Why do non-Muslims always say "moon God" about Allah?

Question

What does the moon has to do with it?????,Allah is God,your God,my God,Christians God and Jews God.

Answer 1

Oh no, not again!?

Allah is a form of "Elohim", isn't it?

And, let's see, you deny the very existence of al Lah, al Lat, al Uzza and Mannat. It's like the Ka'aba was never the Temple of Hubal and the al Hajrul Aswad was never the Sign of al Lah; and the practice of going widdershins [anti-clockwise] around the Ka'aba, aka Bait'ullah or House of God, and the tradition of the Haj, itself, never came from the old pagan Faith!?

All of this is just some Christians' concoctions???? Please do enlighten me as to why would the Christians concoct stories about al Lah????

Please do enlighten me, then who was the resident God of the Ka'aba when the incident of the Elephant of Yemen that knelt and saluted it seven times, according to the myth, instead of attacking it; happened? Wasn't that the very year that Mohammad was born?

What then, did Mohammad destroy, if there were no idols of al Lah or Hubal and his daughters in the shrine, there?

Why are the daughters even specifically mentioned in a verse of the Qua'ran, asking if you've seen al Lat, alUzza and Mannat, even there?

Personally, I don't understand why is there so much denial about this fact!?

I. for one, do not see it as denigerating that this was a Tradition and if the faction of the beni al Quraish Jewish Tribe had changed sides over to become the Keepers of the Ka'aba! What's wrong with that?

Mohammad changed the Qiblah to revere his beloved Ka'aba. So what's wrong with that?

The Masjid al Qiblain, in Medina, became the second or rather third Qiblah for some time,. So whats wrong iwth that?

Why do the Muslims so vehemently deny their own History? Why do they seem to be ashamed of it?

I'm sorry, but I can't see any logical reason why.


Pax vobiscum, pax dominic!

Simon Templar

Answer 2

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Answer 3

If Allah is the Christian God why are there two teachings? Why does God God love the Jews and everyone but Allah God says bring infidels into submission by force or death(or is that a misquote). Why are Americans sitting around while 'The Muslim Brotherhood' has 'The Project' and 1200 terrorist groups in 150 cities w/weapons. Are we too lazy or incapable of taking charge. This govt should be re-done as they are doing the things NOT in US best interest and NOT doing the things to protect US. MOST of them should get fired by US!!!!

Answer 4

Because that's what he was. Before mohamed, or however the hell it's spelled this week, decided that allah was the only god, he was a moon god. Current beliefs do not change history, as much as you'd like them to. Does that mean that current muslims are moon worshipers? No, most of them don't even know that allah was a moon god. But it also doesn't mean that that isn't how he started out.

Answer 5

It comes from a Christian Missionary called Dr. Robert Morey. Who wrote a book claim evidence that Allah was a moon god.

Here is a link to an article by Shabir Ally debunking his lies:
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Sources/Allah/moongods.html

Answer 6

Shut up and stop thinking all nonsense. This is not a joke. Christians and muslims are all the same but worship to their god their way. Whatever!!

Answer 7

They are ignorant ! Simply !!

Muslims follow Lunar calender and they have some resemblance with the pagan Arabs in their religious exibition........thats all they know but what they do not is that even jews follow the same calender and it was the ancient calender, I have read an artical which proves christainity the sun-good worshipper.......but anyways ! And Pagan arabs were not atheist , there were some left over believes from Abraham which they were following ..they believed in God , infact one God but they had made some idols and believed these idols to be the way to Allah, intermediates !! and thats what Muhammad corrected that There is not God but Allah and you do not need to take these intermediates as a way to Allah......Anyways.........still there is a lot for peoples to learn about islam and if they can't i think its better to stop bashing it!' because for you is your religion and for me is mine"

Chritains worship jesus(pbuh) as their God so i would disagree here.....but for us jesus(pbuh) is a holy prophet not God !

peace !

Answer 8

Because Christians put the cross on top of their churches and consider it as a sacred icon so when they see the moon (crescent) on top of the mosques they think it is the same for Muslims and it's related to Allah

Answer 9

When, before Islam, people were worshipping idols, etc. Apparently the cresent moon and star was used for one of the idols and its name was allah(the idol)...so, that's how the story started.

Answer 10

Allah Is Moon-god.

