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Allah is the only self-existing, knowing, and powerful
being. He encompasses, fills every space [1] , being and
thing; and is the source of all life, knowledge and force.
Allah is the unique Creator, Regulator and Ruler of the
universe. He is absolutely One. The essence and nature of
Allah are absolutely beyond human comprehension, and
therefore any attempt to define His essence is not only
futile but also dangerous to our spiritual welfare and faith
for it will certainly lead us into error.

The trinitarian branch of the Christian Church, for
about seventeen centuries, has exhausted all the brains of
her saints and philosophers to define the Essence and the
Person of the Deity; and what have they invented? All
that which Athanasiuses, Augustines and Aquinases have
imposed upon the Christians “under the pain of eternal
damnation”- to believe in a God who is “the third of
three”! Allah, in His Holy Quran, condemns this belief in
these solemn words:-

“They are certainly unbelievers, who say God is
the third of three, for there is no God but the one God;
and if they refrain not from what they say, a painful
chastisement shall surely be inflicted on such of them as
are unbelievers”[2] .

The reason why the orthodox Muslim scholars have
always refrained from defining God’s Essence is that His
Essence transcends all attributes in which it could only
be defined. Allah has many names which in reality are
only adjectives derived from His essence through its
various manifestations in the universe which He alone
has formed. We call Allah by the appellations Almighty,
Eternal, Omnipresent, Omniscient, Merciful, and so

[1] Allah does not indwell in anything nor anything indwell in him (Editors)

[2] Quran, 5:73. They are disbelievers who say Allah is one of three (in a Trinity), for
there is no god except One Allah. If they desist not from their word (of blasphemy),
verily a grievous chastisement will befall the disbelievers among them.” (Editors)