God: A Human History by Reza Aslan

[AnotherShepherd]

So I just checked out Reza Aslan's latest book called God A Human History. I'm only in the first third, but it appears Aslan purports a pantheistic view of divinity and advocates regressing from humankind's tendency to humanize God by attributing emotion to him. 

How does our school approach this? Is it acceptable to essentially believe God is everything - even us. 

[Gaius I. Caesar]

15 hours ago, AnotherShepherd said:

Is it acceptable to essentially believe God is everything - even us. 

I don't think so, that would contradict Tawhid.  E.g. God is everywhere but not everyone.

If pantheism were true, Pharaoh's claims to divinity would be correct because God is everything, everyone including Pharaoh. There are seven billion people, if each of us is God, is it polytheism?

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Pantheism is another theory that Muslims believe to be wrong. Although Muslims believe that Allah is everywhere, he is a separate entity and therefore cannot be reincarnated in everything as the pantheists believe - who although are not strictly defined as polytheists, they are certainly not monotheistic in the Islamic sense.

https://www.al-islam.org/articles/nature-of-Allah-yasir-al-wakeel