God - God is love
by Asghar Ali Engineer
If we start with the atheistic premise there is no way one can prove God's existence. And if you start with a theistic premise, any proof becomes redundant. Thus God cannot be understood in rational categories but only in value categories
I was brought up in the orthodox Bohra Muslim family of a priest. Belief in God was not merely a cultural but a theological phenomenon for me. It was a great sin even to think that there was no God. I, like others brought up in an orthodox Islamic milieu, took God's existence for granted and believed that God was only one.
In my school days I read Urdu poetry avidly, which was full of
The author is an eminent religious reformer and supporter of civil liberties. He is the Founder Chairman of the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism and Vice President of the People's Union for Civil Liberties.
Email: csss@vsnl.com.
—photographs by Martin Louis
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