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"God is Goodness," because goodness is not God, but His
action and work. It is for this reason that the Koran
always attributes to Allah the adjectival appellations, such as
the Wise, the Knowing, the Merciful, but never with such
descriptions as "God is love, knowledge, word," and so forth;
for love is the action of the lover and not the lover himself,
just as knowledge or word is the action of the knowing person
and not himself.
I particularly insist on this point because of the error
into which have fallen those who maintain the eternity and
distinct personality of certain attributes of God. The Verb
or the Word of God has been held to be a distinct person
of the Deity; whereas the word of God can have no other
signification than an expression of His Knowledge and Will.
The Koran, too, is called "the Word of God," and some early
Muslim doctors of law asserted that it was eternal and un-
action and work. It is for this reason that the Koran
always attributes to Allah the adjectival appellations, such as
the Wise, the Knowing, the Merciful, but never with such
descriptions as "God is love, knowledge, word," and so forth;
for love is the action of the lover and not the lover himself,
just as knowledge or word is the action of the knowing person
and not himself.
I particularly insist on this point because of the error
into which have fallen those who maintain the eternity and
distinct personality of certain attributes of God. The Verb
or the Word of God has been held to be a distinct person
of the Deity; whereas the word of God can have no other
signification than an expression of His Knowledge and Will.
The Koran, too, is called "the Word of God," and some early
Muslim doctors of law asserted that it was eternal and un-