Chapter One
GOD: PERSONALITY AND CHARACTERISTICS
(OPINION OF DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHERS)


Human being have some basic questions to answer about his creator. These are:
1 What is God and his characteristics and what may the nature of god-creator relation.
2 Can a human recognize God?
3 Do the god possess personality as do the human beings?
Many philosophers have tried to answer all these questions differently. But they have consensus about the existence of God except some secular ones. The real discussion is regarding the characteristics of god, reorganization of god and beginning of religion. Irrespective of all secular opinions of the Greek and western philosophers, holy Qur’an have differently and extensively answered all those questions raised by the philosophers when searching for the reality. For example, some philosophers say that although the god was one, but human were unaware of this.
The holy book says that the human history actually begins with ‘unity’ of god and the polytheism was introduced afterwards. A second important question is that the God does possess personality or he is only a motive force. The answer of Qur’an is that it is humans instinct that he needs ‘someone’ supernatural to him he can pray while in trouble.
The answer of third question that we can recognize God or not is also replied by Qur’an that we could recognize our God by mediating in this universe. The topic of Qur’an is not the existence or personality of god. There are many reasons of this some of which are as follows:
1 The people in that era were aware of the presence of god i.e. Jews, Christians and mushkareens.
2 All the intellectuals and scholars admit that God does exist.
3 The existence of God does not need any argumentation, the universe is main wit of this.
4 The main objective of creation of human is to obey the God not to see the God.
5 By mediation in the universe existence and recognition of god can be achieved.
6 Unity of God is actually is in fact in instinct of human.
7 Human being hate polytheism.
8 The relation of God with human is God-creator relation.
The discussion conclude that one God do exist and we can recognize is him by mediation and we ought to abide by all laws made by him.