Question: Hare Krishna, Guru Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances All glories to Srila Prabhupada and his followers.
I would like to know how to answer the question posed by a Muslim:
Why do you worship the form of God in the temple when God is formless?
Joy
Answer: God isn't Formless. His Form is Unlimited.
If a Muslim asks such a question, he is not learned in his own scripture, the Qur'an clearly states as follows::
Wa lillaahil - Mashriqu wal-Magrib: Fa- 'aynamaa tu-walluu fa-samma Wajhul-laah
"To Allah belong the East and the West, and wherever you turn there is Allah's face." --Qur'an 2.115
That Allah or God has a face means that He has a form because someone who is formless must also be faceless. God's form-possessing nature is also confirmed in the Bible and in the Vedic scriptures.
Besides a wealth of scriptural evidence establishing that God has a form, we can also understand through logic that God must have a form. The logic is very simple: We cannot exceed God in any way. Therefore we cannot possess something that He does not possess. It's not that we can have a form and He cannot. He must also have form. The difference is that His form is unlimited while our forms are limited. His form is the source of everything, and our forms come from His form.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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