God Is Everywhere

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We created humanity and We know what his own self whispers to him. We are nearer to him than his jugular vein. (Koran, 50:16)

Some Muslims and Christians interpret the passage "We are nearer to him than his jugular vein" to mean a kind of spiritual closeness, rather than a physical one, and thus try to deny the fact that God is everywhere. Under their own false beliefs, the Christians in question claim that a belief in a "remote God" prevails in Islam and that God is inaccessible in it (this is far from the truth). They imagine in this way they can build a foundation for the concept of "the son of God," and that instead of the supposed belief in the "remote" God (surely God is beyond this) they imagine to prevail in Islam, they claim that in Christianity God makes contact with His servants through Jesus (pbuh). This is a most serious error and stems from an inability to fully grasp the difference between the Person of God and His manifestation.

We perceive many things by the sea shore. The smell of the sea, the coolness of the breeze, the sound of the waves, the wetness of the pebbles, the distance of the horizon and all these things are only a collection of perceptions created in our brains. In fact, we can experience no real version of these objects outside our brains. There are only images, and these images are all manifestations of God. This means that God is closer to us than the pebbles we seem to feel in our hands.

(Koran, 25:2)The term "We are nearer to him than his jugular vein" in the verse refers to a physical proximity as well as a spiritual one. As we have already explained, since everything is part of an illusion in our brains and our whole lives are the total of these images forming in our brains, then our bodies, cells and everything we possess and experience are images and, like all these copy images of matter, they are also manifestations of God. Therefore, God is closer to us even than the person we imagine to be closest to us. This is a completely physical closeness, because God enfolds peGod makes His proximity to His servants quite clear in the Gospel:

Do not be like them, for God knows what you need before you ask Him. (Matthew, 6:8)

Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's Sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him to Whom we must give account. (Hebrews, 4:13)

For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. (Luke, 8:17)

For by Him all things were created: things in heaven and on Earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. (Colossians, 1:16-17)

But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Lord, Who is unseen. Then your God, Who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. (Matthew, 6:6)

Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. (Luke, 12:6-7)

Almighty God reveals this in the Koran:ople from all directions, inside and out.

The Person of God is of course different. But the manifestations of God are everywhere. If a person says that God is not there when he enters a room, then he has abandoned the faith. If he says, "Everything is a manifestation of God, except for this small box," then he has again abandoned the faith. By saying that, he is placing boundaries on the infinite greatness of God and claiming that there are other entities independent of Him (surely God is beyond that). Even if the thing he regards as independent of God is just a box then he is again, albeit unwittingly, denying the greatness of God, may He forbid. But it is God alone Who is eternal and absolute. Therefore, when a person enters a room, the manifestations of God are everywhere he sees or does not see, including the room itself. Wherever a person turns, the manifestation of God is there.

Several verses of the Koran reveal that God enfolds all space, and that wherever we look, He is there. The expressions in these verses are clear judgments. In Chapter 2, verse 255 of the Koran, for instance, God says, "... His Footstool encompasses the heavens and the Earth..." In Chapter 11, verse 92, "... But my Lord encompasses everything that you do!" it is revealed that God enfolds people and all they do.

God makes this truth quite explicit in the Gospel:

He [God] is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. (Colossians, 1:17)

Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's Sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him to Whom we must give account. (Hebrews, 4:13)

Once people realize the truth described above, that we can never have a direct experience of the matter on the outside, only with illusions or copy images in our brains, they will also fully understand that God is everywhere and the only absolute entity. God is not only in the heavens; God enfolds and surrounds all places. This knowledge is imparted by means of the Koran. When we pray, God hears us everywhere and at every moment. God shows us manifestations of Himself everywhere. God loves us and is the closest to us. Nobody is closer to us than God. There is no distance between us and God. People who understand that they can never have direct experience of the original of matter on the outside will also fully comprehend that God is everywhere at all times, that He sees and hears them at all moments, that He witnesses everything and is closer to them than their own jugular veins, that He answers every prayer, and that both spiritually and physically, it is our Almighty Lord God Who is closest to us of all.

Since we are bound by time and space, we may fail to properly appreciate that God enfolds the heavens and the Earth and all that exists. But the fact is that God’s enfolding all space means He also enfolds everyone’s very cells and the atoms thereof. Not one atom is independent of God. Each is a manifestation of God, and God knows them all. Nowhere is without God.

