The Impact of Belief in the Unseen in the Light of Islam

Abstract

Allah, the Glory be to Him, created the universe and populated it with uncountable creatures and things which some of them we can perceive through our five senses, whereas others are beyond our conception even if we enlist the help of all available media and tools, irrespective of the degree to which science has developed. This dominion which laid beyond our perception is the sign of the existing of Allah (s.w.t) the unseen. The paper is trying to address the issue of creed in Islamic religion which some unbelievers are confuse on. The paper adopted descriptive method for simplifying the issue, the unseen is something absent so far as the knowledge of man is concerned but is so close to him when he looks in to the reality, for instance, look in to the human beings, his hearing, growing, speech, intellect, heaven, earth, thunder, sun, moon, e.t.c you will find out are beyond the interpretation of common man, and not in terms of the ability of Allah (S.W.T.) Allah the Exalted created everything; nothing is beyond His knowledge. The unseen we are required to believe in is everything that laid beyond the physical reach of man and is only known through divine revelation. Muslim themselves are differed about the believe in the unseen, due to that confusion some even claimed that they have knowledge of the unseen through divine revelation, while many verses of the Qur'an restricted the knowledge of the unseen to Allah alone.

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