Allah the Moon God?

Question

I heard this crazy story several years back from some guy about how the Islamic god is nothing more than a pagan deity of the moon! Supposedly, the arabs worshipped a lot of pagan gods and spirits back in the old days. This much I know is true. But then I also heard that one of these gods was the infamous MOON GOD. And one guy decided that the MOON GOD was better than the other gods. In fact, he went around telling people that the MOON GOD was the ONLY real god and that the others were all fakey gods. Well, they kicked his *** after that, which started the story of the exile to Madinah.

Apparently, there is archaeological evidence to back up this story, but I've never heard of such a thing. Has anyone else heard about this?

Answer 1

I've heard this before.

I also heard that the Moon God was chosen as a rallying point to unite certain peoples under one deity because this one guy was jealous of other peoples prosperity and progress, and he needed bodies to be able to carry out his own visions of conquest and prosperity.

who cares? false religions and false gods are only interesting up to a point, then it becomes boring.

Answer 2

First, "Allah" was not one of the 360 idols which were in the Ka'abah, although Morey has claimed this without evidence. When the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) entered Meccah victorious he went into the Ka'abah and broke the idols therein.

Second, the word "Allah" has been used all along for the name of "God" in the Arabic Bible for Jews and Christians alike. The proof is easy to verify; simple go to any hotel or motel on the earth and look in the drawer next to the bed and take out the complimentary Bible, placed there by the Giddeons and then look on page 5 or 6 where they list the examples of translations they have made into other languages. The second example given is for Arabic speakers. The verse is from the Gospel of John, chapter 3, verse 16. Everyone knows this one; "For God so loved the world..." and the word in Arabic for "God" is "Allah." Then if you have a Bible in Arabic, look on page one in Genesis, and you will find the word "Allah" fourteen times.

Next, the word for "God" to the Arabs, ever since the time of Abraham, peace be upon him, has been "Allah" and He is to them, the Lord of the Ka'bah (the black box in the center of the Holy Sanctuary in Makkah). He was the unseen God whom they would call upon when in distress. Yes, they worshipped the true God but their worship was not purely for Him. They also worshipped other gods thinking that they would act as intermediaries between them and the true God Allah.

The Arabs know of Allah because Abraham visited Meccah and together with his son Ishmael laid the foundation of the Ka'abah. The descendants of Ishmael retained some of the worship rites and beliefs from Abraham. This included their knowledge of the true God Allah.

Elsewhere we have shown conclusively that the true god, "El" of the Bible is the same as "Allah" of the Quran.

Answer 3

Islam was founded in 610 A.D. by a man named Mohammed. During Mohammed's time, polytheism reigned. His people were worshipping multiple gods. During one of Mohammed's trips as a trader, he had a vision from a being he perceived to be an angel who said, "There is only one God, and His name is Allah. Worship Him."

Islam's origins have been traced back by scholars to the ancient fertility religion of the worship of the moon god which was always the dominant religion of Arabia. The moon god was worshipped by praying toward Mecca several times a day, making an annual pilgrimage to the Kabah which was a temple of the moon god, running around the Kabah seven times, caressing an idol of a black stone set in the wall of the Kabah, running between two hills, making animal sacrifices, gathering on Fridays for prayers, giving alms to the poor, etc. These were pagan rites practiced by the Arabs long before Muhammad was born."

Answer 4

You are right, Arabs worshiped many Gods before Islam.

The idea of a "moon God" started because the Othomon Empire used a crescent moon as symbol on their flag and buildings. As a result, you still see crescent moon on mosques as decoration.

Also, Muslims use moon sighting to determine the month cycle.

These are some of the evidence that people used to claim that Muslims worship a Moon God.

However, there is nothing in Islam or in the prophet's life that gives the moon or the crescent moon any holy value.

Peter Priesthood:
al-ilah is an Arabic noun that translates to "The God". It is not a name.

Answer 5

The man who wrote this dose not know his Arabic
Allah simply means God ut us not a name as such. Long before the birht of Mohamed semetic Christians were using a word related to Allah for God and the mideastern Christians I know today still do so when speaking their language.. There might be some relation to a moon diety and the cube in Meca I have never read that though.

Answer 6

I've heard that to but no one has ever presented any evidence to back the claim. Before the founding of Islam the area was predominantly polytheistic, but Allah is the Abrahamic god. Does that mean Christians and Jews worship the moon god as well? ;)

Answer 7

my 2 cents worth

Moses went up on Mt Sinai to talk to god, ten commandments, etc etc etc
however, Sinai means the mount of Sin
Babylonian/Sumerian/Assyrian god of the MOON
so
if you want to tie a religion to moon worship...it would more likely be early Judaism
true....the three main religions of the area became monotheistic...but they were preceded by a couple of thousand years of traditional beliefs, associating different areas-mountains especially-with "primitive" divinities

Answer 8

No at all, Islam is recently the only relegion that says that God (Allah) is out of time and place and we cannot see him by our recent abilities and cannot be compared with humen or plants...other relegion they are despising God by making him like an animal or plant or human!!!
In Islam it also fobidden to have an Idol for God...

Answer 9

Allah is the name of God in Arabic.

Answer 10

Do you SEE how your (answerers) AVOID ,,,,yes or no, when you asked if ALLAH was a moon god,, they should say NO! then explain the crescent atop their mosques! I notice they say NAME FOR,,, O.K.? I'll give you the name OF, God's PERSONAL name is,,,,EHYEH-ASHER-EHYEH,,,I-AM-WHO-I-AM !!!Mar Yah 3:13-15,,! Name read Ex 6:2-8, Here He did tell Moses what He was known by ,,,But by His NAME He was NOT known to them!! attn. vs, 3 move foreward to chp.9:16 and again you will read "MY NAME" not that's the name FOR Me. So, just see if the CRESCENT is explained aND someone just contradicted Ex 6:3, as if it wasn't written thats STRANGE,,,Ex. 6:3 stands!!!