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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Does God Exist? We Can Not See God Once there was a farmer who was a very good man. He worked hard on his farm and said his Salat/Namaz (prayer) on time every day. Once he saw a sick man lying on the roadside. He helped him up and took him home to look after him. The next morning when the farmer got up for Salat he woke up his guest who said he did not want to pray.

The guest said that he could not see God so he did not want to pray to One whom he could not see. The farmer did not say anything. The next day the guest was feeling better and wanted to go home. The farmer walked with him across the fields. Suddenly they saw footprints. The guest told the farmer that they were the footprints of a tiger. "I don't believe that!" said the farmer.

"I can't see a tiger here!" The man looked surprised and said "Are these footprints not enough to tell you that a tiger was here?" The farmer said "Dear brother when you saw the footprints you believed that a tiger had passed this way; so are not the Sun, the Moon, the flowers, and the trees signs enough to make you believe that there must be one who made them?" The man thought for a while and said "You are right.

We can not see God with our eyes but we can understand from the things he has made that He exists." Hence, from the above evidence, discussion and stories, we are certain that Almighty God exists. But just knowing is not sufficient. Because knowledge is simply a mental image, a reflection of some natural interaction upon the intellect. Even religious knowledge, like knowledge from holy texts, is not some sacred thing that automatically distinguishes the one who holds that knowledge.

It isn't necessary to immediately act on that information. Rather, we should allow it to ferment in the soul until it transforms into firmly rooted faith. It will then ignite an intense desire to act. There is a huge gulf between knowledge and action, a gap that is not crossed but by the ship of faith. Look at how persistent some people are in defying the dictates of reason and true character, much less the things that have been spelled out clearly for them like religious prohibitions.

They have the knowledge but it means nothing to them. Now, with the help of the following story we will learn how to place our faith in Almighty God firmly, with sound reasoning and full understanding.