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I send this article as appeared on pakforuum@yahoo.com


>Atheists Are Polytheists!
>by Dr. Jaafar Sheikh Idris
>
>     An atheist is said to be someone who denies the existence of the
>Creator. This is a good definition, provided that we mean by it that the
>creator whose existence they deny is only the God of religion, the one true
>Creator. Otherwise, atheists do believe in creators, albeit they do not
>recognize them by that name. This is so because atheists, in their endeavor
>to find alternatives to God for explaining the existence of the temporal
>things we see around us, invent some imaginary entities and give them some
>of the essential attributes of God.
>
>     Thus materialistic atheists used to believe in matter as such a god.
>But this matter-god of theirs is not the matter with which we are familiar
>in our daily life; it is something that is eternal and everlasting, hence
>the statement, which used to masquerade as a scientific fact, “matter is
>neither created nor destroyed.” But when you ask them to point to this
>eternal and everlasting matter you discover that they are only chasing a
>will-o’-the-wisp. The matter that we can recognize and to which we can
>point is matter in the form of the large heavenly bodies, in the form of
>earthly physical things, and in the form of the constituents of these
>things: molecules, atoms, subatomic particles, photons, etc., none of which
>is eternal. Atheistic materialists used to believe in an eternal matter
>behind all such material things which come and go, but the advent of the
>“big bang” theory shattered all hopes in the existence of such matter.
>Scientists now believe that everything - matter, energy, even space and
>time - had a beginning. In fact they speak about a moment of creation of
>all these things.
>
>     Another such imaginary god is Nature (with a capital N). The nature
>with which we are familiar is the totality of natural things. But when we
>are told that Nature does this or that, as atheists are prone to say, we
>find ourselves at a loss. What is this Nature? If it be the one we know,
>how can it cause or create itself? But if it is something else, then we
>want to have proof of its existence.
>
>     The same applies to evolution. Now evolution, scientifically speaking,
>is “the gradual process by which the present diversity of plant and animal
>life arose from the earliest and most primitive organisms…” (Concise
>Science Dictionary). But the Evolution of the atheists is not this process;
>rather it is the agent which brings about the process. Only in this
>unscientific and imaginary sense can evolution take the place of God;
>otherwise, a believer who accepts the theory of evolution can easily
>reconcile it with his belief in God, by saying that that process is itself
>the work of the Creator.
>
>     There are, on the other hand, atheists who say in a misleading way that
>they believe in God; but on inspection, their god turns out to be the god
>of the atheists. I am referring here to people like Einstein, who is said
>by some to have been a believer, but whose god was in fact not God the
>Creator in whom we all believer. Einstein declared that he believed in
>“Spinoza’s god”, i.e. in a god that is identical with the universe, and who
>does not thus interfere from outside in its working. “The man who is
>thoroughly convinced of the universal operation of the law of causation,”
>says Einstein, “cannot for a moment entertain the idea of a being who
>interferes in the course of events.”1
>
>     Thus all atheists are, in fact, polytheists (mushriks). A mushrik,
>according to Islam, is one who believes in a god or gods besides, or to the
>exclusion of, the one true God, or who worships such gods, even if he also
>worships the true God. That perhaps is the reason why the Quran never talks
>about atheists, but only about mushriks.
>
>Source: http://www.viewislam.com/belief/god2.htm
>
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