Should Islam be labeled a "trinity" religion?

Question

In Christianty, you go to hell if you reject Jesus or God. The bible says nothing about what happens if you reject the Holy Spirit, other than to say that cursing the Spirit is unpardonable.

Islam on the other hand is very clear about what happens if you reject any part of its trinity. If you reject Muhammad, your going to hell. If you reject Allah, your going to hell and if you reject the Quran itself, your going to hell.

How else would you define a trinity other than by the entities you MUST believe in lest you go to hell? In Islam, much of the Islamic world believes the Quran itself is "uncreated" or essentially a God in and of itself. Much has been written about the uncreated Quran, and of course, only a deity could be beyond creation or uncreated. If the Quran is uncreated, then it has no creator, thus Allah couldnt have created it.

Consider this aya -

Quran 4:59 "O ye who believe! Obey Allah, and obey the Messenger".

Monotheism is about obeying ONLY GOD. However, as you can see here, in Islam, its not enough simly to obey God, you must also obey Muhammad.

Muslims equivocate or play semantics, but the fact remains, if a religion requires me to obey another invisible entity other than God, that religion is not monotheistic, period.

After all, the whole idea of having a religion is to unify people towards an obedience of some powerful entity. If I must obey Muhammad, then it matters not whether you insist on calling him a human, he is of course a God.

Answer 1

Jesus is the way and the truth and the light and nobody wil got to heaven but through him.

not allah

Answer 2

mean linked by symbols three from each. no rejection involved hence no rejection. if all three are acknowledged with a physical symbol that implies this somewhere else there is no problem. if on a church for example were to be placed The Star Of David this could mean something else it could represent two different sets of people as well as that Jesus was a jew even if the star is not namedafter him itcould be a symbol with a myriad meanings and could be something to establish a physical link between the two different but not so different. the additional symbol to be added would only provide a point by which it could be understood the commonality between three people and perhaps indicate in a physically present way that their humanity cannot be denied. neither one will go to hell for that if symbols with the purpose of showing the humanity of all three were to be emplaced as this would not be worship of idols or humans just an acknowledgement of a link Trinity because there are Three Civilizations upon which ideas are based in one Christianity,another Judaism, third Islam. that is another way to define it another the people.

Answer 3

All I can prove for sure is that the Bible and The Dead Sea Scrolls contain the actual scientific words being quoted coming right out of God's, (Yahweh's),mouth where the Quran does not.

Answer 4

As a Muslim, I can tell you we believe in NO god but Allah - and none deserves to be worshiped but Allah, and we believe that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.

We do NOT worship Muhammad, but we do follow his teachings because Allah sent us the Qur'an through him, and he is the best example we have of how Allah would wish us to live by.

So for us to to enter paradise when we die, we must do the following things (Also known as the five pillars of Islam).
- Shahada, Belief in our hearts and testify that we believe without a doubt that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.
- Prayer at the appointed times.
- Fasting during the month of Ramadan
- Paying zakat
- Going on Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) once in our lives.

The Qur'an tells us:

All those who believe, and the Jews and the Sabians and the Christians, in fact any one who believes in God (Allah) and the Last Day, and performs good deeds, will have nothing to fear or regret. - 5:69

The Jews say: "The Christians are not right," and the Christians say: "The Jews are in the wrong;" yet both read the Scriptures; and this is what the unread had said too. Allah (God) alone will judge between them in their differences on the Day of Reckoning. - 2:113

Only he who surrenders to God (Allah) with all his heart and also does good, will find his reward with his Lord, and will have no fear or regret. - 2:112

Piety lies in believing in God (Allah), the Last Day and the angels, the Scriptures and the prophets, and disbursing your wealth out of love for God (Allah) among your kin and the orphans, the wayfarers and mendicants, freeing the slaves, observing your devotional obligations, and in paying the zakat and fulfilling a pledge you have given, and being patient in hardship, adversity, and times of peril. These are the men who affirm the truth, and they are those who follow the straight path. - 2:177

So, uhm... I fail to see how you can compare Islam to a trinity. We believe in only one god - Allah. We worship nothing but Allah. We do not worship Muhammad in any way, but we follow his teachings because he is the best example we have of how we should live, and by doing this we come closer to Allah. We believe in the Qur'an and have great respect towards it, because it is the word of Allah that was sent to us - there is nothing in Islam that claims the Qur'an is an entity in itself or should be treated as such.

