Tag: God

  • Why Was the Prophet Polygamous ?

    Why Was the Prophet Polygamous ?

    Some crit­ics of Islam have reviled the Prophet(P) as a self-indul­gent lib­er­tine. They have accused him of char­ac­ter fail­ings that are hard­ly com­pat­i­ble with being of aver­age virtue, let alone with being a Prophet and God’s last Mes­sen­ger, as well as the best mod­el for human­i­ty to fol­low. How­ev­er, based on the eas­i­ly avail­able scores of biogra­phies…

  • Allah is the ​“Rim­mon” of Syr­ia ? A Reply to Chris­t­ian Mendacity

    Allah is the Rim­mon” of Syr­ia ? A Reply to Chris­t­ian Mendacity

    A missionary under the Yahoo! Groups nome de plume of "Patriot Tim" has made an allegation in a discussion group by stating that the Syrian pagan idol RIMMON () as mentioned in 2 Kings 5:18 is the same Deity as for the Muslims, who sometimes call upon God as ar-rahman (The Merciful).

  • The Word ​“Elo­him” in the Hebrew Quran

    The Word Elo­him” in the Hebrew Quran

    Often the mis­sion­ar­ies try to argue that the name for God is Yah­weh, and that since the word (Allah) is not ety­mo­log­i­cal­ly relat­ed to this name, it there­fore fol­lows that Mus­lims wor­ship a dif­fer­ent deity. How­ev­er, what they fail to recog­nise is that it is ety­mo­log­i­cal­ly accept­ed that the root word of (Elo­him) which is eloh,…

  • The Con­cept of Tawhid in Islam

    The Con­cept of Tawhid in Islam

    Mean­ing of Tawhid The word Tawhid comes from the verb wah­had which lit­er­al­ly means to unite. In Islam­ic ter­mi­nol­o­gy, it means to real­ize and main­tain the uni­ty of Allah in one’s actions (inward­ly and out­ward­ly). The actu­al word tawhid does not occur in the Qur’an or Sun­nah though the present tense of the verb (from…

  • Peo­ple of The Book” and The Muslims

    Emin Ergin discusses the historical relations between Muslims and the "People of the Book", and provides evidence on how they are to be treated.