Abstract
Muslims and Christians do indeed believe in the same
God. It can be substantiated with the help of two
chief sources: the revealed data of the Qur’an, and
the inspired data of the mystics of both Christianity
and Islam. The Qur’an–and the Sunna or Conduct of
the Prophet, which is an eloquent commentary
thereon–provides us with irrefutable evidence that
the supreme Object of belief and worship is God for
both Muslims and Christians, even if the conceptions
of God held by Muslims and Christians diverge and,
at points, contradict each other. The God in whom
Muslims and Christians believe is one and the same;
here, the stress must be placed on the Object of
belief, rather than the subject thereof: if ‘belief’ be
defined principally in terms of the divine Object
rather than the human subject, then our answer to
the question posed will be in the affirmative. The
positions of exclusivist and universalist are open to
the Muslim who acknowledges that Christians believe
in the same God as do Muslims. To the extent that
exclusivist theological tendencies prevail, this
acknowledgment will be joined to an invitation
(da‘wa) to embrace Islam, thereby replacing an
ambiguous, theologically formulated dogma of the
Trinity with an unambiguous revealed doctrine of
Tawhīd. Alternatively, the universalist Muslim can
affirm not only that Christians worship the same God
as do Muslims. This infinite oneness will then be seen
as that which encompasses all things, and as such, is
far from a numerical unity; rather, it is simply, that
which has no second.
Dr. Reza Shah Kazemi . (2012) DO MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS BELIEVE IN THE SAME GOD?, Iqbal Review, Volume , Issue 1.
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