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Submitted by vitometh on December 10, 2006
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In today's world, almost everybody has some version of "GOD" that they harbor in the recesses of their minds; almost everyone, from the most primitive person to the most civilized. It is that God that sometimes we love, and that we feel angry with, and even from time to time we judge and condemn for His wrong deeds and His injustice. To tell the truth, we often visualize Him as a sweet, plump grandfather, or as an enraged, wrathful sultan who sits on a star, or up in space far above us. On the other hand, some people with broader minds argue that there cannot be such a "GOD" as imagined and espoused by believers, and therefore they do not believe in a god at all. They are known as atheists –the nonbelievers–. However, neither the atheists, who do not recognize the existence of God, nor those who have a mental image of GOD that is in accordance with what they heard or have been preconditioned to believe, are aware of "Mohammed's ALLAH" at all. So, what does "MOHAMMED'S ALLAH" means? In the following pages, we will try to give you an understanding of "ALLAH" to the degree of our understanding.
"Allah ... is a proper name applied to the Being Who exists necessarily, by Himself, comprising all the attributes of perfection, a proper name denoting the true God." According to the explanations given by Mohammed aleyhessalaam as he tried to communicate and describe to us, to make us comprehend, using the Chapter of ONENESS (Sura Al-Ikhlas) in the KORAN as our starting point. It is this chapter that most of us are likely to know by the name "Kul hu wallahu AHAD," without being aware of its profound wisdom. In fact, this chapter has been described as being equal to "one-third of the whole Koran".
"He who does not know is ignorant;
He who does not know that he does not know is stupid;
And he who does not understand that he does not understand is an idiot"
When Mohammed aleyhessalaam announced in Mecca that he was the Rasul...
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