So... basically in Islam it all comes down to Allah, and nothing but Allah... complete submission to our Creator - Allah. I hope this has cleared up any misconceptions you may have had about Islam. There is no trinity in Islam in any way shape or form.

Answer 5

Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim - In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

Just for the sake of any poor confused person who might see some merit in your comments, I will answer.

Your analogy is false. Islam is a strictly monotheistic religion. We worship Allah alone with no partners. He created the universe and He sustains it. There is nothing and no one else worthy of worship. Our teacher, as it were, is Muhammad, may Allah's peace and blessing be upon him, and our textbook is the Holy Qur'an. We do not bow to Muhammad or pray to him or leave offerings for him or ask him to intervene for us. He lived, he died, and he is awaiting the Day of Judgment as all those who have died are.

Your argument is weak and without foundation. May Allah guide you to that which is best in this world and the next. Ameen.

Fi Aman Allah,

Nancy Umm Abdel Hamid

Answer 6

You are kidding, right? Hell is a place God created for satan (fallen Lucifer) and his angels, also the wicked spirits of fallen man.
God sent Jesus as your REDEMPTION plan because it is not His will that ANY should perish. The devil brought death, hell and destruction and Jehovah God made a way of escape..., it is every man's choice whether he follows the devil to hell or the Savior Jesus back to our eternal home with our Creator God.
Choose. It's not mandatory to do anything you don't want to do, so why blame God? The devil's greatest deception is to make you be confused about who the good guys and bad guys are..., Jehovah God provides a ''rescue'' plan, false gods provide a set of rules and requirements like "killing yourself and/or others" to PROVE yourself?? Excuse me? Jehovah God KNOWS who you are and KNOWS you need a Savior. You CAN'T save yourself with works, that is absurd! And how would murder or unbelievers assist you? Anyone thinking can see through that lie. The trinity is a man-made concept to understand God in three persons or the Godhead. God is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient and therefore expressed to US who live in a 3rd dimension as a "trinity". We understand ONE by understanding in trinity.., like "past, present, future" moving us forward..., height, breadth, depth, etc. I perceive you are using much too much "reasoning" to this. Revelation and conscience are the voice of the (born-again) spirit, (a spirit not born-again is led by fear and deceit and lies); reasoning is the voice of the mind and feeling and emotion is the voice of the body/flesh. You will NEVER "figure out" God.., He is SPIRIT!

Answer 7

I reject every aspect of the defunct, ridiculous cult of 'islam'.. No it should not be labeled a 'trinity' it should be labeled a trite, extremist, hateful, wacko, bygone cooky fringe culture that needs to be exterminated before our pussified American ways let them exterminate us...

Answer 8

We worship Allah.

Allah commanded us to follow the Quran and the Prophet.

Worship is for Allah alone and we obey every command.

Every command is an act of worship from the one being worshipped.

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Answer 9

You must believe in Jesus Christ and God as well as the spirit. THe islam believes in allah and the profit muhammed is no jesus. THe spirit of islam is to harm the infidel the spirit of christianity is to believe in the son of the faher to receive the holy spirit and hence a ticket to heaven by the grace of god and not by a ticket purchased by or in the name of martyrdom you cant get in by your deeds it is by the blood of god and his grace cuz you and i do not measure up.

Answer 10

It's better to get your facts RIGHT than to say something wrong and make a fool of yourself.
There is NO trinity in Islam. We worship God ALONE, we don't worship the Prophet (peace be upon him) or the Quran. We worship God, follow the teachings of the Prophet (PBUH) and believe in the unchanged, unedited word of God, which is the Quran.

Answer 11

so you say that kids worship their parents when they obay them, soldiers, workers! doesn't make sense! the abbaide khalife alMamun hit every scholar who didn't say Koran is created. muslims belive it's created. abu hanifa too. even ibn hanbal who refused to say it's created, never said it's not created.