Why would Allah grant us the capacity to reason, to perceive and understand reality intellectually, and then require us to suspend this faculty to believe in Him?
This is the kind of question that arises among those who question God’s Existence. But every faculty we possess is limited in what it can perceive by time and space and access.
Why do we have sight, but cannot see what is too far away, too small, or too concealed? Why do we have the ability to touch and grasp, but cannot touch beyond our reach? Perhaps the response would be, “I can potentially see what is far away by moving closer to it, or by developing technology that will enable me to see further than the naked eye” or “I can touch what is beyond my reach by closing the distance…with every sense I have the potential of overcoming the limits, but there is nothing I can do to overcome the barriers between my senses and God”.
What overcomes the limits of time, space and access in this case is death; that is what closes the distance. Until then, just as you know there are things beyond your vision, beyond your reach, without seeing or touching them, you can also know that there are things beyond your comprehension from where you are now, that you will one day perceive directly.
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