So do Muslims believe Allah is the name of God or not??

Question

I have heard many different answers from Muslims and its confusing. Some say that is his name and some say that, that is how you say God in Arabic.
If that is God in Araic then what is God's name? It can't be "God", that is just a title.

please answer my question becasue I lost 5points for this!

SO God doesn't have like just one name??
Like I believe Jehovah is God's name. And the name Jehovah has a meaning.
Does "Allah" have a personal name, that has a meaning?

So then what does Allah really mean?

Answer 1

Allah is the name that He uses to refer to Himself in the Quran. That is why we use it. It means the One God. It cannot be pluralized and does not have a gender. It is the same name that Jesus used in Aramaic. It is also used by Arab Christians. Does that answer it? I want you to get good value for your points, so I'll check back and see if I can help further.

Answer 2

Peace be upon you =)

Allah is how you say God in Arabic, even Christians and Jews in the Middle East refer to God through the word Allah. It is more used by Muslims do the the Arabic tie, but also because Allah has no plural, while God does, this though is simply a linguistics's thing.

I don't think I fully understand the latter question. In Islam, God has 99 Attributes, such as "The Gracious" and the "The Merciful" but that is not what your asking, from what I can discern. Allah is simply (or rather complexly) Allah.

Answer 3

Allah is how Muslim and Christian Arabs call God in His proper name. The exact word for God in Arabic is Ilah, the same with Hebrew, but Allah is the combination of the words Al- Ilah which means the God.

So it is not a title? It is a title but at the same time a name. Allah as a word is very unique because it does not connotes feminity or masculinity and has no plural form. Is it not the befitting name that one should call God because He is neither male nor female and He is ONLY One?

Answer 4

The word Allah is translated as God in English but its different from that word, because the word god can have a plural or dual. The Arabic word Allah cannot be changed to dual or plural its, linguistically a definite noun. It cannot be changed at all.

Spiritually the word Allah encompasses all his attributes and if invoked by this or any of the ninety nine names of Allah can cause relief to the invoker.

Also its meaning as orientalists claim is the god but this is not the actual meaning, it means God in English. Its also from the same root word as Yahweh the Hebrew word for God.

Heres a link to an article about one God many names. http://www.nawawi.org/downloads/article2.pdf

Heres a link to different names of God
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God

Answer 5

As a muslim, I reject every deity except the One True God, called Allah, creator of the universe. The belief that this universe has a creator is not new. A large majority of people hold this view. Every Scientist knows the law of cause and effect. Thus i would say that if u noticed foot prints on the beach, no rational mind would say that these foot prints were created by the waves of the sea. In a similar way, if we see a design, we can rationally conclude that this design was created by a designer. As humans we have not seen electrons with our naked eye, but we believe in them, similarly we have not even scratched the surface of the universe but we beleive in these "unknowns". Using the argument you say you do not believe in God. I believe it is safer to say that "maybe a God exists" but you have no evidence. For the evidence, we just have to ponder around us and calculate the probabilities that this universe, animals and plants have been created so perfectly. according to the law of mathematics the likelihood of this to occur is the same as if an explosion in a bakery produced a cake. no one can believe illiogical sequence of events.

Answer 6

Allah simply means God.. The true God.. The God revealed to Abraham and Mohammed.

God doesn't have a name like we understand "name". They say that God has 99 names. They are names like the Merciful, the All Good, the All Mighty.

Answer 7

In Islam there are 99 names of Allah
"Allah" comes from the Arabic word "elah" - (Arabic) means 'a god' or something that is worshiped.
GOD is worshiped and is therefor called Allah

Allah (God in Arabic) is what we call GOD..

-- the 99 names of Allah are (in English, i don't know what their names are in Arabic)
-- the beneficent
-- the merciful..

etc etc

Answer 8

Allah means god in arabic, simple. There are many names of Allah s.w.t

here are all the names of Allah

http://www.harunyahya.com/books/faith/names/names01.php

hope i helped

Answer 9

Allah is indeed just a generc name in arabic. It is corect to say God's name is ALLAH...but it is also just a title.

In Islam technically there are many names for God, just as there are in Judaism.

If one delves deeper into understanding..these names are generally used to denote how God MANIFESTS not God's actual "name"

"all things are god
therefore god has all names
this means that god has no name"

--Paraphrase Corpus Hermeticum

Answer 10

Allah is arabic for "The God". God would be Elah in arabic. Christian arabs and Jews who speak arabic as their first language also use the word Allah to describe their God if this can explain it to you.
He has no "specific name" in arabic cause there is only one God.