One great irony regarding tawhid is that the word itself, in that form, does not appear in the Qur’an. The root, wahad, appears numerous times, but the very form that has become enshrined in Islamic theology is not in the Arabic text. This is relevant only in light of the frequent apologetic assertion that since Trinity does not appear in the Bible

I recognize that we share much in common; the Qur’an speaks of God’s sovereign power, His creatorship, His immutability, His essential oneness and divine prerogatives, all truths I confess and believe, even if classical Islamic belief denies that I do.[6]

For Christians, the deity of Jesus, the eternal relationship of the Father and the Son, and the personality and deity of the Spirit are not side issues that can be relegated to the realm of “excesses.” These define the object of our worship; they define our relationship to God.

Anyone who dismisses ancient records because their writers were not secular humanists without professed bias (a glaring example of self-deception in itself) and without a modern (though rarely observed) code of journalistic neutrality, will find they have no sources left from which to draw knowledge.

The answer is to be found in first recognizing its positive claim. The assertion is that since Abraham, the Prophets, and even Jesus actually were Muslims who all confessed “there is no god worthy of worship but Allah,” then it follows that we are all talking about the same God (the God of Noah, Abraham, David, and Jesus). However, this must be joi

The most authoritative collection of hadith (which we will reference throughout), known as Sahih Al-Bukhari, narrates[13] that when Muhammad prostrated while reciting Surah An-Najm—Surah 53, the same one in which the alleged Satan-inspired verses were first inserted—“with him prostrated the Muslims, the pagans, the jinns, and all human beings.” Why

Islamic doctrine denies many of the central truths that followers of the Messiah hold dear, and because many today use the Qur’an as a pretext for the persecution of Christians,[2] many Christians are willing in essence to let slide the standard and accept unfair, biased, and distorted counterarguments.

Muslims deny Muhammad any role other than passive reception for the Qur’anic text, yet the rest of the human family can be forgiven for considering his importance—his life, his experience, his understanding—as a proper context for the Islamic holy book.

The Qur’an is just over half the length of the New Testament[25] and about one-fifth as long as the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).[26] It contains 114 surat,[27] roughly equivalent to the concept of a chapter, divided into ayat[28] of varying lengths, roughly equivalent to verses. Normally, the surat are named according to something mentioned i