Lulua
15-04-2002, 19:54
Assalaamu alaikum ya muslimeen.
Greetings and good day to all.
This is in retrospect in relation to the long thread dealing with the name of the Almighty God. That thread is getting quite long, and I am not yet quite caught up with all the responses. Still reading thru it.
But, in reference to it, I have located several interesting and well-documented articles in relation to the name of God, i.e. Allah.
But before I reprint any of those or offer the links, I would like to address netcurtains on his offer of debating the roots of the word, or rather name, of Allah. Just a friendly word of advice and warning, net...you should not take on a task of exploring or debating a word of a language which you yourself do not know, and of which you have little chance of understanding unless you go thru many years and hard work of studying it, and practicing it.
Allah is a word, rather a name, which is neither indicative of male nor female. That is quite abstract in Arabic, really, in which all nouns and pronouns and even verbs, in other words, all of the grammatical expressions have their own sexual tendencies. It (i.e. 'Allah') is an expression or pronoun for the One and Only God, and is typically used only for this expression. Not for any other use, and has no root. It is it's own root. If that is the correct description.
Now to progress to some of the articles in relation to this.
Lulua.
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'The word Allah in the Arabic Bible'
http://www.muslim-answers.org/a-bible.htm
'Who is Allah?'
http://www.muslim-answers.org/allah.htm
They are two excellent and completely comprehensive articles on this topic of the name of God, and perhaps will enlighten you on this matter and question.
Because the images of the Arabic script did not copy well here (I have not yet learned how to reproduce images on this program), I have provided for you merely the links, without reproducing the actual articles. Please do refer to them, and you will find, that even though you cannot read Arabic, it is explained in the beginning of the article how to recognize the Arabic script which indicates the name 'Allah'. Each time it appears, whether from Quran reference or Bible reference, it is underlined in red, for easy recognition. And the word or name itself is quite simple and short, and therefore easy to recognize, even for those who do not know how to read Arabic.
I hope sincerely that some of these articles help you to better understand.
There are also many more good articles at this site, and suggest that you look into them, and discover some more things that perhaps you did not realize about Islam or comparative religious studies.
May Allah lead us all to that which is best.
Lulua.
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Greetings and good day to all.
This is in retrospect in relation to the long thread dealing with the name of the Almighty God. That thread is getting quite long, and I am not yet quite caught up with all the responses. Still reading thru it.
But, in reference to it, I have located several interesting and well-documented articles in relation to the name of God, i.e. Allah.
But before I reprint any of those or offer the links, I would like to address netcurtains on his offer of debating the roots of the word, or rather name, of Allah. Just a friendly word of advice and warning, net...you should not take on a task of exploring or debating a word of a language which you yourself do not know, and of which you have little chance of understanding unless you go thru many years and hard work of studying it, and practicing it.
Allah is a word, rather a name, which is neither indicative of male nor female. That is quite abstract in Arabic, really, in which all nouns and pronouns and even verbs, in other words, all of the grammatical expressions have their own sexual tendencies. It (i.e. 'Allah') is an expression or pronoun for the One and Only God, and is typically used only for this expression. Not for any other use, and has no root. It is it's own root. If that is the correct description.
Now to progress to some of the articles in relation to this.
Lulua.
----------------
'The word Allah in the Arabic Bible'
http://www.muslim-answers.org/a-bible.htm
'Who is Allah?'
http://www.muslim-answers.org/allah.htm
They are two excellent and completely comprehensive articles on this topic of the name of God, and perhaps will enlighten you on this matter and question.
Because the images of the Arabic script did not copy well here (I have not yet learned how to reproduce images on this program), I have provided for you merely the links, without reproducing the actual articles. Please do refer to them, and you will find, that even though you cannot read Arabic, it is explained in the beginning of the article how to recognize the Arabic script which indicates the name 'Allah'. Each time it appears, whether from Quran reference or Bible reference, it is underlined in red, for easy recognition. And the word or name itself is quite simple and short, and therefore easy to recognize, even for those who do not know how to read Arabic.
I hope sincerely that some of these articles help you to better understand.
There are also many more good articles at this site, and suggest that you look into them, and discover some more things that perhaps you did not realize about Islam or comparative religious studies.
May Allah lead us all to that which is best.
Lulua.
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