RE: [Quranic Reflection]: God is the light of the universe.
September 12, 2021 at 10:25 am
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2021 at 10:25 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 11, 2021 at 7:44 pm)WinterHold Wrote: One of the biggest misconceptions humans fall into is trying to "anthropomorphise" God; I already went through why this deed and the consequences of it on somebody's thought of God in this past topic:
https://atheistforums.org/thread-62933.html
Quote:[Quranic Reflection]: Anthropomorphism and God in Islam
But what did the Quran -the revelation of God- say about him?
I found a verse that clears the picture more and more:
Quote:Sura 24, The Quran:
https://quran.com/24:35?store=false&translations=
(35) Allah is The Light of the heavens and the earth; the similitude of His Light is as a niche wherein is a lamp, the lamp in a glass, the glass as it were a glittering planet-kindled from a Blessed Tree, an olive that is neither eastern nor western, whose oil would almost illuminate, even if no fire touched it, Light upon Light; Allah guides to His Light whomever He decides, and Allah strikes similitudes for mankind, and Allah is Ever-Knowing of everything.
— Dr. Ghali
Looking directly at strong light will burn your iris.
Another verse says about God:
Quote:Sura 6, The Quran:
https://quran.com/6:103?store=false&translations=
(103) Beholdings (i.e., eyesights) cannot perceive Him, and He perceives be holdings and He is The Ever-Kind, The Ever-Cognizant.
— Dr. Ghali
That's why we can't see him. We will lose sight at the mere looking towards God; because he is the light itself: the light of heaven and earth combined. The light of the universe.
-and you realize that these passages from magic book...and you, routinely anthropomorphize god...right?
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