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Muhammad in the Bible David Benjamin KeldaniEdited & Annotated by: Prof. Dawud M. R. Alhanbali & Prof, Dr. Kaseb A. Albadran ( 61 )This love with any other man. The Almighty will cast away any “believer” who associates any other object or being with Him15. The Muslim’s love for Allah is not theoretical or idealistic but practical and real. He will not hesitate for a moment to expel from his house his wife, son, or friend if he should blaspheme the Holy Name or Person. A pagan or a person of other religion may show a similar furious zeal for his object of worship. However, that love which is shown for the One True God is holy and sanctified; and such love can only exist in the heart of a Muslim. Those auspicatory and doxological formulæ “Bismi Llāhi” and Alhamdu li Llāhi,” which mean, respectively, “In the name of Allah” and “Praised be Allah” at the beginning and the end of every action or enterprise, are the most sincere expressions of the purified Muslim spirit impressed and inebriate with the “Love of God” that transcends and excels every other love.c) The baptismalsanctification, which the “Sibghatu’llah” inspires in the Spirit of a Unitarian Muslim, besides faith and love, is a total submission and resignation to the holy will of God. This absolute submission emanates not only from faith and love, but also from a holy fear and from a deep respect so latent in the soul and spirit of every true believer.Such are the principal characteristics of the spiritual baptism, and nowhere are they manifest but among the adherents of Islam. John the Baptist(pbuh), Jesus Christ (pbuh) and his apostles believed in, loved, and feared the same Allah as every Muslim does according to the degree of the Divine grace and mercy. The15 Qurán, 4:48. Allah forgiveth not that partners should be set up with Him; but He forgiveth anything else, to whom He pleaseth; to set up partners with Allah is to devise a sin Most heinous indeed. (Editors).