A Commentary On Theistic Arguments

Man’s life is founded on his beliefs and the central tenet of all religious beliefs is the existence of God. Failure to under-stand the conceptual and propositional foundations (al-mabādī al-tasawuriyya wa al-tasdīqiyya) of theism can evoke objections and doubts with respect to belief in the Deity. The best way to reach God, Whose Being is more apparent and obvious than any other thing and Whose presence is near-er to everything than any other thing, is, verily, to dust the trail of knowledge off the blinders of ego and vanity. God’s invisibil-ity is due to the severity of His manifestation, and His remote-ness is because of His extreme proximity. If an entity’s mani-festation were to be more evident than knowledge, notion, and knower, and it were to be so near that even nearer than a thing is to itself, such a keen manifestation necessarily creates invis-ibility, and such extreme proximity causes distance. This invis-ibility and distance is, however, prevalent with respect to the eyes which are veiled; because someone who sees himself, he cannot see God.