THE TRINITY OF ISLAM

THE TRINITY OF ISLAM

Muhammad's followers believe:

1. in Muhammad's "Allah"

2. that Muhammad's Allah has a spirit

3. that Muhammad was "given the right of intercession":

Bukhari B7, #331 Narrated Jabir bin 'Abdullah: the Prophet said, "I have been given five things which were not given to any one else before me...... 4. I have been given the right of intercession (on the Day of Resurrection).

Even Muhammad's followers that vainly argue against the hadith by claiming that rather than a "right" Muhammad is their intercessor only at "Allah's" pleasure, are still admitting to Muhammad being a "helper" of "Allah", which belief would constitute Islam's unforgivable sin of "shirk". Actually they are even more polytheistic than they accuse of Christians, since we recognize the Father, Son and Holy Spirit to be of one essence - as one being.

1John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

Romans 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Rather than simply surrendering to Jesus Muhammad's follower's are stuck squirming before the truth, in continuing efforts to reject the prophets and witnesses of the one true God of love as revealed in His 1600 year record of Scripture, only to follow the oppositethrough Muhammad alone as revealed in his 23-year 7th-century record of imperialistic conquest, slaughter and genocide.

While the term "trinity" does not exist in the Bible - any more than the term "Bible" does - it is a convenient way to refer to the many hundreds of verses in scripture that proclaim the Father as manifest through His Son and the Holy Spirit, which occur together in the following verse:

Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Thus the Father, His Son and the Holy Spirit are what are referred to as the "trinity" or "triunity". Three parts of the ONE Godhead.

Mark 12:29 ... The Lord our God is one Lord: ... 32 ... for there is one God; and there is none other but he:   

Both Jews and Christians believe that God has a Spirit, and faithful Jews still await their promised Son, since some faithful Jews may have been blinded to the Gospel so they couldn't sin against it.

Even though Muhammad and his followers vehemently reject the "trinity", Muhammad indicated that even his own "Allah" has a spirit.

 

"Allah's" spirit (URL)

Surah 32.9: But He fashioned him in due proportion, and breathed into him something of His spirit. And He gave you (the faculties of) hearing and sight and feeling (and understanding): little thanks do ye give!

As Muhammad pirated from: Exodus 31:3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,

Surah 15.29: "When I have fashioned him (in due proportion) and breathed into him of My spirit, fall ye down in obeisance unto him."

Thus Muhammad's followers already believe in two parts of the "trinity" - God and His Spirit - which, by the same measure they apply to Christians, would make Muhammad's followers polytheistic hypocrites! Let alone that Muhammad may not have even understood what the trinity is, since he apparently thought it included "Mary" as a "god" (though it doesn't include Mary at all):

Surah 5:116 And behold! Allah will say: "O Jesus the son of mary! Didst thou say unto men, worship me and my mother as gods in derogation of Allah'?"

 

Intercession (URL)

Muhammad claimed to be an intercessor on the day of the resurrection, as confirmed in what is considered to be Islam's most divinely inspired hadith collection, second only to the Quran itself in importance (even though it wasn't penned until over 200 years after Muhammad lived):

Bukhari B7, #331 Narrated Jabir bin 'Abdullah: the Prophet said, "I have been given five things which were not given to any one else before me. 1. Allah made me victorious by awe, (by His frightening my enemies) for a distance of one month's journey. 2. The earth has been made for me (and for my followers) a place for praying and a thing to perform Tayammum, therefore anyone of my followers can pray wherever the time of a prayer is due. 3. the booty has been made Halal (lawful) for me yet it was not lawful for anyone else before me. 4. I have been given the right of intercession (on the Day of Resurrection). 5. Every Prophet used to be sent to his nation only but I have been sent to all mankind.

Yet the Bible informs us that Jesus is the one mediator between God and men:

1Timothy 2:5 For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

That all judgment is committed unto the very Son of God that Muhammad blasphemed:

John 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:

That Jesus is the intercessor for all mankind, just as was prophesied in the Old Testament:

Isaiah 53:12 .....because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

As confirmed in the New Testament:

Hebrews 7:24 But this [man], because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. 25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

Yet Muhammad claimed that he was "given the right of intercession" - right after excusing away his theft of the property of others and sexually enslaving women as "lawful" "booty", and typically, with his Muhammad-serving god giving Muhammad license to do so:

Bukhari B7, #331 ..... 3. the booty has been made Halal (lawful) for me yet it was not lawful for anyone else before me. 4. I have been given the right of intercession (on the Day of Resurrection).

