Islamic Thoughts

• ANALYSES
• 1 Behavior code of Muslims toward non-Muslims
• 2 September 11 (2001) attacks on America not compatible with Islam
• 3 Ways To Defuse Religious Tensions
• 4 The Value Of The Ten Commandments
• 5 Bright Spot Of The Us Constitution: Religious Freedom
• 6 Lessons from the prophet's hudaibiah treaty.
• 7 Rulers' roles in promotion of christianity.
• 8 Exploring a model definition of 'religion'
• 9 Where islam stands as a civilized religion?
• 10 Proving god's existence through experimental science.
• 11 Roles of man as necessary & God as sufficient condition.
• 12 Human kindness is a shadow of god's kindness.
• 13 Why islam is the best choice for the Africans?
• 14 In Old Age, All Roads Lead To Death.
• 15 No Creations Are Without Purposes & Uses.
• 16 Prayer Prevents People From Bad Actions.
• 17 When Haram May Be Excusable: Five-Step Conditions.
• 18 Islamization Of Some Un-Islamic Cultures.
• 19 Greater The Faith, Tougher The Test.
• 20 How Science Can Make A Difference For Muslims?
• 21 The Time Gap Reality Between Sin & Punishment.
• 22 Good & Bad Days Alternate In Cyclic Order.
• 23 Let Moon-Sighting Unite & Not Divide The Muslims.
• 24 Faith Crisis Among Some Intellectuals.
• 25 Islamic Policy Toward Animals.
• 26 Improving The Muslim Performance (Aamal) Standard.
• ARGUMENTS
• 27 How Middle Course Better Than Conservative And Liberal Extremes?
• 28 Why God Is The Best One To Be Worshipped?
• 29 Costs And Benefits Of Belief In The Afterlife
• 30 Bible Is Similar To Hadith But Different From Quran
• 31 Defaming Islam: Freedom Of Speech Or Violation Of Rights?
• 32 How Islam Compares With Democracy?
• 33 Who Is Responsible For '0' Small Pox Since 1980?
• 34 Timeliness Is The Leading Condition For Prayer.
• 35 Ten Arguments For Women's Education.
• 36 Why Physical Fitness Matters For The Muslims?
• 37 Homosexuality Vs Adultery: Which Is Worse And How?
• 38 Countering Abortionist Argument
• 39 Which Is Better: Open Or Secret Prayer?
• 40 Small Or Large Recitation: Which Is Better In Prayer?
• 41 Personal Or Social Suffering: Which Is More Painful & Why?
• 42 Cultural Slavery Vs Cultural Diffusion.
• 43 Why Should America Ban Religious Defamation?
• ASSORTMENTS
• 44 Visible Action Of Invisible God: From Author's Diary.
• 45 Optional Good Deeds Are Like Bodyguards For Compulsory Ones.
• 46 The Gravitation Law Of Performance (Not One Of Newton).
• 47 The Theory Of Relativity (Not That Of Einstein).
• 48 In Good Deeds
• 49 "Rob Peter to pay Paul" is not for islam
• 50 Muslims Cannot Be "Penny Wise And Pound Foolish".
• 51 Islam Endorses Salad Bowl & Not Melting Pot Theory.
• 52 100% Homosexuality Means Prospect Of 'O' World Population.
• 53 Sinning In Teens To 40's & Suffering From 50's To Death.
• 54 Revenge May Be Lower But Not Greater Than Harm.
• 55 Why Karl Marx Is Irrelevant Forever?
• 56 Is God The Same One For All Religions?
• 57 How God Controls Economy And Livelihood?
• 58 How Muslim Repression In Myanmar Violates Buddhist Principles?
• MISCELLANEOUS
• 59 Grim Reality of Death: Unfailing Lesson for Everyone
• 60 Religion Vs Reason: Which is More Important?

28 : WHY GOD IS THE BEST ONE TO BE WORSHIPPED

All divine religions in original condition started with a belief in one God. Later, they deviated from this monotheistic tradition. A careful thought given to this matter will establish that the belief in one real God (Allah) helps the cause of maximum human welfare. Because He is the only one who is unique in existence and superlative in virtues like Ever-living, All-Powerful, All Merciful, All-Knowing and so on. Any other partners that people invent for worship can never come close to His qualifications.

Natural Elements: If you worship natural elements like sun, moon, earthquake etc., you must realize that they have no life or spirit to cause you any help (such as through sunshine) or harm (through tornado, for example) and these forces act only according to the wishes of God. If you worship animals like cow, monkey or snake, then you must remember that they do not have the rationality like you nor do they possess any other attributes that deserve your worship. They might help you with milk, meat etc. but only under beneficial design of God (36:71).

Statues or Idols: The statues or idols that some people make for worship are farther away from the animals in respect of possessing godly qualities and personalities. They have no life at all to help or harm you anyway. They are so powerless that they cannot even help themselves from the attack of a tiny insect or worm. If you consider them to be a concrete symbol of a god, then you cannot overcome the fact that the real God is a figureless Infinity Who cannot be properly understood by means of a limited figure.

Relatives of God: Likewise, there is no good sense in inventing relatives (like son, daughter, wife etc.) of God from amongst the humans for a number of reasons. (i) God disowns His relationship with any human beings. (ii) There is a basic difference between the Invisible God and concrete human beings. It is not only impossible but also ridiculous to conceive of any physical or marital relationship between God and any of His creations. (iii) As an embodiment of supreme virtues (like Ever-living, Almighty, Omniscient etc.,) God is separated from His creatures by an unbridgeable gap. All these creations are merely His servants and with weaknesses like death, diseases, lack of control over fate etc., they are disqualified as a God. Some miracles of a person (say prophet) may mislead you to consider him a god. But the fact remains that their miracles come only from God and such miracles do not elevate their status to God.

Dead Ancestors: Similarly, you should not worship any imaginary spirits of your dead ancestors in a belief that they have powers to impact your life through good or bad. In fact, it is not these spirits but the real God who does that.
On the whole, out of ignorance or for any other reason, believing or worshipping any or many gods other than the real God will not only be a wrong step but also a harmful one. So you will be acting wise if you believe in One God Who is the only one endowed with all the virtues of a real God and therefore the Best one to be worshipped.