Questions for Muslims #1

Posted by on Oct 14, 2009 in Faith | 2 Comments

I’m going to start compiling a list of questions to ask Muslims as I occasionally end up in debates or discussions with Muslims. If you’re a Muslim and you read this, please feel free to contribute in a response:

The 48th name for Allah is “The Loving”

In the Qu’ran 85:14, Allah is described as being “full of love”

My understanding of Islamic thought is that Allah is eternal, and therefore his qualities of love are also eternal.

So, the question: Whom did Allah love in eternity before the creation of the world?

Christians believe in a Triune God, 1 God, 3 Persons, in a loving relationship for all eternity. God displays his eternal quality of love to His Son and His Spirit forever and ever – God does not need to create Man to show love, but rather chooses to create Man out of an overflow of the loving relationship of the Triune God.

However, it would appear that Allah needs to create in order to love. The quality of love within Allah cannot be eternal because it can only be exhibited when Man is created. Therefore Allah becomes dependant on Man… this cannot be so! Please explain.

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  1. Sahra
    December 11, 2009

    I think you somehow got the meaning wrong. When we say Our God is all loving, we might be meaning that God just loves everything around Him.
    Love doesn’t just have to be limited to living things, it can be objects or merely just matter itself.

    Another way to interpret it is to say that if Our God Allah (swt) is angered or morally injustified according to his way in life that he gave us, if you repent, he has so much love that he will definatly forgive you.

    Howvever i know what you mean by eternal love, and to answer an exactly specific and contemplated question such as that, truthfully, i don not know, only Allah does. But it would be better to just look on the simple surface of things.

    Assalamu Alaykum

  2. Hugh
    January 4, 2010

    Hi Sahra…

    I think it is simple…
    God is Eternal
    God is Love

    Yet a singular person God is incapable of love without creation.

    A divine Jesus, a person of a triune God does solve that problem…

    Hugh

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