Our dear Fahad who knows no Arabic and the word Allah revisited

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Sep 22, 2007 at 08:23

You wrote this little gem

Thank you for correcting me. ALLAH is the God. I don't know Arabic, but I am learning little by little. I didn't ask Pakistani doctors, or Muslim Doctors, I asked a Christian Doctor. I can not explain as he explained it to me, but he agreed with the Quran.

Well as I said before your Muslim pals tell us that the word Allah is a contraction of the word al-Ilah or THE GOD. But if you check Qamoos Liasn al-3Arab or Hans Wehr you will find that the word Allah means God and not the God. Do you know what this means? you agreed with me out of your total ignorance of the Arabic language and why is that our dear Fahad and if I cannot believe you here why should I believe anything that you write?And would you agree with me and based on this that the plural of the word Allah would be al-Aliha? What do you think ya fahlawi?

So what is the etymology of the word Allah? It is a loan word from Syriac Alaha (Allaha in Nestorian) and it makes more sense as the word Alaha/Allaha means God and not the God

I suggest that you learn to read real books. ..

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