believed in by the both the christians
and the jews
in genesis 2 verse 2
where it states there
and on the seventh day god finished his
work which he had done and he rested on
the seventh day from all his work which
he had done
resting
he got tired
after working for six days he got tired
needed a day of rest so we had that day
of rest for god
the sabbath
this concept is unacceptable islamically
allah in fact does not tire from his
work that he doesn't become tired he
doesn't sleep
as allah describes himself in ayatul
corsi
neither
tiredness nor sleep overcomes him this
is the correct description of allah
also
you can find
in exodus
32 verse 14
where
it is stated and the lord repented of
the evil which he thought to do to his
people
the jews have written this
in their torah
that allah
repented of the evil
which he thought to do to his people
this is nonsense
the idea of attributing to allah
repentance who was he repenting to
to the jews
you know he felt sorry he apologized to
the jews for the see this is what they
have turned allah into in there if you
read the old testament allah is turned
into the genie from the magic lamp you
know aladdin he rubs the lamp the genie
pops up and he tells the genie do this
to that to the other so this is how they
treat allah you can see in their
writings where god is the personal
servant of the jewish
people right
so
this is of course as i said a clear
error
to attribute this to allah
we can also add to this
the claim
that allah
has a spirit
and this is something we'll look at in
more detail later but the idea that
allah has a spirit
right and that the spirit inside of each
and every one of us
is a piece of allah spirit
this is also
a deviation
in
understanding
allah's names and attributes
the basic principle that we follow here
is
there is nothing at all like him and he
is the hearer and knower
of all
this is the basic principle we do not
describe allah
in terms of his creation
where allah
describes himself
in terms of
using terms which we
normally attribute to ourselves the law
describes himself as having hands
a face
these type of terms
we accept them as allah stated them
but we do not understand them in terms
of his creation
that if allah said he
he has hands we don't say allah doesn't
have hands
no this is wrong if allah says he has
hands who are we to come along and say
allah doesn't have hands but what we say
is that his hands are not like our hands
when we think of hands we think of these
five fingers we don't apply this to
allah
this is error
right and even in english
we talk about the hands of the clock
when we see that we don't think about a
hand with five fingers moving around the
dial no right
so even in english we use these terms
and we don't take them
as they refer back to ourselves
we talk about the face of the mountain
we're not thinking of mounting having a
nose eyes and you know again you know
the face and these are terms which are
used but we don't take it in its
uh literal meaning as it relates and
pertains to us
but
to allah
it is
as nothing in his creation
we don't imagine allah in any way
within his creation because some people
ask people who are into idol worship
they say okay
if you don't worship allah in a form
i mean how can you possibly worship
allah
they're so used to the idea if you're
going to worship allah either he's jesus
on a cross or a shiva or is you know
vishnu or one of the forms that they
have prescribed for god that makes sense
to them they can focus on this form they
can worship god through the form how do
you muslims worship god without a form
we worship god
through his attributes
we don't have to put a picture and an
image to it because once you put an
image or a picture
then
you have made him like his creation we
say okay no he's a spirit
so what does a spirit look like
this smokey type of hey you're talking
about smoke
you know whatever you whatever image you
try to put on allah it will be from
something you saw
you have to perceive you cannot talk
about things you cannot perceive of
things except that your senses have
perceived them
so whenever we try to picture allah we
will picture him in terms of his
creation one way or another so
we worship allah without
giving him any of the likenesses of his
creation
you