Who is Allah ?



Die in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, the Creator, the Sustainer, the Most Exalted, the Most Glorious. His power is infinite, His wisdom is boundless, and His mercy encompasses all things. He is the Giver of life and the Causer of death, while He Himself is everlasting, with no beginning or end. He is Al-Awwal (the First) and Al-Akhir (the Last), the only One worthy of our worship, the singular God with no partners or equals in His dominion. Everything in existence relies on Him, yet He depends on nothing. He neither begets nor was begotten, and there is nothing comparable to Him. His essence and attributes are unique and unparalleled.

Allah is the One who brought the universe into existence with a mere command: "Be," and it was. He is Al-Khaliq, the Creator, who fashioned the heavens and the earth with perfect precision. The vastness of the cosmos, with its countless galaxies and stars, stands as a testament to His immense power and creative genius. Every atom, every molecule in the universe follows the divine plan set by Allah. From the delicate structure of a snowflake to the complex DNA within every living cell, all of creation praises and glorifies Him. His knowledge encompasses all things, and nothing is hidden from Him.

Who is Allah, and what is the proof? The first and foremost proof is our very existence. You exist, I exist—how did we come to be? How did our intelligence emerge? How are we able to reason and interact with one another as human beings? Where does this ability come from? If you claim it is merely a random series of accidents, devoid of order, then you have not truly understood how the universe functions. When you observe the structure of the universe—its planets, stars, and suns on the macro level, and its molecules on the micro level—everything works together in astonishing harmony. How does this cooperation come about?

In Islam, the proof lies in the speech of Almighty Allah to humanity: the Qur’an. Within it, we find countless examples of knowledge that could not have been known even a hundred years ago, let alone 1,400 years ago. Fourteen centuries back, people did not know how the universe was created. They did not understand that the Earth orbits the Sun, that the Earth is round, or that the Moon revolves around the Earth. They had no knowledge of galaxies, the Milky Way, or constellations as we understand them today. The vastness of creation—billions of light-years—amazes us, yet it is described in the Qur’an 1,400 years ago. More than a thousand verses in the Qur’an speak about science. After every scientific fact, ask yourself: Who could have mentioned this in the Qur’an? The only answer an atheist can offer is the Creator, the Cherisher, the Manufacturer, the Inventor, the Producer. We Muslims call Him Allah.

Some ask, "Where is the miracle of God?" We respond, "SubhanAllah, were you not nothing before this, and now you are here? This is a miracle from Allah." Consider the rain falling from the clouds—have you forgotten this is a miracle from Allah? The sun rising and setting, the stars decorating the sky—massive balls of gas burning billions of miles away—have you forgotten these are miracles from Allah? The Moon’s orbit, guiding our sense of time and calculations, is a miracle we overlook. Your own hands, your fingerprints, your eyes—the human being itself—is a miracle we often forget. Allah says in the Qur’an (13:8), "Allah knows what every female womb carries, and by how much the wombs fall short of their time or exceed it. Every single thing is before His sight in a fixed, precise measure."

Allah declares in the Qur’an, "Exalt the praises of your Lord, the Most High, the One who created and then fashioned, who perfected, who portioned and then guided." He created out of nothing, without a prior model, bringing existence into being with the command "Be," and it was. Observe how He designed the Sun to be at a precise distance from us. Were it slightly farther, the world would be locked in an ice age, uninhabitable. Were it closer, it would be a scorching desert, equally unlivable. He balanced the Earth perfectly. Scientists note that the oxygen in our air is 21%—a perfect balance. If it were 50%, a single spark could engulf the Earth in flames. This is divine precision.

A baby emerges from its mother’s womb already guided to survive, knowing instinctively how to suckle. Who taught it? An animal is born knowing how to find food. A seed sprouts, its roots seeking water below while its stalk reaches upward for sunlight. Everything is guided. Scientists estimate that an average adult body contains 30 trillion cells—yet compared to the universe, you are not even a speck. Within those cells are red blood cells, white blood cells, liver cells, brain cells, and more—200 different types in total. Add to that 38 trillion bacterial cells, bringing the total to 68 trillion cells in your body. The brain alone contains approximately 171 billion cells, formed at conception and enduring until death. Inside each cell is DNA, 2.5 nanometers in diameter, composed of nucleotides, protons, and even tinier quarks—10,000 times smaller than a proton. If you stretched out all the DNA in your body and connected it, it would span twice the diameter of our solar system—18 billion kilometers wide. This is what constitutes you.

Geneticists have documented the human genome in over 175 volumes, totaling 262,000 densely printed pages, letter by letter. Remove just a few of those letters in the womb, and you’d have a deformity or disorder. Remove too many, and you’d die. Now consider the universe: 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the Sun. Our solar system is 18 billion kilometers wide, yet it is a mere speck in the Milky Way galaxy, which spans 100,000 light-years and contains 400 billion stars. The smallest star could hold 800 Earths; the largest galaxy is 160 times wider than our Milky Way. There are two trillion galaxies like ours in the observable universe, which stretches 93 billion light-years across—9.46 trillion kilometers per light-year. The universe, estimated to be 13.8 billion years old, is still expanding. This grand design is among the greatest proofs of a magnificent Creator. Glorified is Allah, the Best of Creators.

Allah says in the Qur’an, "Those you call upon besides Allah cannot create a fly, even if they all gathered together for it." Humanity, with all its technology, would fail to create a fly because true creation is to bring something into existence from nothing, without ingredients or prior models. Allah, the Most High, says, "You do not will except that Allah wills, Lord of the worlds." He adorned the sky with stars, twinkling in the first heaven. A hadith explains that the first heaven compared to the second is like a ring dropped in a desert—so vast you’d lose it. The second to the third, the third to the fourth, up to the seventh—all like a ring in a desert. Allah says humanity has not appreciated Him as He deserves. On the Day of Judgment, the Earth will be in His hand, and the seven heavens will be scrolled up in His right hand. Glory be to Him, exalted above all they associate with Him.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said the seven heavens squeak under a load they can barely bear. Why? Because there isn’t space for four fingers in all the heavens without an angel in prostration to Allah. Angels, from their creation to their final moment before Allah, worship Him ceaselessly for billions of years. Yet when they stand before Him, they plead, "O Allah, forgive us, for we did not worship You as You deserve." My brothers, we need Allah; Allah does not need us. If we knew how much Allah loves and values us, it would suffice. Allah says, "O My slave, if your sins reached the heavens but you do not associate partners with Me and ask for forgiveness, I will come to you with mercy matching your sins."

In an authentic hadith, Allah says, "O My slaves, if you come to Me a hand span, I come to you an arm’s length. If you come walking, I come running. When you remember Me, I remember you. When you forget Me, I still remember you." Even if you neglect Him for decades, becoming the worst of sinners, and then turn to Him just once, saying, "O Allah, forgive me," He responds, "I have forgiven your sins." This is the mercy of Allah, who needs no one yet calls us His slaves and rushes to us with love and forgiveness.