The Error of Maintaining That a Material World Necessitates a Material Deity

Some Christians, who are unaware of or fail to properly appreciate the real issue about matter described above, set out the reason why they attribute divine status to Jesus (pbuh) as follows: "Since we are all material entities and this world is a material one, there has to be a material entity if we and the world are to be saved." Such a claim is a most superficial one and stems from an inability to properly understand that God is everywhere and the closest to us at all times, and that He can reach all His servants whenever He desires and however He desires, and also from an ignorance of the true nature of matter. First of all, nothing we have direct experience of is matter. And that includes ourselves. The matter on the outside we can never have direct experience of does not have a material nature as we understand it: it is dark and transparent. We live in a world that we see only in our brains, made up of copy images or illusions of originals in the outside world we can never have direct experience of. We imagine we experience the outside world through our five senses. Yet everything consists solely of electrical signals. If all the electrical signals going to the brain were cut off, the realm we refer to as the material world would instantly cease to exist. To summarize, nothing in the world we see is a material entity. For us, everything that exists on the outside consists of copy images we experience within our brains. The idea that there has to be a material deity (may God forbid) in such a world is therefore totally illogical. There is nothing material about this world in our brains.

Both East and West belong to God, so wherever you turn, the Face of God is there. God is All-Encompassing, All-Knowing.
(Koran, 2:115)

The conception of God being at a distance from His servant is a contradiction of the logic and reason behind the belief in the Trinity. The Christians in question have abandoned belief in God, Who is manifested everywhere and in everything, Who enfolds all things and Who is the nearest to His servants and adopted a belief in a distant God. According to this pagan belief, God is so far removed from them that He can only contact His servants through a human intermediary (Surely God is beyond that). This effectively means they are claiming that other than the person sent by God as His manifestation, all entities exist outside God: And that is polytheism. To ascribe equals to God or attribute independent power to entities other than Him is the worst sin in His Sight, and a failure to properly know and appreciate Him.The idea, as the Christians in question maintain, that God has to be manifested in a single human being in order to reach us and show us His love and closeness is an unrealistic and fantastical belief. God has no need of this. Our Almighty Lord is beyond all imperfection. (As we mentioned earlier, the manifestation here definitely does not implicate the Person of God). God is everywhere. He is with us at every moment. He is manifested in all things.

God makes His proximity to His servants quite clear in the Gospel:

Do not be like them, for God knows what you need before you ask Him. (Matthew, 6:8)

Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's Sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him to Whom we must give account. (Hebrews, 4:13)

For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. (Luke, 8:17)

For by Him all things were created: things in heaven and on Earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. (Colossians, 1:16-17)

But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Lord, Who is unseen. Then your God, Who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. (Matthew, 6:6)

Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. (Luke, 12:6-7)

Almighty God reveals this in the Koran:

... I know what you make known and what you hide. (Koran, 2:33)

As is made clear in passages from the Gospel and verses of the Koran, it is sufficient to pray with sincerity to make contact with God. Wherever one may be, God will hear and see one and will answer that prayer as He sees fit.

Therefore, some Christians who prepare the ground for belief in the Trinity by maintaining that Islam believes in a remote God have fallen into a grave error. When these people realize that Almighty God is the One and Only Creator of all and that He enfolds all things, when they grasp the truth about the reality of matter, then they will realize just how close God is to them.

But because of their error in the Trinity they have a misjudgment of God and His greatness; if they properly appreciated God, they would not claim the existence of entities that are not manifestations of Him and would avoid ascribing equals to Him.

We have a Lord Who creates all things and rules all things and places. Christians must rationally evaluate these realities and adopt a religious conception befitting the infinite might of God. God is everywhere, in the heavens and the Earth, wherever people live, whether they see these places or not. The image created in our brains that we refer to as "our lives" belongs to God alone. That being the case, how can one maintain one needs an intermediary to be close to God? God hears our prayers the moment we think of them. All Christian brothers and sisters should be rejoicing that God is so close to us. Sincere Christians must understand the true nature of matter, properly appreciate the glory of God and realize that He will never permit such illogical and specious accounts.

He to Whom the kingdom of the heavens and the Earth belongs. 
He does not have a son and He has no partner in the Kingdom. He created everything and determined it most exactly.

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