. So making arguments about that you do not know is coming from arrogance and ignorance.
Allah knows best.
The Holy Quran
Dr. Zakir Naik
Towards eternity / YouTube
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