If God created us, who created God?

No one. We know that we are created, but God is eternal and unlike any created thing, so the question of His origin cannot be asked in the way it is asked of us.

Suppose another god had created God. Then we would have to ask who created that one, and so on without end. So the question leads nowhere until we arrive at something eternal. At heart it is a question about eternity.

About ourselves we know something for certain. We are not eternal, and we do not claim to be. So we must admit that we were created. About the Creator, on the other hand, we do not know what an eternal being is like. That is why we cannot examine His origin as we can our own. The third verse above says that nothing is like Him. Any likeness between God and His creatures is only apparent.

But there is something reason can recognise. Consciousness has arisen in the world, human beings who think, feel and ask questions. By a simple principle, nothing can produce more than was put into it. If matter had been entirely without consciousness, it would have remained so forever. The fact that consciousness exists shows that a conscious Creator must have come first.

Then there is the order in life. Even a single building block of our blood is so finely ordered that, by any human calculation, its arising by chance without a design is practically ruled out. Order calls for someone who orders.

So the Holy Qur’an presents God as the One who was not begotten and does not beget, the First and the Last. He is not one more link in a chain of causes, but the reason there is anything at all.