Who exactly is Allah?

Question

Ok, I know that Allah means God, and he is who Muslims pray to. But is Allah the same God that Christians pray to? I know that Muslims beleive in Moses and in Jesus, but they also believe in Mohammend. Muslims believe in Mohammend the same way that Christians believe in Jesus right? So if Muslims beleive in Jesus and Moses, then is Allah and God the exact same person/entity? Or is Allah totally seperate, like Buddah is? I am confused.

Answer 1

First of all, I am happy for you because of asking this question, since you are asking about none but your Creator, and as to your question.. well..

Let us agree first that The Creator must be the creator of
everything, the heavens, the earth an all that is in between them, mankind and all that exists. It is anticipated that anyone who says
“I believe in the Creator,” that he believes in this. It also entails that he should necessarily believe that the Creator possesses Perfect Attributes. He is Perfect in His attributes, in Himself, in His Names,and in His Actions. This is a natural flow,
otherwise, it is a delusion not a true belief in the "Creator."
"I believe in a Perfect Creator," should lead to another obvious admission: if you believe that the Creator is Perfect then He is
Perfectly Wise in all of His Actions. Does He then Create because of a Perfect Wisdom, or aimlessly? This is the important linkage. Does He Create for a need? Or He
Creates based upon Wisdom? It is anticipated that to be in harmony with having belief in the Creator, that His
Wisdom is necessarily is linked to His Knowledge, His Will and to all of His Attributes. The question, therefore, would you think the One who creates does so for a purpose or He creates to leave the creation aimless? The person who believes the Creator is Perfect, would agree that His creating is not aimless. If so, then Who else other than Allaah has stated this? And
you know where? It is in His Final Revelation to man. Contemplate what He has said: "Did you think that We have created you in play without any purpose and that you
will not be brought back to us, so exalted be Allaah the true king none has the right to be worshipped but He, the Lord of the
Supreme Throne” [Quran 23: 115-116]. Does man think that he will be left aimless (without purpose)? [Quran, 75:36].
So Allaah is the One whom you believe to be "the Creator." He chose this title for Himself and He stated that He is the Only
Creator, and that He Creates with Wisdom: Such is Allah, your Lord, the Creator of all things, there is no god but He: Then
how ye are deluded away from the Truth! [Qur'an, 40:62].
So this creation which Allaah creates must have a code organizing its existence and its aims.
Hence: 1- Allaah creates and His creating is all Wise and for a purpose.
2- Allaah did not leave us aimless. He set a code to live accordingly. So He legislates, commands, and prohibits,
and justly sets reward and accountability, because He is all-
Just.
3- In all aspects of this code, the manifestations of His Names and Attributes become known, contemplated and realized. Being
the Creator necessitates creating as well as purpose, guidance and legislations. Whoever ascribes is rewarded, since He is the Most Generous. When one commits a sin,he realizes that his Creator accepts repentance and is oft-Forgiving. So the manifestations of Allaah's Names and Attributes become
realized on earth and this is beloved to Allaah, the Creator.
4- Allaah gives man life, physical sustenance, and spiritual
guidance through the revelation which He entrusted His Messengers with [like Jesus the son of Mary, Moses and Muhammed]. He guides man to know how to benefit
from the provisions, what is good for him and what is harmful. He raises in honor those who submitted to Him,
and justly puts in humiliation those who disdain and are arrogant. He Forgives and is Merciful; He punishes and rewards in order that man shapes his life with the code that is all beneficial to man and which makes his life on this earth upright. And it cannot be upright unless man ascribes to the guidance sent to him by His
creator.
5- If all mankind come to ascribe to his code (i.e. worship) Allaah on one heart, then this does not oblige any change in Allaah's Essence nor in His Attributes. If all the creation is on one heart, this does not increase in the dominion of Allaah anything.
That is why He stated:
But Allah is free of all wants, and it is ye that are needy. [Qur'an, 47:38]
6-And that is why He mentioned:
“If you do good, you do good for your own selves” [Qur'an, 17:7]
"And whoever does righteous gooddeeds, then such will prepare a good place in paradise for themselves." [Qur'an, 30:44]
And as the Prophet Muhammad related in the authentic hadith that Allaah said:
“O My slaves, you will not attain harm in Me so as to harm Me, and you will not attain benefit in Me so as to benefit Me; O My slaves, were the first of you and the last of you, the
human of you and the jinn of you to be as pious as the most pious heart of any one man of you, that will not increase My Kingdom in anything; O my slaves, were the first of you and last of you, the human of you and the jinn of you to be as wicked as the most wicked heart of any one man of you, that will not decrease My Kingdom in anything; O My slaves, it is but your deeds that I reckon up for you and I recompense you for. So let
