Who is the “god” Allah?

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I’m listening to a homily online and one of the points is that all other “gods” are demons. Absolutely true! My question is this…is the god “Allah” that the Muslims worship the same God that we as Catholics worship? Considering Muslims came about by branching off of Abraham? Clearly, our understanding and worship of God is true and the Holy Catholic Church is God’s true Church on earth, and Islam, in most, if not all its ways, incorrect. So does that make Islam one of the oldest Christian Heresies because of their distorted, blasphemous and incorrect worship of God? Or is the “Allah” they worship just the same as the demonic “gods” of the Babylonians or the Canaanites?
 
It’s not a heresy since Muslims do not claim to be Christian. By the same token, Jews are not heretics when they reject Christ.
 
Allah is the arabic word for God, yes the God of Abraham. Do you realize there are Arabic Roman Catholics? Who speak Arabic in mass? In the middle east there are Roman Catholic Churches and the mass is in Arabic. We do the sign of the cross in Arabic. The word for God is Allah for Jesus it’s Yessua or Issua. I can do the sign of the cross in Arabic or English.

Arabic mass:

Kids arabic roman catholic teaching:

Bis mil Abi ou Ebi or Ruhu Quds, Allah e wahid --means:
“In the name of the Father, Son & Holy Spirt. God is one”
 
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But is it then that Muslims just have a distorted and incorrect view of God and worship the same that we do just very incorrectly?
 
And the Jews too? They don’t have Christ, He is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
 
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AlruwhAlquds said:
Allah is the arabic word for God, yes the God of Abraham. Do you realize there are Arabic Roman Catholics? Who speak Arabic in mass? In the middle east there are Roman Catholic Churches and the mass is in Arabic
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Yes, I understand that. I’m talking about the Muslim “Allah”.
 
BartholomewB said:
Then [we refer] to the adorers of God according to the conception of monotheism, the Muslim religion especially, deserving of our admiration for all that is true and good in their worship of God.”
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So basically…Catholics and Muslims worship the same God. However, because we as Catholics are God’s Church on earth, hold the fullness of Truth and have Our Lord Jesus to save us, we are the correct in all ways in our Faith. The Muslims have partial truth, but not all obviously as they reject Christ and many other facets of our faith.

May we pray always for their conversion!!
 
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I think there are many different opinions on this.

I have read some middle ages theologians viewed Islam as a heresy, such as S.t John of Damascus:
“From that time to the present a false prophet named Mohammed has appeared in their midst. This man, after having chanced upon the Old and New Testaments and likewise, it seems, having conversed with an Arian monk, devised his own heresy.”
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Hawkeye916 said:
But is it then that Muslims just have a distorted and incorrect view of God and worship the same that we do just very incorrectly?
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Well, let’s see, Muslims believe that there is only one God, who is the all-wise and all-powerful creator. They believe that we humans must pray, fast, and give alms (care for the poor). I think they believe that God is merciful and offers us salvation. So far it sounds a lot like Christianity. Yes, they worship the same God.
 
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Well, let’s see, Muslims believe that there is only one God, who is the all-wise and all-powerful creator. They believe that we humans must pray, fast, and give alms. I think they believe that God has mercy and offers salvation. So far it sounds a lot like Christianity. Yes, they worship the same God.
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True, but they miss the most important part, and without it may not attain salvation. Jesus! “No one may come to the Father except though me.”

God is the ultimate judge and will judge them accordingly, as He loves them beyond all measure. I was actually talking to my Father in-law recently about this topic. “Would a Muslim be saved if he, truly believing that his religion was true, and was the best Muslim he could be?” Ya know? Would Christ extend in his infinite mercy salvation to someone like that? We will never know!
 
A simple look at the Catechism answers it:
841 The Church’s relationship with the Muslims . “The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.”
 
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AlruwhAlquds:
Allah is the arabic word for God, yes the God of Abraham. Do you realize there are Arabic Roman Catholics? Who speak Arabic in mass? In the middle east there are Roman Catholic Churches and the mass is in Arabic
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Yes, I understand that. I’m talking about the Muslim “Allah”.
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The Muslim Allah is God. Allah is their word for God.
They worship in error but they worship the same God we do.
 
God, as He can be known without faith, is the creator and first principle of all being. Muslims do acknowledge this one God. However, faith is required to know Him as the Father of an only Son, and this faith is required for salvation. Those who profess Islam do not have such faith since they do not believe God’s revelation, but rather something erroneously attributed to Him.

However, they do have what is first necessary to come to faith–to believe that God exists and He is a rewarder of those who seek Him–so are therefore farther down the road to faith than are atheists/panthesists or idolators, who ascribe to creatures that which should be given God (it is these false gods that are devils according to Scripture).
 
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Okay, I understand now.

I would think you could argue it’s satan, enjoying the confusion and the split in the faith for God. Just as the muslims believe Christians are misguided, Christian Arabs generally feel the same towards them.
 
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Allah is the God worshipped my Muslims. It’s the same God Catholics worship. They just give him a different name. It’s the same thing with Yahweh. All the Abrahamic Religions worship the same God. 🙂
 
Very Catholic Maronite worshippers from the middle east, in line with Rome, worship using the Arabic language, and yes, during mass, they say, Allah, because it is simply the word for God in their native tongue.

Does this help you out any?

At the Maronite service, the language of Jesus is also spoken, Aramaic, and the combination of Arabic, Aramaic, and English, if not sometimes French is really wonderful to experience.

During worship in a Mosque, the interpretation of the word Allah is still the same in that it means God. However, their interpretation is not the same as Catholics.

I don’t know the answer to your query of whether or not all other Gods are demons.

However, my 2 cents on this issue is to consider how the Quron states wives are to be treated when their husbands disagree with them. The beating of wives is stated to be with Allah’s blessing. However, in the Catholic Holy Bible, husbands should love their wives like Christ loved the church, a totally different viewpoint that is based upon absolute pure love and never involves any such thing as violence against one’s wife.
 
Two people can see a car, one if them knows exactly how it us designed and works, the other considers it pure magic. But they see, they drive, they talk about the same car, despite of one’s lack of understanding.

On the other hand, just referring to one’s God as God does not make them the same.

The answer lies in the basic knowledge that there us one God, who is the creator and sustainer if all things.

You get that part right, you are worshipping the same God as we Catholics, even if you think He has a yellow head and purple tail.
 
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It’s not a heresy since Muslims do not claim to be Christian. By the same token, Jews are not heretics when they reject Christ.
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Well… yes and no.

The ancient Christians DID view Islam as a Christian heresy for several centuries. Part of the reason is because Islam claimed to be (and still does) the corrected faith of Abraham.

Also, Muslims believe in the Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ. The Islamic faith’s view is that the Christians misunderstand who Jesus is. They consider Him to be a prophet.

Their view is that since the people of the Middle East (aka the Christians & Jews) misunderstood Jesus, God had to send one more prophet.

So because of this - ancient Christianity DID consider Islam to be a “Great Heresy” of Christianity. This is why the ancient Christians believed that the Muslims did worship the same God as the Jews & Christians.

God bless

FYI to @Hawkeye916
 
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