Here is what Lisan al-Arb dictionary tells us about the etymology of the word Allah

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Jun 7, 2014 at 08:30

Our dear Simha who quotes kuffar sources here is what Lisan al-Arab tells us about the etymology of the word Allah and here is the link

http://alkalema.net/allah/allah16.htm

Notice the following Ibn Manzur in Lisan al-Arab says (by the way this is attributed to Sibawayhe but I could not find it is his Kitab)

1. سأَله عن اشتقاق اسم الله تعالى في اللغة

So Ibn Manzur believes that the word Allah is derived as you shall see below

Then he says:

2. فقال: كان حقه إلاهٌ

Or he said that the real source of the word Allah is from the word Ilah but notice how the word Ilah is written as إلاه and not as إله and the disaster here is Muslims realize that the correct version of the word is إلاه and not the Quranic إله oh you do not believe me? Check this

http://fatwa.islamweb.net/fatwa/index.php?page=showfatwa&Option=FatwaId&Id=138456

And the reason given is the source of the word الله is from the word إله which means that Muslims do not even know what their Arabic dictionaries are saying

3. أُدخلت الأَلف واللام تعريفاً، فقيل أَلإلاهُ

Or the letters alif and lam were added to the word Ilah et voila we have ألإلاه but here is the disaster if you our dear Simha read your Islamic literary sources the spelling of the word is ألإله so what happened to the third alif was it eaten by a hungry goat too? but most damaging is that by adding al al-ta3reef the meaning of the word changed from God to the God

What a disaster

4. ثم حذفت العرب الهمزة استثقالاً لها، فلما تركوا الهمزة حَوَّلوا كسرتها في اللام التي هي لام التعريف، وذهبت الهمزة أَصلاً فقالوا أَلِلاهٌ

Then the hamza was removed and a kasra was added to the lam of the definite article al and now we have the أللاه so is this how you spell the word الله our dear Simha who quotes kuffar sources

5. فحرَّكوا لام التعريف التي لا تكون إلاَّ ساكنة، ثم التقى لامان متحركتان فأَدغموا الأُولى في الثانية، فقالوا الله

The end result is we have two lams and an alif following the lams et voila we have the word الله

Do you know what this disaster mean? It means that the word Allah was made up by the Arabs and it is not a primary name but here is the theological disaster: If the Qur'an is eternal how could the Arabs who created the word Allah be credited as the source of the word Allah unless the Arabs were created before the Qur'an! Do you see why Islam is ridiculous?

But here is the ultimate disaster as you can see the word Allah is derived from the word Ilah إلاه or ELAH now compare this with Syriac ܐܠܗܐ or ALHA vocalized as ALAHA and you can hear it for yourself in this link

http://www.assyrianlanguages.org/sureth/dosearch.php?searchkey=413&language=id

The Syriac word ܐܠܗܐ would be Arabized as Alah as it makes more sense that the second lam is not really a lam but the added alif in the word Allah following the second lam and Puin tells us that the second lam in Allah in ancient fragments was really an alif maksura which is really the Syriac alif

But most damaging to your case are the old poets that tell us that the name of God is really as per al-Halabi who tells us that the poet Ibn Riah calls God Laha or Alaha لاها or الاها and that is indeed the source of the word Allah! what a disaster

It is not us kuffar who are saying that the word Allah is a derived word and it is a loan word from Syriac Alaha it is your Islamic sources

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