Jehovah Or Yahweh Is Not The Same As Allah! Beware

Havila,

Faith requires believe or acceptance of an event outside a known fact,your believe that Olorun and Jehovah is not supported by either archaeological or written evidence,you just choose to accept it as such.
White men came to Africa and sold them the idea of a Supreme who created the world as we know and the Africans said we have a name for this God,whom they reverence so much that they do not  say his name,hence the myriad of African names for the Christian God.

How can the Jews and Christians be serving the same Jehovah if the Jews don't believe that Jehovah has a son called Jesus?

Question:

What is the derivation of the word "Allah"? Some scholars say it derives from al+ illah ("the God"), but many Muslim Ulema and translators of the Qur'an (such as Maulana Muhammad Ali) disagree with this, and say that "Allah" is whole in itself, as a proper name for the Supreme Creator. But is there any philological relationship between Allah and other Semitic terms for "God" such as Eloah (Hebrew) and Alaha (Aramaic/Syriac)?

Thank you.

Peace and blessings of Allah be with you.



Answer:

Although a lot has been said about the philology of the word 'Allah', however, in my opinion, the former of the two opinions noted by you seems to be closer to the correct one. A detailed discussion compiling the opinions of various scholars of the Arabic language regarding the origin of the word can be seen in "Lisaan al-Arab" under the word "Aaliha" (a-l-h). In my opinion, 'Allah' is an Arabic word meaning 'the God'. According to the general principle of making proper nouns from common nouns in the Arabic language, the word "ilah" (common noun) has been converted to "al-ilah", which became "Allah" due to the turgidity and the slight difficulty of pronouncing the word "al-ilah".

The Qur'an, because its prime and first addressees were the Arabs, used the word "Allah" for the Supreme Being, as that had traditionally been the word used for the Supreme Being in that language. The same had been the case in the older scriptures. Those scriptures, like the Qur'an, used the particular words for the Supreme Being, which were already in vogue in those languages, to refer to the Supreme Being.

However, there have been scholars of the Arabic language who ascribe to the opinion that "Allah" is the actual name of the Supreme Being. It is indeed important to analyze the evidence that they have provided to support their opinion. Nevertheless, I feel that to give God a name is a requirement of us, humans. God, being the absolute being is in no need for a name.

3rd January 2000

Source.http://www.understanding-islam.com/related/text.asp?type=question&qid=69&sscatid=8

Please note that the writer states that the word Allah is the word used in describing a Monolithic Supreme God,my question is this
Whats the difference between the Arabs and Africans describing the Supreme God in their own languages?maybe they are speaking in tongues

Allāh is the Arabic language word referring to "God", "the Lord" and, literally according to the Qur'an, to the "God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob" in the Abrahamic religions. It does not mean "a god", but rather "the Only God", the Supreme Creator of the universe, and it is the main term for the deity in Islam.

Most Arabic-speaking Muslims, Christians and Jews (including the Yemenite Jews, several Mizraḥi communities and some Sephardim) use "Allāh" as the proper noun for "God". Allāh is found in the Qur'an and in Arabic translations of both the Tanakh and the Gospels and even in the Indonesian translations of the Bible.

Outside the Arab world, the use of "Allāh" is associated with Islam, and is used to refer specifically to the Islamic concept of God. It is the same as the Jewish conception of a single God[1][2], but differs from the Trinitarian Christian conception of God.

Islamic scholars often translate "Allāh" directly into English as "God", especially Qur'an Alone Muslims. Other scholars feel that "Allāh" should not be translated arguing that "Allāh" is the term for "the Only God" in a glorified pronunciation. This is a significant issue when translating the Qur'an

Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah

I'm no Crusader or Jihadist,you guys can fight yourselves for all  I care

Another example,amadioha AKA god of thunder worshipped by some Igbos.
Assuming mohammed had arived in Igboland,conquered us and elevated amadioha to be God above the other gods and the thunder sign his symbol,he places the thunder sign on the left and commands all to look over their left shoulders as they pray.
With time the name amadioha becomes synonymous with almighty God and the pagans converted call him so,afterall they had no other name for God.

Do you now get it?Mrmayor.
That is similar to what Mohammed did.
allah was one of the deities worshipped by his quaraish tribe,it had 3 daughters which they eventually got rid of.
The allah idol was placed in mecca and it's worshippers faced the east and prayed 5 times a day to it.

