duh_swami, i myself believe that hashem==god==allah. i do not require that you believe it.
Muhammed believed that too…when the Qu’ran says “slay the infidel”, Muhammed means pagans. the people of the book are not pagans.
we all believe in the same monotheistic deity.
As xianity evolved from judaism, so islam evolved from what had gone before, both xianity and judaism.
scorpy, dawah is not proselytization…it is an offering. proselytizers insist on hell for those who refuse them, and proselytizers insist that theirs is the only truth. We do not think the religions of the people of the book are inferior. we do not beleve we have a monopoly on the truth. after all we all believe in the same being. Issa (Jesus) is revered as one of our prophets. Issa is greatly beloved by one of the greatest of our teachers, Ibn Arabi.
