> Concept of God in islam
> It is a known fact that every language has one or more terms that are
> used in reference to God and sometimes to lesser deities. This is not
> the case 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 uniqueness when compared with the word god which can be
> made plural, gods, or feminine, goddess. It is interesting to notice
> that Allah is the personal name of God in Aramaic, the language of
> Jesus and a sister language of Arabic. The One true God is a
> reflection of the unique concept that Islam associates with God. To a
> Muslim, Allah is the Almighty, Creator and Sustainer of the universe,
> Who is similar to nothing and nothing is comparable to Him. The
> Prophet Muhammad was asked by his contemporaries about Allah; the
> answer came directly from God Himself in the form of a short chapter
> of the Quran, which is considered the essence of the unity or the
> motto of monotheism. This is chapter 112 which reads:

> "In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Say (O Muhammad)
> He is God the One God, the Everlasting Refuge, who has not begotten,
> nor has been begotten, and equal to Him is not anyone."

> Some non Muslims allege that God in Islam is a stern and cruel God who
> demands to be obeyed fully. He is not loving and kind. Nothing can be
> farther from truth than this allegation. It is enough to know that,
> with the exception of one, each of the 114 chapters of the Quran
> begins with the verse: "In the name of God, the Merciful, the
> Compassionate." In one of the sayings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) we
> are told that "God is more loving and kinder than a mother to her dear
> child." But God is also Just. Hence evildoers and sinners must have
> their share of punishment and the virtuous, His bounties and favors.
> Actually God’s attribute of Mercy has full manifestation in His
> attribute of Justice. People suffering throughout their lives for His
> sake and people oppressing and exploiting other people all their lives
> should not receive similar treatment from their Lord. Expecting
> similar treatment for them will amount to negating the very belief in
> the accountability of man in the Hereafter and thereby negating all
> the incentives for a moral and virtuous life in this world. The
> following Quranic verses are very clear and straightforward in this
> respect:

> "Verily, for the Righteous are gardens of Delight, in the Presence of
> their Lord. Shall We then treat the people of Faith like the people of
> Sin? What is the matter with you? How judge you?" (68:34-36)

> Islam rejects characterizing God in any human form or depicting Him as
> favoring certain individuals or nations on the basis of wealth, power
> or race. He created the human beings as equals. They may distinguish
> themselves and get His favor through virtue and piety only. The
> concept that God rested in the seventh day of creation, that God
> wrestled with one of His soldiers, that God is an envious plotter
> against mankind, or that God is incarnate in any human being are
> considered blasphemy from the Islamic point of view. The unique usage
> of Allah as a personal name of God is a reflection of Islam’s emphasis
> on the purity of the belief in God which is the essence of the message
> of all God’s messengers. Because of this, Islam considers associating
> any deity or personality with God as a deadly sin which God will never
> forgive, despite the fact He may forgive all other sins.

> 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 need a maker. It follows that nothing is like Him.
> If the maker is not temporal, then he must be eternal. But if he is
> eternal, he cannot be caused, and if nothing outside him causes him to
> continue to exist, which means that he must be Self-Sufficient. And if
> He does not depend on anything for the continuance of His own
> existence, then this existence can have no end. The Creator is
> therefore eternal and everlasting: ‘He is the First and the Last.’ He
> is Self-Sufficient or Self-Subsistent or, to use a Quranic term, Al-
> Qayyum. The Creator does not create only in the sense of bringing
> things into being, He also preserves them and takes them out of
> existence and is the ultimate cause of whatever happens to them.

