Where Is Allah?

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum

Dear Friends

I pray that you are well.

Today is the second day of the mubarak ten days of Zhulhijjah, the days that Allah Most High swears by in the Qur'an saying:

وَٱلْفَجْرِ ﴿١﴾ وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍ ﴿٢

By the break of Day (1) And [by] ten nights (2)
[Qur'an Al-Fajr 89:1-2]

But where is Allah? This is a loaded question. It makes an assumption that Allah exists in a place, i.e. in a place relative to you--towards the direction of your head, feet, right or left.

Allah does not exist in a place. Allah is not a body that occupy space.

This is a child's answer to the question.

Questioner: Where is Allah?

Child: Allah is everywhere and no where.

Questioner: How can everywhere and no where be at the same time?

Child: Allah is everywhere because where ever I go He is with me. Allah is no where because Allah does not exist in a place.

Questioner: Why can't Allah be here?

Child: Because Allah created every place.

A child knows this but how many adults are having difficulty understanding this? Perhaps a lot more than it should be. Why? Because we adults have gone further and further away from our fitrah (our nature created by Allah). This is a consequence of our own heedlessness of Allah. We are too busy with our lives and we forget Allah even though we know this life is not going to stay forever. Allah is there whether we see Him or not and whatever we do He sees and we should be afraid. We are going to return to Allah sooner than we think and what are we going to bring with us? Nothing except our deeds. No friends, no wives/husbands, no children, no houses, no bosses, no titles, no prestige, no TV, no laptop/iphones, no investment accounts to buy our way into Paradise.

Remember Shaytan had said, "and indeed I will order them to change the nature created by Allah.’[Qur'an Nisa’ 4:119]

إِن يَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِهِۦٓ إِلَّآ إِنَـٰثًا وَإِن يَدْعُونَ إِلَّا شَيْطَـٰنًا مَّرِيدًا ﴿١١٧﴾ لَّعَنَهُ ٱللَّـهُ ۘ وَقَالَ لَأَتَّخِذَنَّ مِنْ عِبَادِكَ نَصِيبًا مَّفْرُوضًا ﴿١١٨﴾ وَلَأُضِلَّنَّهُمْ وَلَأُمَنِّيَنَّهُمْ وَلَـَٔامُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَيُبَتِّكُنَّ ءَاذَانَ ٱلْأَنْعَـٰمِ وَلَـَٔامُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَيُغَيِّرُنَّ خَلْقَ ٱللَّـهِ ۚ وَمَن يَتَّخِذِ ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنَ وَلِيًّا مِّن دُونِ ٱللَّـهِ فَقَدْ خَسِرَ خُسْرَانًا مُّبِينًا ﴿١١٩﴾ يَعِدُهُمْ وَيُمَنِّيهِمْ ۖ وَمَا يَعِدُهُمُ ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنُ إِلَّا غُرُورًا ﴿١٢٠﴾ أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ مَأْوَىٰهُمْ جَهَنَّمُ وَلَا يَجِدُونَ عَنْهَا مَحِيصًا ﴿١٢١

They call upon instead of Him none but female [deities], and they [actually] call upon none but a rebellious Satan. (117) Whom Allah has cursed. For he had said, "I will surely take from among Your servants a specific portion. (118) And I will mislead them, and I will arouse in them [sinful] desires, and I will command them so they will slit the ears of cattle, and I will command them so they will change the creation of Allah." And whoever takes Satan as an ally instead of Allah has certainly sustained a clear loss. (119) Satan promises them and arouses desire in them. But Satan does not promise them except delusion. (120) The refuge of those will be Hell, and they will not find from it an escape. (121)
[Qur'an Nisa’ 4:117-121}

If you know someone is an enemy, would you follow him? Shaytan is our clear enemy. Don't follow the Shaytan. Fight the Shaytan in us and the Shaytan outside of us to gain back our fitrah.

May Allah make us His obedient slaves and grant us righteous deeds. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your prayers. JazakAllahu khairan.

And Allah knows best.
Wassalaam