An Invitation to Peace

3) It should not attribute to God anything which goes
against His absoluteness.
Islam re-introduced man to the vastness of the Reality that is God, and
re-asserted His purity. While rejecting all ideas of anthropomorphism,
or projecting onto God the image of human beings (or anything else
created, for that matter), Islam like all true religions before it taught that
God, High in grandeur and majesty, could not be grasped by any mind,
but could be reached out to by every heart. Intimately near to His
creation, He nonetheless supremely transcends all the limitations of
the created, above all blemishes and flaws. Islam destroyed false idols
and fabricated deities and restored man to the recognition of the One,
Supreme Creator and Cherisher of all existence with the simple words,
‘there is no god but Allah.’
“‘I believe in One God and Mahomet [sic] the Apostle of God,’ is
the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image of
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the Deity has never been degraded by any visible idol…”
The Creator of all things and their laws, He is bound by no laws. He
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“feeds, but is not fed” , He creates but does not need to rest. The
Verse of the Throne demonstrates beautifully His magnificence:
“Allah, there is no god but He, the Living, Self-subsisting. Neither
slumber seizes Him nor sleep. His are all things in the heavens and the
earth. Who is there that can intercede in His presence except as He
permits? He knows what (appears to His creatures as) before or after
(or behind) them, while they shall compass nothing of His knowledge
except as He wills. His Throne does extend over the heavens and the
earth, and He feels no fatigue in guarding and preserving them, and He
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is the Most High, the Supreme.”
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Edward Gibbon and Simon Ocklay, History of the Saracen Empire, London, 1870, p. 54
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Qur’an 6:14 Qur’an 2:225
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