LOL, you of all people telling me to do research.God reavealed His unique name to His people. Allah is a generic name for god/God and shows a limitation in the language which does not differentiate between gods(sic)
Do your research
That’s ok. Because in arabic, allah (besides being the name of the lunar deity Islam worships) is also a generic word for “god/gods/God” no matter what god that is.LOL, you of all people telling me to do research.
You said, “Allah is a false god of polytheists.” These are your own words. But IN FACT, “Allah” is the name of God in ARABIC BIBLES, read by ARAB CHRISTIANS. In other words, Arab Christians worship Allah. Are you calling them polytheists, or are you calling your own Lord false?
No,Those who say that Allah is a pagan moon god or other such nonsense are blindly following a lie which has been thoroughly refuted here: islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Sources/Allah/moongod.html
It’s nothing but nonsense, as the article points out.
Allah is the name of “God” in Arabic. This is a simple fact, and it is used by Arab Christians and yes, in fact, Arab Jews.
Now, between these three faiths, only Christians attribute divinity to Jesus, and thus they say that Muslims have an “imperfect” understanding of God.
However, Muslims and Jews have the SAME understanding of God, in that neither attributes divinity to Jesus. So perhaps, for those participants of the thread who wish to claim that Christians and Jews worship the same God, and Muslims a different one, by their own reasoning, they are incorrect, and it would only be correct for them to say that:
Muslims and Jews worship the same God
And Christians worship a different one.
I have just above posted the link which shows that Allah is not a moon god, and a full refutation of that absurd myth which unfortunately missionaries are so easily duped into believing.That’s ok. Because in arabic, allah (besides being the name of the lunar deity Islam worships) is also a generic word for “god/gods/God” no matter what god that is.
I see you are unfamiliar with the Qur’an, and what it says about the Trinity. In fact, there is only ONE GOD without any partners, without any son. Muslims worship only God, which Christians call “the Father.” Christians say the One God has a son and a spirit, which Muslims reject. Jews only worship God, as Muslims do.No,
Jews worship God the Father. (only one Hypostasis of God.)
Catholic Christians worship the Holy Trinity (all three Hypostases of God.)
Muslims do not call their god “Father”, claim he has no son, and their god is vindictive and cruel, unlike the God Christians and Jews worship. His name is Allah, and he was worshipped in pre-Islamic Arabia. He is a lunar deity, and his consort was a sun goddess (Al-Manat, I think.)
This is what secular historians and anthropologists say. Not crazy anti-Islamic people.
But did Moses say Allah?And Christians living in Muslim lands too. He is the same God regardless of what some have said. We just have two different perceptions of him and two different styles of worship.
Even though the research seems legitimate, I can’t just have Mohammed come along 500 so years after Christ and tell me he worships “Allah” and that his “Allah” is the same as my Yhwh. He was a false Prophet. If he’s a false prophet, you should easily understand that we would question whether his god is really Yhwh or not.I have just above posted the link which shows that Allah is not a moon god, and a full refutation of that absurd myth which unfortunately missionaries are so easily duped into believing.
I was under the impression Ilah was a modernized form of the old allah-god word. I stand corrected.And in fact, the “generic word” in Arabic of “god” is ILAH. Ilaah. Ilaah. That is the word for something which is worshipped. Ilaah.
We don’t call our God by the proper name “Allah”. So it is our obligation to be defensive and question whether this “Allah” really is our God.The NAME for GOD is ALLAH. Not the same word. The shahaadah reads, laa ilaaha illa Allah. laa (no) ilaaha (thing to worship) illa (except) Allah (the absolute one God.)
So it is a proper name. A name we don’t use for our God.Allah is a proper word, it cannot be made plural, masculine, or feminine. The other word can, but Allah is only singular, and without any gender. A proper name the One God.
