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Allahu Akbar
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in response to reader comment: "no it doesn't"
Submitted by dihmmi no more (United States), Jul 3, 2008 at 06:57
Very interesting
>Allahu akbar doesn't mean "God is great," because the Qur'anic Allah is not the God of the Bible, actually it is Arabic for "Allah is Most Great,"
Not really. Allahu akbar means Allah is "bigger/greater." The literal translation of Allah is most great would be: Ina allah akthar al-Kubr which is really poor Arabic.
The word akbar is from the root KBR and kabeer means big/great and akbar means bigger/greater (see Hans Wehr page 811-813) now the question becomes: Allah is greater or biggger than what?
If One is to say: Allah is big/great then it would be Allahu kabeer and not Allahu Akbar. So you can see that this is indeed a linguistic puzzle. I hope I helped
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