{"id":88004,"date":"2020-09-11T09:54:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T15:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=88004"},"modified":"2020-09-11T21:39:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T03:39:12","slug":"revision-4-23-contrasting-islam-and-latter-day-saint-teaching-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2020\/09\/revision-4-23-contrasting-islam-and-latter-day-saint-teaching-part-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Revision 4.24 \u201cContrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching\u201d (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The Khadeeja Islamic Center in West Valley City, Utah\u00a0 \u00a0(From the CRC Construction website)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Islam insists on an absolute gulf, an unbridgeable chasm, between God and everything else in the universe. There is no kin\u00adship between Creator and creature, any more than there is a genetic relationship between Thomas Edison and the lightbulb.[1]<\/a> In Islam, Jesus too is a creature.[2]<\/a> Educated Muslims will proba\u00adbly understand what we Christians mean when we speak of \u201cthe brotherhood of man under the Fatherhood of God,\u201d and they may even have sympathy for the sentiment. But their theology cannot permit them to take such a statement literally.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another point that can perhaps be clarified here is the proper name of the religion of Muhammad and his place within the reli\u00adgion. If Islam refuses to recognize the divine Sonship of Jesus, it also rejects even the barest hint that Muhammad was more than human. Many contemporary Muslims are offended when their reli\u00adgion is called \u201cMuhammadanism.\u201d Not only is that long word some\u00adwhat awkward to say, but, they point out, it implies that Muhammad plays the same role within their religion that Christ plays within Christianity. Nothing, however, could be further from the truth. In Islamic belief, Muhammad does not atone for our sins, he is not divine, and he receives no worship. Rather, they say, the true name of their religion is the name it has always borne, Islam<\/em>.[3]<\/a>And believers in their religion are to be called Muslims<\/em>, not Muhammadans<\/em>.[4]<\/a> (Muslim<\/em> bears the same relation to Islam<\/em> that Christian<\/em> bears to Christianity<\/em>, or \u2014 to use a still-common term \u2014 that\u00a0Mormon<\/em>\u00a0bears to Mormonism<\/em>. The first is a term for the believer; the second refers to the doctrine or movement itself.)[5]<\/a> The Arabic word islam<\/em> means \u201csubmission.\u201d It derives from the same Semitic root (s-l-m<\/em>) that gives us the words for \u201cpeace\u201d in Hebrew (shalom) <\/em>and in Arabic (salaam). <\/em>The model of islam<\/em> is the prophet Abraham, for it is not submission to just anybody or any\u00adthing that is meant by the term as the Qur\u2019an uses it, but specifically submission to the sovereign will of God. One who so yields himself or herself to the divine will is a \u201csubmitter,\u201d or, in Arabic, a muslim<\/em>\u2014 from the same root, s-l-m. <\/em>Thus, in a sense, to call believers in the message of Muhammad \u201cMuslims\u201d is very much like calling believers in the prophetic mission of Joseph Smith \u201cSaints.\u201d Each term is as much an expression of hope as a statement of present reality.<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> In popular Islam, especially among the uneducated, there is a flourishing practice of venerating \u201csaints,\u201d holy men and women who have passed on to the presence of God. I suspect that the unapproachability of the Islamic God, his sheer distance, is an important factor in this.<\/span><\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Like all other prophets. The Qur\u2019an is quite clear on this: As in the case of Adam, God simply said \u201cBe!\u201d and Jesus came into existence. See 3:47, 59; 19:35.<\/span><\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Pronounced with the hissing s<\/em> of this<\/em> rather than with the z<\/em> sound of these<\/em>, and with the emphasis on the second syllable: Iss-LAAM<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> \u00a0Pronounced something like\u00a0MUSS-lim.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> I sometimes hear people in the West refer to the Arabs as \u201cIslams.\u201d This is rather like referring to Latter-day Saints as \u201cMormonisms.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t imagine that it will escape most Americans but, just in case . . .\u00a0 Today marks the anniversary of the history-changing attacks on New York City\u2019s World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

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