him who finds good praise Allaah and let him who finds other than that blame no one but himself.” [Reported in Saheeh Muslim, No. 6246]
On daily basis the person makes what is known as ritual purity (wudu). In every drop of water used to wash the face, hands, arms, head, and feet, sins fall off. It is therefore a tangible and intangible benefit to man. Listen to what Allaah, the Most High, says:
“It is neither their meat nor their blood that reaches Allaah but it is
piety from you that reaches Him."[Qur'an, 22:37].
In human to human relationship, people do good for each other to attain their own interests, or to be praised. But with Allaah, if you do good, you do good for yourself, because this good that you do does not benefit Allaah.
In light of the above, we need to contemplate the great purpose for which we have been created. This is clearly stated by Allaah:
“And Allaah have not created not the jinn and the men except that they should worship me alone." [Qur'an, 51: 56-57]
So they are called for what benefits them.
Remember the definition of worship in
the beginning of this discussion? They are the ones who, if they comply, will win. And that is why He asserted in the next
verse:
“I seek not any provision from them nor do I ask that they should feed Me.” [Qur'an, 51:57].
Why did Allaah mention food and provisions here? It is traditionally known that the greatest need for man is the need for
food, clothing and residence. This requires means and provisions, and this is the wealth. That is why Allaah began with it:
“I seek not any provision from them,”
and then He referred to food, because it is the thing most needed by people: “nor do I ask that they should feed Me," because He is
all-Rich, free of all want; Self-Sufficient, needs nothing. He related to us in things we relate closely to so as to make this matter vividly clear.
Hence, the creation of man is not to bring a benefit for Allaah, but to establish this code of life which links him to his Creator. The
Noble objective is to submit and deliver. Otherwise there can be no love of our Creator without submission. And to deliver so as to establish uprightness. But who defines what is good and upright? It is laid down by the one who is All-Knowing and
Perfect: Allaah. If it is left to us, then your good is an evil to me and vice versa! So, the code of life is set in accordance with what
Allaah has defined as worship, outwardly, and inwardly. So imagine someone saying he loves Allaah and worships others besides Him or to the exclusion of Him! This is neither submission nor compliance. That is why love and magnification of Allah means worshipping none but Him. This is the essence of all the revealed Messages to all the Prophets and Messengers. It is a single Message of Tawheed: singling Allaah alone as the true God worthy of worship and disassociating from any kind of
worship to other than Him We often hear people say: what is important is "love." In reality, the true love is the love of Allaah, our Creator, sustainer, and provider. No one is more beloved to Allaah than the one who loves Him and praises Him and complies with His code which He has set for us in this life. Shirk (opposite ofTawheed): associating partners with Allaah in worship is the most hated thing to Allaah because this diminishes (or may eliminate) the love of Allaah. It sets between Allaah and man an associate, and that is why Allaah does not love it. It takes away from the love of Allaah alone and equates Allaah, the Perfect, with the imperfect. This is not even acceptable in human relations. So one must not set up any rival to Allaah in worship. Allaah warned about this, saying:
“And of mankind are some who take for worship others besides Allaah as rivals, they love them as they love Allaah but those who believe love Allaah more than anything else." [Qur'an 2, 165]
So the truly beneficial thing to man is to know of His Creator, magnify Him, and love Him so that he gains His love and thus
be amongst the happy ones in this life and in the hereafter. However, since man has tendencies towards his own lusts and
desires, then this objective cannot be attained except when man follows what is pleasing to His Creator, Allaah. The stronger man's love of Allaah is, the more he gains of His love and guidance. In practice this needs to be translated into compliance with the code of life set by Allaah.
The one who is in need of Allaah is the created, because the One who is Self-Sufficient and Perfect is Allaah. It is out of His generosity and benevolence that He is rewarding for singling Him alone in worship. And in that, His names and attributes become manifested, and this is beloved to Him. He loves for the person to
repent; He loves for the person to return to Him in repentance; He loves forgiving; He loves pardoning; He loves clemency, and
He loves justice because He is All-Just. When man realizes the manifestations of Allaah’s Names, Attributes and actions in the creation, then he knows the meaning of worship and clings to that.
I hope that in this discussion, there is a benefit for you, and that it takes you to the final conclusion of submitting to Allaah in Islam.. by knowing who Allah is.