Confirmed again in what is considered by Muslims to be the second most inspired hadith collection:

Sahih Muslim B30, #5655: Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: I shall be pre-eminent amongst the descendants of Adam on the Day of Resurrection and I will be the first intercessor and the first whose intercession will be accepted (by Allah).

Thus Muhammad completing a description of his parallel but blasphemous trinity, consisting of Muhammad's "Allah", and Muhammad's "Allah's" spirit - which is actually the spirit of antichrist - and Muhammad's "Allah's" self-proclaimed intercessor, Muhammad.

This while Muhammad's followers must reject the blood of the sacrifice of the sinless Messiah - the one mediator, the spotless Passover  Lamb of God, the intercessor for all who have faith in His shed blood - even while they are taught that the first drop of blood shed by the average-Joe sinful Muslim "martyr"/murderer, qualifies him to make intercession for seventy of his family members:

From many Islamic sites, including Islam Today: "In the hadîth, the Prophet (peace be upon him) says: “The martyr can intercede for seventy members of his family.”

So Muhammad's followers believe in the concept of intercession, and atonement for sin through shed blood, even as they are compelled to reject the shed blood of the sacrifice of the Lamb of God on the cross - the whole subject of the Gospel.

Which intercessor does your eternity depend on, the loving and sinless Messiah, the intercessor for all mankind that was prophesied in the old covenant and fulfilled in the new covenant? The intercessor of the "people of the book" that Muhammad ordered up his Allah's curse on. Or is your intercessor Muhammad alone, whose sinful nature is revealed through Islam's own books? Do you also believe an intercessor could be some maniacal suicidal murderer who blew himself up among innocent people? Or perhaps someone more like those so-called "martyrs" of Muhammad's day, who were inadvertently killed while engaged in the act of murdering peaceful innocents they vanquished, through imperialistic conquest?

To deny that Christians are on the right path is even to reject the Quran, that is of course, until one throws out the early Mecca suras that eventually became a testament against Muhammad like:

Sura 5:47 Let the people of the Gospel judge by what Allah hath revealed therein.

Sura 5:68 Say: "O People of the Book! ye have no ground to stand upon unless ye stand fast by the Law, the Gospel, and all the revelation that has come to you from your Lord." 

 

Which Trinity For Eternity? (URL)

God gave us all the free will to choose between right and wrong, good and evil, and reality and fantasy, so how we spend our eternal life depends on the choices we makein this life. Those choices in turn, are arrived at through a love of truth, or the absence thereof.

Which "trinity" does your eternal life depend on? That of the one true God of love of the Jews and Christians as He revealed Himself manifest in person and/or through His Spirit, to all of His prophets and witnesses of His 1600 year record of revelation to mankind, that His people have followed through two covenants for 3500 years. With our sinless Messiah the intercessor as prophesied and revealed through a record that is well supported by history, archaeology and fulfilled prophecy, that is consistent with matter of fact physical geography, and can even be confirmed mathematically.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Or does your eternal life depend on an imitation trinity with Muhammad's alter-ego "Allah" as a terrorizer of YHWH's people, that inspired a cruel, violent, imperialistic, mass-murdering, child violating, counter-"messenger" of an anti-religion, in Muhammad's "Allah's" spirit of antichrist, with Muhammad as the self-proclaimed intercessor? A scripture-contrary, counter-religion with a pre-4th century AD history-devoid and archaeology-absent, reality-rejecting, geographically-impossible so-called "tradition", that masquerades as thousands of years of pre-4th century history, that was all created and put to the pen in the 7th to 10th centuries AD without reference to any actual historical record that preceded the 5th century AD. A counter-YHWH anti-religion with a carnal tradition of prostrating toward the Quraish pagan's black stone idol and Kaaba in Mecca five times a day - located 1200 kilometers away from the Holy Land of the prophets and patriarchs - while praying in the "vain repetitions as the heathen do", in the names of the Arabian pagan's deity "Allah" and his "messenger" Muhammad. Even compelled to perform adopted, adapted and thinly veneered pagan Arabian moon, sun, star and jinn-devil worship rituals.

More simply put, one must choose between the trinity as revealed through the scriptures of the one true God of Jews and Christians who is:

YHWH the Father, His intercessor Yeshua, and the Holy Spirit

Or the counterfeit trinity of the enemy of the one true God of the scriptures, described by Muhammad alone as the:

Arabian deity "Allah", his self-proclaimed intercessor Muhammad, and the spirit of antichrist

"no god but Allah?" Isn't "Allah" another word for "God?"

