Prophet Muhammad

Yes they did. The Five Pillars of Islam (Declaration of the Islamic Faith) are:

1. Bearing witness that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah
2. Observance of Prayer
3. Paying Zakat
4. Fasting during Ramadhan
5. Pilgrimage to the house of Allah

I don't want to types anything wrong here but one name that was given to Hazrat Ayesha (R) -I don't know by whom- was Umm-ul-muminin or Mother of the Believers.

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The word "Trinity" is not in the Bible, but the concept certainly is.

First, the Old Testament (Genesis-Malachi) usage of the word for God "Elohim" is actually a plural word. Then, there are several instances where plural pronouns are used, such as in Genesis 1:1, 26 and Isaiah 6:8. Secondly, in the Old Testament as well, there are several references to the "angel of Jehovah," who was in fact God in the flesh, as can be clearly drawn on when simply observing the text, in that he receives worship & burnt offerings, and those who see him fear for their lives (see Genesis 22:11, 15-16; Exodus 3:2; Judges 6:12; etc.)

Therefore, the Old Testament allows for the concept of a "trinity" or a triune God.

According to New Testament (Matthew-Revelation), the Father is God (John 6:27; Eph. 4:6), Jesus Christ is God (Heb. 1:8), and the Spirit is God (Acts 5:3-4). Specifically relating to Jesus Christ's claim to be God, in John 10:30-33 he states, "I and the Father are one," after which he is accused of blasphemy for claiming to be God. Also, in John 14:8-10 he states, "If you had known me, you would have known the Father...If you have seen me, you have seen the Father...I am one with the Father..."

The question isn't "is God represented as a 'trinity' in the Bible," because he is. The question should rather be, "is the Bible even true?"

The Christian doctrine of the trinity may be stated as follows: "There is only one God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three eternal, coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in subsistence." -Charles Ryrie, Christian Theologian & Bible Scholar

1 x 1 x 1 = 1

The Trinity is not in the bible, that's because it was not believed by the people who wrote the bible. Christ is the son, God is the Father, they are not one, it was added by the church fathers.

"None can see God and live," but people saw Christ and lived. Christ and God are not one.

Christ in the garden before his death, said "not my will, but thy will be done,"

If God is Christ, then he would be saying, "not my will by mine be done," which does not make sense.

The above being true, I know of no English translation or version of the Holy Bible that has the word "trinity" in the text. That is not to say one does not exist. Some versions take egregious liberties with the original texts in order to promote a particular doctrine. I have heard that the name "Jesus" has been inserted into the first verse of the gospel of John, where the Greek word 'Logos' is, to substantiate claims of Jesus' deity.

I know of at least one Christian denomination that has adopted the word "Godhead" as a synonym for "trinity." Investigation of this term shows that the three uses of this word in the KJV are translations of three forms of the same Greek word, 'theos,' or "God." No hint of a trinity can be found in the Greek.

The very concept of a trinity is a violation of the central tenet of Judaism, self-described as "monotheistic." Christianity was built on Judaism, the Christian Bible being a combination of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament), and the New Testament, which pays reverential homage to the Hebrew Scriptures, with probably well over 100 citations. This document would not then trash monotheism in favor of an incomprehensible construct of a God Who is three separate individuals, each being totally and completely God, yet together comprise only one God. 1+1+1=3, and never equals 1. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are of necessity three gods.

Apart from very few sects such as the Jehovah's Witnesses, all Christian denominations consisting of literally billions of Christians worldwide accept Jesus as divine and, together with the Father and Holy Spirit part of a Trinitarian God. The earliest known manuscripts of John's Gospel all begin with the prologue stating Jesus as the Word of God - and as God himself. The concept of the Trinity was also passed on to Polycarp who was a disciple of this same John. Polycarp also left a great deal of writing all of which supported the trinitarian God as accepted by John - and John was Jesus' closest disciple and should know a little more than most! Polycarp went on, like many of the disciples, to die for his faith - something that would be inthinkable if he was not absolutely convinced that he was right.

Whilst the word Trinity is not to be found in the Bible neither is 'mouth-to-mouth resuscitation' despite Elijah using that technique to rescuscitate a boy. 'Trinity' was a word coined to try to explain the God of the Old and New testament - in an idea of a three-person-and-yet-one-God that permeates the whole of scripture - both in the canonical bible, the non-canonical books, and the earliest writings of the early church.

