Muslim and God's name?

Question

I'm rephrasing an earlier question:

If muslims know that the God who Abraham and Isaac, and Moses and Noe worshipped was (and is) Jehovah, how come the say His name is Allah?

Answer 1

Like the rest of false religion, Muslims are under the control of Satan the Devil. Satan has worked for centuries to hide the name of the Almighty and spead slanderous lies about His nature and purposes.

Regarding that divine name, it's not exactly wrong to call the Almighty by the impersonal "God", just as it's not wrong to call one's offspring "Child". If we want a familiar and close relationship, however, it makes sense to use the personal name of someone we love. The Scriptures encourage us to use God's personal name.

The Hebrew name “Yahweh” (or “Yehowah”) does seem to accurately pronounce the divine name. Just as the Hebrew name “Yeshua” (or “Yehoshua”) is translated into “Jesus” in English, the Hebrew name “Yahweh” is translated into “Jehovah” in English.

The important thing is to use God’s personal name in whatever language you speak, rather than insisting upon the impersonal! The name “Yahweh” is certainly preferable to the non-name “God” or “Lord”. If you speak English, feel free to use the name "Jehovah".

(Psalms 83:18) That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah, You alone are the Most High over all the earth

(John 17:26) [Jesus said] I have made your name known to them and will make it known, in order that the love with which you loved me may be in them

Learn more:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/na/index.htm

Answer 2

The word "Allah" 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 "Allah" being use where the word "God" is used in English. Actually, the Arabic word for Almighty God, "Allah", is quite similiar 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 Islam 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.

Muslims believe in GOD(in arabic Allah), the Supreme and Eternal, Infinite and Mighty, Merciful and Compassionate, The Creator and The Provider, He begets not, nor was He begotten, and there is none equal or comparable unto Him.



Islam is the only religion which recognizes and believes that all the prophets brought the same essential message This message was, still and will be the belief in and submission to ONE God (the Creator and the Sustainer of all things, the Exalted and the Redeemer of all things. The word Islam itself means "submission and surrendering" to God


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Islam is the only religion which teaches the existence of a PERFECT God. A perfect God means that there is no sharer in His Nature and His Attributes:



"Say: He is God, the One and Only; God, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; and there is none like unto Him." (Holy Qur'an, 112:1-4)

Answer 3

Allah is arabic. The literal translation is "The G-d." It is a contraction of Al Ilah (al meaning the and ilah meaning g-d). The name emphasises the monotheistic position of Islam.

Mahfuz R - Elohim is another name for G-d. It is a hebrew equivalent of Allah. It too means The G-d.

Are any of you christians familiar with the concept of the power of names? This yahweh you speak of, it is another of G-d's name. It is derived from the Hebrew characters Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh. No vowels. Un-pronounable. To speak and know the true name of something is to have power over that thing. At some point, someone decided that J is pronounced as Y, so you get jehovah from y-h-v-h. Oh and something rather obsure, a woman was made before eve. Her name was Lillith. She was defiant, she chose not to be Adam's slave, she did not care to be submissive. So she was cast out. Also even more obsure, there are writings in which G-d has a consort as well. But the patriarchal tendencies of the root culture decided to do away with this.

Answer 4

Um, mayb u should look back to the question. Allah is God, its just the Islamic/Muslim way of saying God. Like Christians, they believe that Jesus was the immaculate conception, however they don't believe that he's Gods son. They believe he's a Prophet, just like Muhammad is their Prophet. If you look at the new testament of the bible, you see that the four gospels came from Jesus. The bible itself is said to have been the word of God. In the same way, the Qur'an is said to be the spoken word of Allah/God. The only difference is, Muhammad was the Prophet who wrote the Qur'an according to the words spoken by Allah. The old testament isn't meant to be taken literally, so there's no real importance in it. Jews are the ones who follow the first five chapters of the bible.. genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers and deuteronomy, which outlines all those names. Jews believe Jehovah is the proper name of God. However, Muslims believe Muhammad is a direct descendant of Abraham. In a way, Muhammad is like how Jesus was to us, except of being of the son of god.

In regards to what the previous person wrote, altogether there are 99 beautiful names for Allah. In the Qur'an there are altogether 114 chapters.

Answer 5

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 6

NO ONE in the islamic wold can admit that the name comes from ancient times when each village had a ""god"". The village god of Takrit was the moon god called allah. Takrit is the village of Mohammad, Saladin the Great, and more recently Hussein.

One can post all kinds of evidence of th origin of allah but there is NO WAY they can own up to it!

See the two addresses below..............


(It is quite probable I will be bounced off for this information because some one JUST MIGHT call it HATE, even though it is the truth.)

Answer 7

The Quran is written in Arabic.

Allah is Arabic for God.

We are to recite the Quran while praying.

Allah roles off the tongue easier then God

In other languages God is:

Spanish Dios
French Dieu
German Gott
Italian Dio
Dutch De god
Portuguese Deus
Russian Бог
Norwegian Gud

In the Quran in Arabic there are 99 names for God.


So depending on where in the world you are or your family comes from will depend on how you say God

Answer 8

Actually what I think that `Allah' is not the name of the God, but a noun allotted in Arabic, for the being `God', Just like `Bhagwan' or `Eeshwar' in Hindi. This is not the name in actuall ( means not proper noun), but a common noun for the God word. When u got to proper noun as ` Rama' or `Krishna' or Vishnu in Hindi ,etc ; then u could also would have been got a name (Proper noun) for Allah in arabic also, provided they have a multi god system.
This all says that Allah is not the proper noun but a common noun for Almighty.

I think u r satisfied

Answer 9

I'm not exactly sure but I do know that Jehovah is the English translation of God's name. Yahweh is the Hebrew translation. It's possible that Allah is the Arabic version.

Answer 10

Allah literaly means God in arabic. in fact, youd hear arab christians say Allah.

in islam, we know if 99 more names for God, including The Most Merciful and the Most Beneficient. when one wants to make supplication to God, he/she can call him Allah of anyone of the other 99 names.(well if they speak arabic and know them. otherwise they might memorise them.)

ive never heard of Jehovah. why would you think muslims would use Jehovah anyway?