Azrul is Finding God: Prelude

Time and again, religion and God recur. God and the lack thereof.

Since antiquity, human have many perception of God and religion. The creation of superior being with many faces and forms. The pagans with the superior power of the sun and the moon, the colourful deities of the eastern religions and the God perceived with various level and depth by the Abrahamic religions’ followers.

Unlike the gravity and the unicellular plants, God and religion can never be observed and measured. It can only be reasoned. Like all reasoning, never would it come to a definitive conclusion seen in scientific experiments.

I am one of the people who are finding God. God is not as simple as following a religion; it is more than mere adherence to a particular belief. God, while some religions have their basic belief of God’s existence, is different for each individual. When some people believe that they share the same God, they are not fully right, as God is perceived differently.

Sometimes a classification of religion, to say you are Christian or Muslim, is just for the sake of classification. The differences of perception of God among the individuals in the same classification of religion vary as much as it is among different classification. Sometimes, a Muslim is different from another Muslim more than the perception difference of a Muslim to a Christian. That is how much God differs from one person to the other.

The differences in perception may not be seen clearly in physical sense. We always assume similarities with the help of our five simple senses. When we see a person wearing a skull cap or listen to a person talking the same language, the first impression is enough to impress on our psyche to accept a person to be similar or otherwise with us. That mere first impression has made a huge decision for the relationship.

The perception of God in a deeper level cannot be seen on the first impression. When we delve deeper into the other person’s perception, we see differences. The differences, the understandably complex interconnectivity of perception, the unknown in the brain; they are all making God an attractive subject to pursue,

I would be one of the people who would vehemently find God. We want to understand God better, better than our predecessors do. I personally think that we have the tools, we have existing knowledge, we have books, we have people who studied God, and we have better technology. All to our favour, it would be a shame to let them be without us trying to understand God is deeper sense.