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A Comparative Approach to the “Trinity”… A-S. Fatemi Hasanabadi and M. Islami / 17
Say: “O People of the the Son and the Son, the
Book! come to common sacrificer and the Holy
terms as between us and Spirit, the cleansing;
you: That we worship but it should be known
none but Allah; that we that these three Hypostasis
associate no partners are one action.
with him; that we erect (Hawkes, 2015: 344)
not, from among ourselves,
Lords and patrons other Shahrestani also writes
than Allah”. If then they about the “Trinity”:
turn back, say ye: Christians placed the
“Bear witness that we triple Hypostasis for
(at least) are Muslims God and said that the
(bowing to Allah'sWill)”. God is a single essence;
(Quran, 2: 64) that is, it is self
existence, has no volume
The word “Trinity” is derived and does not fit in
from the Latin root “Terry. place. So he is one in
Netas”. In Christianity, this terms of essence it is
word refers to the doctrine of single and three in
God in the form of father, son terms of Hypostasis and
and soul. Christian missionary the meaning of Hypostasis
James Hawkes describes the is traits; traits such as
“Trinity” as follows: existence, science and
The divine nature is one life; that is, “Father”,
of the three equal “Son” and “Holy Spirit”,
Hypostasis; It means in which only science
the God of the Father, was incarnation. (Shahrestani,
the God of the Son and 1956, Vol. 1: 285)
the God of the Holy
Spirit. God the Father The issue of the “Trinity”
is the Creator of the was also common in many pre-
whole universe through Christian religions; examples
