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How Many Lords Does the Muslim Have?

  • philhoraia
  • Jan 4, 2025
  • 2 min read

Narrated Abu Huraira:

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "You should not say, 'Feed your lord (Rabbaka), help your lord in performing ablution, or give water to your lord, but should say, 'my master (e.g. Feed your master instead of lord etc.) (Saiyidi), or my guardian (Maulai), and one should not say, my slave (Abdi), or my girl-slave (Amati), but should say, my lad (Fatai), my lass (Fatati), and 'my boy (Ghulami).


If 'lord' is a title reserved for Allah, supposedly a god, we might expect Islamic sources using that word to be referring to Allah.


Narrated Ubadah ibn as-Samit:


The Prophet (ﷺ) said: I have told you so much about the Dajjal (Antichrist) that I am afraid you may not understand. The Antichrist is short, hen-toed, woolly-haired, one-eyed, an eye-sightless, and neither protruding nor deep-seated. If you are confused about him, know that your Lord is not one-eyed.

Abu Dawud said: 'Amr bin Al-Aswad was appointed a judge.


As the Dajjal is the 'false Messiah', unless the 'prophet' is saying that Allah is the Messiah (S 5:17; 72), the Messiah himself must be the Muslims' 'lord'. Compare with S 9:31.


S 39:53 Say: My slaves who have been extravagant against themselves, do not despair of Allah’s mercy. Allah forgives all sins. He is the forgiver, the merciful.


Here the unnamed speaker, supposedly Allah, is directing an equally unnamed person, supposedly the guy who called himself 'Muhammad', to address Muslims as his slaves. Muslims are thought of as slaves of Allah and here the Muslims are to be addressed as 'Muhammad's' slaves.



How many lords might this make?

 
 
 

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