A Muslim Understanding of God's Perpetual Activity | Dr. Shabir Ally

Muslims have had intense debates about whether God created the universe out of nothing or if God created it eternally out of the perfection of His nature. So too have people of other faiths. In the Middle Ages, Christians moved towards the view that God created the universe out of nothing, from which the implication seemed to follow that in the conceptual pre-creation era, God was all alone. Some Christians have suggested that the Muslim God is deficient, as prior to the creation, God would have had no one to love, a problem solved by the Trinity doctrine which posits that the three divine persons loved each other before creation. But surprisingly, Ibn Taymiyyah argued that God must have always been creating. Dr. Shabir Ally says that it is thus possible for a Muslim adopting Ibn Taymiyyah's view to say that there never was a time when God was alone, and that God always had His creation to love.

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