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===God=== {{Main article|Trinity|Tawhid|Islamic view of the Trinity}} In Christianity, the most common name of God is [[Yahweh]]. In Islam, the most common name of God is [[Allah]], similar to [[Eloah]] in the Old Testament. The vast majority of the world's Christians adhere to the doctrine of the Trinity, which in creedal formulations states that God is three ''[[Hypostasis (philosophy and religion)|hypostases]]'' ([[God the Father|the Father]], the [[God the Son|Son]] and the [[Holy Spirit|Spirit]]) in one ''[[ousia]]'' (substance). In Islam, this concept is deemed to be a denial of [[monotheism]], and thus a [[Islamic views on sin|sin]] of [[Shirk (Islam)|shirk]],<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Glassé|first1=Cyril|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=focLrox-frUC&q=shirk+Islam&pg=PA429|title=The New Encyclopedia of Islam|last2=Smith|first2=Huston|date=2003-01-01|publisher=Rowman Altamira|isbn=9780759101906|page=429|language=en}}</ref> which is considered to be a major (''al-Kaba'ir'') sin.<ref>{{cite book |author=Siddiqui |first=Mohammad |url=http://www.islamicbookstore.com/b2448.html |title=The Major Sins : Arabic Text and English Translation of "Al Kaba'ir" (Muhammad Bin Uthman Adh Dhahabi) |publisher=Kazi Publications |year=1993 |isbn=1-56744-489-X |access-date=2017-05-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401010933/http://www.islamicbookstore.com/b2448.html |archive-date=2019-04-01 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Major Sins: Al-Kaba'r|url=http://www.jannah.org/articles/sins.html|work=Jannah.org}}</ref> The Quran itself refers to Trinity in [[Al-Ma'ida|Al-Ma'ida 5:73]] which says "''They have certainly disbelieved who say, "Allah is the third of three." And there is no god except one God. And if they do not desist from what they are saying, there will surely afflict the disbelievers among them a painful punishment''."<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Quranic Arabic Corpus – Translation|url=https://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=5&verse=73|access-date=2021-07-21|website=corpus.quran.com}}</ref> Islam has the concept of [[Tawhid]] which is the concept of a single, indivisible God, who has no partners.<ref>{{cite web|date=2010-10-30|title=The Fundamentals of Tawhid (Islamic Monotheism)|url=http://icrs.ugm.ac.id/book/35/the-fundamentals-of-tawhid-islamic-monotheism.html|access-date=2015-10-28|publisher=ICRS (Indonesian Consortium of Religious Studies|archive-date=2015-06-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150620064714/http://icrs.ugm.ac.id/book/35/the-fundamentals-of-tawhid-islamic-monotheism.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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