A It is a known fact that every linguistic communication has one or more footings that are used in mention to God and sometimes to lesser divinities. This is non the instance with Allah. Allah is the personal name of the One true God. Nothing else can be called Allah. The term has no plural or gender. This shows its singularity when compared with the word “ God, ” which can be made plural, as in “ Gods, ” or made feminine, as in “ goddess. ” It is interesting to detect that Allah is the personal name of God in Aramaic, the linguistic communication of Jesus and a sister linguistic communication of Arabic.
“ In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Say ( O Muhammad ) , He is God, the One God, the Everlasting Refuge, who has non begotten, nor has been begotten, and equal to Him is non anyone ” .
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A A A A A A A A A A A Some non-Muslims allege that God in Islam is a austere and barbarous God who demands to be obeyed to the full and is non loving and sort. Nothing could be further from the truth than this allegation. It is adequate to cognize that, with the exclusion of one, each of the 114 chapters of the Qur’an begins with the poetry “ In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate ” . In one of the expressions of Prophet Muhammad ( PBUH ) , we are told that “ God is more loving and sort than a female parent to her beloved kid ” .
A A A A A A A A A A A Verily, for the Righteous are gardens of Delight, in the Presence of their Lord. Shall We so treat the people of Faith like the people of Sin? What is the affair with you? How justice you?
A A A A A A A A A A A The alone use of Allah as a personal name of God is a contemplation of Islam ‘s accent on the pureness of the belief in God that is the kernel of the message of all God ‘s couriers. Because of this, Islam considers tie ining any divinity or personality with God as a deathly wickedness that God will ne’er forgive, despite the fact that He may forgive all other wickednesss.
A A A A A A A A A A A The Creator must be of a different nature from the things created because if He is of the same nature as they are, He will be temporal and will therefore necessitate a shaper. It follows that nil is like Him. If the shaper is non temporal, so he must be ageless. But if he is ageless, he can non be caused, and if nil caused Him to come into being, nil outside Him causes Him to go on to be, which means that he must be self-sufficing. And if He does non depend on anything for the continuation of His ain being, so this being can hold no terminal. The Creator is therefore ageless and everlasting: “ He is the First and the Last ” .
A A A A A A A A A A A He is Self-sufficient or Self-subsistent, or, to utilize a Qur’anic term, Al-Qayyum. The Godhead does non make merely in the sense of conveying things into being, He besides preserves them and takes them out of being and is the ultimate cause of whatever happens to them.
A A A A A A A A A A A “ God is the Creator of everything. He is the guardian over everything. Unto Him belong the keys of the celestial spheres and the Earth ” ( 39:62-63 ) .
A A A A A A A A A A A “ No animal is at that place creeping on the Earth, but its proviso remainders on God. He knows its lodging topographic point and its depository ” ( 11:16 ) .
In order to be a Muslim, that is, to give up one-self to God, it is necessary to believe in the unity of God, in the sense of His being the lone Creator, Preserver, Nourisher, etc. But this belief, subsequently called Tawhid Ar-Rububiyyah, is non plenty. Many of the idolizers knew and believed that merely the Supreme God could make all this. But this was non adequate to do them Muslims. To tawhid ar-rububiyyah, one must add tawhid al-‘uluhiyyah. That is, one acknowledges the fact that it is God entirely who deserves to be worshipped, and therefore abstains from idolizing any other thing or being.
A A A A A A A A A A A Having achieved this cognition of the one true God, adult male should invariably hold faith in Him, and should let nil to bring on him to deny truth.
The virtuousnesss of Tawheed are safety from penalty in the Hereafter ; counsel in this universe and remittal of wickednesss. Allah the Almighty says:
“ It is those who believe and mix non their beliefs with that are ( genuinely ) in security, for they are 0n ( right ) counsel. ( Qur’an 6:82 )
The Messenger of Allah ( P.B.U.H ) said: “ Allah ‘s wages for His retainers is non to penalize those who do non tie in anything with Him. ” ( Agreed upon )
Belief in the Prophet-hood
Belief in certain Prophetss who God take to relay His message to worlds is a needed article of Islamic religion.
“ The Prophet ( Muhammad ) believes in what has been sent down to him from his Lord, and ( so do ) the believers.A Each one believes in God, His Angels, His Books, and His prophets.A ( They say, ) ‘We make no differentiation between one another of His Prophetss… ‘ ” ( Quran 2:285 )
God conveys His message and relates His will through human prophets.A They form a nexus between the earthly existences and the celestial spheres, in the sense that God has picked them to present His message to human beings.A There are no other channels to have Godhead communications.A It is the system of communicating between the Creator and the created.A God does non direct angels to every individual person, nor does He open the skies so people can mount up to have the message.A His manner of communicating is through human Prophetss who receive the message through angels.
To hold faith in the Prophetss ( or couriers ) is to firmly believe that God chose morally unsloped work forces to bear His message and base on balls it to humanity.A Blessed were those who followed them, and wretched were those who refused to obey.A They dependably delivered the message, without concealment, changing, or perverting it.A Rejecting a prophesier is rejecting the One who sent him, and disobeying a prophesier is disobeying the One who commanded to obey him.
