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As we discovered earlier, Ar-Rahman was a pagan rock idol with a House like Allah’s. The two gods vied for attention. And it’s clear that Allah was slighted in the early going. Not only hasn’t he been mentioned thus far, he wouldn’t find his way into Islam for quite some time. It’s not a very nice way to treat the Lord of the House. So why choose this name?
Muslim scholars have no viable explanation as to why Muhammad called his Lord Ar-Rahman. The best they can do is say that god has many names and that Ar-Rahman became one of their god’s attributes. But that’s nonsense. Ar-Rahman was the name of a pagan deity, one much better known—at least outside the tiny village of Mecca—than Allah. He was an idol—not an attribute. Further, all of the initial religiosity contained in the early revelations mirrors the religion of the Hanifs—the followers of Ar-Rahman.
There are serious problems associated with the prophet choosing to name his spirit Ar-Rahman. When Muhammad ultimately migrated from the shallow doctrinal pool of the Hanifs to the unimaginably deep reservoir of the Jews, he was forced to claim that his Lord was their Lord—the Jewish God Yahweh. Otherwise, why were all the characters and stories so similar? But that was problematic. Although Muhammad didn’t know it, the God of the Bible had a name—Yahweh. He didn’t know because the Jews were afraid to say it for fear of blasphemy. And since he was illiterate, Muhammad couldn’t read any of the 6,868 times YHWH, or Yahweh, was written in their Scriptures. Just like our Bible translations today, when the Hebrew word says “Yahweh,” God’s personal name, we read and say “the Lord.” But Joe is not Jim. Moses is not Muhammad. And Yahweh is neither Ar-Rahman nor Allah.
As with politicians, a blunder becomes a crisis when it is covered up and then exposed. The Islamic clerics, following their prophet’s lead, have tried to sweep the name of the Qur’an’s first god under the rug. So we must ask: if there is nothing to hide—why try so hard to hide it? Of the many Qur’an translations, all but two errantly replace Ar-Rahman’s name with an attribute like “Merciful,” the title “Lord,” the generic “God,” or with the name “Allah.” But unlike the Jews, who misinterpreted the Third Commandment, there is no excuse for changing Ar-Rahman to Lord, God, or Allah.