Mohammed only raised his status.
Muslims sill perform animal sacrifice at Mecca till tomorrow
Used to be done on the black stone(Kabbah) years ago just like the idol worshippers did.

Islam is glorified pagan worship.

Get the book satanic verses by Salman Rushdie and see the occultic verses they took out of the modern day Koran.[b][/b]

Do you know what Chineke means?
I happen to be Igbo born and raised.
can you translate the word and let's take it from there.

Dear babyosisi,
I think the guy is just being absolutely ridiculous now; better go do your errands!!

Dear All,
I am happy that through discussions, presentation of written papers, achaeological evidences and biblical references, we all now understand that Jehovah, the Living God Abraham, Isaac and Jacod, the Lord of Hosts and our Redeemer, IS NOT the Same as allah. Please beware, there are lot of people trying in to say He is in the spirit of interfaith understanding. It is Heresy, and blasphemy, do not subscribe to it. It is a lie from the pit of Hell.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

@Babyosisi: I just read your statement of it Muhammad (AS), were to have conquered Igboland. There is no if anymore. Its done. There are still work to do. InshaAllah, you are still one of the needed to be conquered. If you are thinking is by any force, no. It is by good conduct. You will see.

@Babyosisi: If your an exceptionally beautiful woman, I will not mind it. But to say that Igboland will not become Islamic, think about it again. It is already taking root. Maybe, in afew decades to come, but it a few decades in the history of man. Several decades ago was like yesterday. Afew decades more is really like tomorrow.

@ mrmayor


Good question Mrmayor. As we all know, there would not be a such thing as religion if it was not for Africa so we have to deal with the origins of these names given to describe the creator. Then we have to deal with why the name change and what is really behind the meaning of all these names the creator now has? I can take a good guess for many reasons in name changes of the creator but I will  not deal wit that now.

However, Africans need to be dealing with why is the white christian name now Jesus? and why is jehovahs witnesses calling him Jehovah and so fourth.  Jesus ain't no African name and jesus was originally and Ethiopian who was born up in the Ethiopian mountains in a cave. The real Jesus was only a revolutionist, but he became the son of god

na wa.
This one na tory.

One more thing (I know I promised not to post here again):

The original Arhamaic word was Ywh. Because the Europeans couldn't pronounce that, they corrupted it to Yaweh, then Jehovah came about some 150 years ago. Nowadays we have Jah. So while we are at it, we could also call Him J. . .

Sheeeesh!

@Havila


Havila, I have not been reciviing my notifications to responses in topics I contribute to. I am getting together the facts right now and I will be back to answer your questions.

And no, I am not a Rastfarian

Ndipe,

I've read the link you posted,it makes a good case why Allah and Jehovah are not the same.Please apply the same logic to the myriad of names the Christian God has in African languages.

In translated African language bibles,Jehovah or Yahweh are substituted with an African equivalent,the question is did the translators of these African bibles use a local substitute for convenience sake or is Tamuno,Chukwu,Chineke the same as  Yahweh.

There is no need trying to rubbish Sista or calling her names,you have the right to hold your views as everyone else.

,,,,,,,,haaayumyumyum [a long yawwwnnnnn], story, story, story with no head or tail, what a waste of space. From the mundane to the sublimeRabble-rousing at it's best .

Fela: I want to tell you a story
Chorus: No be story oh!!
Fela: I want to tell you a story
Chorus: No be story oh!

Yeah, they are Jews who believe in the Messiaship of Jesus Christ. They are called Jews for Jesus.

Here is another comparison between Jesus Christ and mohammed. Y

Read the link below.

http://www.carm.org/islam/Jesus_Muhammad.htm

Another question, why is the Holy Bible the bestselling book of all books in the world? Its distant rival "red book of mao' is just short of 1 billion copies in print, while the Bible has amassed more than 4 billion copies in sales. So Valuable is the Holy Bible in our life that it is referred to as the "Good Book".

well said

@Babyosisi:MI challenge you. But our ground rule is that we take the issues, one at a time. Agreed? You bring your evidence and I, mine. If Allah permits me to win this challenge, I hope that you and yours will convert to Islam.