The most important topic in theology should be, or is, aqeedah or right belief. The most important issue is belief is tawhid - oneness of God. Why? This is the singular thread that connects all of the Prophets of God. They sometimes came with different laws but all came with the same message - that you only have One God and There Is No God Besides Him. This is the essence of tawhid and the full message of all Prophets. There is a false messiah because he will come with a message, and a bag of tricks, saying that he is God. He will perform all sorts of seemingly miraculous things. he will do things that it appears only God can do, things that even Jesus never did and people will worship him. But, if one is well grounded in Tawhid and Aqeedah, he will, God willing, not fall victim for the false Prophet.

The biggest threat to mankind is the false messiah and its purely becaue he will come with acts that see almost god-like. And where does he get these powers from? Believe it or not God endowed him with them and he serves as a test for the true believers. This is partially why the belief that Jesus is God based solely on the miracles he performed and that he said, or its claim he said, he was God is so dangerous. Using that same logic, the false messiah will come with even bigger miracles (although all false magic) than Jesus came with and people will worship him. How dod you know if someone is false or not - which is one of the reasons the Jews disregarded/regard Jesus as a charlatan.

One way to know is that the Prophets told us that this would happen. Another distinct feature is that because God is eternal transcendant, a person claiming to be Go on earth is an obvious imposter. Many have claimed the same and they were all immeiate imposters. The false messiah tricks are so powerful that despite this wrning, many will fall prey to him.


So, Tawhid can be look at from three perspectives:

1. We beleive that Go is the administrator of all affairs and that the world belongs to Him and He does with it as He pleases. This is the belief in His Lordship

2. We believe that He is the only One, transcendant, worthy of worship and we devote no worship to anything else, be it money, angels, Prophets, ourselves, etc. This is the belief in His singling out to be worshipped alone.

3. We believe in His names and attributes as He describes them to us and we do not liken them to any thing on earth. In other words, and this is where athiests often falter, just because we say God sees does not mean we are anthropomophisizing Him. Rather, God has always had the ability to see, know, hear, create, etc. This are some of His eternal attributes. His word has always exited with Him. We were given the ability to do things that only God has the ability to do - hence his likeness. However, our abilities are in a diminished capacity, hence why there is nothing like Him. He has blessed us with sight and He has sight but His sight is like nothing we can ever imagine or encompass.

Same holds true for knowledge. We learn and then we forget as we get older. There is no such deficiency with Go. All of our attributes are deficient, the most important being the attribute of life itself. God is life.

Nevertheless, there are things that although God is above and will never do. We sleep, but that does not mean God sleeps. We drink and defacate and marry and have children and need love, and die, etc. God does none of these things.

This is why His names and attributes are as He says they are and we do not try to interpret them. We say we believe in them and we do not ask how concerning them. If God says He has hands, we say, we believe. We don't ask what are they like. They would obviously be nothing like what we have. It is whatever it is within his majesty. Likewiese for sight. We say we believe he sees but we don't go into discussion abotu how He seees. does he have eye sockets, etc. We don't do that. We believe in what He says about Himself and we don't ask how. This is a very strict rule and deviation from it is one of the biggest causes for Muslims to fall into disbelief and is what has plagued Christians for centuries.

another thread for the very same thing you miserably failed to defend?

@David

Is that all you have to say?

If Davidylan is baited long enough, he will bite. Don't worry, he will
grow up and then realise that Qaliq (Creator) can never be Maqluq (Created).

Man is Created and can never be God. When David can recognise this distinct
diffrerence, then he will begin to have doubt in his heart. It is only a matter of time.

If Davidylan is baited long enough, he will bite. Don't worry, he will
grow up and then realise that Qaliq (Creator) can never be Maqluq (Created).

Man is Created and can never be God. When David can recognise this distinct
diffrerence, then he will begin to have doubt in his heart. It is only a matter of time.

Good talk You have said it. Jazakhullah Khairan

@Davidylan: If you had answered in the first thread, even though this thread
may be necessary, but you will not have to have it as a helo or Thorn on your
head! It is becoming the albatross of your conscience. Answer the questions.

olabowale:

@Davidylan: If you had answered in the first thread, even though this thread
may be necessary, but you will not have to have it as a helo or Thorn on your
head! It is becoming the albatross of your conscience. Answer the questions.

islam an albatross? More like ludicrous cult of death!

There are no "questions" to answer! the post said "take note" . . . is that a "question"?

@Davidylan

islam an albatross? More like ludicrous cult of death!

There are no "questions" to answer! the post said "take note" . . . is that a "question"?

Dafidi