Islam teaches the purest form
of Monotheism and regards polytheism as the deadliest sin. A Muslim addresses
GOD by His Personal Name: ALLAH --- the word "god" and its equivalents in other
languages being unstable in the matter of connotation. Allah, according to
Islam, is the One God, who is Indivisible in Person and Who has no partner:
wife, son or daughter. He is the Matchless and "naught is as His likeness". "He
begetteth not, nor was He begotten". He is the First, the Last, the Eternal, the
Infinite, the Almighty, the Omniscient, the Omnipresent. He is the Creator, the
Nourisher, the Cherisher of all things. He is the All-just, the Avenger of the
wrongs done to the weak and the oppressed, the Compassionate, the Merciful and
Loving, the Guide, the Friend, the Magnificent, the Glorious, the Beautiful and
the True. In short, He is the Possessor of all Excellence.
Speaking of the conception of God in Islam, Gibbon, the famous western
historian, says: "The Creed of Hazrat Muhammad is free from the suspicion of
Ambiguity and the Qur’an is a glorious testimony to the unity of God. The
Prophet of Mecca rejected the worship of idols and men, of stars and planets, on
the rational principle that whatever is corruptible must decay and perish, that
whatever is born must die, that whatever rises must set. In the Author of the
universe his rational enthusiasm confessed and adored an infinite and Eternal
Being, without form or place, without issue or similitude, present to our secret
thoughts, existing by the necessity of His own nature, and deriving from Himself
all moral and intellectual perfections. These sublime truths …are defined with
metaphysical precision by the interpreters of the Qur’an. A philosophic theist
might subscribe to the popular creed of the Muhammadans."
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