Chapter
7
THE VOICE CALLED
THE VOICE OF GOD
Things produce their particular voices, for example, the voice of water & the voice of fire, the voice of metal & the voice of wood, the voice of a bird & the voice of an animal, etc. are different and can never be the same. Among billions of people, everyone has an identical voice and through the voice on the phone we can easily recognize who is speaking on the other end. Furthermore, the voices of male creatures and the voices of female creatures are not the same and are not only different from each other but are also identical and introduce their producers. Voices do not mix together but when the voices of hundreds of people are produced at a time, a roar is heard to convey togetherness and in a piece of music, the harmonized sounds & voices of the instruments & singers play their identical role to express feelings of different kinds by the producer. (1)
This universal & cosmic situation conveys a great & divine fact; it tells us that every voice contains the picture of its producer. In nature, the voice of a parrot shows the picture of parrot in the minds of the listeners. This fact that a parrot appears in our minds with its voice clearly tells us that voices are pictures and pictures are things. The roaring of a lion in a jungle makes the picture of a lion in the minds of all the hearing creatures and it is a divine fact that if there is a sound or a voice, it can never be without its producer and the producer will always be a creature or a thing. So the other meaning of the sentence “Nothing resembles GOD” emerges and tells us that GOD, who is above all, may speak through the voices which GOD has already created for things & creatures and GOD is not a creature or a thing with a particular voice. For example, GOD chose the voice of fire to talk to Moses and the roaring voice of an earthquake mixed with the voice of a heavy cloud to speak to the people of Moses and it is said that the people trembled when they heard the voice of GOD and fear penetrated in their souls because the voice was incredible in its magnitude to hear & bear. The voice of thundering nature may be a messenger of GOD to convey GOD. (2)
GOD is the Absolute Creator of all sounds & voices and needs not sounds & voices to convey what GOD wills to convey, being All-capable & Almighty. Since the incident which took place on the mountain Sinai tells that GOD talked to Moses & his nation, therefore, we can understand that GOD did that only to let the creatures know that their GOD, nothing resembles whom, exists because all people understand that whosoever exists has a sound or a voice and it is evident from the voice produced by the fire & the earthquake & the thundering cloud, that GOD, nothing resembles whom, is not a thing like fire or an earthquake or a thundering cloud. GOD is the Creator of all things & creatures and their sounds & voices. So this particular incident took place only to prove the existence of GOD by GOD. Since nothing resembles GOD, therefore, nothing can be considered as GOD and the voice produced by GOD through things does not convey GOD as a thing or a creature. (3)
Creatures are handicapped in this aspect that they can not convey without a voice and always convey themselves through a voice and that is why things & creatures are not GOD because GOD is All-able, not handicapped. Only GOD, being All-able, can inspire or convey without a medium such as a sound, a voice, a sign, etc. (4)
Since our system of hearing & understanding is also confined & limited, we cannot understand without a medium and that is why GOD talked to Moses & his nation through a medium called the voice of GOD, as a proof of the existence of GOD to let the believers confirm their belief. (5)
GOD IS IMAGE-FREE
ALL VOICES PRODUCE IMAGES & PICTURES OF THINGS AND NOTHING RESEMBLES GOD (6)
All words are voices and all words are the names of things. So whenever someone speaks and calls a name, the picture of the particular thing appears in our minds. For example, if I say, “A huge ship”, the picture of a huge ship will appear in the listener’s mind and that is what I mean by saying that words are pictures, so each name of a thing is a picture of a thing and only the name of GOD is picture-free because nothing resembles GOD and no one has ever seen GOD. (7)
