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Is Allah Omnibenevolent?
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RE: Is Allah Omnibenevolent?
As with all gods, it's good, evil, or both. It depends on the point the believer is trying to make at the time.
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RE: Is Allah Omnibenevolent?
Quote:We don't consider Allah to be all-good, but He is the source of all goodness.

Sophistry, Rayaan.
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RE: Is Allah Omnibenevolent?
(August 31, 2013 at 1:08 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: The argument from evil is one of the most overused arguments. I think it's not a particularly convincing argument because it really only applies to modern Christianity. I don't even think that early Christians considered their god to be all good. As frequently as this argument is made it is always directed towards the Christian God. It made me wonder and I genuinely don't know, but does mainstream Muslim thought consider Allah to be Omnibenevolent. I know there are several passages in the Qu'ran which call him all powerful and all just but is he ever considered to be all good? Is the argument from evil applicable to Islam?

Yes. Extracted from the Quran are the attributes of Allah, the so called 99 names..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Islam

The Exceedingly Compassionate, The Exceedingly Beneficent, The Exceedingly Gracious

The Exceedingly Merciful

The Propitious, The Benefactor, The Source of Good

And so on.
Cheerful Charlie

If I saw a man beating a tied up dog, I couldn't prove it was wrong, but I'd know it was wrong.
- Attributed to Mark Twain
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