# How is God Doing Everything At The Same Time? We Asked The Hardest Questions About Allah!

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- Published: 2026-08-26
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- Welcome to the Towards Eternity Cross-Examination concept. Today we'll ask you the most frequently asked questions about Allah. Why can't I see Allah? How is Allah closer to us than our jugular vein though He is beyond time and space? - I will ask you a question that everybody asks at least once in his childhood. What does Allah look like? You say Allah is infinite but I can't perceive what infinity is like. Can you explain it to me? - Why can't I see Allah? + It is necessary to divide seeing Allah into two parts. 1- To see His Essence, 2- To see His attributes. In other words, we don't see His essence right now, but we see His attributes and names everywhere.

For example, seeing a beautiful flower reflects Allah's name "Al-Jamil" (The Most Beautiful). You see a manifestation of Him. Or, when you see a mountain, it is actually a small reflection of Allah's majesty. For example, when you see a good meal You see the talent of the cook, don't you? Therefore, similarly, everything you see in the universe reflects Allah's names. For example, seeing a beautiful flower reflects Allah's name Al-Jamil (The Most Beautiful). You don't see it with your eyes. You see it with your mind. There are many things in the universe that we don't see with our eyes but with our minds.

They did some research and found that "We can only see 2.5% of the rays with our eyes." The rest is just part of existence we can understand with our minds. - Why can't I see His Essence instead of His attributes? + It is not possible to see Him in this world. Why not? Consider the following: If He created the universe, this means He existed before the universe. So, His existence is not dependent on the universe. Therefore, it wouldn't be logical to seek Him in the world or the universe in terms of His Essence. After all, if we saw him, it wouldn't be a test, would it? Suppose that everyone sees Allah. So, what's the point of the test then?

Therefore, we should not see Him so that the secret of this test isn't compromised. - Okay, I can't see Him in this world, but will I be able to see Him in the hereafter? + He will be seen in the hereafter; there are verses and hadiths regarding this. It is mentioned in verses 22 and 23 of the Chapter of al-Qiyamah. Let me read them to you directly. Bismillah وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَاضِرَةٌۙ اِلٰى رَبِّهَا نَاظِرَةٌۚ That is to say, "Some faces, that Day, will beam (in brightness and beauty); Looking towards their Lord." However, a lot more detail is given in hadiths: Jarir b. Abdullah says: "We were sitting with the Messenger of Allah (pbuh).

He looked at the moon on the 14th of that month and said: You will definitely see your Lord as you see this moon. and you won't have trouble seeing Him because of the crowd." There are more verses and hadiths like this as evidence in this regard. So, those who believe will see Him in Paradise. - We can't see Him in this world because we are dependent on a place. Well, isn't Paradise also a place? + The eyes of this world and the eyes of the hereafter are different. For example, can we see angels when we look at them now? We don't see them but it is said that we will see them directly when we go to paradise, right? It is also said that we will see the jinn.

In other words, when we go to paradise, many of our abilities will develop and manifest; they will improve. Therefore, our ability to see will be different and the quality of it will also be very different. That is, Allah is beyond time and space, but we will see Him, and it is not possible to understand the nature of it now. Similarly, if you try to explain colours to someone who is born blind; he's never seen colours; how can you explain them to him? Therefore, it's something we can understand only when we see it and experience it. - I will ask you a question that everybody asks at least once in his childhood. What does Allah look like?

+ As a matter of fact, He does not look like anything, which is also stated in the following verse: بِسْــــــــــــــــــــــمِ اﷲِارَّحْمَنِ ارَّحِيم لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهٖ شَيْءٌۚ (ash-Shura-11) and the rest of the verse. That is, "There is nothing like Him." Therefore, He does not resemble anything like His creation in terms of His Essence. As we've just said, since He created the concept of space and everything in it, He doesn't look anything like it. It is necessary to divide it into two: His Essence and His attributes. In other words, in terms of His essence, He does not resemble anything and nothing compares to Him. But in terms of attributes, we are similar to Him.

How do we understand that? Because in the Quran, God Almighty uses terms that we can understand while describing Himself. For instance, He says: وَهُوَ السّمٖيعُ الْبَصٖيرُ That is, He is the one that hears all and sees all. Hearing is a term I use for myself. When Allah addresses me, He introduces Himself to me using the term I use, to hear. The following is stated in another verse, at the end of verse 44 of the chapter of Al-Isra: اِنَهُ كَانَ حَلٖيماً غَفُوراً That is, "He is Halim, Ghafur." What does Halim mean? Most forbearing; Not hurrying to punish; Patient. Normally, we can use this word for ourselves. We say: "This man is a patient man." He forgives; he's lenient.

