Who Cares About the Royal Plural? It Doesn't Mean Anything

As Christians, we need to reach out to our Muslim brothers and show them the errors in the Quran and Hadiths. We also need to keep up to date on their tactics so we can defend against them as well.
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Who Cares About the Royal Plural? It Doesn't Mean Anything

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The Quran's god Allah refers to himself as we and us and our all over the place. The Muslim explanation is that it is the royal plural. Somehow, being plural is more majestic than being singular, yet we're supposed to say that Allah is one. It's really a simple misunderstanding on the Muslim's part of the Trinity, because as Christians, we say that God is one too. We just know that God has the capability to do anything He wants, even somehow begetting an eternal Son that is part of God's essence. There aren't two separate beings, just more than one part of the same being.

Aside from this, does it really mean anything anyway? Jesus encounters demons possessing humans who call themselves by the plural as well. Are we supposed to say that they're calling themselves god too?
Mark 1:21–28

Jesus Heals a Man with an Unclean Spirit

[21] And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching. [22] And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes. [23] And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out, [24] “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.” [25] But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” [26] And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, came out of him. [27] And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.” [28] And at once his fame spread everywhere throughout all the surrounding region of Galilee. (ESV)
Notice how the demon refers to himself as us. "Have you come to destroy us?" But the scripture doesn't acknowledge the plural. "Jesus rebuked him," and "the unclean spirit," are how scripture refers to the demon. Hmmm... sound like anyone who "revealed a book" to a so-called prophet? You know it does! That's because Mohammad was visited by an unclean spirit, and the unholy book Quran was revealed by it. The use of plural means nothing. It's an imitation of the plural in essence but one true God.
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Isaiah 53:10
"Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him;
he has put him to grief;
when his soul makes an offering for guilt,"
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