Why Doesn't The Qur'an Call God Yhwh?

[DawudTalut]

Why is Jesus/Yeshua called Isa in Islam?

Was that his 'real' name? Or is just accepted as an Arabisation rather than what he was called during his life?

Peace be on you.
Yeshua -- > Yesu ---> Esa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isa_(name)

 

[DawudTalut]

Yeah and the names of the angels in Islam also dont make sense. The angel Jibreel has "el" in the end which refers to the god "El" or "Elohim" (plural) of the Hebrew bible. There many such angels who end with an "el or il" at the end. Mikael, Azrael, Israfil etc. If the muslim God is Allah why do his creature bear the reference to Elohim?

Peace be on you.
About meaning of Angel Gibrael:
CH2 V98, Note 104

https://www.alislam.org/quran/tafseer/?page=153&region=E1&CR=EN,E2&CR=EN,E2

 

[mahasn ebn sawresho]

Peace be on you.
Yeshua -- > Yesu ---> Esa

Syriac and Assyrian or Aramaic was the common language in Mesopotamia, Syria, and was a monk Bahira Nsore Assyrian
It is learned that Muhammad Koran in conjunction with Ibn Nawfal
For this Aissa word is a translation of the word Esha
And still the word Esha and Esho means Christ
I am in my name Soraicho Forum

 

[mahasn ebn sawresho]

Peace be on you.
About meaning of Angel Gibrael:

Gabriel Hebrew word the second syllable of it is eel

 

[mahasn ebn sawresho]

Koran Starter transfer of the previous books and translate some of the words
Some names and transfer them without translation
Word Ataiwra
The word Mawon
The word paradise
Even the word Koran is not an Arab
For the word of the Koran is a translation of the word Aramaic, Syriac, Chaldean and Assyrian
Keriona
The sense of readingIf looked at all the Arabic language sources you will not know the meaning of the word Koran
But when he returns to the root of the word from the dominant languages by a thousand and four hundred years you will know that the source of Laramie and the Chaldean and Assyrian

 

[raph]

I don't think that YHWH has a meaning in arabic so this name would be pointless in an arabic quran. Does it have a meaning?

The meaning of YHWH is not really clear is it? I found this.

So, what is God’s Name, and what does it mean? The most likely choice for how the tetragrammaton was pronounced is “YAH-way,” “YAH-weh,” or something similar. The name Yahweh refers to God’s self-existence.Yahweh is linked to how God described Himself in Exodus 3:14, “God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: “I AM has sent me to you.”’” God’s name is a reflection of His being. God is the only self-existent or self-sufficient Being. Only God has life in and of Himself. That is the essential meaning of the tetragrammaton, YHWH.

And here are some names of God from the Quran:

Al Qayyum - the self subsisting, independent
As Samad - the eternal, absolute, self sufficient

Im sure that you can find more names of Allah in the Quran that match meanings of YHWH.

I also read that YHWH means creator and that is al Khaliq in the Quran.

 

[Kirran]

Allah simply means 'the god' in Arabic, so why this name is to be elevated above all others I do not know. God goes by any name. Allah simply was an appropriate name to be used in the context of the time to affirm the identity and unity of God, perhaps.

 

[Sees]

My uncomplicated theory is...the name wasn't known. Since Jews didn't use it, and all the Jewish aspects are based on info obtained from Jews, it doesn't show up.

 

[Lyndon]

Jews and Christians of the time before Mohammad who spoke Arabic would have used the name Allah for God, that's presumably where the name came from.

 

[Augustus]

Jews and Christians of the time before Mohammad who spoke Arabic would have used the name Allah for God, that's presumably where the name came from.

This is definitely true.

There are inscriptions, graves, etc. that not only use Allah, but also the formula "bisma Allah al rahman al raheem" in a Christian context, pre-Islam. Also records of people named AbdAllah - slave of God, etc.

The use of the word in this context clearly predates Islam.

 

[paarsurrey]

This is definitely true.
There are inscriptions, graves, etc. that not only use Allah, but also the formula "bisma Allah al rahman al raheem" in a Christian context, pre-Islam. Also records of people named AbdAllah - slave of God, etc.
The use of the word in this context clearly predates Islam.

Quran/Islam/Muhammad never claimed that.
Quran gives perfection to the concepts.
Regards

 

[paarsurrey]

Jews and Christians of the time before Mohammad who spoke Arabic would have used the name Allah for God, that's presumably where the name came from.

I agree with you.
It was in vogue among Jews, Christians and Ismailites, but not in pagans.
Regards

 

[paarsurrey]

Allah simply means 'the god' in Arabic, so why this name is to be elevated above all others I do not know. God goes by any name. Allah simply was an appropriate name to be used in the context of the time to affirm the identity and unity of God, perhaps.

Quran provides to the concept, it illustrates attributes of Allah in the whole Quran so that humanity understands Him clearly.
Regards

 

[Augustus]

Peace be on you.
Yeshua -- > Yesu ---> Esa

So do Muslims see it as an Arabisation of Yeshua (i.e. they accept that he was not known as Isa when he was alive)?

Or do Muslims think he would have called himself Isa?

 

[Kirran]

Quran provides to the concept, it illustrates attributes of Allah in the whole Quran so that humanity understands Him clearly.
Regards

There are groups who say that if one takes tawhid seriously, Allah can have no attributes.

 

[paarsurrey]

There are groups who say that if one takes tawhid seriously, Allah can have no attributes.

Please name them.
And their arguments?
Regards

 

[Kirran]

Please name them.
And their arguments?
Regards

From a book by Reza Aslan.

Attributes constitute plurality, and so that's not tawhid.

 

[Augustus]

Please name them.
And their arguments?

Probably related to some forms of Mutazilite theology. Also people like ibn Sina and al Farabi perhaps. I don't really know much about the topic though so might be wrong.

There were Muslim philosophers influenced by neoplatonism though as there were in Judaism expressed by people such as Maimonides and Aquinas and Pseudo Dionysus for Christianity

Ibn Sina (I think) denied that God could be described as being truly singular as this put a finite limitation on God for example.

There was certainly an apophatic/negative theological strain in Islam in the Medieval period (as there was in Judaism and Christianity).

 

[Useless2015]

On the premise the the God of the Qur'an is the same as the God of all the Biblical characters, why does he never call himself Yhwh? Or 'Yahweh' as the popular transliteration has it. God uses this several times, in Isaiah 42:8 he says "I am Yahweh, that is my name, I shall not give my glory to another." There are numerous other places where this name is used or revealed in the OT. The writers of the NT used Jewish tradition and used Theos (God) or Kurios (Lord) in-stead, so it is not found there.

Why doesn't Muhammad's God reveal himself thus?

In Islaam, God has 99 names. Allah is one of them.
Ar Rahman,Ar Raheem, Al Malik, Al Khaliq,Al Gaffar, Al Hakam are some of the names of God.
What does YHWH mean?

 

[rosends]

In Islaam, God has 99 names. Allah is one of them.
Ar Rahman,Ar Raheem, Al Malik, Al Khaliq,Al Gaffar, Al Hakam are some of the names of God.
What does YHWH mean?

It doesn't mean something specific as a word. It is made up of the "to be" verb in three tenses (past, present and future) to indicate the eternal nature of God. The title points to the attribute of mercy.