Category: Allah (God)

  • Allah is the ​“Rim­mon” of Syr­ia ? A Reply to Chris­t­ian Mendacity

    Allah is the Rim­mon” of Syr­ia ? A Reply to Chris­t­ian Mendacity

    A missionary under the Yahoo! Groups nome de plume of "Patriot Tim" has made an allegation in a discussion group by stating that the Syrian pagan idol RIMMON () as mentioned in 2 Kings 5:18 is the same Deity as for the Muslims, who sometimes call upon God as ar-rahman (The Merciful).

  • Maa­lik vs Mol­e­ch : The Mis­sion­ary Name-Game

    Among the litany of crimes Chris­tians accuse Mus­lims of com­mit­ting, the wor­ship of so-called ​“pagan” deities is a major one. There is the claim that Allah is a ​“moon god”, that ar-Rah­man refers to the Syr­i­an ​“Rim­mon” par­o­died in the Bible, and the list goes on. Yet anoth­er of God’s names has come under the sharp…

  • Robert Morey’s Decep­tive Methods

    Robert Morey’s Decep­tive Methods

    Adapt­ed from Com­mon Ques­tions Peo­ple Ask About Islam by Shab­bir Ally  Ques­tion 7 : Dr. Robert Morey proves in his book that Allah is the name of the moon god wor­shipped in Ara­bia before Islam. Is he right ? Answer : The book you refer to is enti­tled The Islam­ic Inva­sion : Con­fronting the World’s Fastest Grow­ing Reli­gion. The author, Dr. Robert…

  • The Word ​“Elo­him” in the Hebrew Quran

    The Word Elo­him” in the Hebrew Quran

    Often the mis­sion­ar­ies try to argue that the name for God is Yah­weh, and that since the word (Allah) is not ety­mo­log­i­cal­ly relat­ed to this name, it there­fore fol­lows that Mus­lims wor­ship a dif­fer­ent deity. How­ev­er, what they fail to recog­nise is that it is ety­mo­log­i­cal­ly accept­ed that the root word of (Elo­him) which is eloh,…

  • Is Yah­weh ​“Divine Name” For God ?

    Is Yah­weh Divine Name” For God ?

    When Mus­lims con­front the Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ar­ies with the ety­mo­log­i­cal evi­dence that the word Allah is indeed relat­ed to the word Elo­him, the mis­sion­ar­ies are very quick to point out that (YHWH) is the ​“Divine Name” for The Deity that they wor­ship and that since Mus­lims are not taught about this ​“Divine Name” of God, it…

  • The Con­cept of Tawhid in Islam

    The Con­cept of Tawhid in Islam

    Mean­ing of Tawhid The word Tawhid comes from the verb wah­had which lit­er­al­ly means to unite. In Islam­ic ter­mi­nol­o­gy, it means to real­ize and main­tain the uni­ty of Allah in one’s actions (inward­ly and out­ward­ly). The actu­al word tawhid does not occur in the Qur’an or Sun­nah though the present tense of the verb (from…