If I correctly remember once in a speech you said on TV that Jesus ( pbuh) said My Father referring towards God and further you said that Jesus ( pbuh) wod call God some time as My Father...

Still I don't believe my ears and eyes that you said that but that's a spot on my mind. Because we fight with cristians not to say father and son as its strongly made prohibbited in sura IKHLAS ,

Please tell me

1. Did I hear that correctly or am I wrong to say that ?

2. If I heard it correctly then should we object cristians for calling father and son or not?

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Jaan

In the Bible, Jesus called God his Father. We too are to call God our Father, as in the Lord's Prayer, "Our Father Who art in heaven...." God is our Father, and we are His children. He loves us and cares for us as an earthly father cares for his children.

In the Koran, Mohammed instructs his followers to remember God as they remember their own fathers:

"And when ye have finished your holy rites, remember God as ye remember your own fathers, or with a yet more intense remembrance!" (Sura 2:196).

In Islam, God does not have a Son, so He cannot be a Father.

God is our Father, and we are His children. He loves us and cares for us as an earthly father cares for his children.


In Islam, God does not have a Son, so He cannot be a Father.

Can't God (Allah) be a father to his children as you say he is a father to us?

Can't God (Allah) be a father to his children as you say he is a father to us?
Apparently not. All my research says what this blog says:

"Such a view is anathema in Islam. It is interesting that God is never referred to as “Father.” The concept that God could be a father is strongly condemned in the Qur’an itself. Of course, this is mainly in the Christian God-is-the-Father-of-Jesus sense but despite this Muslims cannot call God the father of humanity or humanity the children of God. Such an intimate relationship is considered to be completely improper." (God as Father in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Muslihoon (http://muslihoon.wordpress.com/2006/04/15/god-as-father-in-judaism-christianity-and-islam/))

Apparently not. All my research says what this blog says:

"Such a view is anathema in Islam. It is interesting that God is never referred to as “Father.” The concept that God could be a father is strongly condemned in the Qur’an itself. Of course, this is mainly in the Christian God-is-the-Father-of-Jesus sense but despite this Muslims cannot call God the father of humanity or humanity the children of God. Such an intimate relationship is considered to be completely improper." (God as Father in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Muslihoon (http://muslihoon.wordpress.com/2006/04/15/god-as-father-in-judaism-christianity-and-islam/))

Wow, thank you VERY much for that. I had no idea. Since the expression - God the Father - always struck me as a metaphor, I just assumed the Muslims thought of Allah in that way. Read AMHD and learn!