“O humanity! Eat from what is lawful and good on the earth and do not follow Satan’s footsteps. He is truly your sworn enemy. He only incites you to commit evil and indecency, and to claim against Allah what you do not know.” (Qur’an 2:168-169)

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The more one learns about Salafi aqidah the more Christianity makes allot of sense.
Proposed debate scenario:
Opening presentation. Thank you all for joining me for tonights debate Trinity vs Tawhid.
I want to address the audience tonight and suggest the real question: “How many is God?” Or “How complex is God?”
You see both the Christian and the Muslim, we both agree God is one but we also both agree that God is a unity. Trinity means three in one. Tawhid means: unity or coming together.
Yes in the NT we cannot find Jesus using the exact phrase I am God. However we do find him saying I am.
We don’t find the word tawheed in the Qur’an. Yet Muslims believe it is threaded throughout the Qur’an.
I’d like to challenge my Muslim opponent tonight to find me one verse any verse where Allah says: “My nature is simple”.
We have the mystery of the union of god and flesh. The Muslim, the mystery of how an attribute can be eternal and represented in temporal form.
We have the mystery of the trinity. The Muslim, the mystery of Allah’s unity where attributes are not identical to the essence nor other than it.
For my Muslim opponent indeed the Muslims treat sin as something trivial even hell is a brief sojourn. For us sin is darkness, seperation from God and yearns for redemption.
On and on it goes….
Rather than saying Allah is alien the clever Christian quotes the anthropomorphic similarities….bridging that chasm.
christ ate, slept, and wept.
Allah walks, chuckles and appears before men.
“I tell you if God can cast his voice in the burning bush he can certainly join with flesh!! Hallelujah!”
and on and on it goes…
Theology matters.
May Allah (swt) Guide the Ummah.
May Allah (swt) Forgive the Ummah.
Assalamu alaikum,
I think it’s not their fault, they are just trying to follow the hadiths without distorting them!
I’m saying this because, when reading hadiths it is clear that hadiths are talking about a Human Like God.
So I’m in a dillema, I have to either reject those narrations or accept those at their face value. To me it seems impossible to explain away all the narrations. Sometimes, it feels hypocritical to explain all those hadiths.
I have seen one boy becoming athiest because to him the hadiths didn’t make sense, specifically hadiths about qadr.
I would say hadiths on qadr feels like promoting jabr…
One question, do you have any good resource that explains why so many hadiths on so many different topics speak non sensical things? It almost feels like Quran and Hadith are two different character!
walakum salam warahmutallah wabarkatuh,
It certainly is their fault as this is thier creed. Their creed is to take the apparent meaning of text (even when a whole range of possible meanings for a word are availble to them) as well as to take the lone narrator reports as conveying certainty in belief.
“So I’m in a dillema, I have to either reject those narrations or accept those at their face value. To me it seems impossible to explain away all the narrations. Sometimes, it feels hypocritical to explain all those hadiths.”
So you were given the book: The Sharp Sword in Refutation of Those Who Accept Single-Narrator Hadiths in Matters of Belief. What parts of the book did you benefit from the most?
“One question, do you have any good resource that explains why so many hadiths on so many different topics speak non sensical things? It almost feels like Quran and Hadith are two different character!”
Our advise to you would be to focus on one thing at a time. If you try to take on too much at a time it is hard to imagine it would bring you comfort.
“I have seen one boy becoming athiest because to him the hadiths didn’t make sense, specifically hadiths about qadr.” It seems that he must have ignored the verses in the Qur’an and the Sunnah that speak on the opposite.
The Jabariyya and the Ismaili Nizari with thier Universal Intellect are one end of the spectrum. For example: It was absolutely necessary that this person was molested by her father and the universe could not have been any other way. Now, this would not necessarily be an argument against such a belief
it is just something that those who believe in would have to wrestle with.
So for now, go through the book: The Sharp Sword in Refutation of Those Who Accept Single-Narrator Hadiths in Matters of Belief. https://alsaidia.com/node/99
insh’Allah.