For phonetics: ahl al-dhimma, Allah, Allat sarat and other sordid matters!

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Dec 23, 2006 at 14:45

My dear phonetics: you did not get what I was asking you about. Remember your little gem: primordial and dhimmi? You are not very focused at all. Why is that?

Now here are your lessons for today:

1 Dhimmi, ahl al-dhimma and al-dhimma:

Now it is time to tell you what you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask. Well, your rasul the Arabian war lord and caravan raider and robber Abul Qasim aka Ahmad aka Muhammad attacked the Jewish oasis of Khybar, in 628 CE or so we are told, and looted the place as expected. Then wrote a dhimma (or mithaq or 3Ahd) oh I forgot that you know no Arabic and the word dhimma means: agreement where the Jews will be "protected" (oh the old mafia of Arabia was alive and well) in exchange for this mafia protection those nasty infidels pay a tirbute or the jizya (see Q9:29) and this was the tradition that was quoted as the source of the so called and infamous Mithaq 3Umar where the Jews and Christians will be called ahl al-Dhimma (oh the haram al- again) or the people of the agreement.

So much for your Muslim education and so much for the rasul and his Allah that were supposed to keep 1/5 of the loot!

2. The word Allah:

The Arabs have the following words:

- al-Ilah means the God (plural al-aliha)

- al-Rabb means the God and no it does not mean Lord and for this see below.

-Rabb means god as in ya rabb or Oh God.

-al-Sayyid means the Lord (and for this see Christian Arabic al-Sayyid Yasoo3 al-maseeh or the lord Jesus Christ)

-the word Allah means God and Allah is not a contraction of al-Ilah as stupid tablighees will tell you. The Arabic word Allah is a _loan word_ from Syriac Alaha or God (in Nestorian Syriac it is vocalaized as: Allaha).

So there is no plural for Allah so what is your point? Could it be because it is a foreign word?

Well you claim to know Latin but that another subject matter. The word sarat in Surat al-Fatiha has no plural form. And do you know why? because your allah or is it his rasul the caravan raider and war lord "borrowed" a perfect Latin word: strata (via Syriac srata) to describe the word path when we have very good Arabic word that he could have used the likes of : tareeq, shari3, madaq, hara. Could it be because of the fact the word sarat also has no plural as the word Allah because they are foreign non Arabic words? In other words they would not fit in Sibawayhe's model of the word F3L. What do you think our dear Phonetics?

So much for the Qur'an being written in 3Arabi faseeh.

But this is not all. The female form of of the word Allah is Allat (attested in Qur'an 53) and in Herodotus as Allilat. Proper Arabic names the likes of let us say Gamal for men will be Gamila or Gamalat for women. So adding the "at" to the ending of Allah gives us Allat.

So much for the magic of the name of your Allah.

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