She took patience to get hooked up by a fatherly husband, from whose exemplary responsibleness I was nurtured to be great.
When she conceived of me in that elastically tiny abode, I unavoidably troubled her well-being for not less than...
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Important issues of the Chapter
1) It is the way of the followers of Prophet Muhammad (May the peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) to call people to Islam.
2) Stress upon sincerity of intention,...
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Just as Arab Christians identify God as “Allah,” and just as the Bible employs ther royalplural both in pronouns and in the proper name Elohim, Western Christians can
adopt the same practice without compromising their creed. But faith need not depend on
such issues, when there remains a more relevant point to ponder: Regardless of His name,
how does God command mankind to understand Him?
Understanding of God
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. —Cullen Hightower
The Jewish understanding of God is relatively concrete, despite the vast
differences between Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Hasidic Judaism in other
matters. Throughout Judaism, the Oneness of God...
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God’s Name and the Royal Plural
You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were;
and I say “Why not?”—George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
No discussion of God’s name is complete without explaining the royal plural.
This is a linguistic concept foreign to most native English speakers, but not to the English
language. As recently as the seventeenth century, the word thou was applied to
commoners while the word you, the Old English plural of...
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The Call to testify that there is nothing deserving of Worship in truth except
Allah
Allah the Exalted said:
"Say you (O Muhammad (May the peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) : 'This is...
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Fear of Shirk (Polytheism)
Allah the Almighty said:
"Verily, Allah forgives not that partners should be set up with Him in worship, but He forgives except that (anything else) to...
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Despite the above, there are still those who have been conditioned to propose that “Allah” is the name of a pagan god! They ignore the fact that pagans generically use the word “god” in the same way that Christians, Jews, and Muslims use it, and it does not
change the fact that there is only one God.
Similarly, the word elohim was used in the Septuagint to refer to pagan gods, as well as to the Greek and Roman gods, in addition to the one true God of the Old and New Testaments. 37 Encyclopaedia Judaica clarifies this...
Important issues of the Chapter
1) In Tauhid, people are classified into various ranks.
2) What is the meaning of 'purification of Tauhid'.
3) Ibrahim (May Allah be pleased with him) was praised by Allah for he was not of the
polytheists.
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Who purifies Tauhid (from Shirk..etc) will enter Paradise without giving an Account
Allah the Most Exalted said:
"Verily Abraham (May Allah be pleased with him) was indeed a model, devoutly obedient to Allah, unswervingly true in faith...
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Unfortunately, such facts are not acknowledged by those who approach scriptural analysis more as a religious turf war than as an objective search for truth. An example of
the extreme sensitivity over this issue concerns the Scofield Reference Bible, edited by
the American theologian and minister, Cyrus I. Scofield, and published in 1909 by Oxford University Press. Its original publication incited Christian censure for invoking the name “Alah” (sic).
Specifically, a footnote to Genesis 1:1 explained that the name
Elohim is derived from the contraction of El and Alah. The fact that this...
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