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God's oneness refers to God's indivisibility and uniqueness (as there is no second God), the latter insofar as God's essential attributes are not shared by any other being or entity. [20] Among Islamic thinkers, many disagreements existed over how God's oneness related to God's essence, whether it was an attribute, and if it was an attribute ...
(The verse expresses a different point of view—that acts are not predetermined, but their outcome is—than the later theological position that God knows/determines everything that happens.) [18] The Qurʾān also speaks specifically of the supply of rizq, or provision being in God control:
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 January 2025. Part of a series on Islam Allah (God in Islam) Allah Jalla Jalālah in Arabic calligraphy Theology Allah Names Attributes Phrases and expressions Islam (religion) Throne of God Sufi metaphysics Theology Schools of Islamic theology Oneness Kalam Anthropomorphism and corporealism ...
Since in Islamic beliefs, God does not reside in paradise, Islamic tradition was able to bring bridge the world and the hereafter without violating God's transcendence. [13]: 11 Islamic literature is filled with interactions between the word and the hereafter and the world is closely interwined with both paradise and hell.
Muslims believe that the first prophet was also the first human being Adam, created by God. Many of the revelations delivered by the 48 prophets in Judaism and many prophets of Christianity are mentioned as such in the Quran with the Arabic versions of their names; for example, the Jewish Elisha is called Alyasa', Job is Ayyub, Jesus is 'Isa, etc.
The extensive debates and discussions on anthropomorphism, active from the beginning of the second Islamic century and seemingly ignited by the Mu'tazilites in response to traditionalist hadith transmitters, [7] [11] have often surrounded Quran verses and other traditions (especially the aḥādīth al-ṣifāt) that depict God and the attributes of God using anthropomorphic language. [12]
Theological determinism is a form of predeterminism which states that all events that happen are pre-ordained, and/or predestined to happen, by one or more divine beings, or that they are destined to occur given the divine beings' omniscience.
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