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Besides, we all -Muslims and Christians- believe that31God is Omnipresent that He fills and encompasses every space and particle . Isit conceivable that all the three persons of the Deity at the same time and separately encompass the universe, or is it only one of them at the time? To say, “the Deity does this” would be no answer at all. For Deity is not God, but the state of being God, and therefore a quality.Godhead isthe quality of one God; it is notsusceptible of plurality or of diminution.There are no godheads except one Godhead, which is the attribute of one God alone.Thenwe are toldthat eachpersonofthe trinityhassome particular attributes, which are not proper to the other two. Moreover, these attributes indicate -according to human reasoning and language- priority and posteriority among them.The Father always holdsthe firstrank, and is priorto the Son.The Holy Ghost is not only posterior asthe third in the order of counting but also inferior to those from whom he precedes. Would it not be considered a sin of heresyif the names of the three persons were conversely repeated? Will not the signing of the cross upon the countenanceor over the elements of the Eucharist be considered impious by the Churches if the formula were reversed thus “In the name oftheHolyGhost, and oftheSon, and oftheFather”? For if they are equal and coeval, the order of precedence need not be so scrupulously observed. The fact is that the Popes and the General Councils have always condemned the Sabelian doctrine whichmaintained that God is one but that Hemanifested Himself asthe Father or asthe Son or as the Holy Spirit, being always one and the same person. Of course, the religion of Islam does not endorse or sanction the Sabelian views. God manifested HisJamāl or beauty in Christ, His jelāl or glory and majesty in Muhammad(pbuh), and His wisdom in Solomon(pbuh), and so on in many other objects of Nature, but none of those prophetsis any more God than the vast ocean or the majesticsky.