God sent to every state a prophesier, largely from amongst them, to name them to idolize God entirely and to eschew false Gods.
“ And inquire ( O Muhammad ) those of Our Prophetss whom We sent before you: ‘Did We of all time appoint Gods to be worshipped besides the Most Merciful ( God ) ? ‘ ” ( Quran 43:45 )
Moslems believe in those Prophetss mentioned by name in Islamic beginnings, such as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael, David, Solomon, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, may the clemency and approvals of God be upon him, to call a few.A A general belief is held in those non mentioned by name, as God says: A
“ And, so We have sent Prophetss before you ( O Muhammad ) , of some of them We have related to you their narrative, and of some We have non related to you their narrative… ” ( Quran 40:78 )
Muslims steadfastly believe the concluding prophesier was the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad, and there will be no prophesier or courier after him.
The individual most of import message of all Prophetss to their people was to idolize God entirely and none else and to follow His teachings.A All of them, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael, Moses, Aaron, David, Solomon, Jesus, Muhammad and others, in add-on to those we do non cognize – invited people to idolize God and shun false Gods.
Moses declared: “ Hear, O Israel The Lord our God is one Lord. ” ( Deuteronomy 6:4 ) .
This was repeated 1500 old ages subsequently by Jesus, when he said: “ The first of all the commandments is, ‘Hear, O Israel ; the Lord our God is one Lord. ‘ ” ( Mark 12:29 ) .
Finally, the call of Muhammad some 600 old ages subsequently reverberated across the hills of Mecca:
“ And your God is One Supreme being: there is no God but He… ” ( Quran 2:163 )
The Holy Quran states this fact clearly:
“ And We did non direct any Messenger before you ( O Muhammad ) but We revealed to him ( stating ) : ‘none has the right to be worshipped but I, so worship Me. ‘ ” ( Quran 21:25 )
The sanctum Quran and the holy Prophet ‘s Ahadith ( instructions ) articulately prove that prophethood ( ‘nabuwwat ‘ and ‘risalat ‘ ) came to an terminal with our Prophet Muhammad ( SAW ) . There are decisive poetries to that consequence. Bing the last Prophet in the concatenation of prophethood, no 1 of all time shall now win him to that position of self-respect.
“ Muhammad is non the male parent of any of your work forces, but ( he is ) the Messenger of Allah, and the Seal of the Nebiims: and Allah has full cognition of all things. ”
( Holy Quran, 33:40 )
Interpreters of the Holy Quran
All the translators of the Holy Quran agree on the significance of ‘Khatam-un-Nabieen ‘ that our Prophet ( SAW ) was the last of all Prophetss and none shall be exalted to the exalted place of prophethood after him. Here is an illustration:
Imam Hafiz Ibn-e-Katheer ( Allah ‘s clemency on him )
“ This poetry is conclusive of the principle that our Prophet ( SAAW ) is the last and that there shall be no ‘Nabi ‘ ( Prophet ) after him. When there shall be no ‘Nabi ‘ to follow him, the ordainment of a ‘Rasool ‘ ( Messenger ) can non originate by logic of anteriority because the position of a ‘Rasool ‘ is more sole so that of a ‘Nabi ‘ . Every ‘Nabi ‘ is non a ‘Rasool ‘ , but every ‘Rasool ‘ is a ‘Nabi ‘ . There exists a uninterrupted and unbroken concatenation of recitations of Ahadith from a big figure of venerable ‘sahabah ‘ or Companions of the Prophet ( Allah be pleased with them ) , that there shall be no ‘Nabi ‘ or ‘Rasool ‘ after Muhammad ( SAW ) ” . ( Tafseer Ibn-e-Khateer, Vol. 3, P. 453 )
Allama Syed Mahmood Aloosi writes in Tafseer Roohul-Mani:
“ That he ( Muhammad ( SAW ) ) was the concluding prophesier, is ordained by the Quran, acknowledged by the Sunnah and agreed upon by the Ummah ; hence a claimant to the reverse will be ( determined as ) Kaffir ( disbeliever ) and put to decease if he is relentless ” .
To reason hence conclusiveness of prophethood is an article of religion by the Quran ‘s text and Mutawatir Ahadith.
From Abu Huraira, ( Allah be pleased with him ) : Allah ‘s courier ( SAW ) said:
“ Surely my illustration and the illustration of Prophetss earlier than me is like the illustration of a castle most elegant and most beautiful constructed by a individual except ( that he left in it ) a clean infinite for a brick in one of its corners and that made the people ( who were ) traveling around it wonder ( at its marvellousness ) and exclaimed ( in perplexion ) : “ Why non is this brick inlaid in here! ” The Prophet ( SAW ) said, “ I am that ( corner ‘s last ) brick and I am the last of the Prophetss ” .
Sahih Bukhari, Vol. 1, p.501 & A ; Sahih Muslim, Vol. 2, p.248
Taken from:
Concept of God in Islam
WAMY series: On Islam no. 9
The Qur’an and the secular head: a doctrine of Islam
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Muslim Belief on Finality of Prophethood
Harmonizing to the Quran Sunnah and Ijma and Quya
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