DOES GOD HAVE A RELIGION?
You can clearly substitute your beliefs and your scriptures
with that the one's I have quoted, as I am familiar with them.
Qur'aan - Sura Ikhlas
112:1 SAY: "He is the One God:
112:2 God the Eternal, the Uncaused Cause of All Being.
112:3 He begets not, and neither is He begotten;
112:4 and there is nothing that could be compared with Him.
The Vedas and Bhagvad Gita have identical words, they will be
added over this weekend.
Muslims, Jews, Sikhs and Bahai's are trained to know that GOD
is not a physical being, he or she is genderless, it is not an
object nor is it definable. Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
experienced the presence of God during Meraaj and was
described as Noor or the light. Is that the experience of
being nothing and being everything as the Hindu Philosophy
puts it. Nidi Nidi. Sarmad went nuts with the idea as well and
Moses saw the light too.
God has consistently asked in Qur'aan not to define him in
human terms, it is an abstract energy that gives life and that
is the cause of all existence. It is just one single source.
The Jews go even further and resist containing G_d in words.
Whereas, the Christian and Hindu theology trains one to
believe that God created humans in his own image, and they
have come to understand God in human terms, God is personal
and God has appeared in human form for them and that is how
they relate with the creator.
The Buddhist, Jain, Zoroastrian, Shinto and Tao are trained to
be Karma centered rather than God centered. Everything has to
have a balance, when one loses that balance through bad
actions, a trade off for regaining that energy becomes
necessary. Which the other religions explain in terms of
repentence, forgiveness or doing lot of good to offset the bad
karma.
All the belief systems are legitimate to the believers. The
above are not crystal clear boundaries, there is a lot of
overlapping in all the ideas above. I hope you can see the
essence in all these beliefs; Accountability, Justice and
Equilibrium.
Equilibrium is the key, every thing is created to have its own
balance including humans with themselves and with others. When
the balance is disturbed, Law of Karma becomes operative
squaring out the negative and positive energies, and those
items that are not squared out, has to be squared out, if not
in this world, it will be in the mysterious next world either
through the concept of re-birth or eternal life after death.
The idea of re-incarnation or continuation of life after death
in different theologies has the same essence; when the rest of
the issues are squared out in our life time, the unsolved
justice will be accounted for in the continuum after this
life. This gives hope to the mankind that Justice prevails and
inturn brings about an equilibrium to the human psyche.
Whether we watch a movie or bad things happen to us in our
real life, we yearn for that elusive justice and it is there.
Does God have a religion?
Well, he created us, each one of us with our own fixtures.
Qur'an, Al-Hujurat, Surah 49:13: "O mankind! We have created
you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that
ye may know one another. The noblest of you, in sight of
Allah, is the best in conduct. Allah Knows and is Aware."
God continuously acknowledges the existence of the human kind
in all its glorious forms, indeed Qur'aan begins with the idea
of the world(s) 1:2 "All praise is due to God alone, the
Sustainer of all the worlds," and ends with,114:6 "from all
[temptation to evil by] invisible forces as well as men.". Men
meaning the human kind.
One may see the clarity and acknowledgement of different
pathways laid out by the creator and he tests us 109:6 "Unto
you, your moral law, and unto me, mine!" Contrast this with
the verse from Al- Hujurat, Surah 49:13 above
Religion is a manual to understand oneself and one's
relationship with the creator (creation).
I do not think God has or needs a religion, we have the
religion and perhaps we
need it. I am open to learning through your comments. It is an
open field, let's enhance each other with knowledge.
