Actually, I've been doing some deep thinking on this very subject the past few days, and now i"m beginning to wonder...
In Acts 17, we are told the story of Paul going to Athens and seeing the worship of the Athenians, what takes his notice, is that amongst all the many gods and things they worship, is an altar to the unknown God. Without knowing anything about this god, Paul says to them that he is going to declare to them about the UNKNOWN God and He then shares with them all that God has done.
The Bible speaks very strongly about the fact He has not left man without an awareness of Him in EVERY culture, after all, the image of God is stamped in every human being, since we all come from the same two humans ancestors
I have seen the sincerity of the Muslims and know they are people that love their God as I love mine,with all their being. In discussion, they call their God unknowable, because of His transcendence.
Our God is knowable, because in Jesus Christ, God became flesh, so that I could understand Him, and have the knowledge, not just of being submissive to him as a servant/slave, but in relationship to Him as my Heavenly Father.
Could it not be, that we DO worship the same God, but because of Jesus Christ, we can declare to the Muslims, that we can see that you are sincere in your faith, but in your sincerity and zealousness to find God, you are ignorant of things because you follow the unknown God. The Bible teaches that God doesn't want us to do lots of things, he wants only one thing, that we should know and understand Him. No amount of religious activity will cause that to happen.
We can only know Him, as we are in relationship with Him, and our relating to Him can only happen in Jesus Christ, who was and is the injil. (if the Gospels are not the injil, but the injil was given to Jesus, is it not also possible, that He who is the Word of God come in the flesh to dwell amongst us, is the injil in the flesh?
Jesus Himself said, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, no man comes to the Father but through me John 14:6
Paul declares that this same Jesus please read the whole passage very carefully
Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully, at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this description "TO AN UNKNOWN GOD". Now what you worship as something unknown, I am going to proclaim to you.
The God who made the world and everything in it, is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself given life and breath and everything else. From one nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth, and He determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.
God did this, so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. for in him, we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets have said, "We are his offspring."
Therefore, since we are God's offspring, we should not think the divine is like gold or silver or stone, an image made of man's design and skill
In the past, God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all men everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. he has given proof of all this to all men by raising him from the dead". Please now read from Acts 17:18
"a group of Epicurean and Stoic Philosophers began to dispute with him. Some of them asked "what is this babbler trying to say. Others remarked, "He seems to be advocating foreign gods. they said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection."
Dear Muslim friends, may I suggest to you in all humility, that you also worship the unknown God that Paul here declares is the maker of heaven and earth, and that whilst you also are religious in everyway, you too need to KNOW the unknowable God. The only way He can be known is through Jesus Christ, God come in the flesh, who died and rose again to be our redeemer and our deliverer on the day of judgement.
Job believed in God.. but when hardtimes came, he questioned his faith.. but in the end once he had pondered the things that were happening to him, and he pondered the nature and the understanding of God and then listened to God Himself as God cries out "Who is this that darkens my counsel with words without knowledge." God then tells Job exactly who he is .. and this knowledge of God caused Him to cry out
" Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things to wonderful for me to know... You said, Listen now and I will speak, I will question you and you will answer me. My ears had heard of you, but now my eyes have SEEN you, therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes". (Job 42:1-6
May your eyes be opened that you too, may see and know!!
God bless