Actually, I used to have a copy of the Quran and I’ve read much of it (a while ago though.) If their Allah has no son, he can’t be my Father Who has a Son.I see you are unfamiliar with the Qur’an, and what it says about the Trinity. In fact, there is only ONE GOD without any partners, without any son. Muslims worship only God, which Christians call “the Father.” Christians say the One God has a son and a spirit, which Muslims reject. Jews only worship God, as Muslims do.
Give him all the names they want, it won’t change his personality.Moreover, of all the names and attributes given to God in Islam, none is “vindictive” or “cruel.” In fact, Allah is named THE MERCIFUL, and THE COMPASSIONATE, and THE KIND, and THE GENEROUS, and so on.
Just wondering; why the Moon symbol on the Mosques?There is no lunar god in Islam.
The Quran contains 109 verses that call Muslims to war with non-“infidels”. Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers, and other various body parts, and kill the infidels wherever they may be hiding. Muslims who do not join the fight are called ‘hypocrites’ and warned that Allah will send them to damnation if they do not join the slaughter.…Moreover, of all the names and attributes given to God in Islam, none is “vindictive” or “cruel.” In fact, Allah is named THE MERCIFUL, and THE COMPASSIONATE, and THE KIND, and THE GENEROUS, and so on.
Nope. Did they say Jehovah? Or ‘‘God’’?But did Moses say Allah?
Did Abraham?
I was told that it was because it represented guidance on the true path (just like the light of the moon would guide people in the desert). But this was by my religious studies teacher, while she was very wise, I can’t vouch for her knowledge of Islam.Just wondering; why the Moon symbol on the Mosques?
Dessert, can’t you see that Moses and Abraham were not Arabs? Arabic was not their language. Moses was a Hebrew, while Abraham’s language must have been some kind of Old Aramaic (though in Genesis, what’s used is the Hebrew). True, Arabic is a Semitic language, but it’s not quite Hebrew!But did Moses say Allah?
Did Abraham?
Although to Muslims and Jews we Christians seem to worship a different god (or is it different gods in your view?), it really is the same One God. As for the Trinity, although we cannot explain per se how this can be, it’s really one God in three distinct persons always working together: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.Those who say that Allah is a pagan moon god or other such nonsense are blindly following a lie which has been thoroughly refuted here: islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Sources/Allah/moongod.html
It’s nothing but nonsense, as the article points out.
Allah is the name of “God” in Arabic. This is a simple fact, and it is used by Arab Christians and yes, in fact, Arab Jews.
Now, between these three faiths, only Christians attribute divinity to Jesus, and thus they say that Muslims have an “imperfect” understanding of God.
However, Muslims and Jews have the SAME understanding of God, in that neither attributes divinity to Jesus. So perhaps, for those participants of the thread who wish to claim that Christians and Jews worship the same God, and Muslims a different one, by their own reasoning, they are incorrect, and it would only be correct for them to say that:
Muslims and Jews worship the same God
And Christians worship a different one.
The stumbling block really is Jesus the Messiah himself, and he also happens to be the Corner Stone of our Christian faith. As for the “imperfect” understanding of God… it’s a matter of incompleteness, really, and only in this could we refer to “imperfection” in understanding of God.Now, between these three faiths, only Christians attribute divinity to Jesus, and thus they say that Muslims have an “imperfect” understanding of God.
However, Muslims and Jews have the SAME understanding of God, in that neither attributes divinity to Jesus. So perhaps, for those participants of the thread who wish to claim that Christians and Jews worship the same God, and Muslims a different one, by their own reasoning, they are incorrect, and it would only be correct for them to say that:
Muslims and Jews worship the same God
And Christians worship a different one.
Isn’t it part of Saudi Arabia?
What other Gods to Muslims worship?Ishmael did not settle in Arabia. He is not the father of arabs thus could not teach them the God of Abraham. Allah is a false god of polytheists,
Egypt.Isn’t it part of Saudi Arabia?
Muslims worship the cheif god of the polytheists who lived in Mecca prior to Mohammed.What other Gods to Muslims worship?
Why do Muslims say they worship the God of Abraham if they don’t?