Q: "no god but Allah?" Isn't "Allah" another word for "God?" A: The transliterated phrase from Arabic reads, "La ilaha illAllah." A word for word translation into English would read: La [no] ilaha [god] ill [except or but] Allah [Allah]. The important thing to note is that the word "Allah" is a name and is not the word for god. If "Allah" were the word for god, then the phrase would read, "there is no allah but allah. Clearly it does not. The Qur'an itself claims that Allah is the personal name of the Islamic god: (Qur'an 17:110) "Say, Call Him Allah or call Him Ar-Rahman; whatever the name you call Him, all His names are beautiful." If "Allah" were the word for god, then Islam's god is nameless. There is also no evidence that the word "Allah" is a contraction of the words "al ilah," which means, "the god." If it were, then again, the phrase would read, "there is no allah but allah." As part of the first "Pillar of Islam," this issue is critical as Islam claims that the God of the Bible (whose name is Yahweh) and Allah are one in the same and that we all, therefore, worship the same god. Excerpts from Prophet of Doom From chapter 6, "Heart of Darkness" Then one day, sun boring down on the treeless town, Muttalib was struggling to clear the well of Zamzam when: Ishaq:66/Tabari VI:2 "It is alleged, and Allah only knows the truth, that Abdul Muttalib encountered opposition when he was digging Zamzam. He vowed that if given ten sons, to make his labor less arduous and to protect him, he would sacrifice one of them to Allah at the Ka'aba." Bad move, because eventually he had ten sons. So, foolishly faithful to the rocks, he tossed divining arrows at Hubal's feet to determine which son should die. Ishaq:67 "They used to conduct their affairs according to the decisions of the arrows." His youngest lost. The boy's name was Abd-Allah, or Slave-to-Allah. Now why would someone name a kid "Slave-to-Allah" a generation before Islam's prophet claimed Allah was the creator-god of the universe? The answer is as embarrassing as any in the annals of religious lore. For all Muhammad really did was promote one of the existing Meccan idols, the moon god Allah, above Hubal, Al-Lat, Manat, Al-Uzza, and hundreds of others. On this day Allah had to compete for adoration, as Muttalib's tossing arrows at Hubal's feet attests. A Bukhari Hadith confirms the godly congestion: Bukhari:V5B59N583 "When the Prophet entered Mecca on the day of the Conquest, there were 360 idols around the Ka'aba. The Prophet started striking them with a stick." Islamic scholar Montgomery Watt, one of the English translators of Tabari, adds an interesting footnote. He says, "The name [not word] Allah has throughout been [wrongly] translated as 'God.' It should be kept in mind, however, that in the pre-Islamic period it does not necessarily mean "God" in a monotheistic sense. It is known from the Qur'an (29:61 and 39:38) that many pre-Islamic Arabs believed in Allah as a god who was superior to the other gods whom they also recognized." Allah was a name, much like the Judeo-Christian "Yahweh." But Muslims desperately needed the world to see it otherwise. For if Allah was a proper name - not a word - their religion was a fraud. The creator of the universe can't be a pagan god, no matter how big a stick Muhammad swung. And Allah can't be Yahweh any more than I can be George Washington. Arabic, like Hebrew before it, is a Semitic language. In Hebrew, "el," was the word for god - lower case "g" - as in idols. Elohiym was used with the article to convey "God" with a capital "G." In Arabic, "el" became "il." Then, over time, Arabs derived a secondary word for god, "ilah." With "al" being the Arabic word for "the," Muslims would have us believe that "Allah" is a contraction of "al" and "ilah." But the first pillar of Islam contradicts this claim when it says: "There is no ilah but Allah." If "Allah" were the Arabic word for god it would have been written: "There is no allah but Allah. Moreover, the Qur'an itself uses "Ilah" when Allah claims to be "the God of Abraham" (Qur'an 2:132). And that ends the debate because the only way Muslims can claim Allah, not Ilah, is the Arabic word for "God" is for the Qur'an to be errant or for its author to be either ignorant or deceitful. Further, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of Islamic traditions like the one we just reviewed that confirm that Allah was the name of a well-known pagan deity (at least in Mecca). Their own scriptures profess that Allah had an ignominious rule as a Meccan rock idol centuries before he was transformed from god to God, from an ilah to Allah. All of which serves to destroy the most essential Islamic myth: "We all worship the same God." From chapter 14, "The Anti-Semite" Since this is supposed to be a religion, let's review the first surah revealed in Medina to find a more inspired reason. The 2nd surah, the Qur'an's longest, is really its first surah, as the 1st is "The Prologue," a sixty-word invocation. Its