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“There is only one true God and his name is Allah. Allah is all-knowing, all-powerful and the sovereign
judge. Yet Allah is not a personal God, for he is so far above man in every way that he is not personally
knowable.
ANSWER:=
What are the Problems with the Anti Islamic Objections Makers that they make objections on
the Article Of faith common to all the three Abrahamic Religions. Is God Not Omnipotent or Is
God Not Omniscient or If God nor the Supreme Sovereign Judge? Now the question of Person in
case of God. Is God Personal or Is God a Person. The Person is not a single meaning word. It does
have several meanings. In what meaning the God is a Person and In What meaning God is not a
Person, there are may questions in this regard. The learned Anti Islamic Objection Maker does
not state in what meaning he used the word Person or Personal. If by the word Person he it is
meant “A Rational/An Intelligent Essence/Ousia then no Hypostase whosoever communicable to
the Divine Ousia can be called as Person.
If by the word Person he want to deny the First Cause of Greek Philosophers which is impersonal
and not a Person then Muslims are in agreement this concept how ever they prefer to use the
word Essence to refute the impersonal God of Philosophers and some eastern religions.
So There are several reasons for doing so.
1] The “Arabic Word Shakh:s: which is an alternative of Person some time convey such meanings
which may cause problems.
2] The “Arabic word as a term is generally used for created Supposita and this can cause the
same problem as the word Substance and Form may cause for the Divine Essence.
3] The word Dh:a:t is sufficient enough to refute the Idea of an Impersonal God.
4] God is Divine Essence and Divine Essence is God. Attributed with the Attributes of
Omniscience,Omnipotence ,life,Will it becomes unnecessary to use the word Person/Persona etc.
5] If some one likes to use the word Person for the God [Divine Essence] then he may use it if he
finds it necessary and inevitable. But constant use of this word may cause some problems.
6] Last but not the least does the word Persona is used in Tanakh of Judaism. If the entire
Tanakh is without the word Persona this means this word is not required to know God or to
refute an impersonal God.
Now coming to the second objection. Although Iesous is believed to to be Incarnated Logos but
Iesous is constituted of two natures. One of the Nature of Iesous is the Godhead [Divine Ousia].
The other nature is a Human Nature. It is not even a Human Ousia. It is not even a Human
Person. The Divine Nature is distinct from the Human Nature. Both are infinitely different.
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