A Respond to the Deist?

How should we respond to those who believe only in Allah but do not believe in religions, books and prophets (deists)?

“Their messengers said: “Is there a doubt about Allah, the Creator of the heavens and the earth?”  

Al-Qur’an, 14/10.

The verse above clearly states that the existence of Allah is the greatest fact. While even a needle cannot come into being without a master, this universe and everything in it can never come into being without Allah. Deists, who understand it with their conscience and mind, state that they believe in Allah by saying, “There is a creator.” Since the soul does not want to be under divine orders and prohibitions and wants to live freely like an animal, they say, “We do not believe in prophets, books and religions” to find a way out. However, believing in Allah necessitates believing in His prophets and the books He sent with them.

The realities of belief are a whole. A believer who believes in Allah will also believe in His book, the Quran, so that he can know his Lord with a true faith.

The human mind can know that there is a Creator of him and this world but he cannot know His names and attributes, His commands and prohibitions, His eternal home and the ways to Paradise unless He informs him.

Then, belief in Allah necessitates belief in the Books, especially the Quran. We can know Allah only through the books He sent. People who believe in the books and the Quran have to believe in the prophethood of other prophets, especially the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), because the Books were revealed to them. A person who believes in books and prophets has to believe in Gabriel (Jibril) the angel of revelation because the books were sent down to the Prophets through Gabriel. It is the first and biggest step of belief in angels. As it is seen, all of these realities are interconnected and cannot be separated from one another.

Accepting the prophets and the books requires fulfilling fards and avoiding harams.

We know the sun through its light. We cannot know the sun without its light. Similarly, Allah introduces Himself to us with His prophets and divine books. It is not possible for a person to know Allah without a prophet and a book because a book without a teacher is just a meaningless piece of paper even if every letter of it is full of subtle meanings. The meaning of this book of the universe can only be understood through the prophets and books that are sent.

To sum up, there is no logical explanation for believing in Allah but not accepting prophets, religions and books.

Nur Way