That is, he gives relief; or he is Ghafur; that is, he forgives. In fact, this word is also a word we use for ourselves. In other words, when Allah introduces Himself, He often introduces Himself through the words we use. Our Prophet, peace be upon him, gave examples of mother's compassion to explain the mercy of Allah. So how do we make the comparison here? We do not resemble Him in any way in terms of His essence; nothing is like Him, but we have similarities in terms of attributes. That is, Allah can see; we can see too, but He doesn't need eyes. We don't know how He sees, but we know that He sees. Therefore, we are in no way similar in terms of His Essence.

He gave us a very small sample of some features so that we could know Him in terms of His attributes. Thus, by looking at them, we can think, "Just as I am compassionate to people and am kind so too does Allah have mercy on all of us." These attributes are minimal manifestations of His names. We can think of a mother's compassion as a small manifestation of Allah's mercy. - How do we know that Allah is one? It may be easier and better if two people do a job. If a person holds one end of this table and someone else holds the other, it can be lifted more easily. Is it not possible for more than one person to manage the affairs of the universe?

+ Consider your table example like this: When you hold it by this end and the other person holds it by the other end, if you want to go this way and he wants to go that way, on the contrary, it will be more difficult. As a matter of fact, the second person always makes it difficult in terms of management. Why? Think of it like this: For example, I want to make a decision, you want to make a decision too. What will happen? There are two possibilities, each of us will say something different or we'll both agree.. Both possibilities actually lead to confusion. Why? If the two of you can't get along, there may be no result. On the other hand, if you agree, your willpower is restricted.

So, in fact, he yields to your decision, or, you yield to his. And this means weakness, which is opposite to the concept of divinity. If a deity needs nothing and at the same time has no weakness, the existence of another deity is not logical. It won't add anything extra. Besides, there's no evidence that there is more than one deity. When you look at the works in the universe, you can't say, "I understand from this that there is more than one god. It is certain." You can't provide me with such evidence. So, there is no evidence that there is more than one deity. It isn't logical; there is no need for it.

When you look at the universe, you can see proofs of the oneness of Allah in many places. You can generally see them. For example, when you look at the universe, you see the planets rotating in space, right? The spheres rotate. You look into an object, you see that spheres actually turn in atoms, the smallest pieces. So, just like the artist's signature, or cleaning activity, when you go anywhere in the world, you can see that an animal cleans itself. For example, a duck cleans its own body. When you look elsewhere, when you look at a cat, you see that the cat also cleans itself. When you look elsewhere, you see that the fly also cleans itself.

Or when you go to another place, you see a snake changing its skin. In fact, that is also a cleaning activity. So, wherever you go in the world, when you see that cleaning activity, it is actually a signature of the same artist. There is a cleaning activity seen everywhere; when we look inside human body we see a constant renewal, we see constant refreshing. Dead cells go away, and new ones come in. The blood is constantly purified. Common laws and common examples can be seen in many places in the universe that shows that they all actually come from the same artist, and have the same signature. Let's think of it through a very simple example.

Imagine having some red ink in one hand and blue ink in the other. Suppose that this ink is infinite. I start to pour this one from one end of the table, then I start to pour the other one from the other end and the two flow and meet in the middle. The blue ink will surpass the red or the red will surpass the blue. But, consider the following: If the red surpasses the blue, the blue cannot be infinite, and if the blue passes the red, the red cannot be infinite. So, I can't say both are infinite, If they don't surpass each other and stay in the middle, this shows weakness. Therefore, if there is infinity, this infinity must be one. So, a paradox intervenes.

If there is an infinite one, one of those colours must be infinite. If you think that there are two gods or more, the existence of one will restrict the will of the other. When it is restricted, weakness will occur, which is contrary to the concept of divinity? If there is an infinite being, that being must be one. Everything else will be under His command. - How does Allah do all the work at the same time? + In fact, He has placed some examples in the universe for us to understand this. For example? Mirrors. Suppose that we fill this room with 100 mirrors, all right? And we put a light or lit a fire in the middle of the room.

When we put 100 mirrors around the light, will the light enter all the mirrors with its entire beam and image? It will. Will the light getting into one of those mirrors prevent it from entering others? No, it won't. Will it delay? No, it won't Since the light entered 99 mirrors, can you say it should enter the 100th mirror a bit less? No, you can't. When you look at the universe created by Allah, based on the rules set by Him, light can enter 100 mirrors at the same time and be reflected; and the occurrence of one thing does not prevent the other. Let's think about it with another example: The Sun ...