speaker isn't Allah. The 2nd surah, which was the ninetieth received, is called "The Cow" in reference to the golden calf cast by the Israelites during their Exodus nearly 2,000 years before Islam was invented. Muslim scholars acknowledge that the surah was handed down in pieces over the course of a decade. Maududi, our Qur'anic scholar says: "'The Cow' has been so named from the story of the golden calf associated with Moses. It has not, however, been used as a title to indicate the subject of the surah. It will, therefore, be as wrong to translate the name Al-Baqarah into 'The Co.' as to translate any English name, say Baker, Rice, or Wolf into their equivalents in other languages or vice versa, because this would imply that the surah dealt with the subject of "The Cow.'" This argument is as irrational as it is telling. It goes to the very heart of Muhammad's deception. Names and words are different things. We can and should translate the word for the profession of baker but never the name of a person named Baker. Baqarah is the Arabic word for cow. It is not the name of a cow. Similarly, "il" and "ilah" are Arabic words for god, not the names of gods. Words for things must always be translated, while the personal names of deities and people should never be. Ar-Rahman, Allah, and Yahweh are the personal names of very different gods. Anyone who replaces the name "Allah" with the word "God" is guilty of deceiving their audience and of contradicting the Qur'an. Maududi goes on to explain: "The greater part of Al-Baqarah was revealed during the first two years of the Prophet's life at Medina. Some of it was revealed at a later period and has been included in this surah because its contents are closely related to those dealt with in this surah. For instance, the verses prohibiting interest were revealed during the last period of the Prophet's life. For the same reason, the last verses of this surah which were revealed in Mecca before the migration of the Prophet." This argument is inconsistent with the Qur'an as a whole. If it were god's plan to have like subjects grouped together, the never-ending argument and related depictions of hellish torments wouldn't be randomly strewn throughout the book. All things related to Moses would be brought together, not disseminated in two-dozen surahs. Further, the last verses are unrelated to the business discussion preceding them. They are therefore out of context and chronology. A perfect book cannot by definition be disordered. Yet there is a larger problem. This surah contains the verse on abrogation which says: "Whenever We cancel a message or throw it into oblivion, We replace it with a better one." Without dismembering the entire Qur'an so that every line follows the revelation that immediately preceded it, the "cancel and replace" concept is futile. How is anyone to know which verses Allah "threw into oblivion?" Without context and chronology, the "cancel and replace" verse renders the entire Qur'an irrelevant. If one line encourages slavery and another condones it, which is to be believed? If one verse says that infidels are to be taxed to death and others order them put to death, what are Muslims to do? The answer is obvious, but apparently not to Muslims (or those in our statehouses, media, and pulpits) who coddle Islam. A "god" who changes his mind repeatedly over a score of years and needs a verse to deal with his contradictions cannot be "God." A religion devoted to a false spirit isn't worth protecting - especially when it motivates men to murder. Maududi wasn't finished incriminating his religion. "At Mecca the Qur'an generally addressed the Quraysh who were ignorant of Islam. At Medina it was concerned with the Jews who were acquainted with the unity of Allah, Prophethood, Revelation, the Hereafter and angels. They also professed to believe in the law which was revealed by Allah to their Prophet Moses, and in principle, their way was the same Islam that was being taught by Prophet Muhammad." Like all things Islam, the truth has been inverted. The reason both Jews and Muslims believed in prophets, revelation, and angels was because Muhammad stole these concepts, words, and names from them. Further, Jews believed in the oneness of Yahweh - not in some pathetic pagan rock idol named Allah. They knew that the dark spirit of the Qur'an was Lucifer. It's obvious to anyone familiar with the Bible. Yahweh used his name 6,868 times in his scriptures. In addition, every seventieth Hebrew letter in the Torah's central book - Leviticus - forms YHWH, bringing the grand total to a perfect 7,000. Allah's name was never mentioned. The closest Hebrew word means "oak tree." The Jews had a word for god, too. It was "el," and they used it when describing pagan idols like the Islamic deity. As for "the Jewish way" being "the same Islam," that's donkey dung. Jewish prophets predicted the future and condemned immoral behavior. The Islamic prophet authorized immoral behavior and condemned the future. They are