09-08-2004, 11:51 AM
Salam,
I see what youre saying - and I know the Quran specificaly says that Allah was not begotten.
That, I am OK with. What I do not get, is when Muslims say not only say "God was not begotten" which is OK...but then they say "God cannot be begotten <b>because that is a very unclean and ugly process. Do you think a God would do such things</b>?"
It is that statement at the end - that God cannot due things that us humans may say are ugly, unclean, improper. Who are we to say what is ugly, unclean, and unfit for God?
That is all I'm trying to get at.
Sure - the Quran says got WAS not begotten....but (hypotheticaly) what if God decided to begotten? Muslims would say that he cannot be cause it is unclean and unfit for a God. That is equal to telling God what he can and cannot do. Allah is the God, not us - so why would we attempt to lay out the rules for Him?
The Quran says God was not begotten - but if God decided tomorrow that he will be begotten, or that he will eat, or sleep, or do anything a human may say is "unclean" then God is fully able to do that if He wanted to - regardless of how improper we may think it is.