![]() ![]() Islamic theology treats both phrases as reciprocal. It is through the repetition of this creed in Arabic that one becomes a Muslim. The shahada consists of two phrases in Arabic: Since the Qur’an contains the first part of the shahada in only two places (Sura 37:35 47:19), the Sharif Bible, The True Meaning of the Gospel of Christ/ The Bold Proclamation of the Apostles of Christ, and Al-Injil, which are produced by professing evangelicals, all promote Islam through this phrase more than does the Qur’an. (available for download at or copy and paste the following in a browser: )ġ Corinthians 8:4, 6 1 Timothy 2:5 James 2:19įirst Part of the Shahada Used In Place of the Corresponding Phrases In the Middle Column ![]() Note: the verse numbers are placed at the end of each verse as found in the Qur’an The printed version uses the title The Bold Proclamation of the Apostles of Christ)ġ Corinthians 8:4, 6 Ephesians 4:6 1 Timothy 2:5 James 2:19 (currently available online through the app, YouVersion,, or. (this includes both printed and digital copies) (available through the app, YouVersion, ) the Islamic creed or confession of faith) References Containing the First Part of the Shahada (i.e. The following two charts list the 4 MIT versions and their occurrences followed by a chart contrasting this phrase with the corresponding accurate and faithful renderings of the biblical manuscripts from the New American Standard Bible (NASB): Name Of even greater significance is the fact that there is no textual justification for the phrase, “There is no god but Allah,” in any of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek manuscripts of the Bible. He applied this to the shahada confession that “there is no God but Allah,” “You must make a nafy (denial) that there are any other gods, and an ithbat (confirmation) that Allah is the only one God” (U5 2013). Fred Farrokh interviewed a Palestinian Imam who explained the importance of tawhid as a theological construct, “In Islam, you have to destroy all thoughts which are un-Islamic” (2013). It is considered incompatible with the monotheism (i.e. First, “There is no god but Allah” is a highly technical phrase with a very restricted meaning within Islam. There are two significant problems in rendering any part of the Bible with this phrase. ![]() There are no less than 4 Arabic “versions” of the Bible or New Testament that contain the first part of the Islamic creed or confession of faith, that is, the shahada, 2 “There is no god but Allah” (لا إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللهُ). They merely have to turn to a most unlikely ally – professing evangelicals who, in the name of Bible translation, have produced “contextualized translations” in the “heart language” of Muslims, also known as “Muslim Idiom Translation” (MIT). While history stands as a witness against this baseless allegation, Muslims need no longer to rely on their polemical misinterpretations of the Bible to find “support” for Muhammad being a prophet. Muslims have long claimed that Jews and Christians changed the Bible so that neither of them would accept Muhammad as the final prophet from God.
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