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In a written hadith, Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Dawud told us, Al-Hussein bin Al-Sumaid told us, Yahya bin Sulayman Al-Jafi told us, Ibn Fudayl told us, on the authority of M Jalid, on the authority of Al-Sha’bi, on the authority of Jabir, may God be pleased with him, on the authority of the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, who said: “The Holy Spirit is Gabriel peace be ...
Islamic debates about the ontological reality of divine attributes post-date Quranic theology [9] and find their background in Christian debates and discussions about the nature of the Trinity, in a manner asserted explicitly by Mu'tazilites as well as earlier Jewish sources, who often mention the two subjects in conjunction with one another.
Talismanic shirt inscribed with the 99 names of God as well as Quranic verses and prayers, Turkey, 18th century, Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage. The Arabic names of God are used to form theophoric given names commonly used in Muslim cultures throughout the world, mostly in Arabic speaking societies.
[106] God, as referenced in the Quran, is the only God. [107] [108] Islamic tradition also describes the 99 names of God. These 99 names describe attributes of God, including Most Merciful, The Just, The Peace and Blessing, and the Guardian. A distinct feature between the concept of God in Islam compared to Christianity is that God has no progeny.
Allāh is the Arabic word referring to God in Abrahamic religions. [25] [26] [27] In the English language, the word generally refers to God in Islam.The Arabic word Allāh is thought to be derived by contraction from al-ʾilāh, which means "the god", [1] (i.e., the only god) and is related to El and Elah, the Hebrew and Aramaic words for God.
Ultimately, this is seen as the reason that God chose to emanate His Divinity through the 10 Sephirot, and chose to create the corresponding chain of four Worlds (called the "Seder hishtalshelus"-"order of development"). He could have chosen to bridge the infinite gap between the Ein Sof and our World by a leap of Divine decree.
[6] [52] Among the 99 names of God, the most famous and most frequent of these names are "the Entirely Merciful" (al-Rahman) and "the Especially Merciful" (al-Rahim). [50] [51] Islam rejects the doctrine of the Incarnation and the notion of a personal God as anthropomorphic, because it is seen as demeaning to the transcendence of God. The Quran ...
From the time of Muhammad, the final prophet of Islam, many Muslim states and empires have been involved in warfare. The concept of Jihad, the religious duty to struggle, has long been associated with struggles for promoting a religion, although some observers refer to such struggle as "the lesser jihad" by comparison with inner spiritual striving.