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Islam and Buddhism

As for those who adopted the Calf, anger from their Lord
will overtake them together with abasement in the life of
this world. That is how we repay the purveyors of falsehood.
The above verses show that if God wills, He can for-
give or punish those who associate His creatures with Him.
Those who do so are actually fabricating falsehood, since
the evident truth is that there is only one God. To bow before
these invented gods is a terrible crime against God. As stated
in the Qur'an (4: 48), God may forgive those who commit every
other sin and error, but never one who associates His creatures
with Him:

God does not forgive anything being associated with Him but He
forgives whoever He wills for anything other than that. Anyone
who associates something with God has committed a terrible
crime.

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The basis of Islam is the knowledge that God
exists, and the understanding that there
is no god but Him. In the Qur'an, the
divine source of Islam, God tells us
(2: 163) that this is the greatest foun-
dation of religion: "Your God is God
Alone. There is no deity except Him,
the All-Merciful, the Most
Merciful."
Indeed, there is only
one Absolute Being, and
everything else is His
creation. God made the
universe we live in and, be-
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