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Allah is the word for "God" in the Indonesian language - even in Alkitab (Christian Bible, from الكتاب, al-kitāb = the book) translations, while Tuhan is the word for "Lord". Christians in Malaysia also use the word Allah for "God". Christians in Malaysia and Indonesia use Allah to refer to God in the Malaysian and Indonesian languages ...
Muslims believe that Allah is the same God worshipped by the members of the Abrahamic religions that preceded Islam, i.e. Judaism and Christianity . [55] Creation and ordering of the universe is seen as an act of prime mercy for which all creatures sing his glories and bear witness to his unity and lordship.
[35] [36] The Quran itself refers to Trinity in Al-Ma'ida 5:73 which says "They have certainly disbelieved who say, "Allah is the third of three." And there is no god except one God. And if they do not desist from what they are saying, there will surely afflict the disbelievers among them a painful punishment."
Columnist Bill Gindlesperger looks at the three Abrahamic religions and concludes there are more similarities than differences.
A distinct feature between the concept of God in Islam compared to Christianity is that God has no progeny. This belief is summed up in chapter 112 of the Quran titled Al-Ikhlas, which states "Say, he is Allah (who is) one, Allah is the Eternal, the Absolute. He does not beget nor was he begotten. Nor is there to Him any equivalent."
Simply refering to it as God can both add some level of confusion, as no Muslim texts refer to Allah as this, and "God" under the normalized-Christian sense was slightly different than "Allah" in the Islamic sense (sort of taking back to the "God is male and Allah is genderless" argument I made earlier). Take this for example: Allah is ...
In 2003 Pat Robertson stated, "The struggle is whether Hubal, the Moon God of Mecca, known as Allah, is supreme, or whether the Judeo-Christian Jehovah God of the Bible is Supreme." [25] Farzana Hassan sees these claims as an extension of longstanding Christian evangelical beliefs that Islam is "pagan" and that Muhammad was an impostor and ...
The word monotheism was coined from the Greek μόνος (monos) [13] meaning "single" and θεός (theos) [14] meaning "god". [15] The term was coined by Henry More (1614–1687). [16] Monotheism is a complex and nuanced concept. The biblical authors had various ways of understanding God and the divine, shaped by their historical and cultural ...