> "God is the Creator of everything. He is the guardian over everything.
> Unto Him belong the keys of the heavens and the earth." (39:62, 63)
> "No creature is there crawling on the earth, but its provision rests
> on God. He knows its lodging place and its repository." (11:6)

> God’s Attributes

> If the Creator is Eternal and Everlasting, then His attributes must
> also be eternal and everlasting. He should not lose any of His
> attributes nor acquire new ones. If this is so, then His attributes
> are absolute. Can there be more than one Creator with such absolute
> attributes? Can there be for example, two absolutely powerful
> Creators? A moment’s thought shows that this is not feasible. The
> Quran summarizes this argument in the following verses:

> "God has not taken to Himself any son, nor is there any god with Him:
> For then each god would have taken of that which he created and some
> of them would have risen up over others." (23:91)

> And Why, were there gods in earth and heaven other than God, they
> (heaven and earth) would surely go to ruin." (21:22)

> The Oneness of God

> The Quran reminds us of the falsity of all alleged gods. To the
> worshippers of man-made objects, it asks:

> "Do you worship what you have carved yourself?" (37:95) "Or have you
> taken unto you others beside Him to be your protectors, even such as
> have no power either for good or for harm to themselves?" (13:16)

> To the worshippers of heavenly bodies it cites the story of Abraham:

> "When night outspread over him he say a star and said, ‘This is my
> Lord.’ But when it set he said, ‘I love not the setters.’ When he saw
> the moon rising, he said, ‘This is my Lord.’ But when it set he said,
> ‘If my Lord does not guide me I shall surely be of the people gone
> astray.’ When he say the sun rising, he said, ‘This is my Lord; this
> is greater.’ But when it set he said, ‘O my people, surely I quit that
> which you associate, I have turned my face to Him Who originated the
> heavens and the earth; a man of pure faith, I am not of the
> idolaters.’" (6:76-79)

> The Believer’s Attitude

> In order to be a Muslim, i.e., to surrender oneself to God, it is
> necessary to believe in the oneness of God, in the sense of His being
> the only Creator, Preserver, Nourisher, etc. But this belief – later
> on called "Tawhid Ar-Rububiyyah is not enough." Many of the idolaters
> knew and believed that only the Supreme God could do all this. but
> that was not enough to make them Muslims. To tawhid ar-rububiyyah one
> must add tawhid al’uluhiyyah, i.e., one acknowledges the fact that is
> God alone Who deserves to be worshipped, and thus abstains from
> worshipping any other thing or being. Having achieved this knowledge
> of the one true God, man should constantly have faith in Him, and
> should allow nothing to induce him to deny truth. When faith enters a
> person’s heart, it causes certain mental states which result in
> certain actions. Taken together these mental states and actions are
> the proof for the true faith. The Prophet said,

> "Faith is that which resides firmly in the heart and which is proved
> by deeds."

> Foremost among those mental states is the feeling of gratitude towards
> God, which could be said to be the essence of ‘ibada’ (worship). The
> feeling of gratitude is so important that a non-believer is called
> ‘kafir,’ which means ‘one who denies a truth’ and also ‘one who is
> ungrateful.’ A believer loves, and is grateful to God for the bounties
> He bestowed upon him, but being aware of the fact that his good deeds,
> whether mental or physical, are far from being commensurate with
> Divine favors, he is always anxious lest God should punish him, here
> or in the Hereafter. He, therefore, fears Him, surrenders himself to
> Him and serves Him with great humility. One cannot be in such a mental
> state without being almost all the time mindful of God. Remembering
> God is thus the life force of faith, without which it fades and
> withers away. The Quran tries to promote this feeling of gratitude by
> repeating the attributes of God very frequently. We find most of these
> attributes mentioned together in the following verses of the Quran:

> "He is God; there is no god but He, He is the Knower of the unseen and
> the visible; He is the All-Merciful, the All-Compassionate. He is God,
> there is no God but He. He is the King, the All-Holy, the All-Peace,
> the Guardian of Faith, the All-Preserver, the All-Mighty, the All-
> Compeller, the All-Sublime. Glory be to God, above that they
> associate! He is God the Creator, the Maker, the Shaper. To Him belong
> the Names Most Beautiful. All that is in the heavens and the earth
> magnifies Him; He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise." (59:22-24)

