Revisiting al-Halabi and the word Allah is not an Arabic word and it is a loan word from Syriac

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Jun 7, 2014 at 08:43

Again this is what al-Halabi says in his exegesis of the word Allah

أنه ليس بعربي بل هو معرب، وهو سرياني الوضع وأصله: "لاها" فعربته العرب فقالوا: الله، واستدلوا على ذلك بقول الشاعر:
29- كحلفة من أبي رياح * يسمعها لاهه الكبار
فجاء به على الأصل قبل التعريب، ونق ذلك أبو زيد البلخي.

Or it (the word Allah) is not Arabic (word) but it is Arabized from Syriac and its origin is (the Syriac word) Laha (Alaha) and the Arabs arabized it as Allah and as evidence is what the poet Kahlafa men Abi al-Ryah he heard it as Laha al-kubar and he came with it before it was Arabized as per Abu Zaid al-Balkhi

It is your aoures that tell us that the word Allah is derived from Syriac Alaha and all we kuffar do is we tell you what your Arabic literary sources tell us

Do you see why you need to stick to urdu and get a life?

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