Who is the god of islam
Basic Beliefs of Islam - God
hello we have dr. Musharraf who sang
with us he's a chief executive of the
Karimi Institute here in Nottingham and
he's going to talk to us about God as
one of the six basic beliefs of Islam so
what should the Muslim believe about God
Musharraf well first and foremost we
believe that God is one he's the
absolute creator the maker the fashioner
the designer of the universe he's God
who is actually a caring God and this is
the word rahman and rahim the famous
formula of bismillahi rahmani raheem
which occurs in the quran and also
muslims use it whenever they begin any
work that in the name of God the one who
is most kind and caring so the idea of
God who is really involved in our lives
and in the working of the world all the
time really and and and you know it's
very interesting that the Quran always
talks about the signs of God not that
God needs a proof God is there I mean
it's just like if somebody asks you is
there a son well it's there you know you
know and and so it's not about proving
God it is actually trying to understand
more about God and so Islam is really
about trying to understand more about
God and-and-and-and but more than that
trying to fulfill his will and because
it is through that that a person can
really be good because one of the names
of God is that is al bill the good now
in the Creed's I believe there is
sometimes try to answer this question or
at least speak to this issue of how God
is one but as you mentioned God has all
these attributes how do Muslims fit that
together well
the attributes the qualities or very
simply the names of God talked about his
different qualities his different ways
of working in the universe really you
know so when we talk about a God who is
not fair the benefactor you know here
we're talking about the God who created
the Sun for our use and for our benefit
who created the the plant kingdom for
our benefit and for our use and so
really the the it's one of the best ways
of understanding God I mean these are
descriptions effectively of God really
that they and Muslims have sort of there
are thousands of names of God really but
we sort of confined it to ninety nine
because the Prophet you know a
beautifully said that you know learn
about God through these ninety nine most
beautiful names we call them a small
Hosanna
and the idea is to really describe God's
his his activities his works and in some
ways trying to really understand the
divine mind as well through these so
there's one being with many different
descriptions that's that's what you're
saying the names and the attributes and
so forth yes these are really the
characteristics or the divine character
really or divine morals I mean that
would be perhaps quite appropriate
because the Prophet used this word look
be a Clark in law which means really
that develop the character of Allah
meaning God is kind you be kind God is
generous you be generous in fact Imam
Ghazali when he in his book the 99 names
of God he actually talks about each name
of God describing what it is and then
asks then what is your share in this
it's very interesting term to use and
and what is is really saying is how will
you act this out because as the
ha'la'tha as the representative of God
on earth your job is really to be that
representative by having the qualities
of the one who you
present so then these are names actually
this it's a very beautiful way of
acquiring the divine character and to
live in accordance with you know the
Divine Will we have this tension don'twe
between God's mercy and God's wrath and
I assume all of these characteristics I
mean that they're included with all
those characteristics and we are to take
on those characteristics how do you
understand that relationship between
God's mercy and God's wrath or God's
love and God's wrath I think it's a very
easy to reconcile between those because
yes in neuropathy was he had polish a
the Quran says that my mercy and my
kindness envelopes and encircles
everything it is in mine in other words
even God's anger is really God's mercy
it's it's you know when isn't God angry
well God is angry when human beings are
unjust unfair ruthless brutal cruel and
have have taken others rights and and
and therefore God reacts in that way
effectively so he's wrapped in many ways
is to bring about justice so that is it
you know in a way God's kindness as well
so it's not a that God wants to be angry
for the sake of anger that is not divine
way and in God's Way good thank you
that's helpful so this is our
presentation on God and thank you much
other for helping us understand this
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