opposites. Torah means "instructions" not "laws," but either way those guidelines were summarized in the Ten Commandments. Muhammad declared war on all of them, as did his god. They could not have been chiseled in stone by the rock idol who established a false doctrine promoting theft and murder. I would like to give Maududi another chance, since this is the fulcrum surah of the Qur'an. More changed than just the Qiblah. He wrote, "The Jews had strayed away from Islam during the centuries of degeneration and had adopted many un-Islamic creeds, rites, and customs of which there was no mention and for which there was no sanction in the Torah. Not only this: they had tampered with the Torah by inserting their own explanations and interpretations into its text. They had distorted even that part of the Word of God which had remained intact in their Scriptures and taken out of it the real spirit of true religion and were now clinging to a lifeless frame of rituals." This is the very heart of the matter. It is the Qur'an's justification, its sole tenuous hope of authenticity. It is the reason for the change in Qiblah, and the impetus behind Islamic hatred and Muslim militancy. If Islam were not so ruthless, so fixated upon submission for the benefit of cleric and king, this assertion would have killed it. The claim that the Torah was inspired by Allah and its characters were Muslims requires it to have been corrupted beyond recognition. The Septuagint and the Dead Sea Scrolls prove beyond any doubt that tampering did not occur. Since archeology has proven that the Jews did not distort the Torah, the Qur'an is a lie. Muhammad deceived men on behalf of a god no bigger than the rock he occupied. However, it was not all as simple as that. The dark spirit that inspired Muhammad to make these preposterous claims was in a predicament himself. He (like his prophet) was covetous, so Lucifer wanted what belonged to Yahweh: the Jews and their Torah. It is no coincidence that a race representing a tiny fraction of one percent of the world's population became the victim of Islam's wrath. It should be no surprise that modern history's most famous occultist, Adolf Hitler, also wrapped himself in Bible symbols and picked the same enemy. They were both possessed by the same spirit. I dedicated the "Bad Boys" chapter in Tea With Terrorists to exposing the similarities between these men and their doctrines. I encourage you to read it if you haven't already. From chapter 23, "Jihad" The next verse confirms what the Islamic clerics deny and what the American media ignores. Allah is the name of the Islamic god - it was never the Arabic word for "God." Qur'an 5.4 "Pronounce the Name of Allah: and fear Allah; for Allah is swift in reckoning." Every time you read the word "God" in an Associated Press article emanating from the Islamic world, know that they are unwittingly propagating this deception. Muslims have a perfectly good word for "god" and they use it with great regularity. They say, "There is no ilah but Allah, and Muhammad is His Messenger." This deception is at the very core of Islam, and thus of Islamic terror. If Allah isn't Yahweh, the Qur'an is rubbish - it's a horrid job of plagiarizing, nothing more. If Allah isn't Yahweh, Muhammad was speaking on his own behalf - and for his own benefit - he could not have been among the line of Biblical prophets. If Allah isn't Yahweh, the god of Islam is fictitious - an impotent mirage. But knowing that most people are blissfully ignorant - unwilling to read or think for themselves - they'll never know that Allah is the inverse of Yahweh. So the ruse works. Excerpts from the Feedback Pages Also, saying Allah lied is the lowest a human being can get. Haven't you known that Allah is the God of all with different names for many people? again you show no respect. (AB) According to the Qur'an, Allah claims to have led men astray, to have deceived men, to have deployed plots and schemes, to have dissolved his vows. That means he lied. Once again, you need to read your own scriptures. You'll find a hundred or more confirmations of this under the Deception heading in the Quotes appendix. Allah isn't God, much less the God of all different people. Yahweh is God. Allah was a rock idol in Mecca--one of several hundred. Allah wasn't even Muhammad's first god--that was Ar-Rahman--the Hanif rock idol. The character attributed to Allah by Muhammad in the Qur'an is a perfect match for the character attributed to Muhammad in the Hadith. In other words, Muhammad made Allah in his own image. And that image is evil. The character attributed to Allah in the Qur'an is a perfect match for the character attributed to Satan in the Bible. Muhammad was accused countless times of being demon possessed. Several times he even admitted to being possessed. And that explains why Muhammad=Allah=Satan. If you'll read the chronological presentation of the Islamic scriptures in Prophet of Doom, you'll find that the evidence is undeniable. Sorry to be the