Allah's Loneliness

"If there were not a plurality of persons in the divinity," St Thomas Aquinas states in his Summa Theologiae, "it would follow that God would be alone or solitary." (S. T. Ia, q. 28, a. 4). It is well-known that the Qur'an rejects any notion of the Trinity. We have for example, the following in the Qur'an (4:171):

O People of the Scripture! Do not exaggerate in your religion nor utter aught concerning Allah save the truth. The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was only a messenger of Allah, and His word which He conveyed unto Mary, and a spirit from Him. So believe in Allah and His messengers, and say not "Three" - Cease! (it is) better for you! - Allah is only One Allah. Far is it removed from His Transcendent Majesty that He should have a son. His is all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth. And Allah is sufficient as Defender.

Or the following (5:72):

They surely disbelieve who say: Lo! Allah is the Messiah, son of Mary. The Messiah (himself) said: O Children of Israel, worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord. Lo! whoso ascribeth partners unto Allah, for him Allah hath forbidden paradise. His abode is the Fire. For evil-doers there will be no helpers.

Or, finally, this (5:116):

And when Allah saith: O Jesus, son of Mary! Didst thou say unto mankind: Take me and my mother for two gods beside Allah? he saith: Be glorified! It was not mine to utter that to which I had no right. If I used to say it, then Thou knewest it. Thou knowest what is in my mind, and I know not what is in Thy Mind. Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Knower of Things Hidden?

Islam's Allah is not a Trinity engaged in an eternal communion of love. He is therefore relegated to a lonely, solitary existence. And everyone knows that a lonely, solitary being has no one to love and no one to love him. Love requires at least two persons. Hence Allah is not a God of love, but a bitter, lonely, solipsistic being.