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From: taqwaa@tahoe.unr.edu (Muhammad Taqwaa)
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Subject: Knowing Allah: Islamic topic (I)
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Date: 5 Dec 89 16:26:42 GMT
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[Please don't double space your articles before sending them
 here. It makes them hard to read. --Naim]

     The most fundamental topic in the religion of  Islam  is  to

know about GOd,that is ,Allah. The word itself means the only one

and unique diety . Every man , weather he admits or  not,  during

the  course of pursuing his life adopts a diety.  That may be his

self, that is , carnal desires ,or may be another  human-being	,

or a natural phenomenon, and so forth. Dietyhood according to the

text of quran is related to obedience. this means that	when  man

obeys  carnal  desires	,he in fact has taken himself as a diety.

Islam has come to destroy all the  false  deities  and	establish

Allah  as  the only entity of whom man must obey. Allah's oneness

is not a mathematical oneness in which two could be imagined  ,he

does not have any equal. nothing is neither like him nor could be

imagined to be like him .He is not issued from any source in  any

form and he does not have a son.

     Allah , as      introduced by  Islam  ,  and  to  whom  all

mankind are called ,is "the sustainer and cherisher and master of

the worlds",namely, the lord,creator,and the master of the  whole

creation.  He is Allah, thus, all limits attributed to their gods

by followers of various schools, sects and  religions  disappear.

The  jews  ,for example, have a racial and national god . That is

to say ,the jews regard Jehovah as their own god, and expect that

his  care  and grace be bestowed upon them solely ,though Judaism

was a monetheistic religion and the holy prophet Moses	was  sent

by  Allah. Therefore ,other races and nations ,as far as jews are

concerned , must look for another god.

     Or in ancient Greece ,which was the center  of  civilization

,science  and  philosophy  ,there also existed various racial and

national gods ,though at the  head of all these gods  ,a  god  of

gods  has  sometimes been conceived.  But Allah ,the God of Islam

,is a universal and eternal GOd for all nations  and  inhabitants

of  the  world	,  regardless  of their color of their skins, and

gender .He is neither "the only heavenly" or "the  only  earthly"

God    , nor is he merely the god of the Semitic nation, Aryan or

any other races .



	This is to be  continued  :  next  topic  :  "Allah  ,the

unique"