Clarification of Misunderstanding to Wayne

Submitted by Rizwan (United Arab Emirates), Sep 11, 2006 at 01:17

Hi Wayne

What you mentioned is correct about the meaning of the word "Allah".

I quote from your mail:

The Arabs, before the time of Mohammed, accepted and worshipped, after a fashion, a supreme god called Allah" (Encyclopedia of Islam, ed. Houtsma)

If you will see reply I mentioned before to you that All Prophets were sent by Allah (GOD) and every Prophet (Peace be upon all of them) taught the same lesson "to worship one God and no one before or after" so the word Allah was known to people before the arrival of Prophet Mohammad simply because it was introduced by the prophets which came before Prophet Mohammad or even Jesus or Mosses. The problem with all the religions, if you closely observe, is that all religion, other then Islam, teaches you to bow and pray to other then The one and only God/Allah (Known in Arabic as Allah and Bahgwan in Sanskrit or God in English and with different names in different languages) and this is the reason that Allah (God) had to send Prophets repeatedly to guide people to the right path.

In regard to the deference between the Allah (God) mentioned in Quran and Bible, I would refer to my early replies. If you pickup a copy of the Quran from American and one from India and one from Saudi Arabia or even take the one from now and one from the time of Prophet Mohammad you will find no difference in any of them even of the slightest nature while if you look at the current Bible it will have difference from the one in UK and the one in Russia and the One in the US.

Even the fact that it was compiled by the person who was a Jewish preacher and was also involved in crucification of Jesses tells the tale of the authenticity of the current Bible. If you really see the Jews actually wanted to make Christians weak and that was the reason that they only put the scriptures that talk about peace and not of war.

If on the other hand lets say that we consider what the teaching of the current Bible as to be the only true teaching of God then all the Prophets including Mosss will be liars or not at all Prophets but remember that even Jesses never argued about the Prophets which came before him. If you will check the history Allah (God) not only taught to be peaceful but also to fight if and when needed. If you see the history you will see that in majority of the times evil was not fought with peace. All prophets were Mujahids and they fought the war of Allah (God) in there own ways and strived for what ever possible to spread the word of Allah (God) as per their designated duty by Allah (God)

(Mujahideen (Arabic: مجاهدين‎, , "strugglers") is an Arabic term for those who engage in defensive war jihad ("struggle"). The word is a plural form of مجاهد, , which literally translated from Arabic means "struggler" but is often translated in the West as "holy warrior." The opposite of mujahideen is qaideen–people who remain inactive and do not actively fight; Mujahideen is also transliterated from Arabic as mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahidin, and mujaheddin). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujahideenmuǧāhidmuǧāhidīn

I want to add that most of the meaning the west understand about Jihad, Mujahid and Muslims etc are not so true. (Published at websites News paper or any other form are mostly biased. Previous I thought that it was not the case but after going into this subject and doing some research I found that many entities claiming to be telling just the truth and nothing but the truth actually don't necessarily tell the truth or tell it with a twist, so a truth with a twist is no truth at all)

About the scriptures from the Quran I would again urge you to read the whole text and understand the context; I gave you one example the rest you can find at http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/.

I hope the above helps in developing your understanding of the True spirit of Islam and understand Allah (God)

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