W H O I S A L L A H ?
THE LORD OF CREATION
Allah is The Lord of all created things
in the seen and unseen worlds.
Everything in Creation worships and submits to Him.
The faith of Muslim is Islam
It means submission to the Will of Allah.
NO PICTURES
Allah is beyond the grasp of human vision.
Unlike anything that the human mind can imagine.
Therefore
drawing pictures or making statues that represent Him as a human, a
semi human or an animal is unacceptable and considered a major sin in
Islam.
NOT A GUY
If you speak English, you use the words 'him' and 'she' a lot and it is very easy to give people wrong ideas about God.
The female equivalent for 'God' is 'Goddess'.
Some believe that God has female partners.
Reducing God to a human family person is unacceptable in Islam.
The Almighty call Himself 'Allah' in The Quran.
This Arabic word has no plural and no male or female equivalents.
Oh, by the way, The Almighty is not an old man who posed for Michelangelo!
ATTRIBUTES OF ALLAH
Some books refer to the '99 names' of Allah.
These names are attributes of Allah.
Allah is reffered to as Merciful, Just and Compassionate.
More than 99 attributes of Allah are mentioned in The Quran.
ALLAH IS ETERNAL
Allah is eternal.
He was not created.
He existed before He created.
His creations need Him but He doesn't need them for His existence.
Allah does not have a son or assistants.
If He needs the helps of others, then He would not be self-sufficient and be in need of a Creator.
Nothing Is like Him
The Creator cannot be of the same nature as the thing he created.
His creations have a begininng and an end.
Allah existed before the beginning and will remain after the end.
EVER LIVING
The
notion that The Almighty needed a rest day after creating the heavens
and earth is a human innovation and not The Almighty's view of Himself.
It is those who were not nvolved in Creation that are taking the rest!
Created things 'burn out'
Allah is ever living.
THE ONE TRUE GOD
Allah is a proper noun unique to The One True God Who alone deserves all worship.
He is the God of all Prophets that He chose to convey His message.
Among the well known Prophet are Noah, Abraham, David, Moses, Jesus and the final Prophet, Muhammad (peace upon them)
THE COMPASSIONATE
Our Suffering is course by our failure to adhere to what He has permitted and refrain from what He has prohibited.
There are times when, for example, we cannot explain why bad thing happen to good people.
Allah knows best.
We must seek His help in prayer.
THE MERCIFUL
In
The Quran. The Almighty states that He will forgive the sins of the
Believers who repent sincerely and do not repeat their sins.
Many
will say that they too believe in The One True God but their daily
lives are infused with idolatrous practices such as wearing talismans
and whorshipping statues.
The Almighty declares in The Quran that He will not forgive the whorshiping of false gods.
-copied from the writings of Dr Y Mansoor Marican-