is allah (sw) one or three? - Islam Center
is allah (sw) one or three? - Islam Center
is allah (sw) one or three? - Islam Center
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(٣٥)IS ALLAH (S.W) ONE OR THREE?eternal life; and they shall never per<strong>is</strong>h, neither shall anyman pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gavethem me, <strong>is</strong> greater than all; and no man <strong>is</strong> able to pluckthem out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are <strong>one</strong>.”(John 10:24-30)The passage from the beginning talks about a metaph<strong>or</strong>ic <strong>is</strong>sue. 1 H<strong>is</strong>sheep, which means h<strong>is</strong> d<strong>is</strong>ciples, will follow him, so he will givethem eternal life, which <strong>is</strong> heaven, and no <strong>one</strong> will take h<strong>is</strong> sheepaway from him, which means from h<strong>is</strong> way and guidance, f<strong>or</strong>, Allah(S.W) has given him and no <strong>one</strong> can take that from Allah (S.W), who<strong>is</strong> the greatest. Allah (S.W) and Jesus (PBUH) want good f<strong>or</strong> thesesheep; thus, the unity <strong>is</strong> of the objective and not the essence.The Jews in Solomon’s p<strong>or</strong>ch m<strong>is</strong>understood Jesus’ (PBUH) w<strong>or</strong>ds,exactly, like the Chr<strong>is</strong>tian’s, theref<strong>or</strong>e, ‘the Jews took up st<strong>one</strong>sagain to st<strong>one</strong> him…F<strong>or</strong> a good w<strong>or</strong>k we st<strong>one</strong> thee not; butf<strong>or</strong> blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makestthyself God.Jesus (PBUH) realized their m<strong>is</strong>understanding, and was surpr<strong>is</strong>edhow they could m<strong>is</strong>understand h<strong>is</strong> w<strong>or</strong>ds since they are wellacquainted with the Bible’s metaph<strong>or</strong>ic language.Quoting what comes in Psalms 82:6, he an<strong>sw</strong>ered them, ‘Is it notwritten in your law, I said, Ye are gods?’ He meant that, howcould you be surpr<strong>is</strong>ed with my w<strong>or</strong>ds since it <strong>is</strong> common in yourbook, which made all Israelites gods metaph<strong>or</strong>ically? Theref<strong>or</strong>e,Jesus (PBUH) deserves being a metaph<strong>or</strong>ic god, m<strong>or</strong>e than all theIsraelites. ‘If he called them gods, unto whom the w<strong>or</strong>d ofGod came…Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified,and sent into the w<strong>or</strong>ld, Thou blasphemest; because I said,I am the Son of God? If I do not the w<strong>or</strong>ks of my Father,believe me not. (John 10:35-37)Giving h<strong>is</strong> opinion about th<strong>is</strong> passage, Matta El Meskeen said,“Jesus quoted Psalm 82, f<strong>or</strong> God’s angel gives th<strong>is</strong> attribute to thecouncil that gathered to judge acc<strong>or</strong>ding to God’s w<strong>or</strong>d… and that <strong>is</strong>an an<strong>sw</strong>er to their claim, which considered Jesus as committing1 Priest James An<strong>is</strong> concludes that <strong>one</strong> has to explain the verses metaph<strong>or</strong>ically if thechapter <strong>is</strong> full of metaph<strong>or</strong>ic, which <strong>one</strong> cannot explain it literally. How about th<strong>is</strong> versethat <strong>is</strong> metaph<strong>or</strong>ic? (see Methodical Divinity Science, James An<strong>is</strong>, pp 713)
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