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that sure is awesome , Islam is always the true religion .

By Allah you mean YHWH.

Allah is a non-specific word meaning God. The NAME of this god is YHWH. And those names are specific parts of YHWH that are separated out. This is also done in the Sephirot, and in hinduism through the multiple gods representing the aspects of the single Brahman, and in christianity with the three parts- the thinking, the active, and the speaking if you will, with more subtle differences of course.

And how does this conflict with anything? Changing a name does not change a reality. Your God is known as Allah and God and YHWH, but this does not make it three things.

That one God can have as many faces as it may like. The Brahman did. Buddha did. The Christian understanding of your very YHWH does. Who is to say they are ALL not one?

Pheeewww.... I learn lots from this thread....
Technically I'm a muslim. Well, I'm Indonesian.... the country with highest population of muslim. But they are moderate muslim as I am.

To say for this thread and the posts... I read lots of views from the muslims and the Christians about Islam. And actually, maybe I still don't have the iman (belief) upon God. I'm still in the searching process. Hopefully I will find the true TRUTH and follow it.

Hey, I'm 19 years old and I'm muslim by tradition not by my own will. But then I learned the Islamic values and I found how beautiful they are.

I want to really search the reality about theism, so I'd love to have the chance and capacity to do it. But well, it's very ashamed that the culture here is taboo for person to questions his/her beliefs upon religion. It is not easy to learn the whole Islamic teaching and the Christianity's. The most easy way is to find it through the holy books (muslims beliefe to 4 holy books- Quran, Injil, Taurat, and Zabur - I don't know the English version emo ). But it is hard to 'really' study them because for many times translation could mislead ppl in perceive something. So, that's why I'm still in the lazy state of study them. I should not being like this.

There are lots of things that are new to me. Like the death penalty in syariah law. Cause my Islamic lecturers said, "when violence (war) made in the sake of goodness, still, you don't have the right to taking life given by Allah s.w.t." So, I never heard that death penalty is allowed in Islamic perspective for what have been taught to me. I don't know was it because I'm living in the moderate Islam country?

And from my Islamic teaching teacher back then when I was in high school. She told me that everything you have done in your life, will be judged in the afterlife. But when you have been punished for what you have been done in your life, you will not receive the punishment for that sins in the afterlife. I guess the point is to get you the 'service' of what you've 'paid'.
From the above statement, I want to say something about the death penalty for those who converted their religion from Islam (betraying Islam). Since when I was sitting in my primary school, I was taught that muslim only have one chance to be a muslim again. So, when you turn Christian (just an example, no offense) you can still be a muslim again. But that's the last time you are a muslim. If you change your religion again. You can't never be a muslim again.
The point is that when you are not a muslim, you cannot be saved. As I know this is the believe for most of religions in the world. You will be burn forever in the hell (their hells) when you are not their member. So I guess, there's no point for killing ppl when they betrayed their religion.

And for homosexuals, I don't really know. But I guess they are prohibited to do the homosexuality and do 'it' only with their muhrim (opposite gender and are legal for them). So such activities are prohibited and the penalty for that sins will be conducted in the afterlife or in the Earth is up to the condition...

Waaaah... that was a long post.... 4laugh Well, that's my perspective...

This is why I consider the Son the be a prophet, but a prophet still as a touch of God.

All things are one, technically. At the most subtle level, there is no distinction between things. But to your point specifically, no, the Son is not the Father. Like how your ideal of Allah's Judgement is not the same as His Mercy- They act separately, but towards the same goal.

I worship every God and one God. The importance is the creative spark and the will, not what name we call it or which prophet we prefer.

as you said, Son is prophet. And for us, being a prophet, no matter how much God made him special, still can't be put on God level. It's not like God Himself reincarnate into Son and spread the teaching. That's the main different between the two teaching.

Of course, the name doesn't matter if they really refer to the same one. I can call Zaki or The_Pathan, and the guild owner will respond. But if I call him Tassan or Rania, then he won't answer, right? If I pray to Allah with a name that not His, then will He answer my prayer?

what word do you mean that idea of the prophet? the name Allah? the name is written in Quran, which is Allah's direct words to the prophet (by direct, I mean through angel without any change), and he has to tell his people what he was told without any change. the prophet has no right to edit it even a little. For prophet's own words, it's called Hadits.

God doesn't come in language, but if we're talking about language, there's a reason why Quran is written in Arabic language, aside from because prophet Muhammad was sent for Arab people, and still be preserved in Arabic language (I won't talk about this now)

Of course, Allah know when He's called. He knows everything after all. But why call Him with other name while He introduced Himself as Allah? Sure, "God" or "Divine Power" literally refer to the most powerful entity, and He is Allah. But we're talking about name here, something that do not refer to anything else beside itself. You have a big brother, you can refer to him by "brother" or "my parent's oldest son", it doesn't matter. But you can't call him by your friend's name, etc.
Again, He know when you call Him, but why call Him with other name? It will be a different story if you don't know, but we know it, at least now.

Actually, Jesus warned that the Devil would come looking like an angel of light... but other than that I totally agree with your post.

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