A Brief Reflection on "When God Decrees Something, God Says Only, ‘Be,’ And It Is"

There are some important points to reflect on in the following passage:

"This [is] a statement of the Truth about which they are in doubt: it would not befit God to have a child. He is far above that: when God decrees something, God says only, ‘Be,’ and it is. ‘God is my Lord and your Lord, so serve Him: that is a straight path.’ But factions have differed among themselves. What suffering will come to those who obscure the truth when a dreadful Day arrives! How sharp of hearing, how sharp of sight they will be when they come to Us, although now they are clearly off course! Warn them [Muhammad] of the Day of Remorse when the matter will be decided, for they are heedless and do not believe. It is We who will inherit the earth and all who are on it: they will all be returned to Us.” (19:35-40)

1) Truth is with God and it IS God, and the fact is that we can't bring metaphysical doubts to certainty by speculations, human guess work, assumptions, and application of reason to the phenomenal world.  We are not equipped to know the truth that is beyond us and we ought not to bring faith in our guess-work about that which has not been revealed to us by God.

2) Having a "child" is a human notion belonging to procreative world of mortals.  If there is no "being" [existence] and "becoming" [change], as we mortals understand, in God, then although it is intuitively intelligible, it would be ineffable for us to understand it fully that "Being" as such comes from God's word or will--and the Quran says Jesus is the Word of God.

3) The relation between God and us is the relation of originator, sustainer, and worship, not father and mother, to essentially dependent creatures, not son or daughter, whose whole survival in body, heart, and soul manifests itself in "love", "worship", and "belonging" to God--and understanding this point is the straight path.

4) the root of factionalism is when we take our own guess-work and inclination as truth.

5) Following our own inclination and politics of identity rather than resorting to God would obscure the truth.

6) I always found the psychological description of encountering the Day of Judgment painfully accurate and real in the Quran: how clear we shall see and hear on that Day, because the whole truth opens up in front of our eyes and heart and our whole attention will be devoted to it.

7) Everything perishes but the Face of God, nothing belongs to us.  Understanding the poverty of our existence and its complete dependence on God is Enlightenment: "It is We who will inherit the earth and all who are on it: they will all be returned to Us.”