Answer 2

Allah is God, creator of heaven and earth. Creator of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad and all beings.

Muslim and Christians don't view Jesus the same way. Christians feel that Jesus is God/Son of God. Muslims say that Jesus is the messenger of God. Just like Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and Muhammad among many others.

Are we all praying to the same God, Yes, if you are talking of the one true God that is NOT portrayed through images, or man. But Muslim refuse to accept Jesus anymore than a Man created by God to deliver His message. He is not God, Son of God or Saviour and he did not die on a cross. Jesus, as the Muslims knows it, was taken to the heavens by God and replace him with what seemed to be Jesus crucified. God will never let his messenger suffer as such. That is the beauty of Allah and Islam.

Answer 3

Allah and God are the same, but no Mohammed isn't the same as Jesus. Muslims don't believe that Mohammed was the son of Allah, like Christians believe Jesus was the son of God. Mohammed (and Jesus) in Islam were prophets.

Answer 4

Who is Allaah?

Very often one will here the Arabic word "Allaah" being used in regards to Islaam.

The word "Allaah" is simply the Arabic word for Almighty God, and is the same word used by Arabic speaking Christians and Jews.

If one were to pick up an Arabic translation of the Bible, one would see the word "Allaah" being use where the word "God" is used in English. Actually, the Arabic word for Almighty God, "Allaah", is quite similar to the word for God in other Semitic languages - for example, the Hebrew word for God is "Elah".

For various reasons, some non-Muslims mistakenly believe that Muslims worship a different God than Jews and Christians. This is certainly not the case, since the Pure Monotheism of Islaam calls all people to the worship of the God of Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and all of the other prophets. However, even though Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God -since there is only one God - their concepts concerning Him differ in some significant ways.

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Prepared by: Abu 'Iyaad

Answer 5

You are absolutely correct, Allah is God. But not strictly for the Muslims. In fact, in that part of the world Christians, Jews, Muslims and people of other faiths, all use the word Allah when refering to God. Muslims believe Jesus and Moses were prophets of God with Muhammad being the last. So, they worship the one true God just as the Jews and Christians do, but with a flavor. They do not worship Muhammad but see him as a prophet of God. In fact, the word Muslim means servant of God. They try and live their lives the way muhammad did, as he did, pray as he did, in orfer to be closer to God. Allah is just another name for God. I hope this helps!!

Answer 6

“IN THE name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.” This sentence translates the Arabic text, above, from the Qur’ān. It continues: “Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds: The Beneficent, the Merciful: Owner of the Day of Judgement. Thee (alone) we worship; Thee (alone) we ask for help. Show us the straight path: The path of those whom Thou hast favoured; Not (the path) of those who earn Thine anger nor of those who go astray.”

2 These words form Al-Fātiḥah (“The Opening”), the first chapter, or surah, of the Muslim holy book, the Holy Qur’ān, or Koran. Since more than 1 in 6 of the world’s population is Muslim and devout Muslims repeat these verses more than once in each of their five daily prayers, these must be among the most recited words on earth.

3 According to one source, there are over 900 million Muslims in the world, making Islām second only to the Roman Catholic Church in numbers. It is perhaps the fastest growing major religion in the world, with an expanding Muslim movement in Africa and the Western world.

4 The name Islām is significant to a Muslim, for it means “submission,” “surrender,” or “commitment” to Allāh, and according to one historian, “it expresses the innermost attitude of those who have hearkened to the preaching of Mohammed.” “Muslim” means ‘one who makes or does Islām.’

