A Very Concerned Reader: Does the word Allah mean God or is it the proper name of the God of Islam?

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Apr 18, 2021 at 10:17

al-Shahada or أشهد أن لا إله إلاَّ الله و أشهد أن محمد رسول الله is not in the Qur'an

However, in Surat Muhammad: 19 you will find only لا اله (الاه) الا الله or: There is no God except Allah

The rest of the Shahada was added by the Abbasids and their Persian mufasereen

BTW: I give Mr Khattab high marks for not telling his reader that the word Allah means: God

Allah is the proper name of the God of Islam

If the word God means Allah then the Shahada should be: لا الله الا الله or there is no Allah except Allah

BTW: al-Tabari's claim that the word Allah is a contraction of the word al-Ilah is linguistic nonsense. The word Allah is a loan word from Syriac/Aramaic as we are told by many Muslims and this is from an old post:

And here is from no other than السمين الحلبي from his tafseer الدر المصون في علم الكتاب المكنون and here is the book

http://waqfeya.net/book.php?bid=1194

And here is the page

http://islamport.com/d/1/qur/1/35/293.html

And here is where he says that the word Allah is a loan word from Syriac

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.

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