St. Thomas Aquinas believes that we can know God through reason. We start questioning ourselves when we are ourselves is what we know about God because he allowed us to know him through faith? Reasoning needs to be logical, however there are many things such as God that cannot be logically explained without reason. There are some things about God that cannot be comprehended by reason but are not that illogical that we can just ignore them either. We believe in God because of our faith and no one can prove he does not exist.
St. Thomas Aquinas answered the probing question with this rational; because of the lack of reasoning and being lazy about investigating the questions about God we would not attempt to dedicate ourselves. To dedicate oneself to prove the existence of God would be just as tedious as trying to prove that God does not exist. Even though God gives us the gift of knowledge we humans do not have the gumption or the capabilities to sit still to ponder the reasoning about the existence of God. It is a long hard road to dedicate yourself to the task of proving God’s existence, a dedication most of us do not have. Many people are wary of things of reason so if God were proven most people
Both Al-Ghazzali and St. Thomas Aquinas came to believe that faith and reason were in harmony with one another and not in conflict. Each one took a different way to come to the same conclusion that God is the highest and we should all strive to achieve to live in the way God intended us to live. It does not matter if we can prove that God exists anymore than if we could prove he does not exist. God just is God and He is the one that has allowed us to have the knowledge and the capabilities to acknowledge Him is necessary for the higher good.
After he was completed his studies with theology and philosophy he then studied mysticism, which allowed him a way that included intellectual and practical activities. It is was easier for him to follow the intellectual activities than the practical ones, it appears that to practice what you preach was not quite as easy as he thought. He studied with others that had went as far as they could intellectual he then came to the realization that “a sure faith in God most high, in prophethood, and in the Last Day” for all human beings should believe in the faith of God.
Many philosophers have questioned the existence of God, and one of the great Islamic philosophers was well before his time in his thinking is Al-Ghazzali. His love for knowledge
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