Allah
Is Allah the "God of the Muslims"?

"Allah, there is none deserving worship other than Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of everything. Neither slumber nor sleep overtake Him. To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth..."

- Quran 2:255

Since September 11, many people have heard the name Allah for the first time. Europeans are used to hearing the word God in English, Got in Afrikaans, Gott in German and Gudd in the Scandanavian languages. The word Allah seems like something foreign to them, and therefore, they usually dismiss the whole concept of Allah as being a foreign God of a foreign religion.

Even government officials involved in the field of education seem to be ignorant about the reality of the name Allah. For example, on November 2, 1997, CAIR reported that Dr. Henry Jordan, a South Carolina Board of Education official stated that Islam is a "cult" that worships "Lucifer," and hence he was quoted as saying, "Kill the Muslims." After making an apology for his remarks, he said the following in a letter to a concerned South Carolina Muslim, dated September 2, 1997: "If you are not smart enough to read through the news and see what really transpired from this news event, it is no wonder that you think salvation can be obtained by good works and having faith in Allah...I would encourage you to...ask the God of the Bible, Jehovah, not Allah, and God, the Son, Jesus, to remove the veil from your eyes and heart and reveal the truth to you before it is too late."

Dr. Henry Jordan would do well to know that Allah is actually "the God of the Bible," and that the word God and Jehovah are not found anywhere in the original scriptures. Jehovah is an altered version of the four letters Y.H.W.H. which are found in the Old Testament. These letters are not found anywhere in the New Testament. The true name of God can be found in the revealed scriptures of the Semitic languages such as Hebrew and Arabic. In Hebrew, God is often transliterated as El, Elah, Eloh or Eloah. When it is used in the plural to express grandeur such as "We" instead of "I," it is written as Elohim. A god in Arabic is transliterated as Ilah. In his footnote for Genesis 1:1 of the New and Improved Edition of the English Bible, the Rev. C.I. Scofield, D.D. alternatively transliterates the word Elah with Alah.

After being translated from Greek to English, the New Testament still contains an element of its Semitic roots. Mathew 27:46 refers to God as being Eli, and its twin narrative, Mark 15:34, refers to God as Eloi.

Muslims believe that the word Allah is the actual name of God which means "The God" in the definite form, meaning "the one God worthy of worship."

Linguistically speaking, the word cannot be modified in the same manner as words like gods, goddess or tin god, and its true disposition can only be hidden behind incorrect transliterations of the word. El, Eli, Eloi, Eloh, Eloah, Alle, Elah, Alah, El-lah, Allah, or Allaah, all of these transliterations point towards one common name of the One God of the Hebrews, Arabs, and all of mankind.

- abridged from a footnote in the book: The 'Wahhabi' Myth