CHAPTER 5: THE INVALIDITY OF THEIR PROVES ON POLYTHEISM
They said, “In the second book of the Torah, when God spoke to Musa (Moses, peace be upon him) from the bush saying, ‘I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,’ (Ex: 3:6) and He did not say, ‘I am the god of Ishaq.’ He repeated the word ‘god’ three times saying, ‘I am the god and the god and the god’ to establish the issue of the three hypostases regarding His Divine entity.”
The answer: Taking this statement as proof to support the three hypostases is greatly misleading for the following reasons:
First: If the first ‘God’ refers to the hypostasis of Existence and the second God’ to the hypostasis of the Word and the third ‘God’ to the hypostasis of Life, the first hypostasis will be the god of Ibrahim and the second will be the god of Ishaq and the third will be the god of Ya’qub. In this way, each hypostasis is the god of one of the three prophets and the other two hypostases are not his gods.
This is disbelief according to all religions. This also necessitates that the three gods are three while they say ‘One God.’ If they say that all the hypostases are one god, they are making all of them the god of all the prophets. If they take this text as proof to support their claim, the god of each prophet is not the god of the other prophet, since there are three gods.
Second: It is said: Allah is the Lord of the universe, the Lord of the heavens and the earth, and the Lord of the Throne. He is the Lord of all things. Indeed, He is the Lord of all things. It is said, “The Lord of Musa (Moses, peace be upon him)” and “The Lord of Muhammad (peace be upon him)”. We say here, “The Lord of Ibrahim and Ishaq”.
Does he prove that they are two gods; one of them is his god and the other is the god of the three?
Third: Semantically, a conjunction can be used for things that are either different in nature or in characteristics. Allah says,
which means, “Your God (Allah), the God of your fathers.” (Al-Baqarah, 2: 133)
He is the same God. Ibrahim (Abraham, peace be upon him) said in this revealed verse,
which means, “Do you observe that which you have been worshipping, you and your ancient fathers? Verily! They are enemies to me, save the Lord of the ‘Alamin (mankind, jinn and all that exists); Who has created me, and it is He Who guides me; and it is He Who feeds me and gives me to drink. And when I am ill, it is He who cures me; and Who will cause me to die, and then will bring me to life (again); and Who, I hope will forgive me my faults on the Day of Recompense (the Day of Resurrection).” (Ash-Shu’ara’, 26: 75-82)
The One who created him is the same One who feeds him and gives him drink. He is the One who will cause him to die and then will bring him to life again. Thus, when He said in the Torah, “I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,’ (Ex: 3:6) it was in this way, and it does not mean that they are three gods.
By: Sheikhul-Islaam Ibn Taymiyah
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