2007-03-06 02:21:30 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The term "Allah" simply means "the [one] god", implying a single Almighty deity reminiscent of the Judeo-Christian "Yahweh" / "Jehovah". However, it is significant that "Allah" is clearly NOT a personal name, while the Hebrew Tetragrammaton clearly *IS* a personal name for Almighty God.
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". Faithful men of the Holy Scriptures used both "God" and a form of "Jehovah" when they referred to and addressed the Almighty. However, the term "Allah" seems intended specifically to reject Judeo-Christian spiritual heritage.
If we want a familiar and close relationship, 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”, especially if you speak Hebrew. 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
2007-03-06 07:44:38 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As other people pointed out "Allah" is used in one of two way.
1) As a generic term for Deity
2) As a personal name used prior to the formation of Islam. This term was used as the head of many Gods that were worshipped at a shrine in Mecca.
Yahweh is a proposed English reading of ×××× (the Tetragrammaton), the name of the God of the Jews or the people of Israel. Translated to English as Iehouah then to Jehovah.
The biblical God is called Yahweh (or Jehovah) nearly 9,000 times. Yet Allah is not called by that name even once in the Koran. Why not, if Allah is the same God? God is also referred to as Elohim more than 2,500 times in the Bible, but again that word never appears for Allah in the Koran. Why? The God of the Bible is called "The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob “Israel".
He is the father of the Jews.
In the hadith, Muhammad himself said, "The last hour will not come before the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Muslims kill them" (Mishkat al Masabih Sh. M. Ashraf, 1990, pp. 147, 721,810-11, 1130, etc.). Islam's god hates the Jews; the God of the Bible loves them as His chosen people! Allah is very clearly not Jehovah.
Allah has no son is further proof that he is not the God of the Bible, who definitely has a Son. (Luke 1:31-35).
The Kaaba still stands, without its idols, but with the Black Stone. Pious pagan Arabs practiced the pilgrimage to the Kaaba, to kiss the sacred stone, for centuries before Muhammad. Why did Muhammad keep, as part of Islam, these pagan rituals?
Not one follower of the God of the Bible would ever have gone near the Kaaba, because the God of the Bible forbids any association with idols (as history tells us) that the Kaaba was filled with idols before Muhammad destroyed them all.
The only people who journeyed to the Kaaba and kissed the Black Stone were pagan Arabs who worshiped one or more of the idols within and around it. Muhammad started a new religion called Islam. Which Arabs, Persians, Egyptians, Turks and everyone else in the region had to convert at the point of the sword.
2007-03-07 11:41:39 · answer #2 · answered by keiichi 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well if you think God is a Creator who has created everything by the sheer power of His Will. And you believe that He is alone, Single, One.
Then no matter what you chose to call Him, it doesnt change the fact that Hes still the one and ONLY God.
2007-03-06 10:33:56 · answer #3 · answered by Antares 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they both mean 'God' in their language. As long as you believe in one God and one God only you are worshiping the same God as the jewish, christian, and Islamic God.
It Allah, you left out the h.
2007-03-06 10:30:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They both believe in the god of Abraham, who they both believe is their ancestor
The god may have different names, but he's the same guy
2007-03-06 10:26:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
They aren't. Jehovah is Isaac's(the legitimate son of Abraham and Sarah) god and Allah is Ishmael's ( the illegitimate son of Abraham and Hagar) god.
2007-03-06 10:30:19 · answer #6 · answered by Tigger91 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They are not and neither will muslin call GOD the Father Jehovah.
2007-03-06 10:24:39 · answer #7 · answered by Tribble Macher 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/11/robertson_says.html
2007-03-06 11:52:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They aren't the same God.
2007-03-06 10:25:05 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They are not the same God.
2007-03-06 10:28:53 · answer #10 · answered by birdsflies 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