> "There is no god but He, the Living, the Everlasting. Slumber seizes
> Him not, neither sleep; to Him belongs all that is in the heavens and
> the earth. Who is there that shall intercede with Him save by His
> leave? He knows what lies before them and what is after them, and they
> comprehend not anything of His knowledge save such as He wills. His
> throne comprises the heavens and earth; the preserving of them
> oppresses Him not; He is the All-High,

> Concept of God in islam
> It is a known fact that every language has one or more terms that are
> used in reference to God and sometimes to lesser deities. This is not
> the case 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 uniqueness when compared with the word god which can be
> made plural, gods, or feminine, goddess. It is interesting to notice
> that Allah is the personal name of God in Aramaic, the language of
> Jesus and a sister language of Arabic. The One true God is a
> reflection of the unique concept that Islam associates with God. To a
> Muslim, Allah is the Almighty, Creator and Sustainer of the universe,
> Who is similar to nothing and nothing is comparable to Him. The
> Prophet Muhammad was asked by his contemporaries about Allah; the
> answer came directly from God Himself in the form of a short chapter
> of the Quran, which is considered the essence of the unity or the
> motto of monotheism. This is chapter 112 which reads:

> "In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Say (O Muhammad)
> He is God the One God, the Everlasting Refuge, who has not begotten,
> nor has been begotten, and equal to Him is not anyone."

> Some non Muslims allege that God in Islam is a stern and cruel God who
> demands to be obeyed fully. He is not loving and kind. Nothing can be
> farther from truth than this allegation. It is enough to know that,
> with the exception of one, each of the 114 chapters of the Quran
> begins with the verse: "In the name of God, the Merciful, the
> Compassionate." In one of the sayings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) we
> are told that "God is more loving and kinder than a mother to her dear
> child." But God is also Just. Hence evildoers and sinners must have
> their share of punishment and the virtuous, His bounties and favors.
> Actually God’s attribute of Mercy has full manifestation in His
> attribute of Justice. People suffering throughout their lives for His
> sake and people oppressing and exploiting other people all their lives
> should not receive similar treatment from their Lord. Expecting
> similar treatment for them will amount to negating the very belief in
> the accountability of man in the Hereafter and thereby negating all
> the incentives for a moral and virtuous life in this world. The
> following Quranic verses are very clear and straightforward in this
> respect:

> "Verily, for the Righteous are gardens of Delight, in the Presence of
> their Lord. Shall We then treat the people of Faith like the people of
> Sin? What is the matter with you? How judge you?" (68:34-36)

> Islam rejects characterizing God in any human form or depicting Him as
> favoring certain individuals or nations on the basis of wealth, power
> or race. He created the human beings as equals. They may distinguish
> themselves and get His favor through virtue and piety only. The
> concept that God rested in the seventh day of creation, that God
> wrestled with one of His soldiers, that God is an envious plotter
> against mankind, or that God is incarnate in any human being are
> considered blasphemy from the Islamic point of view. The unique usage
> of Allah as a personal name of God is a reflection of Islam’s emphasis
> on the purity of the belief in God which is the essence of the message
> of all God’s messengers. Because of this, Islam considers associating
> any deity or personality with God as a deadly sin which God will never
> forgive, despite the fact He may forgive all other sins.

> 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 need a maker. It follows that nothing is like Him.
> If the maker is not temporal, then he must be eternal. But if he is
> eternal, he cannot be caused, and if nothing outside him causes him to
> continue to exist, which means that he must be Self-Sufficient. And if
> He does not depend on anything for the continuance of His own
> existence, then this existence can have no end. The Creator is
> therefore eternal and everlasting: ‘He is the First and the Last.’ He
> is Self-Sufficient or Self-Subsistent or, to use a Quranic term, Al-
> Qayyum. The Creator does not create only in the sense of bringing
> things into being, He also preserves them and takes them out of
> existence and is the ultimate cause of whatever happens to them.

