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Reading the response from Arbibi Ashoy to an earlier frustration on God's existence, produced in me a small chuckle. Do we think that mathematical and scientific achievements which spring from our God-given mental faculties can explain God?

God is much more than what we can ever be able to imagine in our minds. Remember, whatever sophistication and scientific feats we have achieved are only the result of a tiny percentage of our mental power. Even Einstein, the great genius, was said to have used only less than 50 percent of his total brain power.

With this tiny usage of the brain, we think that we have enough mental capacity to be able to define and explain God. Such is the trauma of ever imagining God that people have succumbed to atheism, failing in their limited ability to fathom God's existence.

Arbibi says that God is energy. Then, pray, who created energy? No mathematical or scientific explanation can give you an answer as to God's history. The result will be a maddening and traumatic journey. In fact, the same science that one religious person uses to prove the existence of God can also be used by an atheist to prove that there is no such thing as God, and that the universe around us are just living beings going through a natural evolutionary processes.

For Muslims, the debate is irrelevant. The Quran has summed up in four short verses how we should view God: 'Say, He is God, the One and Only. God the Eternal, Absolute. He begetted not, nor is He begotten. And there is none like unto Him" (Chapter 112).

Thus the Quran warns us against any form of anthropomorphism, ie, to conceive God after our own pattern. The debate on the existence of God may be as old as God itself (notwithstanding the fact that God has no end, no beginning, as the verses above suggest).

The two religions of monotheism, Islam and Judaism so emphasise the importance of God's oneness and uniqueness (the Arabic word of which is 'tawhid'), that their teachings have put many built-in mechanisms to prevent people from falling into pitfalls in their quest to understand God.

The late English translator of the Quran, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, could not have put it more eloquently when he explains: '.. .the best way in which we can realise Him is to feel that He is a personality, 'He', and not a mere abstract conception of philosophy.'

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