How to acquire the knowledge of Allah?
Now the question arises: How to acquire the knowledge and belief in Allah, His attributes, His Law, and the Day of Judgment? We have already referred to the countless manifestations of Allah around us and in our own selves, which bear witness to the fact that there is One and only One Creator and Governor of this universe and it is He Who controls and directs it. These witnesses reflect the divine attributes of the Creator: His great wisdom, His all-embracing knowledge, His omnipotence, His mercy, His all-sustaining power, His force — in short, His attributes can be traced everywhere in His works. But man’s intellect and his capacity to attain knowledge have erred in observing and understanding them. These are all manifest and clear and our eyes are open to read what is written large on the creation. But here men have erred. Some have declared that there are two gods, others began to profess belief in trinity, and still others succumbed to polytheism. Some began nature-worship and oth