The Sun reflects some light into your eye; it reflects its light on the sea at the same time; it enters a piece of glass at the same time. When you consider it, does the sun's light entering a piece of glass prevent it from being reflected in the bubbles above the sea? No, it doesn't. The Sun is visible in it; a small reflection of the Sun is visible in it, right? So, the Sun's reflection in anything transparent does not delay or prevent its reflection in or on others; Or, you can't say "Since it got into everything, less sunlight will enter another piece of glass." Other examples like this can be considered.

Or, you should think as follows: In the universe created by Allah, the Sun He created or the light He created, mirrors He created... Can they do things with the rules He has set? Yes, they can. Can you see that light in 100 mirrors at the same time? Yes, you can. Similarly, Allah doing one thing does not prevent Him from doing another; doing one thing does not give him any difficulty in doing another. He even put a very simple example in the universe so that we could understand it. - If Allah is beyond time and space, how come He is closer to us than our jugular vein? + In fact, he set an example in the universe to enable us to understand this. Like what? You can simply think of the sun.

Are you close to the Sun now? You aren't. You're very far away, aren't you? But actually, the Sun is very close to you. How? Does the sun send you its light? Yes, it does. Does it touch your skin? Yes, it does. Do the sun's rays enter your body? Yes, they do. When you consider the food you eat, do the Sun's rays enter it? Yes, they do. So, you are very far away from the Sun, but the Sun is very close to you. Similarly, we are far away from Allah; yes, there are 70,000 curtains in between. But, in terms of his manifestations, Allah gives us life with His name Al-Hayy (The Alive), doesn't He? Or, He gives us sustenance with His name Ar-Razzaq; He gives us beauty with His name Al-Jamil.

With the manifestations of His names and attributes, He is closer to us than we are. He is the reason why we exist and continue to exist. - We say, "Allah is not like humans", but Allah gets angry, furious and sometimes threatens. What is the reason for this? + When we say anger, this is what we think of in general: "I couldn't keep my temper; I didn't do it willingly, etc." Anger isn't always bad. For example, to ensure justice in a country, the administrator of that place must have anger. Why? When anger is present, he can punish the oppressor; when anger is present, he can threaten the oppressor so that the crime rate stays low, right?

This anger or this threat aims to ensure justice there. In other words, it aims to protect the oppressed and intimidate the oppressors. That is to say, the attitude needs to change according to the audience; anger is needed against the oppressor. God Almighty shows mercy to the person worthy of compassion. We see it in many places in the Quran. The verses related to mercy mentioned in the Quran are double the verses related to punishment. As for the issue of resemblance, we've just talked about it a little bit. For example, when we say "Al-Sami, Al-Basir", "Hears all, Sees all", yes, He has the characteristics of hearing and seeing, but we do not know its nature.

Similarly, God Almighty gets angry, but its nature is unknown to us. One of the names of Allah is Al-Qahhar; for example, when you think about it, the oppressors need to be destroyed. So, Allah is Al-Qahhar; He gets angry, but it is not a sign of weakness in Him, unlike you and me. He has anger that befits Him. - We say, "Allah is infinite," but I cannot perceive what infinity is like. Can you explain it to me? + When you say you want to understand infinity, you need to know what you want to learn. If you say, "I want to understand an infinite being fully with my mind", you can't do that. Why not? Because you are limited. So, you can't understand Him fully.

"What does infinite mean?" That is, I say, "Allah is the owner of Infinite Power." If you say, "How can I understand it?" You can understand it. How? Some characteristics are either inherent or external in people. I want to say this, For instance, wetness ... When you wet a towel, that property is external. That is, it has come to it from the outside (as a towel is not inherently wet), but wetness in water is inherent. Can you say "When did the water get wet?" You don't ask such a question or ask, "Who wet this water?" The water has always been wet! That is the property of water itself. When a feature is passed on to someone later, it is external. If it always had it, it is inherent.

So, when we look at the power in you and me, does it come from Allah? Yes, it does. So, power is external in you and me. That is, what we can do is limited. I can do this, but I can't do that. If I do this, I can't do that. But since power is inherent in Allah, doing one thing does not prevent Him from doing another. He can handle everything at the same time. When we view the issue of infinity like this, it can be easily understood. - That's all for our questions today. Thank you for answering our questions. + The answers to the questions discussed here can be found in the Risale-i Nur tafsir.

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