In other words, Allah is a single-person God. In no sense is he a Father (‘he begets not’), and in no sense does he have a Son (‘nor is he begotten’). He is one person, and not three. Allah, then, is an utterly different sort of being to the God who is Father, Son and Spirit. And it is not just incompatibly different numbers we are dealing with here: that difference, as we will see, is going to mean that Allah exists and functions in a completely different way from the Father, Son and Spirit.