> "God is the Creator of everything. He is the guardian over everything.
> Unto Him belong the keys of the heavens and the earth." (39:62, 63)
> "No creature is there crawling on the earth, but its provision rests
> on God. He knows its lodging place and its repository." (11:6)

> God’s Attributes

> If the Creator is Eternal and Everlasting, then His attributes must
> also be eternal and everlasting. He should not lose any of His
> attributes nor acquire new ones. If this is so, then His attributes
> are absolute. Can there be more than one Creator with such absolute
> attributes? Can there be for example, two absolutely powerful
> Creators? A moment’s thought shows that this is not feasible. The
> Quran summarizes this argument in the following verses:

> "God has not taken to Himself any son, nor is there any god with Him:
> For then each god would have taken of that which he created and some
> of them would have risen up over others." (23:91)

> And Why, were there gods in earth and heaven other than God, they
> (heaven and earth) would surely go to ruin." (21:22)

> The Oneness of God

> The Quran reminds us of the falsity of all alleged gods. To the
> worshippers of man-made objects, it asks:

> "Do you worship what you have carved yourself?" (37:95) "Or have you
> taken unto you others beside Him to be your protectors, even such as
> have no power either for good or for harm to themselves?" (13:16)

> To the worshippers of heavenly bodies it cites the story of Abraham:

> "When night outspread over him he say a star and said, ‘This is my
> Lord.’ But when it set he said, ‘I love not the setters.’ When he saw
> the moon rising, he said, ‘This is my Lord.’ But when it set he said,
> ‘If my Lord does not guide me I shall surely be of the people gone
> astray.’ When he say the sun rising, he said, ‘This is my Lord; this
> is greater.’ But when it set he said, ‘O my people, surely I quit that
> which you associate, I have turned my face to Him Who originated the
> heavens and the earth; a man of pure faith, I am not of the
> idolaters.’" (6:76-79)

> The Believer’s Attitude

> In order to be a Muslim, i.e., to surrender oneself to God, it is
> necessary to believe in the oneness of God, in the sense of His being
> the only Creator, Preserver, Nourisher, etc. But this belief – later
> on called "Tawhid Ar-Rububiyyah is not enough." Many of the idolaters
> knew and believed that only the Supreme God could do all this. but
> that was not enough to make them Muslims. To tawhid ar-rububiyyah one
> must add tawhid al’uluhiyyah, i.e., one acknowledges the fact that is
> God alone Who deserves to be worshipped, and thus abstains from
> worshipping any other thing or being. Having achieved this knowledge
> of the one true God, man should constantly have faith in Him, and
> should allow nothing to induce him to deny truth. When faith enters a
> person’s heart, it causes certain mental states which result in
> certain actions. Taken together these mental states and actions are
> the proof for the true faith. The Prophet said,

> "Faith is that which resides firmly in the heart and which is proved
> by deeds."

> Foremost among those mental states is the feeling of gratitude towards
> God, which could be said to be the essence of ‘ibada’ (worship). The
> feeling of gratitude is so important that a non-believer is called
> ‘kafir,’ which means ‘one who denies a truth’ and also ‘one who is
> ungrateful.’ A believer loves, and is grateful to God for the bounties
> He bestowed upon him, but being aware of the fact that his good deeds,
> whether mental or physical, are far from being commensurate with
> Divine favors, he is always anxious lest God should punish him, here
> or in the Hereafter. He, therefore, fears Him, surrenders himself to
> Him and serves Him with great humility. One cannot be in such a mental
> state without being almost all the time mindful of God. Remembering
> God is thus the life force of faith, without which it fades and
> withers away. The Quran tries to promote this feeling of gratitude by
> repeating the attributes of God very frequently. We find most of these
> attributes mentioned together in the following verses of the Quran:

