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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 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 ...
The word Allāh (Arabic: ٱللَّٰه) is the proper name of the God of Abraham. "Al ilah" means "The God", and it is a contraction of the definite article al-and the word ʾilāh (Arabic: إِلَٰه, "god, deity"). As in English, the article is used here to single out the noun as being the only one of its kind, "the God" (the one and only ...
God, according to Islam, is a universal God, rather than a local, tribal, or parochial one, and is an absolute who integrates all affirmative values. [6] Islamic intellectual history can be understood as a gradual unfolding of the manner in which successive generations of believers have understood the meaning and implications of professing ...
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 Kalam cosmological argument was influenced by the concept of the prime mover, introduced by Aristotle.It originates in the works of theologian and philosopher John Philoponus (490–570 AD) [10] and was developed substantially under the medieval Islamic scholastic tradition during the Islamic Golden Age.
According to Islamic belief, Allah is the most common word to represent God, [57] and humble submission to his will, divine ordinances and commandments is the pivot of the Muslim faith. [12] "He is the only God, creator of the universe, and the judge of humankind."
In Sunni Islam, the verse is linked to Muhammad's appointment of Abd Allah ibn Hudhafa to command a detachment in the Muslim army. [2] The obedience to Muhammad and those in authority is tantamount in this verse to the obedience to God, which the historian al-Tabari (d. 310/923) supports with a prophetic hadith in his exegesis.
In this verse, God introduces Himself to mankind and says nothing and nobody is comparable to God. [2] [3] Considered the greatest [4] [5] and one of the most well-known verses of the Quran, it is widely memorised and displayed in the Islamic faith. [6] It is said (ḥadīṯ) that reciting this verse wards off devils (šayāṭīn) [7] and ...