A God-machine, a unit-cause Vast, inaccessible Who doles out mercy, breaks His laws And compromises ill.
A God whose law is changeless fate,— Who grants each prophet-wish— For prayer and fasting opes heaven’s gate, And pardons for backsheesh.
This is _not_ “the only True God” whom we know through Jesus Christ and so knowing have life-eternal. “No man knoweth the Father but the _Son_ and he to whom the Son revealeth Him. He who denies the incarnation remains ignorant of God’s true character. As Fairbairn says, “the love which the _Godhead_ makes immanent and essential to God, gives God an altogether new meaning and actuality for religion; while thought is not forced to conceive Monotheism as the apotheosis of an Almighty will or an impersonal ideal of the pure reason.” Islam knows no Godhead, and Allah is not love.
Transcribers Note: To fit within page and layout constraints this Chart the linked tabular format. The section beginning with A; Faith and B:Practice Appears to derrive equally from "The Doctrine of God" and "The Doctrine of Revelation" so has been abstracted and linked from the position the author seems to have intended. General notes have been abstracted and displayed as footnotes.
ANALYSIS OF ISLAM AS A SYSTEM, DEVELOPED FROM IT’S CREED. “There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his apostle.”
The Doctrine of God (Negative.) “There is no god but God.” [Pantheism of Force] 1. His names of the _essence_, _Allah_ (_the absolute unit_) of the attributes,—_Ninety-nine names_ 2. His attributes The physical emphasized above the _moral_. Deification of _absolute force_. 3. His nature Expressed by a series of _negations_ “He is _not_.” To second section The Doctrine of Revelation: (Positive.) “Mohammed is the apostle of God.” [The sole channel of revelation and abrogates former revelations.] I. By the KORAN (Wahi El Matlu) Revelation, verbal, and which teaches the twofold demands of Islam:— [The Book] II. By TRADITION (Wahi gheir Matlu) Revelation by example of the perfect prophet [The Man] 1. Records of what Mohammed _did_ (Sunnat-el-fa’il) (example) 2. Records of what Mohammed _enjoined_ (Sunnat-el-kaul) (precept) 3. Records of what Mohammed _allowed_ (Sunnat-el-takrir) (license)[A]] A. The Sunnite Traditions: (collected and recorded by the following six authorities) 1. Buchari A. H. 256[B]] 2. Muslim ” 261[B] 3. Tirmizi ” 279[B] 4. Abu Daood ” 275[B] 5. An-Nasaee ” 303[B] 6. Ibn Majah ” 273[B] B. The Shiah Traditions: (five authorities) 1. Kafi A. H. 329 2. Sheikh Ali ” 381 3. “Tahzib” ” 466[C] 4. “Istibsar” ” 466[C] 5. Ar-Razi ” 406 III. Other Authority a. Among the _Sunnites_: IJMA’A or unanimous consent of the leading companions of Mohammed concerning I. KIYAS or the deductions of orthodox teachers from sources I. and II. b. Among the _Shiahs_: The doctrine of the twelve IMAMS—beginning with _Ali_ who interpret I. and II.