> "He is God; there is no god but He, He is the Knower of the unseen and
> the visible; He is the All-Merciful, the All-Compassionate. He is God,
> there is no God but He. He is the King, the All-Holy, the All-Peace,
> the Guardian of Faith, the All-Preserver, the All-Mighty, the All-
> Compeller, the All-Sublime. Glory be to God, above that they
> associate! He is God the Creator, the Maker, the Shaper. To Him belong
> the Names Most Beautiful. All that is in the heavens and the earth
> magnifies Him; He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise." (59:22-24)

> "There is no god but He, the Living, the Everlasting. Slumber seizes
> Him not, neither sleep; to Him belongs all that is in the heavens and
> the earth. Who is there that shall intercede with Him save by His
> leave? He knows what lies before them and what is after them, and they
> comprehend not anything of His knowledge save such as He wills. His
> throne comprises the heavens and earth; the

>> God is not the person you worship.

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>> Concept of God

>God is make-believe; either the result of ignorance and
>superstition in primitive peoples, or as the result of
>mental derangement in the widespread enlightenment
>that is the 21st century.

>>   "WHO" is most definitely inappropriate, inapplicable and so far off
>>the mark as to be utterly STUPID.
>>   Even the question "God is?" belongs in that category for the same
>>reasons.
>>   The closest one can get to an "appropriate" question might be "God??".

> My favorite question is:

> Why is there a God?

>>>   "WHO" is most definitely inappropriate, inapplicable and so far off
>>>the mark as to be utterly STUPID.
>>>   Even the question "God is?" belongs in that category for the same
>>>reasons.
>>>   The closest one can get to an "appropriate" question might be "God??".

>> My favorite question is:

>> Why is there a God?

>That's obvious. If there wasn't, there would have been no one to create
>us.

>Duh.
>Rich
>for more information, feel free to visit http://www.godchannel.com

> Here's an example of my train of thought..

>> Here's an example of my train of thought..

>Well, if you don't want to believe in God, that's OK. She doesn't believe
>in you either.

>Sleep Well!
>Rich

>>Here's an example of my train of thought..

> Well, if you don't want to believe in God, that's OK. She doesn't believe
> in you either.

> Sleep Well!
> Rich

>>> Here's an example of my train of thought..

>>Well, if you don't want to believe in God, that's OK. She doesn't believe
>>in you either.

>>Sleep Well!
>>Rich

>Does God have the power to become nonexistent and then become existent
>again?

>> On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:03:22 -0800, D from BC wrote:

>>>Here's an example of my train of thought..

>> Well, if you don't want to believe in God, that's OK. She doesn't believe
>> in you either.

>> Sleep Well!
>> Rich

>She?

>>   "WHO" is most definitely inappropriate, inapplicable and so far off
>> the mark as to be utterly STUPID.
>>   Even the question "God is?" belongs in that category for the same
>> reasons.
>>   The closest one can get to an "appropriate" question might be "God??".

> My favorite question is:

> Why is there a God?

>>>   "WHO" is most definitely inappropriate, inapplicable and so far off
>>> the mark as to be utterly STUPID.
>>>   Even the question "God is?" belongs in that category for the same
>>> reasons.
>>>   The closest one can get to an "appropriate" question might be "God??".

>> My favorite question is:

>> Why is there a God?

>   For starters, so that you CAN ask that question...

>> On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:03:22 -0800, D from BC wrote:

>>>Here's an example of my train of thought..

>> Well, if you don't want to believe in God, that's OK. She doesn't believe
>> in you either.

>> Sleep Well!
>> Rich

>She?

> [snip quoted Islamic SHIT]

> Your troll feeding is beginning to offset your contributions.  Soon to
> be in Big Jimbo's magic filter ;-)

>                                         ...Jim Thompson

>>>Here's an example of my train of thought..

>> Well, if you don't want to believe in God, that's OK. She doesn't
>> believe in you either.

> She?

>>    "WHO" is most definitely inappropriate, inapplicable and so far off
>> the mark as to be utterly STUPID.
>>    Even the question "God is?" belongs in that category for the same
>> reasons.
>>    The closest one can get to an "appropriate" question might be "God??".

> My favorite question is:

> Why is there a God?