1. It is interesting that although many other religions have exclusions against making pictures and statues portraying God, only Islam has succeeded so well that the concept is unidentified. What we lack in artwork about God we make up for in a convincing intellectual and spiritual ideology.
2. Islam’s believe that God is the creator and that there is only one God. This relates to the Hindu concept of Brahma.
3. There is no god other than God is translated to “La ilaha ill Allah”. With this, Islam would also disagree with the Jewish belief that God has an all-time covenant with them and a special relationship that divides the world by race. The idea that God divides the world into any kind of racial preference is shameful in Islam. Muslims are taught that He is not the God of a chosen people nor can any racial or ethnic community.
4. In desperation the idol-worshippers will even start to blame Shaytan, but he will signal off the blame, saying he only recommended it. He didn’t make them call on false gods. The Qur’an is very clear about blame being laid squarely upon our own shoulders.
5. “Islam considers Jesus to be a prophet of God, born of the Virgin Mary as a miracle from God. Muslims accept the Virgin birth but contemplate the lack of a father in Jesus’ creation as being on the same level as the lack of parents in Adam’s creation. Muslims do not take Jesus’ birth as a sign of godhood or as a sign that Jesus was the son of a god. The Qur’an states, “The likeness of Jesus in the sight of God is that of Adam. He created him from dust and said, ‘Be’ and he was.””
6. We can build a private connection with Allah because He can hear all our thoughts and because he knows our feelings.
7. In Arabic there is no word for “it,” so the pronoun “He” is used to refer to God, with the full understanding that Allah is not a male.
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