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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." Holy 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, 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 (peace be upon
him), we are told that God is more merciful to His
creatures than a mother to her child. 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. 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, there Will be
no helpers." Holy 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 … Holy Qur'an 5:73-75 Islam
rejects 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
that He 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 about 2700 times. In Aramaic, a
language related closely to Arabic and the language
that Jesus habitually spoke, God is also referred to
as Allah.
BELIEF IN THE ANGELS: Muslims believe
in the existence of the angels and that they are
honored creatures. The angels worship God alone,
obey
Him, and act only by His command. Among the angels
is Gabriel, who brought down the Qur'an to Muhammad
(peace be upon him).
BELIEF IN GOD'S REVEALED BOOKS:
Muslims believe that God revealed books to His
messengers as proof for mankind and as guidance for
them. Among these books is the Qur'an, which God
revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
God has guaranteed the Qur'an's protection from any
corruption or distortion. God has said: Indeed, We
have sent down the Qur'an, and surely We will guard
it (from corruption). Holy Qur'an 15:9
BELIEF IN THE PROPHETS AND MESSENGERS OF GOD: Muslims believe in the prophets and
messengers of God, starting with Adam, including
Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and
Jesus (peace be upon them). But God's final message
to man, a reconfirmation of the eternal message, was
revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon
him). Muslims believe that Muhammad (peace be upon
him) is the last prophet sent by God, as God has
said:
Muhammad is not the father of any one of your
men,but he is the Messenger of God and the last of
the prophets…(Holy Qur'an 33:40)
Muslims believe that all the prophets and messengers
were created human beings who had none of the divine
qualities of God.
BELIEF IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT: Muslims
believe in the Day of Judgment (the Day of
Resurrection) when all people will be resurrected
for God's judgment according to their beliefs and
deeds.
BELIEF IN AL-QADAR: Muslims believe in
Al-Qadar, which is Divine Predestination, but this
belief in Divine Predestination does not mean that
human beings do not have freewill. Rather, Muslims
believe that God has given human beings freewill.
This means that they can choose right or wrong and
that they are responsible for their choice.
The belief in Divine Predestination includes belief
in four things: 1) God knows everything. He knows
what has happened and what will happen. 2) God has
recorded all that has happened and all that will
happen. 3) Whatever God wills to happen happens, and
whatever He wills not to happen does not happen. 4)
God is the Creator of everything.
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