In addition to John's reference are countless other references to the Trinitarian God in the Bible - one example is the Great Commission at the end of Matthew's gospel ("baptise all nations in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit") , another is the Old Testament beginning (accepted by Muslims too I believe) where God the Father made the world through his Word (Jesus, God the Son) [... and God said....] and the Holy Spirit [The Spirit of God moved over the waters...]. In addition the Plurality and Singularity of God is to be found in the creation of mankind ('And God said, let us make man in ourimage.... so God created man in his image') - again confirming the purality of God as 'us' and the singularity of God in 'his'. In addition to this there are many incidences of the Trinitarian differences between the three persons: Jesus prayerd to his father God, but merely communicating with God the Father doers not make Jesus subservient: I talk to my wife and we are equals - but with different functions within the family. Jesus stated that HE will send the Holy Spirit, and HE will be the judge of the world (hardly the words of a subservient). The Father knows when that judgment will come - not the Holy Spirit or the Son. Any sin is forgiven, even against Jesus or the Father, but not the Holy Spirit... the list goes on. All these suggest that the Trinitarian God - three yet one - consists of Father, Son and Holy Spirit - all God, all equal, but with different functions. Just like my wife - who is my wife to me, a biological woman to our GP, and a mother to our children, three separate roles, yet one, or the element carbon, which can be found as charcoal, graphite and diamond (OK - I know there are other allotropes like buckminsterfullerene, but this is only an illustration!).

In addition, Jesus himself claimed on many occasions to BE God - not to be a subservient 'Son of God' but God the Son, which is very different. He claimed the great "Yah Weh" - 'I am' - "... before Abraham was, I am...", "...I am the bread of life...", "...I am the way the truth and the life... no one comes to the Father except through me..". Even the scribes and pharisees turned against him because, as they put it. "he claimed to be God". Either Jesus was and is God in human form, or he was a liar and a charlatan. |rthere is no middle ground. He did not intend there to be. There is a great difference between understanding why we need to explain God as a Trinitarian God and actually explaining the Trinity, just as a particle physicist can explain matter in terms of atoms, quarks and strings, without really understanding just what they are or look like. There are those who do not understand why the Trinitarian God is a necessity if we are to interpret God's own revelation of himself through scripture correctly. However, just because the concept does not fit neatly into our own experience, or does not, to some, seem logical, this does not mean to say it does not exist. One cannot hide one's head in the sand and hope that, by inventing new doctrines, or false Bible translations, or novel but incorrect ways of interpreting a few verses of scripture, as opposed to studying it, and the history of the church, as a whole, one can hope that the Trinity will go away. Billions of Christians dating right back to the original 12 have shown us otherwise.

There are numerous other examples of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, both in the Old Testament - and in the Old Testament prophesies, and, equally numerous, in the New Testament. Anyone denying this either uses a skewed translation (such as the New World translation as used by Jehovah's Witnesses which has removed references to the Trinity to match up with their corrupt ideas of God) or simply, perhaps, does not know their Bible or Christian doctrine that has been accepted over the last 2000 years, as well as they should.

The word Trinity itself is not written anywhere in the Bible. The only verses that may refer to it is found in 1 John 5:7-8, known as the "Johannine Comma" (see link) which is not found in the earlier Greek manuscript and is now admitted by Scholars as a later insertion probably in the middle century.

5:7 "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one."

The above insertion was a deliberate forgery of the text, meant to show documented evidence of a triune God, when none can be found in the authentic text.

From the very beginning of God's relationship with Israel, He wished to make plain His unitarian nature. Deuteronomy 6:4: Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God; Yahweh is one:(WEB).

James 2:19 You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

Mark 12:29 Jesus answered, "The greatest is, 'Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:

Galatians 3:20 Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.

1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Matthew 28:19 has been "retrofitted" to corroborate the doctrine of the trinity, since only by being pre-schooled in that doctrine, in which the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit comprise the trinity, can a trinity be seen in it. Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of the Bible will agree that God is described as a Father, and that His Son is Jesus Christ, and that God is described as being "Holy" and being "Spirit." It cannot be deduced from this verse or any other that those three elements comprise one God.

The writer of the gospel of John never declared that Jesus is God. The first verse declares that God's logos (the Greek word translated "Word") was pros (the Greek word translated "with") Him. Pros means "together with, but distinctly independent of." The logos is God's plan, His purpose, His message, which message was fully realized in the person of Jesus Christ. "The Word was made flesh" was God's plan of the redemption of mankind coming into fruition. Had John wanted to make known anything else, he would have written something like, "In the beginning was the Father, and His Son, Jesus, who were together and were one." That is precisely what trinitarians are inferring from John 1:1. May we look at John's own stated purpose for writing this gospel. John 20:31: "but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name." If his stated intention was that you believe that Jesus is God, he would have written it that way.

Since no trinity model is described in Scripture, one is only inferred by readers wishing to validate a preconceived idea of God. Different readers have constructed different models. There is the co-equal trinity, the subordinate trinity, and so forth.

The truth is very simple. "One God" is a concept that can be easily grasped. "Three-in-one" violates logic, and even ardent trinitarians will say that it is incomprehensible. They are the ones who take pride in believing in something that is beyond belief.

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I find it very sad that people have gone out of their way to decide whether or not Jesus Christ, God the Father and the Holy Spirit are one or not. Do you not understand what Jesus did for us? He destroyed sin! and all you can do is argue whether He is or is not God himself.

I pray that people searching for the answer to this question do exactly what Jesus taught us to do, that is to not ask man but to ask God, who actually gave us the Word and therefore is the only One who can tell us the truth. I challenge you to go before the God who created us, loved us more than we could ever understand, died for us and destroyed the very root of sin in us all for love and ask Him the One and only Truth what is meant by the awesome power of Him being of three persons.

