“Why does God want to be praised?”
This is question I often get from friends who do not believe in God.
God does not need anyone, nor does he need anyone’s praise. Those who know God praise Him as appreciation or grateful homage.
If you disbelieve, GOD does not need anyone. But He dislikes to see His servants make the wrong decision. (Quran 39:7)
Those who strive, strive for their own good. GOD is in no need of anyone. (29:6)
O people, you are the ones who need GOD, while GOD is in no need of anyone, the Most Praiseworthy. (35:15)
Belief in God dictates that we know God and know His attributes.
God is the Creator, the Initiator, the Designer and the One who created everything in existence in the Heavens and the earth. God created the humans and the animals whose temporary residence is earth within the solar system in our universe. God controls everything and is closer to us than our jugular vein.
The One who created death and life for the purpose of distinguishing those among you who would do better. He is the Almighty, the Forgiving. He created seven universes in layers. You do not see any imperfection in the creation by the Most Gracious. Keep looking; do you see any flaw? Look again and again; your eyes will come back stumped and conquered. 67:2–4
A human appreciates beauty around us (trees plants, animals, sunset, etc.). The human who believes in God inherently praises and thanks the Creator of that beauty. Praising the beauty of the sunset is thanking or appreciating or praising the One created it. When we praise God, we are simply appreciating God who is the source that beauty.
Praising God becomes a natural response once the human being knows his place (rank) in relation to God. We are creations living within a creation (universe) with vast numbers of other creations (planets, earth, animals, insects etc.) in perfect harmony, all from nothing. GOD simply said ‘be’ and it was. When a human being knows who God is (with His all attributes), he/she realizes that humans don’t create anything, we simply break down and/or reassemble what is already in existence. Consequently, the desire to praise God comes naturally. After all, humans always praise other human beings for human inventions (e.g.: computer, telephone, automobile) and yet, any technology we come up with is nowhere near the complexity of the heavens and the earth and everything between them. When a human realizes who God is, it seems absurd to not to praise God when we praise humans for things unimaginably inferior.
