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The following verses in the Qur'an say about Mary(P) being the part of Trinity.
And behold! Allah will say: "O Jesus the son of Mary! Didst thou say unto men, 'Take
me and my mother for two gods beside Allah'?" He will say: "Glory to Thee! Never
could I say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a thing thou wouldst indeed
have known it. Thou knowest what is in my heart, though I know not what in Thine.
For Thou knowest in full all that is hidden. [Qur'an 5:116]
O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: nor say of Allah aught
but the truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) a messenger from
Allah, and His Word, which He bestowed on Mary, and a spirit proceeding from Him:
so believe in Allah and His Messengers. Say not "Three": desist: It will be better for
you: For Allah is One God: Glory be to Him: (Far Exalted is He) above having a son.
To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a
Disposer of affairs. [Qur'an 4:171]
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Therefore, the Christian missionaries for quite sometime have been saying that
Muhammad(P) 'misunderstood' the true concept of Trinity, i.e, which says the Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit constitute the trinitarian godhead.
Rev. W. St. Clair Tisdall in his book The Original Sources Of The Qur'an says under
Muhammad's Misconception Of The Doctrine Of The Trinity.
It is quite clear that Tisdall is pretty much aware of the famous heresies in Arabia
during the advent of Islam. George Sale in the preliminary discourse to his translation
of The Koran writes:
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propagated; the latter introduced the Virgin Mary for
God, or worshipped her as such offering her a sort of
twisted cake called collyris, whence the sect had its
name.
It is pretty clear that whether the 'Holy' Trinity composed of the Father, Jesus(P) and the
Mary(P) or the Father, Jesus(P) and the Holy Spirit are equally condemned in the Qur'an.
Any association of partners with the God is unacceptable.
Further Edward Gibbon in his book The History of The Decline & Fall Of The Roman
Empire says:
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So, there existed a sect in Arabia which exalted Mary(P) to goddess and included her in
the godhead along with the Father and Jesus(P).
St. Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia, in Cyprus, writing in the fourth century against
the Collyridians, says:
Apart from the misogynist comments, St. Epiphanius makes quite clear basics of the
Collyridian heresy. It is worthwhile adding that even to this day, the Catholic
Christians consider Mary(P) as the Mother of God and prayers are sent to her.
Recently, it was heard from the Christian missionaries that the Qur'an does not
condemn the 'true' Trinity, i.e., which says the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
constitute the godhead. In fact, the Qur'an itself condemns all sorts of shirk, i.e.,
associating partners with Allah. It would not matter if the Trinity was composed of
any permutations and combinations of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit or the Mary
or even Martin Luther King or Calvin or Pope. It would still be considered as
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associating partners with Allah. The above verse of the Qur'an 4:171, For Allah is
One God, is enough to refute any such bizarre argument. It is equally clear even in the
Old Testament & The New Testament that the God is one God without any partners.
Ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye
may know and believe me, and understand that I [am] he: before me there was no God
formed, neither shall there be after me. I, [even] I, [am] the LORD; and beside me
[there is] no savior." [Isaiah 43:10-11]
"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD" [Deuteronomy 6:4]
"And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The
Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first
commandment." [Mark 12:29-30]
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It is amazing that even Orientalists like Watt cannot come out of the 'true' Trinitarian
doctrine and think of the infamous Christian heresies which were in Arabia during the
advent of Islam.
Finally, it is quite clear that the doctrine of Trinity evolved and took its final shape
nearly 350 years of CE. But before that:
So, in conclusion, there is no point calling the modern day trinitarian Christianity as
'true' Christianity and all others as 'false' since the evolution of this doctrine itself is
very late. The early Christianity had bizarre beliefs about their doctrine as well as
their Scriptures. Moreover the Jesus(P) and early Church Fathers were utterly unaware
of this doctrine and they never practiced it. Would then the modern day 'true'
Christianity brand them as heretics?
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Al-`Aziz & Potiphar
Qur'anic Accuracy Vs. Biblical Error: The Kings & Pharaohs Of Egypt
Reference
[1] Rev. W. St. Clair Tisdall, The Original Sources Of The Qur'an, 1905, Society For
The Promotion Of Christian Knowledge, London, pp. 180-181.
[3] George Sale, The Koran, IX Edition of 1923, J B Lippincott Company, London, p.
25.
[4] Ibid, p. 81
[5] E. Gibbon, The History of The Decline & Fall Of The Roman Empire, 1994,
Penguin Books, p. 177.
[6] C. H. H. Wright & C. Neil (Editors), A Protestant Dictionary, 1904, Hodder &
Stoughton, London, p. 390 (Under "Mary, The Virgin").
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