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**Efksqhyu** · 05-07-2012, 02:14 AM

An atheist is some one who denies the existence of gods.
A polytheist is some one who believes in a multiplicity of gods.

Based on these definitions it is impossible to be both at the same time: you cannot believe there are no gods and many gods at once.

Hence you are wrong.

Allah does not judge by the Oxford English Dictionary

we are not talking about English semantics

we are talking about how we expect Allah to view them

based upon the teachings of scholars

I think what has confused you is that Shirk/Mushrik/Mushrikeen

(which are what we are really mean when we say Polytheism/Polytheist/Polytheists)

do not have exactly the same meaning in Arabic as Polytheism/Polytheist/Polytheists are in English,

the Arabic words Shirk/Mushrik/Mushrikeen have much broader meanings.

Allah's opinion of what is idolatry/polytheism is what matters, those best to know what it is are the Ulema.

05-07-2012, 02:14 AM	#33
Efksqhyu Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 546 Senior Member	An atheist is some one who denies the existence of gods. A polytheist is some one who believes in a multiplicity of gods. Based on these definitions it is impossible to be both at the same time: you cannot believe there are no gods and many gods at once. Hence you are wrong. Allah does not judge by the Oxford English Dictionary we are not talking about English semantics we are talking about how we expect Allah to view them based upon the teachings of scholars I think what has confused you is that Shirk/Mushrik/Mushrikeen (which are what we are really mean when we say Polytheism/Polytheist/Polytheists) do not have exactly the same meaning in Arabic as Polytheism/Polytheist/Polytheists are in English, the Arabic words Shirk/Mushrik/Mushrikeen have much broader meanings. Allah's opinion of what is idolatry/polytheism is what matters, those best to know what it is are the Ulema.
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