Why is Allah referred to in the plural, “We” in my english translation of the Quran?
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We are not amused by thy question, girl...We believe thy question merits no answer...Our senses tell us, that we should not answer thou...
Get it? We is a colloquial form of english for me...That is how the royalty refer to themselves...Me = we, mine = ours, Me = Us or we...
Hope that explains...
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^^ Same for Urdu. Some people call one of themselves 'hum'.
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^
hum bhee yehi kehnaY waalaY thaY...
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^ Yeh HUM kaun log hoe hain 
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I know we refer to one man as "hum" and "woh" (plural) and women as "mein" or "woh" (singular).. dunno why.. :(
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^ huh????
this is how kings adderss themselvs in the arab world....
even today if u see a letter issued by the king, he will adress himself as "we" and others will refer to him as "you" (with plurality in arabic i.e. antum)....
when the king of bahrain issues a decree, the statement reads, "we, hamad bin isa al-khalifa, king of the kingdom of bahrain, have decreed that........"
some people get confused because they have no idea about arabic and the arabs....
i think if someone wants to draw his/her own conclusions from the verses of the Quran than he/she MUST have a strong knowledge of arabs (their culture, traditions and language) if the exact meaning of the word is to be known....
the translations provide very less information....
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Islam is a strictly monotheistic religion. It believes in and adheres to uncompromising monotheism. It believes that God is one, and unique in His attributes. In the Qur’an, God often refers to Himself using the word ‘We’. But this does not mean that Islam believes in the existence of more than one God.
Two types of plural
In several languages, there are two types of plurals, one is a plural of numbers to refer to something that occurs in a quantity of more than one. The other plural is a plural of respect.
a. In the English language, the Queen of England refers to herself as ‘We’ instead of ‘I’. This is known as the ‘royal plural’.
b. Rajiv Gandhi, the ex-Prime Minister of India used to say in Hindi "Hum dekhna chahte hain". "We want to see." ‘Hum’ means ‘We’ which is again a royal plural in Hindi.
c. Similarly in Arabic, when Allah refers to Himself in the Qur’an, He often uses Arabic word 'Nahnu' meaning ‘We’. It does not indicate plural of number but plural of respect.
Tawheed or monotheism is one of the pillars of Islam. The existence and uniqueness of one and only one God is mentioned several times in the Qur’an. For instance in Surah Ikhlas, it says :
"Say He is Allah the One and Only."
[Al-Qur’an 112: 1]
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is god nemerical entity in islam is it number 1 ? is it mathamatical number ? or god is one
for all or only one god working onlyfor muslims?