الرئيسية
من طرف Some Basic Islamic Beliefs
1) Belief in God:
Muslims believe in one, unique, incomparable God, Who has
no son nor partner, and that none has the right to be worshipped
but Him alone. He is the true God, and every other deity is false.
He has the most magnificent names and sublime perfect attributes.
No one shares His divinity, nor His attributes. In the Qur’an, God
describes Himself:
_ Say: “He is God, the One. God, to Whom
the creatures turn for their needs. He begets
not, nor was He
begotten, and
there is none like
Him.” _
(Qur’an, 112:1-4)
No one has the right to
be invoked, supplicated,
prayed to, or shown any act
of worship, but God alone.
God alone is the Almighty, the Creator, the Sovereign, and the
Sustainer of everything in the whole universe. He manages all
affairs. He stands in need of none of His creatures, and all His
creatures depend on Him for all that they need. He is the All-Hearing,
the All-Seeing, and the All-Knowing. In a perfect manner,
His knowledge encompasses all things, the open and the secret,
and the public and the private. He knows what has happened, what
will happen, and how it will happen. No affair occurs in the whole
world except by His will. Whatever He wills is, and whatever He
does not will is not and will never be. His will is above the will of
all the creatures. He has power over all things, and He is able to
do everything. He is the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and
the Most Beneficent. In one of the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad
_, we are told that God is more merciful to His creatures than
a mother to her child.1 God is far removed from injustice and
tyranny. He is All-Wise in all of His actions and decrees. If
someone wants something from God, he or she can ask God
directly without asking anyone else to intercede with God for him
or her.
God is not Jesus, and Jesus is not God.2 Even Jesus himself
rejected this. God has said in the Qur’an:
_ Indeed, they have disbelieved who have
said: “God is the Messiah (Jesus), son of
Mary.” The Messiah said: “Children of Israel,
worship God, my Lord and your Lord.
Whoever associates partners in worship with
God, then God has forbidden Paradise for
him, and his home is the Fire (Hell). For the
wrongdoers,1 there will be no helpers.” _
(Qur’an, 5:72)
God is not a trinity. God has said in the Qur’an:
_ Indeed, they disbelieve who say: “God is the
third of three (in a trinity),” when there is no
god but one God. If they desist not from what
they say, truly, a painful punishment will
befall the disbelievers among them. Would
they not rather repent to God and ask His
forgiveness? For God is Oft-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. The Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary,
was no more than a messenger... _ (Qur’an,
5:73-75)
Islamrejects that God rested on the seventh day of the creation,
that He wrestled with one of His angels, that He is an envious
plotter against mankind, or thatHe is incarnate in any human being.
Islam also rejects the attribution of any human form to God. All
of these are considered blasphemous. God is the Exalted. He is
far removed from every imperfection. He never becomes weary.
He does not become drowsy nor does he sleep.
The Arabic word Allah means God (the one and only true God
who created the whole universe). This word Allah is a name for
God, which is used by Arabic speakers, both Arab Muslims and
Arab Christians. This word cannot be used to designate anything
other than the one true God. The Arabic word Allah occurs in the
Qur’an more than 2150 times. In Aramaic, a language related
closely to Arabic and the language that Jesus habitually spoke,2
God is also referred to as Allah.
1) Belief in God:
Muslims believe in one, unique, incomparable God, Who has
no son nor partner, and that none has the right to be worshipped
but Him alone. He is the true God, and every other deity is false.
He has the most magnificent names and sublime perfect attributes.
No one shares His divinity, nor His attributes. In the Qur’an, God
describes Himself:
_ Say: “He is God, the One. God, to Whom
the creatures turn for their needs. He begets
not, nor was He
begotten, and
there is none like
Him.” _
(Qur’an, 112:1-4)
No one has the right to
be invoked, supplicated,
prayed to, or shown any act
of worship, but God alone.
God alone is the Almighty, the Creator, the Sovereign, and the
Sustainer of everything in the whole universe. He manages all
affairs. He stands in need of none of His creatures, and all His
creatures depend on Him for all that they need. He is the All-Hearing,
the All-Seeing, and the All-Knowing. In a perfect manner,
His knowledge encompasses all things, the open and the secret,
and the public and the private. He knows what has happened, what
will happen, and how it will happen. No affair occurs in the whole
world except by His will. Whatever He wills is, and whatever He
does not will is not and will never be. His will is above the will of
all the creatures. He has power over all things, and He is able to
do everything. He is the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and
the Most Beneficent. In one of the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad
_, we are told that God is more merciful to His creatures than
a mother to her child.1 God is far removed from injustice and
tyranny. He is All-Wise in all of His actions and decrees. If
someone wants something from God, he or she can ask God
directly without asking anyone else to intercede with God for him
or her.
God is not Jesus, and Jesus is not God.2 Even Jesus himself
rejected this. God has said in the Qur’an:
_ Indeed, they have disbelieved who have
said: “God is the Messiah (Jesus), son of
Mary.” The Messiah said: “Children of Israel,
worship God, my Lord and your Lord.
Whoever associates partners in worship with
God, then God has forbidden Paradise for
him, and his home is the Fire (Hell). For the
wrongdoers,1 there will be no helpers.” _
(Qur’an, 5:72)
God is not a trinity. God has said in the Qur’an:
_ Indeed, they disbelieve who say: “God is the
third of three (in a trinity),” when there is no
god but one God. If they desist not from what
they say, truly, a painful punishment will
befall the disbelievers among them. Would
they not rather repent to God and ask His
forgiveness? For God is Oft-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. The Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary,
was no more than a messenger... _ (Qur’an,
5:73-75)
Islamrejects that God rested on the seventh day of the creation,
that He wrestled with one of His angels, that He is an envious
plotter against mankind, or thatHe is incarnate in any human being.
Islam also rejects the attribution of any human form to God. All
of these are considered blasphemous. God is the Exalted. He is
far removed from every imperfection. He never becomes weary.
He does not become drowsy nor does he sleep.
The Arabic word Allah means God (the one and only true God
who created the whole universe). This word Allah is a name for
God, which is used by Arabic speakers, both Arab Muslims and
Arab Christians. This word cannot be used to designate anything
other than the one true God. The Arabic word Allah occurs in the
Qur’an more than 2150 times. In Aramaic, a language related
closely to Arabic and the language that Jesus habitually spoke,2
God is also referred to as Allah.
