In these times of ignorance a question which\u00a0is being posed to people to gauge whether they are believers or not is, ‘Where is Allah?’ It is sad that this is being used as a criterion of Iman and Shirk.<\/p>\n
If one is confronted by such people of ignorance one answer to give them is “Assalamu Alaikum”.<\/p>\n
Another answer is the one the Quran gave when the Messenger (\u0635\u0644\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647 \u0648 \u0633\u0644\u0645)<\/span>\u00a0was asked a similar question by a bedouin. Ibn Abi Hatim narrates in his “Tafsir”\u00a0(1\/314)\u00a0that a bedouin came to the Messenger (\u0635\u0644\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647 \u0648 \u0633\u0644\u0645)<\/span>\u00a0and asked him, “Is our Lord close that I may whisper to him, or is He far that I may scream?” The Messenger (\u0635\u0644\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647 \u0648 \u0633\u0644\u0645)\u00a0<\/span>remained silent. Allah then revealed the verse 128 of Surah Baqarah:<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u0648\u064e\u0625\u0650\u0630\u064e\u0627 \u0633\u064e\u0623\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0643\u064e \u0639\u0650\u0628\u064e\u0627\u062f\u0650\u064a \u0639\u064e\u0646\u0651\u0650\u064a \u0641\u064e\u0625\u0650\u0646\u0651\u0650\u064a \u0642\u064e\u0631\u0650\u064a\u0628\u064c<\/strong><\/p>\n “And when My slaves ask you (O Muhammad) concerning Me, then (answer them), ‘I am indeed near<\/strong>‘.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In another narration collected by Abdur Razzaq in his Tafsir (1\/73) it is stated that, the Sahabah asked the Messenger\u00a0(\u0635\u0644\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647 \u0648 \u0633\u0644\u0645), ‘Where is our Lord’? So Allah revealed the above verse.<\/span><\/p>\n Ibn Jarir Tabri narrates both in his Tafsir (3\/223) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Ibn Katheer also mentions both in his Tafsir (1\/505-506)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In these times of ignorance a question which\u00a0is being posed to people to gauge whether they are believers or not is, ‘Where is Allah?’ It…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aqidah","category-tafseer","wpcat-2-id","wpcat-21-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}