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Fraternal greetings dear Brother,
The idea of the traditional, big guy on a throne type God is a silly and even stupid idea. It is how children might imagine God; a kind of Santa Clause in the sky.
God/Allah is outside time, space and matter and therefore unknowable. He is outside existence. He cannot be known. That is the idea. Read Plato or Plotinus, or Muslim philosophers like Ibn Arabi, Ibn Suhrawardi or Ibn Sina.
God is a highly interesting philosophical and intellectual concept. The greatest minds in human history have thought about it. The fatherly figure with a white beard is just a fairy tale version for children.
Questioning this "traditional" God shows that you have progressed on the path to Light. Now you have the capacity for a more mystical definition - and maybe experience - of the Divine.
I can recommend this book for further study:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Shape-Light-Hayakal-al-Nur/dp/1887752153