Whoever reads the Old Testament will find in it attributes that it is not permissible to describe Allah Almighty with...
And I ask everyone who claims to love Allah Almighty to look with an impartial eye at these attributes, which I have tried to arrange in a way that I hope will help to think about them.....
1- Describing Allah Almighty as tired:
Genesis (2:2,3): And God finished on the seventh day all his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it he rested from all his work that he had done.
* By Allah, how do you describe Allah as tired and in need of rest and then claim that you revere Him?
2- Describing Allah Almighty as weak:
Genesis (32:24-26)
And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of day. And when he saw that he did not prevail against him, he struck the socket of his thigh, and Jacob's hip was dislocated as he wrestled with him. And he said, "Let me go, for the day has broken." But he said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
*What weakness is this, for God's sake? Is the Creator not able to create?
Isaiah (63:5): Then I looked, but there was no helper; I was astonished because there was no one to support him.
*Does God need someone to help or support him?
Judges (19:1): And the Lord was with Judah, and he took possession of the mountain; but he did not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because
they had chariots of iron
. *Does God seem powerless in your eyes before chariots of iron?
3-Permission, receiving orders, and rebuke:
Exodus (32:9, 10): And the Lord said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people. Now therefore, let me alone, that I may extinguish my wrath against them, and consume them; and I will make of you a great nation. Great."
Numbers (10:35, 36): And when the ark set out, Moses would say, "Arise, O Lord, and let your enemies be scattered; and let those who hate you flee before you." And when it set down, he would say, "Return, O Lord, to the ten thousand thousands of Israel."
1 Kings (20:17): And he cried out to the Lord and said, “O Lord my God, have you also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn by putting her son to death?”
*How submissive and obedient to servants and bearing their rebuke!!!
4- Ignorance and lack of knowledge:
Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians (25:1): For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Genesis (9:3-11): Then the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you, Adam?” And he said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.” And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
Exodus (13:12): “And the blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, so that the plague of destruction will not be upon you when I strike the land of Egypt.
” *Does the Lord need to see the blood on the houses to know that they belong to the Jews?
5- Regret:
Jeremiah (7:18-10): Sometimes I speak concerning a nation and a kingdom, to pluck up and to tear down and to destroy; and when that nation, against whom I have spoken, turns from its evil, then I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to it. And sometimes I speak concerning a nation and a kingdom, to build and to plant; and when it does evil in My sight, and does not obey My voice, then I will repent of the good which I said I would do to it.
1 Samuel (11,10:15): And the word of the LORD came to Samuel, saying, It repenteth me that I have made Saul king.
6- Forgetfulness:
Genesis (1:8): Then God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark.
Genesis (16:9): And when the bow is in the cloud, I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
7- Different attributes:
Exodus (45:29): And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and I will be their God. Exodus
(18:29): And all the ram shall be burned upon the altar, and it shall be a burnt offering to the LORD, a sweet savour, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Judges (16:10): And they put away the foreign gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved because of the affliction of Israel. Jeremiah (31:48
): Therefore I will wail over Moab, and cry out over all Moab.
Psalms (8:18): Smoke went up out of his nostrils, and fire from his mouth devoured coals that were kindled by it.
Psalms (10:18): He rode on a cherub and flew, and soared on the wings of the wind.
Isaiah (1:19): An oracle concerning Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, and is coming to Egypt.
Isaiah (20:7): In that day the Lord will shave with a hired razor beyond the River the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of his feet, and the beard will also be plucked off.
Look how He, glory be to Him, describes Him as if He were a dragon breathing fire, or as if Superman were riding on the clouds!!!
By God, do such descriptions befit the King, glory be to Him?
Whoever has a sound mind will not accept such descriptions for God
. Why don’t you think and repent to God, perhaps He will repent to you.
And our final supplication is that praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds .
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