GOD AND ALLAH ARE DIFFERENT

Sir,

After some consultations from available sources about origins of the name Allah, please allow me to dispute the use of the name Allah to refer to the Christian God.

Allah is the name of the only God in Islam.
Allah is a pre-Islamic name coming from the compound Arabic word Al-ilah which means the God, which is derived from al (the) ilah (deity).
The Arabic name for ‘God’ is the word ‘Al-ilah.’
It is a generic title for whatever god was considered the highest god.
Different Arab tribes used ‘Allah’ to refer to its personal high god. “Allah” was being worshipped at the Kaa’ba in Mecca by Arabs prior to the time of Mohammed.

It was formerly the name of the chief god among the numerous idols (360) in the Kaaba in Mecca before Mohammed made them into monotheists. Historians have shown that the moon god called ‘Hubal’ was the god to whom Arabs prayed at the Kaaba and they used the name “Allah” when they prayed. Today a Muslim is one who submits to the God Allah.

Islam means submission to (Allah), but originally it meant that strength which characterised a desert warrior who, even when faced with impossible odds, would fight to the death for his tribe.
(Dr. M. Baravmann, The Spiritual Background of Early Islam, E.J.Brill, Leiden, 1972).

Terrorist

I personally think this clearly explains their terrorist approach on issues pertaining conflict resolution with other religious groups.
The origin of the name Allah goes back to pre-Muslim times. Allah is not a common name meaning ‘God’ (or a god), and the Muslim must use another word or form if he wishes to indicate any other than his own peculiar deity. (Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics (ed. Hastings), I: 326.)
According to the Encyclopedia of Religion, Allah corresponded to the Babylonian god Baal, and Arabs knew of him long before Mohammed worshipped him as the supreme God. Before Islam the Arabs recognized many gods and goddesses, each tribe had their own deity.

There were also nature deities. Allah was the god of the local Quarish tribe, which was Mohammed’s tribe before he invented Islam to lead his people out of their polytheism. Hubal was the chief God of the Kaaba among the other 360 deities. Hubal was a statue likeness of a man whose body was made of red precious stones whose arms were made of gold. (Reference Islam George Braswell Jr.)

“Historians have said Allah was actually the chief of the 360 gods being worshipped in Arabia at the time Mohammed rose to prominence. Interestingly, not many Muslims want to accept that Allah was already being worshipped at the Kaaba in Mecca by Arab pagans before Mohammed came.
Some Muslims become angry when they are confronted with this fact. But history is not on their side. Pre-Islamic literature has proved this.” (G.J.O. Moshay, Who Is This Allah? (Dorchester House, Bucks, UK, 1994), pg. 138).
The Koran tells us that Mohammed drove the other idols away; he made one God now the only god, with him as its messenger.
The literal name of Mohammed’s father in Arabic is Abd Allah.
His uncle’s name is Obred Allah.

Devotion

These names show the devotion of Mohammed’s family’s roots.
It also proves that Allah was part of a polytheistic system of worship before he was made the supreme and only god from the other gods.
This should be proof to the pre-Islamic root of the name of Allah to the Muslim. Remember, Mohammed kept his family name above all the other names.
He had good intentions in removing the people from their polytheistic worship, however, he did not go far enough in his reform.

On the other hand, the God of Christianity is known as YHWH (Yahweh when written with the correct vowels) which translates to ‘Self Existent One.’ 
What is particularly interesting and significant is the fact that Yahweh never appears as the name of any deity outside the bible and there is no record of any other tribe or religion which worshipped Yahweh. 
This name is unique to the Holy Scriptures and Christians. 

From this one alone, we may deduce that the name Yahweh was not borrowed from some other culture or religion. It emerged uniquely within bible revelation.
In conclusion, everybody should wonder how an idol converted in the Seventh Century into a new god could be the same God revealed thousands of years earlier to biblical prophets.
We are all aware that Islam is attempting to recruit people from other religions by generalising the name of Allah as meaning a common god.

Clive M
KWALUSENI

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