Rock-a-Bye Allah
- philhoraia
- Feb 28, 2023
- 2 min read
Muslims will say that Jesus cannot be God because he slept and that Allah doesn't.
S 2:255 Allah--there is no god but him, the living, the qayyum. Neither slumber nor sleep takes him. His is what is in the skies and what is on the Earth. Who is the one who intercedes with him but with his permission? He knows what is in front of them and what is behind them. And they do not surround anything of his knowledge but what he has willed. His chair was wide over the skies and the Earth. And his guarding them does not tire him. And he is the high, the great.
The Quran makes it clear that Allah is a physical being.
Most creatures probably need some sleep. A lack of sleep has a deleterious effect on tissues and may even shorten life expectancy. From an article:
How long can you go without sleep?
By Sleepio
What's the longest you have gone without sleep? Like breathing, sleep is a fundamental human requirement. It has even been said that one could survive for three times as long without food as one could without sleep. Despite research such as this, there is still much which remains unexplained around the importance of sleep. In fact, in the study described above, it cannot be established that sleep deprivation was the cause of these animals' deaths. A number of the methods used in research can be identified as potential causes – the animals being wakened using an electric shock each time they lapsed into sleep, for example. The question of how long a human can go without sleep remains unanswered by research. We are aware however, of cases outside scientific study where people have died after periods of no sleep at all. Fatal familial insomnia Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a rare, and ultimately terminal, genetically inherited prion disease. Once an individual begins to show the symptoms of FFI, starting with insomnia, the illness progresses quickly and further symptoms emerge. These symptoms include hallucinations, weight loss and finally dementia before their death. The best-known case of FFI is that of Michael Corke, who died after 6 months of total sleep deprivation. As with the clinical experiments on animals, it is very difficult to determine whether lack of sleep is the definitive cause of death in people suffering from FFI. Thus, we cannot conclude that 6 months really is how long you can go without sleep before you die. https://www.sleepio.com/articles/sleep-science/how-long-can-you-go-without-sleep/#:~:text=Fatal%20familial%20insomnia&text=The%20best%2Dknown%20case%20of,in%20people%20suffering%20from%20FFI.
Now, the Quran indicates that Allah is either perishing or has perished. From lack of sleep?
S 28:88 And do not invoke another god with Allah. There is no god but him. Everything is perishing except his face. His is the judgment and to him you are returned.
S 55:26-27 Everyone on it is evanescent. But the face of your lord, the possessor of majesty and honour, remains.
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