Rationality requires belief in God

]Rationality
requires belief in God
[b][font=Arial]It is a common perception in the (post?)
Christian world that 'faith' or 'belief' is irrational; that a
matter of faith is one for which there is little or no evidence.
To the Muslim this seems quite absurd. In Islam people who
disbelieve in Allah and in the prophethood of Muhammad can only
do so out of ignorance or out of wilful denial of what is evident
to them as clear as seeing
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[b][font=Arial]Say thou: "This is my way: I do
invite unto Allah on evidence clear as the seeing with one's
eyes, I and whoever follows me: Glory to Allah! and never
will I join gods with Allah!"
</blockquote>]For the Muslim, belief in Allah forms a
foundational requirement of rationality and belief in Muhammad as
the prophet of Allah follows from applying the rational mind to
the evidence of his mission.]
[b][font=Arial]There are many ways in which we may
describe rational thinking. From the world view of Islam there is
good thinking and bad thinking and 'rational' thinking is nothing
more than morally good thinking. Someone who strives to do that
which is right in the way he thinks, who is sincere and avoids
self deception, someone who seeks the truth, avoids biases and
prejudice in his opinions, who seeks knowledge from all available
sources, someone who reflects on what he sees and always looks
for explanations and doesn't accept that things are as they are
simply without any reason, someone who tries to avoid any
contradictions in his understandings, such a person is rational
and such a person is one who seeks to think, learn and decide in
a morally good way.
If someone tries to do what is morally
right they are already acknowledging that there is a moral good
to achieve. Such moral value only exists if existence as a whole
achieves something morally good, i.e. if existence has a purpose.
If you think that existence as a whole has
no purpose and achieves nothing, then it follows that whatever
you do in life achieves exactly nothing as well - your life would
contribute no value to existence.
There is no moral good in doing what your
own desires find good or what your family or nation finds good.
The only way what you do achieves a moral good is if it achieves
something towards the purpose of existence. Every good that can
be achieved is either instrumental to the purpose of existence
and therefore a true moral good or it is false good and worth
nothing.
The core of all value and purpose to
existence is commonly known by the name Allah or God. He is the
ultimate purpose to existence and the achievement of what is
morally good equates to getting closer to Him. Allah is more than
we can ever fully understand but in order to have morally good
thinking it is essential to believe in Allah in some sense
whatever name we use for Him.
It is also essential to reject as having
any hold over us anything or anyone who asserts that a good can
be achieved without it being instrumental to the purpose to
existence. i.e. without it being for the sake of Allah.
A person who has amoral thinking or immoral
thinking acknowledges that there is no inherent value to the way
they think and will see no problem in changing the criteria by
which they decide to accept or reject conclusions. Whatever
definition of rationality could be used there is, for such
people, no reason why they should accept it. If being rational by
some definition leads to conclusions they don't like then they
can just change the definition. In extreme cases there can never
be enough evidence and strong arguments for them to accept a
statement as true, they just continually move the criteria of
what constitutes for them convincing evidence and argument
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[b][font=Arial]Being rational means being a moral
thinker.
Being a moral thinker means believing in Allah.
Only the irrational disbelieve.

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