Islamic Psychology on Perception ‘why people try to associate and make similarities to Allah with their environment’.
The Nation of Islam/Five Percent Nation just like Christian and remaining polytheists (eg. idolatrous) anthropomorphosizing Allah, for example NOI/Five percenters A for arm L for leg L leg A arm H head , Fard Muhammad is Allah in person, Christians Jesus is god human in the flesh.
Human tendency to infer upon something they are not familiar with. The human mind we try see things as one whole object and to related something we are not familiar with by what we are familiar with from our environment (based on Gestalt laws of perception example person have something blocking part of his body such as a table our eyes perceive that the missing part of the body we cannot see is a whole body base on our perception of being familiar with how the human body looks like).
This is why Allah say in the Quran:
قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ
اللَّهُ الصَّمَدُ
لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْ
وَلَمْ يَكُن لَّهُ كُفُوًا أَحَدٌ
- “Say: He, Allah, is One (Unique),”
- “Allah, the Eternal,”
- “He begets not, nor is He begotten,”
- “And there is none like unto Him.” Surah Ikhlas
Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the All-Hearer, All-Seer.” [al-Shura 42:11].
“… and they will never encompass anything of His Knowledge.” [Ta-Ha 20:110]
Part of the ‘aqidah (basic beliefs, creed) of the Muslims is that Allah cannot be seen in this world, as He says (interpretation of the meaning):
“No vision can grasp Him” [al-An’am 6:103]
The physical human eye base on the brain have limitations. Why some knowledge of the Unseen world we cant see it or grasp it.
Allah says, in the story of Moosa (peace be upon him) (interpretation of the meaning):
And when Moosa came at the time and place appointed by Us, and his Lord spoke to him, he said, O my Lord! Show me (Yourself), that I may look upon You. Allaah said, You cannot see Me, but look upon the mountain, if its stands still in its place, then you shall see Me. So when his Lord appeared to the mountain, He made it collapse to dust, and Moosa fell down unconscious. Then when he recovered his senses he said, Glory be to You, I turn to You in repentance and I am the first of the believers. [al-Araaf 7:143]
By Abul Baraa Muhammad Amreeki





Leave a comment