I believe He will show you the truth - that of a relationship - which is the essence of what Jesus Christ lived, Love, Relationship, He is pure Love. Stop questioning the Almighty God and start living in Him. No scholar can ever explain Him, only He can.

I pray all people searching for the truth have it revealed to them by God and not by man.

Back to the topic

Stay aware of the original question: The presence of the trinity in Scripture. A discussion about the deity of Christ does not truly stay on topic. I would agree that showing that Jesus is not God is like kicking a leg out from under a three-legged stool. However, the focus here is to show whether Scripture attests to one God, or a three-in-one God. The author of the above contribution suggests we "go before the God who created us," to get the answer. I would ask how a flesh-and-blood human is supposed to go before an invisible, spiritual Being, but it would be rhetorical. We can go before God by going to His Word. You can look God in the face by reading the words that come from the His very breath (2 Timothy 3:16a-

"All Scripture is God-breathed" [NIV]). Jesus Christ said "Search the Scriptures" (John 5:39). The Bereans were more noble because they "searched the scriptures" (Acts 17:11). A search of the Scriptures finds no explicit reference to a trinity anywhere within, and its presence in a comparatively few isolated verses can only be inferred by the reader.

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Doesn't it make sense that the God of creation, who placed every cell, molecule, pigment, hairline, wrinkle crease and limb of our bodies take a piece of Himself and place it in a form called a body and come to die for us, then send another piece of Himself back in the form of His Spirit to teach us since as flesh He could only be in one place at a time. I believe that when God says there is only one God He is telling us not to put anything else before Him. We as humans will take more time with other things than spending time with God. We will put Him on the back burner until we get ourselves in a mess then we want to prostitute Him. I believe He means that He is the Head even though the Son and The Holy Ghost make up His Being. Both the Son and The Holy Ghost make up God and dwell in Him. They are an extension of Him but yet still Him. It is like algebra it may not make sense it just is. If you really pay attention to the scripture, God being a spirit could not come here and talk and show us what was needed to get back into fellowship with Him. He had to create a body and place Himself in it to function in this earth. Along with the fact that any other way of entering this earth after the creation of Adam and Eve would have been illegal. And the only way to enter this earth after creation was through the womb of a woman. Any other way is unnatural and against God.

Black Muslims and Nation of Islam are cultural associations that use the name of Islam to promote their own ideologies. They're far from the true Islam ideology and most of the time they say that Black people or superior to other, and have new prophets.

In True Islam, Muhammad is the last Prophet and all races are equals.

One of the last sayings of Muhammad was :

"An Arab is not superior to an Non-Arab, and an Non-Arab is not superior to an Arab. Just like a Black is not superior to a White, and a White is not superior to a Black"

However, what is called Nation of Islam is not belonging to the mainstream Islam. They give superiority to black Muslims, they have their own prophet, they have their own holy book, and have many other differences. Refer to related questions below for more details.

• 'Ashura is a religious observance marked every year by Muslims. The word 'ashura literally means "10th," as it is on the 10th day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic year. 'Ashura is an ancient observance that is now recognized for different reasons and in different ways among Sunni and Shi'a Muslims.

• Sunni Islam: During the time of the Prophet Muhammad, local Jews observed a day of fasting at this time -- their Day of Atonement. The Prophet Muhammad learned of of this tradition, and stated that the Muslims should also fast. He himself fasted it and he recommended that Muslims fast the 9th and 10th of the month of Muharram. This fast is not obligatory but recommended.

• Shi'a Islam: After the death of the Prophet Muhammad, a schism developed within the community about who was to succeed him in leadership of the Muslim nation. This was the beginning of the historical split between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims (see the article "What's the Difference Between Shi'a and Sunni Muslims?" for more details).

In the year 680 A.D., an event happened that was a turning point for what was to become the Shi'a Muslim community. Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was brutally murdered during a battle against the ruling Caliph -- on the 10th day of Muharram ('Ashura). This took place in Karbala (modern-day Iraq), which is now an important pilgrimage site for Shi'a Muslims.

Shi'a Muslims observe the day in mourning for Hussein and in remembrance of his martyrdom. Reenactments and plays are performed, attempting to relive the tragedy and keep the lessons of this event alive. Some Shi'a Muslims beat and flog themselves in parades on this day, to express their grief and to reenact the pain that Hussein suffered.

Makkah is the holy city of Saudia Arabia!

Muslims can only enter Makkah!

The prophet Muhammad was born there!

In Makkah there is the Holy Kaabah!

To the millions of Muslims who visit the city from distant parts of the world each year, entering Makkah is the spiritual high point of their lives, an experience that remains indelibly etched in their memories forever.

It is believed to be said as the first female Hafaz (is called for females that has memorized the Quran) was either the first wife of the prophet Mohammad (pbuh) Khadījah bint Khuwaylid or Fatima bint Mohammad (May peace & blessing's be upon them all).

For a positive answer please do refer to a notable Scholar or an Imam.