{"id":90103,"date":"2025-12-12T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=90103"},"modified":"2025-12-12T09:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:01:20","slug":"allahs-swearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2025\/12\/12\/allahs-swearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Allah&#8217;s Swearing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first time I read the Qu&#8217;ran and noticed that Allah sweared by lots and lots of things in creation. This struck me as odd. All I could think of was Hebrews 6:16 where it says <em>&#8220;People swear by someone GREATER than themselves&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, David Wood points out that this problem actually shows an inconsistency between the Qur&#8217;an and the claims of the hadith:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HSl1wN4wtV4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ibn Umar heard a man swearing: No, I swear by the Ka&#8217;bah. Ibn Umar said to him: <strong>I heard the Messenger of Allah (\ufdfa) say: He who swears by anyone but Allah is polytheist<\/strong> [he has committed an act of shirk].<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunnah.com\/abudawud:3251\">Sunan Abi Dawud 3251<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I read the Qu&#8217;ran and noticed that Allah sweared by lots and lots of things in creation. This struck me as odd. All I could think of was Hebrews 6:16 where it says &#8220;People swear by someone GREATER than themselves&#8230;&#8221; However, David Wood points out that this problem actually shows an inconsistency between the Qur&#8217;an and the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90105,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90103\/revisions\/90105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}