#0102300 Islam & Rationality
Islam secures consistency and rationality of belief through its logicality and rationality. Islam is embraced strongly by its followers. Islam keeps the Muslim away from ideological confusion, because it has no illogical or irrational principles mat are consistent with one another.
Clear concept of Allah
Islam does not cause confusion to the believer concerning Allah. Allah is one in Islam. Allah has no son or father. Allah has no parallel or equal.
According to Islam Jesus is not the son of Allah. Jesus is Allah's apostle. So is Moses. So is Muhammad (Peace be Upon Them.) So are all Prophets and Apostles. Allah has no son or sons.
To believe that God is unique, and vastly superior to his creation, and yet has a son is inconsistent. This lowers God to human carnal level.
In today's Christianity, it is said that God had his son killed in order to save humanity. With all respect to our Christian friends, it is difficult to accept this, because it is against the justice and Might of God. Why should God kill to save? It is unfair to kill an innocent person to save others. In addition, Allah does not need to kill anyone to save others. Allah can save without killing. Further, it is difficult to see the relationship between killing and saving. It is difficult to convince a person of how, if Allah kills his son, other men are saved. Further, it is difficult to convinced people that Allah killed his only son, when he should protect him.
Allah has no son
In Islam, this issue is clear, logical, and rational. In Islam, Allah is one. Allah has no son. Allah does not kill. A person is not saved by God's killing another person. In Islam, your saved or doomed by yourself and your deeds. In Islam, Allah shows us the right path and the wrong path through the Holy Quran; our responsibility is to choose either path; each one of us is saved or doomed according to his choice and, consequently, according to his deeds.
Allah is one
Islam does not have the concept of Trinity or the concept of "the three in one". It is very difficult for the mind to accept or understand how one being can be Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit simultaneously. Furthermore, Allah has no son and does not need sons, because Allah is the owner of everything and the Creator of all beings.
Jesus did not say he was Allah. Jesus said, "I do nothing of myself" This would indicate that the miracles of Jesus are given to him by Allah, like all Apostles before and after. He also said, "I am not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God".
This means that Jesus refers to God as a Father metaphorically, because he says that God is his Father and their Father. If Jesus is Allah how did Allah kill him or have him killed? According to Islam, Jesus is a man, an exemplary man, a holy man, an apostle chosen by God to be a model for the people he was sent to.
No mediation between man and Allah
In Islam, there is no mediation between Allah and Men. You do not need to go to a priest, to confess or repent to him. In Islam, every Muslim has a direct contacts with Allah, no matter how weak, poor, or ignorant he is. In Islam, Allah is the God of all. Every Muslim decides by himself how near or how far he wants to be from God, depending on his free will and deeds. In Islam, there are no mediators between Man and Allah. No clergy
In Islam, there are no men of religion, as in some other beliefs. In Islam, every Muslim is responsible for his own belief and for Islam in general. In Islam, there are scholars of religion, but there is no class of clergymen.
No celibacy
In Islam, there is no celibacy, because celibacy is against human nature. Islam urges the Muslim to get married as soon as he can, because it is difficult for normal people to be religious and unmarried at the same time. Islam, as a rule organizes human nature, but never destroys it goes against it.
Body-soul balance
Islam establishes a wonderful harmony between and demands of the soul and the demands of the body. The religion that considers celibacy as necessary for purity goes against human nature and theoretically puts an end to the human race. Prophet Muhammad, (Peace Be Upon Him) says,
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