The best proof against atheism is to imagine what they profess: What if nothing exists, no God a total blank!

Epigraph:

بَدِيعُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۖ وَإِذَا قَضَىٰ أَمْرًا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ

He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth, and when He decrees something, He says only, ‘Be,’ and it is. (Al Quran 2:117)

Have they been created from nothing, or are they their own creators? Have they created the heavens and the earth? In truth they put no faith in anything. (Al Quran 52:35-36)

Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD

Imagine a world where there are no material things, no universe, now imagine yourself in deep anesthesia a feeling of nothing, you do not exist and no other consciousness exists, no humans, no God, no angels, no Satan, nothing at all!

My main suggestion to the open minded readers is to read on and in the words of Sir Francis Bacon, “Read not to contradict … but to weigh and consider.”

Now, go to minute 2.30 of the above video, What is Nothing by Closer to Truth and locate a 15 seconds comment of the Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg, who shared his 1979 Nobel Prize in physics with Dr. Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow. He clearly states and I may be paraphrasing a little that even if we find a theory of everything, some mathematical explanation, we will still not know where mathematics came from.

With his statement it is also easy to explain the position of the majority of the mathematicians that mathematics is discovered and not invented by humanity. What we discover would exist in the mind of the eternal creator, who created our universe with truth, justice and mathematics: Allah created the universe or the multiverse through mathematics  بِالْحَقِّ.

A precise and open discussion about nothing, I believe, brings us to the conclusion that God is necessary. An eternal creator of our universe is necessary.

We merely have to imagine nothing precisely, no materials, no space, no time, nothing abstract like numbers or logic, then we arrive at the truth painlessly. If you do reach the end of the above video, the moderator Robert Lawrence Kuhn describes 9 levels of nothing and to me the total blank is his highest level nine of nothing. We cannot get our universe from the highest blank: nothing comes out of nothing. By imagining nothing in all its essence, ultimately leads us to our creator, and He had told us about Himself in that light in the verses of the Quran quoted as epigraph.

QED

Additional reading and viewing

Video: Is God Necessary or Who Made God?

How Could Most Mathematicians Believe in Heaven, But Not in God?

Videos and A Book: Why is There Anything At All?