This chapter (sura) of the Quran is thought to be written in the early Meccan period sometime between 610 and 618 and is made up of 4 verses or 'aya'. Current translation is Pickthall.
112:1Say: He is Allah, the One!
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ
A God who is indivisibly one and self-sufficient is alone by definition, and cannot be a God of love as to love requires relationship.
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The Bible presents the oneness of God in a way that supports the doctrine of the Trinity by using a ‘composite’ unity that carries both the idea of the oneness of God who is at the same time a unity of persons.
The trinity is the foundational teaching of the Bible that God is one God, who has eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son and Sprit who each are fully God. This idea is denied by the Quran, which states that God is an indivisible unity, who can have no partners. The Trinity, while mysterious, is simple to define and a beautiful truth we can confidently hold to and reference in reaching out to others.
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112:2Allah, the eternally Besought of all!
اللَّهُ الصَّمَدُ
112:3He begetteth not nor was begotten.
لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْ
Christians and Muslims both claim to love Jesus, but the Jesus of the Bible and the Jesus of the Qur’an are very different. Who is the Jesus of the Qur’an and how is he different from the Jesus of Scripture?
112:4And there is none comparable unto Him.
وَلَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ كُفُوًا أَحَدٌ