Allah = God or maybe not?

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I believe "the God" and God would be synonymous. We simply put in a capital for the "the." So other gods that are not God get the lower case.

I know it's synonymous today. I'm saying originally, it could have meant two words and not a title as it does now.

 

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Salam

I've been thinking about this issue. It maybe al is a specifier and in short means in Quran, the God that Mohammad (s) is claiming to be sent from.

It's usually said that "al lah" which put together "Allah" means "the God", and that "the" is a qualifier suggesting that there is only one.

It maybe there is no equivalent to the term "God' in Arabic. So everywhere it's rather saying "the God (I claiming to be sent from) is... ".

What made me see this potentially as a plausibility, is that there is a usage of the term "he is the God in the heavens and in the earth", there "the" is needed, as it won't make sense to say "he is God in the heavens and in the earth" but rather there is an expression to say he is a God in the heavens in a god in the earth:

Ayah az-Zukhruf (Ornaments of Gold, Luxury, The Embellishment) 43:84

Of course, that God is the Creator and there is no God but God. At the end, it doesn't change anything really, just that there might be more eloquence to read Quran in a way that suggests it's a specifier.

Why? It links up to verses such as:

"...to who you command us?" (objection by disbelievers to Mohammad (s))
"Lord of Musa and Haroun"
"Lord of this House/Family"
"Worship the God (which is) your Lord and the Lord of your forefathers Ibrahim, Ismail, and Isaac, a God that is One.."

And in hadiths and Du'as,

"And the Lord of the great light and high seat"
"And the Lord of the Prophets and sent ones"

etc..

It's a small difference, really. But it might open up doors. I don't know at the end. Will have to see and think about it more.

The way I see it is this. There is only One God, the Creator. He is not just the God of Abraham, but the God of all the world. Thus it really doesn't matter whether you call him by his Hebrew name, or Allah, or the Great Spirit. It's all the same God.

 

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The way I see it is this. There is only One God, the Creator. He is not just the God of Abraham, but the God of all the world. Thus it really doesn't matter whether you call him by his Hebrew name, or Allah, or the Great Spirit. It's all the same God.

This is true. However, I'm talking about what it meant originally in the Quran. It may not have been one word, but referring to "the God" (I'm calling to), type meaning.

 

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The way I see it is this. There is only One God, the Creator. He is not just the God of Abraham, but the God of all the world. Thus it really doesn't matter whether you call him by his Hebrew name, or Allah, or the Great Spirit. It's all the same God.

This is true. However, I'm talking about what it meant originally in the Quran. It may not have been one word, but referring to "the God" (I'm calling to) type meaning.