The concept of age does not apply to Allah. Allah, the Arabic word for God, is understood within Islam as eternal and without beginning or end. The idea of age implies a temporal existence, a point of origin and a progression through time. Allah, however, transcends time. He existed before the creation of the universe and continues to exist outside of temporal constraints.
Several references support this understanding:
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Quranic Understanding: The Quran does not provide an age for Allah. It describes Allah as existing outside of time and space, the creator of all things, including time itself.
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Scholarly Consensus: Islamic scholars widely agree that attributing an age to Allah is incompatible with the fundamental tenets of Islamic theology. The concept of Allah's eternality is a cornerstone of Islamic belief.
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Analogous Concepts: Attempts to equate Allah's existence with a specific age, as seen in some questions referencing specific verses or calculations based on days in Allah's time versus human time, are ultimately meaningless. The comparison fundamentally misrepresents the nature of Allah's existence.
Therefore, the question "What is the real age of Allah?" is fundamentally flawed. It presupposes a framework of understanding that does not apply to the divine.
While some discussions online attempt to calculate an age based on interpretations of Quranic verses, these interpretations fail to grasp the core Islamic understanding of Allah's eternal nature.
The provided references consistently reinforce the idea that Allah is timeless and eternal, existing outside the constraints of age. The question of Allah's age is thus unanswerable not because we lack the information, but because the question itself is based on a faulty premise.