5 Muslims believe that their faith is the culmination of the revelations given to the faithful Hebrews and Christians of old. However, their teachings diverge from the Bible on some points, even though they cite both the Hebrew and the Greek Scriptures in the Qur’ān. To understand the Muslim faith better, we need to know how, where, and when this religion started.

Answer 7

Most chrisitians have very confused ideas about who they are really praying. Jesus isn't god, he is as messanger but he preached to everyone to beleive in ONE GOD. After he died, people started worshipping him saying he is the son of god WHICH IS NOT TRUE. So god send another messanger, Mohamad n he just continued Jesus' teachings n just explained them a lot more throughly n said that I'm the last messanger. We call him Allah which means 'the only One'. Means he is the Only One God, God of Mohammad, God of Jesus, God of Moses, God of Abraham, God of Adam, God of everyone.

No, he isn't totally seperate. Hope u understand

Answer 8

Allah is NOT the God of Christianity. Before Islam "allah" was a pagan moon good of the arabs. Muslims don't believe that Jesus is God and that he died for our sins..Buddha was just a hindhu teacher..thats all..Trust the Bible!!

Answer 9

Please examine Quran 2:sixty 2 the position it says obviously that christians flow to paradise too (heaven) Muslims do not (or are not meant to) hate christians in 5:80 2 Allah says those nearest in like to believers (muslims) are christians. I truly do no longer comprehend who this 'father' is you communicate over with. yet even the bible says "call no guy father, save He who's in heaven". i do not study about ingesting certain fish, it can be a particular sect's conception. The Quran says in person-friendly words blood, lifeless meat, swine, and any meat over which the different call than Allah (God) has been said. The Quran also says no longer to divide ourselves into sects, see 6:159. As to who's Allah, he's God, the author of the universe, an same God of Abraham. there is in person-friendly words one God. As my 5 12 months previous merely pronounced when I requested him who's Allah, he pronounced "Allah is THE God".

Answer 10

This is a very good question and most people are confused in this way. I apreciate your curious sense. Let me clear some important points here;
Allah the Almighty is the same who is one and only. Who sent about 124000 messengers to this world time to time in order to guide people of their times towards the right paths. Muslims believe on all those 124000 messengers. Adam, Noah, David, Jacob, Abraham, Lot, Ismail, Isac,Mosus, Jesus (peace by upon them all) are some of those 124000 messengers.
Quran speaks about 26 messengers by name and muslims know only these 26 messengers by name only otherwise they believe that all messahngers sent by Allah the Almighty were truthfull and guided by Allah the Almighty.
Muslims believe that Muhammad (peace be uponhim) was the human being but purely guided by Allah the Almighty but they don't believe like christian's blief on Jesus (peace be upon him)as the son of God.
Jesus (peace be upon him) was the messenger of Allah the Almighty, who was sent here to direct the people towards the path of Allah the Almighty and he superceded the commandments what Mosus (peace be upon him) was given by Allah the Almighty. When Muhammad (peace be upon him) was sent with 'quran', commandments given to Jesus (peace be upon him) has been superceded.
Therefore muslim believe that to keep strong belief on the last and final message of Allah the Almighty is mandatory and teachings of Jesus (Peace be upon him) are superceded.
All these messengers including Jesus, Mosus (peace be upon them all) used to worship only one God, who is Allah the Almighty. So I summerize in two points here:
1. Muslims don't believe in Muhammad as the christians do in Jesus (peace be upon them all). If they do in this manner , they will no more be muslims. This is very strict rule.
2. Allah the Almighty is the one and only, who is the creator of Jesus, Mosus and muhammad and all other messngers too (peace be upon them all) and whoever beileve that Allah the Almighty is more than one entity remains no more muslim.
I hope I succeed in answering somehow.

Answer 11

Allah is God.....God is God...Allah is Allah....
Muhammad was a prophet.....Jesus was a prophet....The Muslims believe in Jesus because he lived historically.....Muhammed lived historically too....There is only one God.....the Muslims believe that and Christians do too.....so why are we, as Christians, so full of it to think that our God is different than theres.....?