My friend is a man who loves to argue and enjoys talking. He believes that we, the naive believers, feed on illusions, fool ourselves with paradise and beautiful-eyed companions, and miss out on the pleasures and temptations of this world. My friend, by the way, graduated from France, earned a doctorate, lived with hippies, and came to deny everything.

He said to me mockingly: "You say that God exists, and your main proof is the law of 'causality,' which states that every creation has a creator, every work has a maker, and every existence has a source. The fabric points to the weaver, the painting to the painter, the engraving to the engraver, and by this logic, the universe is the most eloquent proof of the Almighty God who created it. We believed and had faith in this Creator... But by the same logic, are we not entitled to ask... who created the Creator? Who created the God you speak of? Don't your own deductions lead to this... according to the same law of causality? What do you think of this predicament, if you please?"

And we say to him: "Your question is flawed... there is no predicament. You accept that God is a creator and then ask who created Him?! You make Him both a creator and a created being in the same sentence, which is a contradiction. The other flaw in your question is that you imagine the Creator is subject to the laws of His creatures. Causality is our law, we who are children of time and space. God, who created time and space, is necessarily beyond time and space, and it is not right for us to imagine Him bound by time and space or by the laws of time and space. God is the one who created the law of causality, so it is not permissible to imagine Him being subject to the law He created. With this sophistry, you are like puppets moved by a spring who imagine that the human who made them must also be moved by a spring. If we told them he moves of his own accord, they would say: it's impossible for something to move on its own... in my world, I see everything moves by a spring. Similarly, you cannot imagine that God exists by Himself without a creator, simply because you see everything around you needing a creator."

• Author: Mustafa Mahmoud
• Publisher: Maktabat Misr-Cairo
• Edition: 1
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Parts: 1
• Pages: 119
• Binding: Paperback
• Paper Type: White
• Printing Colors: Monochrome