Where is Allah at the moment and what is He doing?
Dear Brother / Sister,
It is certain that the maker of something does not resemble what he has made. He is not of the same type. For example, the maker of a car is quite different from the car; similarly, the maker of a stove is different from the stove. Likewise, Allah, the Pre-Eternal and Post-Eternal) is different from His creatures.
Allah is the unique Creator and He is not like the contingent creatures because one is the Creator and the other is the creature. Is it ever possible that the Creator and the creature, the killer and the killed to be equal? Allah, the Creator of life and death is pre-eternal and post-eternal.
It is inconceivable to mention direction or side for Allah because they are just relative things, not really existent. That is, they are considered with respect to the entities. For example, with respect to an ant walking on the ceiling, it is above, and we are below. For an ant walking on the ground, we are above, and it is below. Before the creation of the universe, the six directions (left – right – up – down – back – front) did not exist. Later on, the people adopted them in order to arrange their daily life. What is level with the chest is called the front, and what is across it is called the back (or rear)
Allah was existent when the entities and the directions were non-existent. Thus, the concept of direction is considered for us, not for Allah. Wherever a person turns, Allah is there.
From one aspect, it is like the sun, which is a manifestation of Allah’s Holy name “Nur (the Light)”, wherever a man turns, the sun is there with its light. That means, it is existent in all six directions.
When our Prophet (PBUH) was asked “Where is Allah?” he responded “He was existent alone, and nothing else co-existed with Him. …” (Bukhari, Wars, 67, 74, Beginning of the Creation 1, Unity 22; Tirmidhi, Stories, 3946)
“To Allah belongs the East and the West; whithersoever ye turn, there is Allah's countenance. For Allah is All-Embarcing All-Knowing” al-Baqara 115
“Every day in (new) Splendour doth He (shine) ar-(Rahman 29)
“He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days, and is moreover firmly established on the Throne (of authority), He knows what enters within the earth and what comes forth out of it, what comes down from heaven and what mounts up to it. And He is with you wheresoever ye may be. And Allah sees well all that ye do” (al-Hadid 4)
“If ye help not (your Leader) (it is no matter): for Allah did indeed help him; when the unbelievers drove him out: he had no more than one companion: they two were in the cave, and he said to his companion "Have no Fear, for Allah is with us"” (at-Tawbah 40)
“We are nearer to him than (his) jugular vein (Qaf 16)”
A man reminded Imam Abu Hanifa, the verse in the meaning: “He is with you” (al-Hadid 4) He responded to him : “It is like your writing a letter to someone and say that you are with him. But actually you are not in his presence”
When a worshipper of nature asked Imam Azam (The Greatest Imam ) Abu Hanifa his last question:
- What is Allah doing now?,
he responded :
-Come down and I will go up there, and then I will answer your question.
They exchanged places and then he said to the disbeliever:
- Right now, Allah has made a disbeliever like you come down, and He has made a believer like me go up here.
Allah is continually in action in the universe. Like the sun shining on the things, Allah similarly manifests His Divine Names on all things continually.
The changes in the entities are just the different manifestations of Allah’s names on them.
Right now, Allah knows what we write and what you read and He creates one thing connected to everything and everything connected to one thing.
Where is Allah?
Questions on Islam
- How should we understand the statement, "Allah is not anywhere and He is everywhere"? They say, "Allah is very close to us and we are far away from Him." How is it possible?
- Third Aim: The explanation of verses such as “The Best of Creators” and “The Most Compassionate of the Compassionate” and the answer to the question about the perfection of the Creator of all the worlds.
- Second Station: It is a summary about the proof of oneness from the point of the Greatest Name.
- Why is Hell eternal for unbelievers?
- What are the attributes of Allah? How many types of attributes are there?
- Considering that almighty Allah does not need anything, why did he create the universe?
- The Thirty-Third Word: It explains that there is a window opening to Almighty Allah in everything with thirty-three examples.
- The Eleventh Word: The meanings that prescribed prayers express. The aims of the creation of senses and faculties of man. The nine aims of human life.
- What is the meaning of the two centromeres in human chromosome?
- Fourth Truth: The indication of the truths of generosity and beauty whose works are visible in this world and the names of Generous and Beautiful to the hereafter.

