you will never know on your own. You learn from those who do know. Because, like I said, even your mind has a limit.
As you probably guessed, it’s time to have a look at your eyes.
Don’t you think they have a limit?
Can you see everything you want with one glance?
The fact is, if we compare what our eyes can see to what our eyes can’t see, we could be considered ‘almost blind’.
Don’t be shocked! This is the truth.
Look, according to scientists’ rough calculations, we live in a universe that has a radius of 15 million light years.
Everyone knows this is a big number, but it’s hard to understand just how big.
We will never know 70 percent of this 15 million light year radius universe. We can’t see it! Scientists have called this 70 percent “dark energy.”
From the 30 percent left, 25 percent of it is dark matter! We can never see this thing called dark matter either.
So what’s left is five percent.
See, everything we see and hear is in this five percent.
But, don’t hurry to say, “that’s good!”
Because, the human eye can’t even see all of that five percent. We can barely see a fragment of it.
Like I said before, when faced with the universe we could be considered almost ‘blind’.
In simpler words, with the most optimistic account, all our eyes can ever see in this universe is less than the area under an ants foot on the earth’s crust.
Now, since we can’t even see the universe we live in properly, how is it possible to see the creator of this universe who doesn’t look anything like His creation?
Allah can’t be seen directly
Some people say, “I won’t believe in something I don’t see”, “I don’t believe in what I don’t see, since I don’t see Allah, I don’t believe in Allah!”
This is an incredibly absurd thing to say, because there are so many things we don’t see but we are sure they exist.
Let’s quickly look at some of them:
GRAVITY
THE MIND
HAPPINESS
LOVE
THOUGHTS
You know what all these are, right?
But, you haven’t seen any of them with your eyes. Therefore, we don’t always have to see everything.
Just because we can’t see something, doesn’t mean it’s not there.
Although we can’t see Allah, we know He is our Creator and we believe in Him.
We don’t have to see Allah to believe in Him!
We don’t have to see Allah to believe in Him. Let me try to explain this to you with an example.
Come on, let’s go to an art gallery. Look at the beautiful paintings by artists.
There’s a huge canvas on that wall! The canvas is covered with daisies, with gold hearts adorning a little hillside.
Above the hill is a blue sky covered with clouds as white as the daisies.
What’s more, there are brown birds flying in the sky. So many birds…
And, in the distance, a lush green forest…
Now, I’m going to ask you some questions. You’re going to find some of the questions absurd. But still, you should answer them!
“Isn’t this a beautiful painting?”
“Oh it is!”
“Who made this painting?”
“An artist of course.”
“Did you see the artist?”
“No!”
“Then how do you know an artist made it?”
“Because there’s no other way! I know because only an artist could have made such a painting.”
“But you didn’t see the artist!”
“But I’ve seen the painting. I have seen the daisies, the sky, the brown birds and the clouds! It’s impossible for these things to occur on their own.”
“Alright, if the paints and paint brushes lay there on the table for a while, could they decide to make a painting one day? And couldn’t they do it once they made their decision?”
“You said your questions were going to be a little absurd, but I wasn’t expecting this much. Never mind a painting, a single brush stroke wouldn’t come about in this way.”
“Are you sure?”
“I’m pretty confident. There needs to be an artist for such a painting to be made.”
“But the artist isn’t around. Could they be on the painting somewhere?”
“Is that possible? What would the artist be doing in the painting? The artist would be outside the painting.”
“What about the paint and brushes? Could the artist be one of them?”
“You’re being silly. Even if the brushes and paints lay there for millions of years, they couldn’t think of making a painting like this.”
“Why?”
“Because they don’t have the brains! Because they don’t have the ability! Because they aren’t alive!”
“Those are great answers.”
Come on, let’s get out of the gallery now.
Now we are at the bottom of a little hill.
Look at this place! We’re surrounded by daisies. The sky is so blue. And the blue sky is covered with white clouds. Clouds as white as daisies! And look at those birds tweeting, look how happy they are as they fly.
“Doesn’t this place look a lot like the painting we just saw?”
“Yes, but this is more beautiful. Everything here is so vibrant.”
“Do you think this scene