bearer of such bad news. For proof read the Islamic passages under the Demons heading in the Quotes appendix. (Craig) First and foremost I have to say may God have mercy on your soul. Secondly I would like to say Allah is the Arabic word for God. (YR) If Allah is the Arabic word for God then Allah is a liar and that would disqualify him for the position of God. There are scores of Qur'an verses that either say that Allah is the name of Muhammad's god or that Ilah is the Arabic word for God. Here are a few for your edification: Qur'an 3:62 "This is the true account, the true explanation: There is no Ilah (God) except Allah." Qur'an 52:43 "Have they an ilah (god) other than Allah? [An odd question to ask the Meccans since their primary deity was Allah.]" Qur'an 5:4 "Pronounce the Name of Allah: and fear Allah; for Allah is swift in reckoning." Qur'an 21:107 "Say: (Muhammad) 'It is revealed to me that your Ilah (God) is only one Ilah (God). Will you submit to His Will? But if they (disbelievers, Christians, and Jews) turn away (from Islam) say: 'I give notice (of war) to be known to all. But I know not whether the (torment which you are) promised and threatened is nigh or far." Qur'an 114:1 "Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of men and jinn [demons], the King of men and jinn, the Ilah (God) of men and jinn." Qur'an 20:8 "Allah! There is no Ilah (God) save Him. His are the most beautiful Names. To Him belong the most beautiful attributes." Qur'an 20:14 "Verily, I am Allah. No Ilah (God) may be worshiped but I. So serve you Me, and perform regular prostration prayer for My praise. Verily the Hour is coming. I am almost hiding it from Myself." Qur'an 20:96 "Now look at your ilah (god), of whom you have become devoted. We will (burn) it and scatter it in the sea! But your Ilah (God) is Allah: there is no ilah (god) but He. Thus do We relate to you some stories of what happened before from Our own Remembrance." Qur'an 2:132 "And this was the legacy that Abraham left to his sons by Yah'qub (Jacob); 'Oh my sons! Allah has chosen the Faith for you - the true religion; then die not except in the faith of Islam as Muslims. He said to his sons: 'What will you worship after me?' They said: 'We shall worship your Ilah (God), the Ilah (God) of your fathers, of Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac, the one Ilah (God): To Him we submit in Islam.'" Ishaq:324 "He said, Fight them so that there is no more rebellion, and religion, all of it, is for Allah only. Allah must have no rivals." Qur'an 8:45 "O believers! When you meet an army, be firm, and think of Allah's Name much; that you may prosper." Qur'an 73:8 "But keep in remembrance the name of your Lord and devote yourself to Him whole-heartedly. Lord of the East and West: there is no Ilah (God) but He." Qur'an 87:1 "Glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most High, Who creates, then proportions, Who has measured; and then guided." Qur'an 87:14 "He indeed shall be successful who purifies himself, and magnifies the Name of his Lord and prays." [Allahu Akbar!] Qur'an 59:22 "Allah is He, no other Ilah (God) may be worshiped; Who knows both secret and open; He, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. He is Allah, Whom there is no other Ilah (God); the Sovereign, the Holy One, the Source of Security, the Guardian of Faith, the Majestic, the Irresistible, the Superb, the Compeller: Glory to Allah! He is Allah, the Creator, the Evolver, the Bestower of Forms (or Colors). To Him belong the Best Names: whatever is in the heavens and on earth declares His Praises and Glory: and He is the Mighty, the Wise." Ishaq:162 "Abu Jahl met the Apostle and said, 'By Allah, Muhammad, you will either stop cursing our gods or we will curse the god you serve.' So the Qur'an verse was revealed, 'Do not insult those [gods] to whom they pray lest they curse God wrongfully through lack of knowledge.' [Qur'an 6:108] I have been told that the Apostle then refrained from cursing their gods, and began to call them to Allah [rather than Ar-Rahman]." So, either you are wrong, Allah is wrong, or you both are wrong. Allah is a name; Ilah is a word. (Craig) Of course IIah is a word, so is God. How else would we explain God's name in word form? (YR) Ilah is a word. God is a word. Ilah is the Arabic word for God, which is the very point I was making. Allah is not a word just as Yahweh is not a word. They are names. And names should never be translated. For example, we can and should translate the word for the profession of baker, but we would be wrong to translate Mr. Baker's name. This is important since Muhammad's second Ilah, or God, was named Allah. He switched from the generic title Lord to the name Ar-Rahman, a Yemenite Hanif idol, after the 20th surah chronologically. Ar-Rachman became Allah after the Satanic Verses. In fact the last surah "revealed" prior to the Satanic Verses is named "Ar-Rahman." Bobbie is not Craig. Allah is not Yahweh. It's as simple as that. (Craig)

