01 Jul '08 17:05>
"How can you now say that Jews and Christians are worshipping a different God?"
I'm not saying that the Jews and the Christians are worshiping a different god. Rather what I am saying is that by praying to saints, or invoking pious people, or by supplicating prophets, then one is a polytheist - you (generally speakling, not YOU per se) believe in Allaah but you also believe in other than Him.
According to Islaam, there is no power higher, equal or less than Allaah. Allaah says:
[22.73] O mankind! a parable is set forth, therefore listen to it: surely those whom you call upon besides Allah cannot create fly, though they should all gather for it, and should the fly snatch away anything from them, they could not take it back. Weak are the invoker and the invoked.
My point is Raj, while one may say that they believe in one God, they have effectively nullified their belief (have become disbelivers) by worshiping other than Him. There are many forms that polytheism takes.
I'm not saying that the Jews and the Christians are worshiping a different god. Rather what I am saying is that by praying to saints, or invoking pious people, or by supplicating prophets, then one is a polytheist - you (generally speakling, not YOU per se) believe in Allaah but you also believe in other than Him.
According to Islaam, there is no power higher, equal or less than Allaah. Allaah says:
[22.73] O mankind! a parable is set forth, therefore listen to it: surely those whom you call upon besides Allah cannot create fly, though they should all gather for it, and should the fly snatch away anything from them, they could not take it back. Weak are the invoker and the invoked.
My point is Raj, while one may say that they believe in one God, they have effectively nullified their belief (have become disbelivers) by worshiping other than Him. There are many forms that polytheism takes.