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is allah (sw) one or three? - Islam Center

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(١٠٤)IS ALLAH (S.W) ONE OR THREE?Egypt!” They have made f<strong>or</strong> themselves a golden calf andhave w<strong>or</strong>shiped it and sacrificed to it and said, 'These areyour gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land ofEgypt!” (Exodus 32/4-8)Th<strong>is</strong> chapter continues to reassure us that using the plural means<strong>one</strong>. “So Moses returned to the LORD and said, "Alas, th<strong>is</strong>people have sinned a great sin. They have made f<strong>or</strong>themselves gods of gold.” (Exodus 32/31)Simlarly, we find th<strong>is</strong> plurality in the Holy Quran, as Allah (S.W) says,“We have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and Wewill assuredly guard it (from c<strong>or</strong>ruption).” (Holy Quran 15: 9).“We” refers to the One and Only, Allah (S.W).Repeating w<strong>or</strong>ds <strong>three</strong> times, as the angels and the animals, whichJohn saw, cannot be evidence in any way. If we continue to usethem as evidence, we will find many gods.The Holy Bible mentions the w<strong>or</strong>d, (holy) <strong>three</strong> times twice; it alsomentions it f<strong>or</strong>ty times as <strong>one</strong> w<strong>or</strong>d. Th<strong>is</strong> repetition <strong>is</strong> f<strong>or</strong> reassuranceonly, as in many passages of the Gospels and the T<strong>or</strong>ah. 1In <strong>one</strong> of these passages, the Jews say: “but they kept shouting,"Crucify, crucify him!” (Luke 23/21). The same also happenedwhen Jesus (PBUH) asked Peter, he repeated it <strong>three</strong> times: “Whenthey had fin<strong>is</strong>hed breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter,"Simon, son of John, do you love me m<strong>or</strong>e than these?" Hesaid to him, "Yes, L<strong>or</strong>d; you know that I love you…He saidto him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you loveme?"…. He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John,do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to himthe third time, "Do you love me?" (John 21/15-17).The Gospels’ Passages and the TrinityChr<strong>is</strong>tians believe there <strong>is</strong> much evidence of the Trinity in the NewTestament, which <strong>is</strong> much clearer than that menti<strong>one</strong>d in the T<strong>or</strong>ah.They present passages such as: “And when Jesus wasbaptized, immediately he went up from the water, and1 - (Jeremiah 7:4, 22:29) ( Ezekiel 21:27)

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