The word Allah certainly predates Islam. As Arthur Jeffrey states,

"The name Allah, as the Quran itself is witness, was well known in pre-Islamic Arabia. Indeed, both it and its feminine form, Allat, are found not infrequently among the theophorous names in inscriptions from North Arabia".[7]

The 19th-century scholar Julius Wellhausen also viewed the concept of "Allah (al-ilah, the god)" to be "a form of abstraction" originating from Mecca's local gods.[8] Alfred Guillaume notes that the term "al-ilah" (the God) ultimately derives from the Semitic root used as a generic term for divinity.

"The oldest name for God used in the Semitic world consists of but two letters, the consonant 'l' preceded by a smooth breathing, which was pronounced 'Il' in ancient Babylonia, 'El' (Eloh,Elohim) in ancient Israel. The relation of this name, which in Babylonia and Assyria (Alaha,Eloah) in Aramaic syriac became a generic term simply meaning ‘god’, to the Arabian Ilah familiar to us in the form Allah, which is compounded of al, the definite article, and Ilah by eliding the vowel ‘i’, is not clear."

Guillaume notes that some scholars have argued that the epithet "the god" was first used as a title of a moon god, but this is purely "antiquarian" in the same sense as the origins of the English word "god". "Some scholars trace the name to the South Arabian Ilah, a title of the Moon god, but this is a matter of antiquarian interest...it is clear from Nabataean and other inscriptions that Allah meant 'the god'."[9]

The word "Allah" was used by Arabic-speaking Christians and Arab Jews before the lifetime of Muhammad as the word for God. It was also used by pre-Muslim Arab monotheists known as hanifs.[10]
The moon plays a significant role in Islam because of the use of a lunar Islamic calendar to determine the date of Ramadan. The crescent moon, known as Hilal, defines the start and end of Islamic months. The need to determine the precise time of the appearance of the hilal was one of the inducements for Muslim scholars to study astronomy.[11] The Quran clearly emphasises that the moon is a sign of God, not itself a god. Muslim scholars cite the 37th verse of the Sura Fussilat as proof against the Moon-God claim:[12]

وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ اللَّيْلُ وَالنَّهَارُ وَالشَّمْسُ وَالْقَمَرُ لَا تَسْجُدُوا لِلشَّمْسِ وَلَا لِلْقَمَرِ وَاسْجُدُوا لِلَّهِ الَّذِي خَلَقَهُنَّ إِن كُنتُمْ إِيَّاهُ تَعْبُدُونَ
"And of His signs are the night and day and the sun and moon. Do not prostrate to the sun or to the moon, but prostrate to Allah, who created them, if it should be Him that you worship"
The crescent moon symbol used as form of blazon is not a feature of early Islam, as would be expected if it were linked to Pre-Islamic pagan roots. The use of the crescent symbol on Muslim flags originates during the later Middle Ages.[13] 14th-century Muslim flags with an upward-pointing crescent in a monocolour field included the flags of Gabes, Tlemcen (Tilimsi), Damas and Lucania, Cairo, Mahdia, Tunis and Buda.[14]

It has been suggested that the star-and-crescent had been adopted from the Byzantines. Franz Babinger suggests this possibility, noting that the crescent alone has a much older tradition also with Turkic tribes in the interior of Asia.[15] Parsons considers this unlikely, as the star and crescent was not a widespread motif in Byzantium at the time of the Ottoman conquest.[16]

Turkish historians tend to stress the antiquity of the crescent (not star-and-crescent) symbol among the early Turkic states in Asia.[17] In Turkish tradition, there is an Ottoman legend of a dream of the eponymous founder of the Ottoman house, Osman I, in which he is reported to have seen a moon rising from the breast of a Muslim judge whose daughter he sought to marry. "When full, it descended into his own breast. Then from his loins there sprang a tree, which as it grew came to cover the whole world with the shadow of its green and beautiful branches." Beneath it Osman saw the world spread out before him, surmounted by the crescent.[18]

Islamic flags containing the calligraphy of the Quran were commonly used by the Mughal Emperor Akbar, it was the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who is known to have inlaid the Crescent and Star symbol upon his personal shield, his son Aurangzeb is also known to have used similar shields and flags containing an upward Crescent and Star symbol. Various Nawabs also preferred to utilize the Crescent and Star symbols such as the Nawab of the Carnatic.[13]