The Misguidance of Some Non-Muslims in the Oneness of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He), Even Though There Is No Difference Between Buddhists, Jews, and Christians and Muslims Who Believe That Allah Is Everywhere
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The Shaykh : Let us now give a very concrete, exaggerated example. The Christians say that Allah is the third of three. Do you think they have faith in Allah? They have not believed in Allah, for Allah is One in His essence. They say that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit equal one God. These people believe in the phoenix; they do not believe in Allah, for Allah is One with no partner.
So when they believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, this is not Allah; it is not He. Thus, they worship an imagined thing, just as people speak of the phoenix, or as people speak of the Wahhabis. What do you think? Heh heh.
The questioner: May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : May Allah preserve you. The point is, let us take another example: the Buddhists. They worship cows and deify them. This is the one who created the entire universe with its grandeur, precision, and so on. So these people do not believe in Allah, nor... in these types of embodied things, in which no rational person argues that this is not Allah. Now, my brothers, let us turn to ourselves, we Muslims. The masses of Muslims believe, and even some scholars—we do not exclude them—and this experience is before you. Ask them: Where is Allah? The old, learned Shaykh, the doctor, who is at the university teaching students the Shari'ah and so on, will tell you: Allah is present everywhere. So let us speak about ourselves now. If we believe that Allah is everywhere, what is the difference between us and the Jews and Christians? And what is the difference between us and the Buddhists? The difference is only in form. The Buddhists confined their object of worship to the cow, the Jews and Christians confined their object of worship to... three, and what did we do? We made Him everywhere. Is this the oneness of Allah? Glorified is Allah, far above what the wrongdoers and the ignorant say, by a great exaltation.
Another questioner: ...
The Shaykh : Glory be to my Lord, the Most High, which we say in the prayer. We do not know what we are saying; we utter what we do not know. This is the calamity of the Muslims. And so I ask Allah (Mighty and Majestic) to return us to our religion in understanding and in action, for action does not occur except after good understanding.
Another questioner: ...
So when they believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, this is not Allah; it is not He. Thus, they worship an imagined thing, just as people speak of the phoenix, or as people speak of the Wahhabis. What do you think? Heh heh.
The questioner: May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : May Allah preserve you. The point is, let us take another example: the Buddhists. They worship cows and deify them. This is the one who created the entire universe with its grandeur, precision, and so on. So these people do not believe in Allah, nor... in these types of embodied things, in which no rational person argues that this is not Allah. Now, my brothers, let us turn to ourselves, we Muslims. The masses of Muslims believe, and even some scholars—we do not exclude them—and this experience is before you. Ask them: Where is Allah? The old, learned Shaykh, the doctor, who is at the university teaching students the Shari'ah and so on, will tell you: Allah is present everywhere. So let us speak about ourselves now. If we believe that Allah is everywhere, what is the difference between us and the Jews and Christians? And what is the difference between us and the Buddhists? The difference is only in form. The Buddhists confined their object of worship to the cow, the Jews and Christians confined their object of worship to... three, and what did we do? We made Him everywhere. Is this the oneness of Allah? Glorified is Allah, far above what the wrongdoers and the ignorant say, by a great exaltation.
Another questioner: ...
The Shaykh : Glory be to my Lord, the Most High, which we say in the prayer. We do not know what we are saying; we utter what we do not know. This is the calamity of the Muslims. And so I ask Allah (Mighty and Majestic) to return us to our religion in understanding and in action, for action does not occur except after good understanding.
Another questioner: ...