Arabic-L:TRANS:allaah

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Date:  07 Nov 2001
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: allaah

Both Faxr  al-Diin  al-Raazii (*MafaatiiH  al=Ghayb*, i, 84)
and Abuu  Hayyaan  al-GharnaTii  (*al-BaHr  al-muHiiT*, i, 15) noted
that the early Muslim authorities (correctly) identified the term
/Allaah/ to be borrowed from Syriac (Western Jewish/Christian
Aramaic).  See:  Jeffrey, Arthur.  *The Foreign Vocabulary of the Koran*
Baroda  1938.

      Best wishes,
                                       Mike Schub

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2)
Date:  07 Nov 2001
From: "M. Eekman" <m.eekman at efa.nl>
Subject: allaah

I have a question that may shed some light on the matter of
translating the word allaah: How do Arab muslims translate the word
God? For instance when someone wants to write in Arabic: "Christians
believe in God..." or when George W. Bush is quoted saying: "In God
we trust", how is this translated into Arabic? If, as I suspect, the
word allaah is used, this would mean that God and allaah refer to the
same deity without distinction. So we can say God if we use English,
and allaah if we use Arabic. This conclusion is also confirmed by the
fact that Arab Christians and Jews use allaah. In other words:
There's no need to use allaah in English, or any non-Arabic language.
Menno Eekman

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3)
Date:  07 Nov 2001
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: allaah

"God" has always been "Allah" in Arabic for Muslims and Christians.
In recent years, I noticed, some Islamic fundamentalists wanted to
draw distinction between the Christians' and Muslims' God. Ironically,
that agreed with Arab haters who propagated that our (Arabs) God
(Allah) is a different God than the Jewish and Christian God. Little did
they account for us Arab Christians, the language we spoke, and The(e)
God we worshipped!

La iLaha eLLa ALLah... I was thinking, before Jesus and Mohammed
(The Prophets), people worshipped more than one "iLah", which has
a plural in Arabic "AaLeha", while "Allah" has no plural in Arabic, only
singular, "Allah" Wahad.

Best Regards,

George N. Hallak

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