(a) He is bound to admit the validity of arguments based on the assumption (for
the sake of argument, as far as you are concerned) that the Qur'an is the Book of God,
that every word and letter of it in the original is of Divine authorship.
(b) He accepts the great doctrines of: (1) God's Unity, Almighty Power, Wisdom,
Eternity, Unchangeableness, and that He is the union of all good attributes; (2) His
creation of the universe, and His Divine government and Providence; (3) the Divine Mission
of all the Prophets (including Jesus); (4) the eternal distinction between the Creator and
His creatures; (5) the existence of the world and of human personality, of the human
spirit, of life after death, of future rewards and punishments, the Resurrection, the need
of faith, the existence of good and evil spirits; (6) Christ's Divine Mission, His birth
of a Virgin, His sinlessness (all the Prophets being by Muslims called sinless), His
Ascension, His life in Heaven now, His future Advent, and that Christ is "the Word of
God" (Kalimatu'llah) and "A Spirit from Him" (Ruhun minhu);
(7) that the Bible, as originally given, was a Divine revelation; and he believes
(8) that Idolatry is the one unpardonable sin. (Surah IV., An Nisa' 51, 116.)
On the other hand he does not realize the gui1t of sin, the existence of an eternal
Moral Law; he has no real conception of God's holiness, or justice, or love. He practically
conceives of