Karaite wrote:You, what did you give? Mere talk, but no evidence for your claims. You say that al-hayy is the equivalent, but al-hayy is a word which means the living, YHVH is not a word in itself, but contains the meaning of it, by the explanation given to Moses.
H2O wrote:The name Allah also denotes"assamad" ~ The Self Existing Eternal One(one of Allah's attributive names in the Quran) which is identical to the meaning of "Yhwh" which[Allah] also denotes in Arabic "al-hayy" ~ The Living One (Ref. Arab. Txt. 2:255) and "Yuhyi" ~ He causes life or causes to exist (Ref. Arab. Txt. 57:2) which are all COGNATESof the hebrew word Yhwh according to Christian exergesis of the word
Now what did I say again that you have such a hard time quoting? :roll: Where do you see I said al-hayy is the equivalent of YHWH. I said "assamad" is the equivalent of "Yhwh" Geesh !
Karaite wrote:If only you took the time to read, as opposed to running your mouth -- of fingers, in this case -- you would find that you have yet to answer my objections, and especially my request to provide your sources. You merely say, "oh, I am using a lexicon",
As for the meaning of the name Allah and the objection of it being derived from "ilah" I quoted Edward Lane
Karaite wrote:but you have nothing to support your linking of the YHVH, and Allah
I know I didnt this is what I said
H2O wrote:As for me I see the same names one is Hebrewicized and the other Arabicized in which both have the same foundation "Yahh" = "llah"
Does that answer your question ? I am not the only muslim that hold this view either, Nor have I ever seen a Jew or Christian say this, the closes is that Allah is synonym of Yhwh asocciating the word with "el/il"
(Arabic: “God”), the one and only God in the religion of Islam. Etymologically, the name Allah is
probably a contraction of the Arabic al-Ilah, “the God.”
The name's origin can be traced back to the earliest Semitic writings in which the word for god was Il or El, the latter being an Old Testament synonym for Yahweh. Allah is the standard Arabic word for “God” and is used by Arab Christians as well as by Muslims.
www.britannica.com
Even thus is contradicted by the Arabic Lexicons
As a matter of fact it was introduced to me by a Sudanese muslim. I looked into it and I saw the linguistical relation. My point was to you when the ization of words occure in a particular langauage they also change form and incorporate other meanings linguistically.
You mentioned some thing as to the double "hh" in "Yahh" that you doubted and I guess you didnt even know well of course you dont read Hebrew
http://www.studylight.org/lex/heb/view.cgi?number=03050
Is there anything else as to the word Yhwh that I may have said something wrong about other than the traditional opinon that the name Allah is Linguistically related to yahh ?