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Allah is the only self-existing, knowing, and powerful24being. 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 thatHis 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 sayAllah 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)