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

(٥١)IS ALLAH (S.W) ONE OR THREE?To understand the passage clearly, the prominent scholar Deedatbrings us back to the Greek original codex.The actual translation of that passage is, “in the beginning was theword, and the word was with God”. The Greek translation uses theword (hotheos), which translates as “God”, in English with the capital‘G’ referring to the real divinity.The passage continues saying, “the word was god”, here, the Greekoriginal uses the word (tontheos). The English translation should usethe word (god) with a small letter, to indicate the figurative divinity asthe Bible uses in many places; I will list a few examples below.In the Book of Exodus, we read, “I have made you like God toPharaoh” (Exodus 7/1).When he was talking about the devil that Paul called him the “god ofage”, who blinded the mind of the unbelievers (see, Cor.2 4:4). TheGreek original used the word (tenthoes) in Paul’s Epistle, and ittranslated to (god) in English, using the indefinite article (a).The Holy Bible English translators changed the Greek passage ofJohn’s Gospel, using the word “God” which refers to the real divinity,instead of (god) which refers to the figurative meaning, which makesthe confusion in this passage, and that - without doubt – is a kind offabrication. 1Some translations realized this mistranslation and used the correctform of the word; one of them is the New World Translation, in itsvarious universal translations, it says, (and the word was a god).In addition, I have designated a special appendix to show thedistortion in many different copies in reading this word. Some of whatI mentioned is, “In John’s sentence, whether the Word or Logos was(god) or (divine) or (as god), does not mean that God was with God;it is only a characteristic of the Word or Logos, and it does notdetermine its identity as God Himself”.I quoted from Phillip Horner, a writer in the Holy Bible LiteratureMagazine, his saying in (volume 92/87), “I think the descriptionindication in (John 1:1) is so obvious, we cannot consider the namedefinite”1 - Two debates in Stockholm, Ahmad Deedat, pp 135-137. Christ in Islam, AhmadDeedat, pp 84-87