Mohammad Elshinawy – Proof of Prophethood #13 – Restoring the Unity of God

			The final prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had accomplished the rare feat of providing
the world impeccable clarity on the identity of God and His Oneness and his absolute perfection.
		

			It was a clarity that aligns so well, both with human nature, and our faculty of reason that it
became the hallmark of Islam. It became its most appealing teaching, without exception, when the Pew
Research Center, which often knows how Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world, and in
the western world as well, it tried to probe further to better understand what was it about Islam
that caused it to rise so swiftly among the populations wherever it went. And when it surveyed these
factors, the number one, and the number two reason were just this, that Islam restores for people
that perfect, unblemished, indivisible unity of the one true God. They answered that it was the
		

			belief system number one, and that I read the texts firsthand the theology I found when I read those
texts, myself, that compelled me to Islam above all else. So Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
had restored for humanity, and unearth for them, their long lost sanctuary, without which they were
most vulnerable. And that was direct, unbridled access to the Almighty, the Most Merciful, the
Creator of the heavens and the earth, the one and only the one true God. Such a clear belief system,
such a powerful belief system, such an empowering and intuitive belief system. Compare it, for
example, with the intellectual history of Christianity, how many vicious disputes there were, in the
		

			very earliest centuries on the nature of God and His person, and his identity disputes that were so
ferocious that they were only settled by the power of the state, when the state finally picked one
of many doctrines of the time, namely Trinitarian theology and impose it on the people and codified
it in the fourth centuries famous Council of Nicaea or nicea. But when the Father, Son and Holy
Spirit was in reality, not three aspects of the one true God, it was the son who was clearly a human
being a mortal from this world, and the Holy Spirit which was the Archangel Gabriel, another created
being, and then the Father God, only God is God. That conflation of God and Angel and human profit
		

			could not sit well with people. And thus with the passage of time, and more and more access to the
texts of Christianity, we tend to find greater and greater disenfranchisement, this illusion mints
lack of conviction regarding that theology. As for the Muslims, the followers of the Prophet
Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him. As Edward Gibbon puts it, the Mohammedans he means the
Muslims have uniformly meaning throughout history, with stood that human tendency, that temptation
to reduce their God and their object of worship, to anything that could be conjured up by the
imagination. He says they never allowed their God to be reduced or relegated or regarded to the
		

			visibility of even the imagination in the senses, which would in turn, necessitate idolatry. He
says, instead, they kept the God as God, and even the honor of their profit, never transgress the
bounds of human virtue, in that lies the secret of the extraordinary explanatory power of Islam, and
the pure monotheism found uniquely in Islam theology, it had both the spiritual, intuitive, and
intellectual rational appeal that drew people to it from every corner of the world until our day and
age here and now. And of course, restoring the unity of God in people's lives meant restoring
meaning and purpose as well. The Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam liberated the world
		

			through such a theology through such a pure belief system, from seeing life as some destination list
journey, or from seeing themselves as the powerless victims of competing forces and supreme beings
are at odds with each other at their expense in this universe. And when the famous French historian
Alfonso Dilla, Martine was marveling at the power of such an accomplishment of
		

			Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he said, Just think about it. This man took on the world. He
wrestled humanity away from 1000s upon 1000s of superstitions and dogmas, indefensible beliefs,
false gods, he says, and he was uniquely able to restore God to men and men to God, meaning he was
able to liberate the true conceptualization of the real God, to humanity. And he was able to return
through that man to sincere devotion to that God because only that God would be worthy of our
worship, and our love and our adoration and our subservience. May the peace and blessings of Allah
be upon Muhammad, who restored for us the unity of God until the end of time.