OneGod: Lets not sidetrack and stick to the thread, i will answer all other questions once im done with the thread.
Question: Do You Agree That the Word Allah means 'the god' and was derived from the word Al-ilah?
Answer Options: Yes or No
I've provided you with evidence, from Encyclopedia's and such, but you obviously disagree ... Do you think now ... That people reading this would rather beleive me and the Encyclopedia's ... Or do you think they'll beleive you? Someone who has not provided evidence for their case? From a non-islamic source too.
You would loose a court case if you started to get all philospohical on the judge, he'd laugh at you.
Now look, this isn't a race for a gold medal, this is a search for the truth and knowledge. If you want to know where your religion comes from, fasten your seatbelt and take a ride with me.
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Further Evidence For the Blind...
Similarly, under Mohammed's tutelage, the relatively anonymous Ilah became Al-Ilah, The God, or Allâh, the Supreme Being. (Southern Arabia, Carleton S. Coon, Washington, D.C. Smithsonian, 1944, p.399)
"Ila'h" was used for any god, but "Al-Ilah," contracted to "Allah," was the name of the Supreme. The pagan poets Nabiga and Labid both repeatedly use the word "Allah" in the sense of the Supreme Deity, and the word is also used in that sense in the famous Mu'allaqat; whilst Ibn Hisham tells us that the Quraish, when performing the ceremony of Ihla'l, used the following words, "We are present in Thy service O God - Syed Ahmad, "Maroam al-Arab qabl al-Islam," pp.222, 223
ALLAH is the proper name of God among Muslims, corresponding in usage to Jehovah (Jahweh) among the Hebrews. Thus it is not to be regarded as a common noun meaning 'God' (or 'god'), and the Muslim must use another word or form if he wishes to indicate any other than his own peculiar deity. Similarly, no plural can be formed from it, and though the liberal Muslim may admit that Christians or Jews call upon Allah, he could never s Peak of the Allah of the Christians or the Allah of tire Jews. Among Christians, too, a similar usage holds. In the current Arabic Bible versions, 'God' is uniform' rendered Allah, but when 'the Lord God' occurs, it is rendered ar-rabbu-l-ilahu, the Lord, the Ilah,' where `the Ilah' is an uncontracted form, retaining its force of a common noun with the article, from which Allah has been shortened through usage - Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, James Hastings, Allah p 326
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AI-lat mentioned in the Qur'an 3. The latter word was taken to be the feminine of Allah "God". Allah itself is known to be a contraction of Al Ilah, which is the word used in all the Semitic languages (in slightly varied forms) for God, with the definite article prefixed, so that Allah is the exact equivalent of the Greek . The form which is given us by Herodotus is the uncontracted form of the feminine of the same word 4. It is possible that the Arabs of whom Herodotus speaks 5 provided their one God with a female consort, after the manner of the Semites of Babylonia, who had learnt from the Sumerians the idea that each deity must have his feminine 6 counterpart, just as we find among the Hindus
The Arabic word for 'God', Allah, is a contraction of al-ilah, which like the Greek ho theos simply means 'the god' but was commonly understood as 'the supreme god' or 'God' from Muhammad's Mecca, W. Montgomery Watt, Chapter 3: Religion In Pre-Islamic Arabia, p26-45)
Further Evidence for the Blind....
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 “Aliha” (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 pronunciation of 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 those words for the Supreme Being, which had already in vogue in those languages, to refer to the Supreme Being.
from http://www.submission.org/allah-god.html
As for the name, 'allah in Arabic is a contraction for 'al-'ilah, "the-God," and as such is cognate with Hebrew 'eloh, "god," (plural of abstraction, 'elohim, "deity"). In both languages, the common noun meaning "deity" or "god" can function in monotheistic context as a proper name for the only actual instance of such a being. (Note that neither Hebrew nor Arabic employs capital letters to make a God/god distinction.) from http://www.gracecathedral.org/enrichmen ... 1217.shtml
What does the term “ Allah ”mean?
Allah = al + ilah = God
Allah is the proper name for the Creator as found in the Qur’an.
Eloh, Dios, Dieu
from Arabic 241 - http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:_X ... 3&ie=UTF-8
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OneGod: Can you see the proof yet, or you want more information from Encyclopedia's?
Question: After All The Evidence ... Do You Agree That the Word Allah means 'the god' and was derived from the word Al-ilah?
Answer Options: Yes or No
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