THE NAME "ALLAH"

The first pillar of Islam and the "Shahada" require that Muhammad's followers testify to such as: "There is no ilah but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah".

As the home page makes abundantly clear, it would be pure blasphemy for a Christian to testify that Muhammad was a "messenger" of our God YHWH, since he proclaimed the exact opposite of the whole subject of the Gospel. Additionally, that first pillar of Islam should be more than sufficient to expose the dissimulation of those who obfuscate about "Allah" being a proper name by suggesting it is just another term for God or the God, since the term "ilah" or "al-ilah" would be used for those purposes. If you disagree please click here for more on the subject.

"Allah" is the proper name of Muhammad's deity, just as it was also the proper name of one of the deities that the Arabian pagans worshipped, before Muhammad was ever born. This is even evidenced in Muhammad's own grandfather's name which was "Abdullah" meaning that he was a slave of the Arabian pagan deity named "Allah".

In spite of Arabic language Bibles egregiously assigning Yahweh the proper name"Allah" (at least one of which doesn't blaspheme God's name), anyone who has spent even a few moments investigating the proper name of the one true God of the scriptures of the Jews and Christians, has learned that His name is found in the tetragrammaton YHWH or YHVH, as it occurs nearly 7,000 times in the Hebrew Bible and in paleo-Hebrew inscription that dates to as early as the 9th century BC. "YHWH", or "Yahweh" as it has come to be pronounced, is the one true God's proper name. YHWH means "the existent one" and "creator", or as the King James version translates it, "I AM":

Exodus 3:13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? 14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

Rendering God's name in English as "I AM"! What a wonderful name for our omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent God, that has always been and will always be! God IS!

Unfortunately, after their temple burned down, Jews began a later tradition of believing that God's name was too sacred to say or write. To the amazing extent that today some even hyphenate the term "G-d". Substitute terms for God were exchanged in scripture to replace the name YHWH, with terms such as "Adonai" (meaning my Lord) and "Elohim" which is used in scripture to refer to YHWH or to other gods such as pagan deities. But God's name has not been, nor will it ever be, changed.

Perhaps obscuring the name of God was the work of the enemy, since we can only wonder how differently the last 1400 years might have gone if the proper name Yahweh had been used exclusively by Jews and particularly for Arabic speaking Christians, thereby highlighting the stark contrast between YHWH and the proper name of the Arabian pagan's deity "Allah"? There are "Sacred Name Bibles" that restore God's name "Yahweh" as well as the Messiah's name "Yeshua" (which means Yahweh saves, delivers or rescues), to their rightful places in scripture.

Things would seem to be in such a degenerated state of affairs during this prophesied apostasy, that the Roman Church in Malaysia is actually fighting with Muslims, over being able to continue to use the name "Allah"! Churches are even being burned over this entirely unnecessary - indeed completely wrongheaded from a Christian perspective - dispute. What a wonderful opportunity this would have otherwise presented to advance the name of the one true God of the scriptures Yahweh, further highlighting the stark contrast that exists between the God of the Jews and Christians and Muhammad and the Arabian pagan's deity "Allah", since Muhammad's "Allah" proclaimed the exact opposite of the whole subject of the Gospel while blaspheming the Son of God. Just as prophesied of the "beast" as is explored further down the page.

 

The Etymology of the Name "Allah" (URL)

Quoting from first language Arabic Dr. Rafat Amari's 20-year full-time study of Islam and Arabian history and archaeology, "Islam: In Light of History", on the etymology of the name "Allah":

"We know that the term 'Allah,' as the god of the moon, was derived from the Thamud god of the moon. His name was Hilal, or Hlal, which means 'crescent.' Later, the name 'Hilal' became Hilah, as we see in many inscriptions which were found in Arabia. In the Thamud inscriptions he is found as H-ilah, Ha-ilah and H-alah. We see the same development for 'Hilah,' the moon deity in Yemen, where Almaqah is called 'Halal,' or 'Hilal, the Crescent.'

Safaitic tribes were nomads wandering in many parts of Arabia, especially in the north. The god of the moon was found in their inscriptions as 'H-lah.' in the Safaitic inscriptions, the letter 'H' pronounced as 'Ha' is the definite article, 'the.' It corresponds to the Arabic, 'Al.' This led the Arabians to call him 'Al-lah.'"

From nabataea.net: "Herodotus, in the fifth century BC identified two deities worshiped among the Arabs, as a fertility god called Orotalt (perhaps Ruda, as identified by Macdonald in North Arabian in the First Millennium BC, 1360), and a sky goddess know as Allat. (Herodotus III,3.) Later Allat became referred to in the masculine form as Allah)"

So it should not be a surprise to learn that prior to Muhammad some Mandaean and/or Harranian, Sabians, "fasted" by day during the month that began and ended with the appearance of the crescent moon in the sky. "Ramadan was originally an annual ritual performed at the city of Harran." Please click here for "Ramadan and its Roots" by Dr. Rafat Amari for more on this ritual Muhammad adopted.

Also noteworthy is that some pre-Muhammad Sabian sects performed ablution before prayer, recited repetitive prayers five times a day, prostrated while doing so, and wore long white robes.

Indeed Muhammad and his cousins were so involved in the Sabians, prior to Muhammad's starting Islam, that the locals sometimes referred to Muhammad simply as "the Sabian". He even mentions the Sabians right alongside Christians in the Quran, as if there were some sort of equivalence between Christianity, and Arabian pagan worship.

 

Islamic Blasphemy Against YHWH (URL)

Revelation 13:6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

If Arabic speaking Jews and Christians, do so through ignorance, it may be excused:

Romans 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

However if done in full knowledge and understanding that may perhaps be a different matter. If your intent is to use the name as a way of saying "the God", though incorrect, it may help. Why not use the term "al-ilah" toward that goal if that's your intent? If you use it as the proper name for God with full intent, while we can't know God's judgments, that may be a bad idea. As mentioned earlier there is at least one Arabic language Bible that doesn't blaspheme YHWH's name.

For more on Islamic blasphemy against the one true God of the scriptures of the Jews and Christians please see the dedicated section at this link.

 

For the Sake of God's Holy Name - Yahweh (URL)

In the prior section we explored prophecy that indicated the "beast" would blaspheme the holy name, of the one great God of the scriptures of Jews and Christians, Yahweh. Many centuries before the Christian era the prophet Ezekiel indicated that Jews would be restored to their land, and explained why they would:

Ezekiel 36:18 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols [wherewith] they had polluted it: 19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them. 20 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These [are] the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land. 21 But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went. 22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not [this] for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. 23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I [am] the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. 24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do [them]. 28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

That verse indicates that the Lord's name was profaned throughout the land by those that were saying "These [are] the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land." Probably not unlike people such as Muhammad, as he might have said to the Jews of Medina, before he slaughtered them. Indeed with those Jews being so far from their covenant land it wouldn't be hard to imagine that it could have been part of the "poetry" that Muhammad told Hassan to "abuse" them with:

Tabari VIII:28 "When the Messenger approached the Jews, he said, 'You brothers of apes! Allah shamed you and cursed you.'"

Bukhari:V5 B59 #449 "On the day of the Qurayza siege, Allah's Apostle said to Hassan, 'Abuse them with your poems, for Gabriel is with you.'"

The names of our great God Yahweh and His Son Yeshua were heard far and wide, throughout the land, prior to Muhammad:

But then in the 7th and 8th centuries the darkness of Muhammad's anti-religion fell upon the land, through imperialistic conquest and subjugation of Yahweh's people, while exchanging God's holy name with the name of the Arabian pagan's deity "Allah".

Then in the early 19th century, after 1200 years of Islam had rendered Israel a denuded, deforested, depopulated, desertified, utterly desolate wasteland, Jews began to be restored to their covenant land. Just as was anticipated by so many Christians, through Bible prophecy, centuries before that restoration ever began to take place. The name of our great God Yahweh was restored, along with His people, at least throughout that tiny little strip of their covenant land that we know as Israel.

Jews were restored to sovereign rule over their land in 1948 and reign over their city of Jerusalem in 1967, just as prophesied by Daniel right to the year, through two parallel math problems that span 2500 years. For more on the stunning fulfillment of prophecy, of the restoration of Jews to their land - that should cause even "the heathen shall know that I [am] the LORD" - please visit our companion site "ZionismChristian.com"