Christian Prince - Why Allah is the True god for Muslims the answers in Live Debate join us
Channel: Sheikh Three Time
Date: 24/03/2018

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From a Muslims site we quote: 
1. "Allah" is the Arabic word for God

At its most basic, "Allah" is God for no other reason than the fact that "Allah" has been the Arabic word for God for centuries.

Millions of Arabic-speaking monotheists living throughout the Middle East, Africa, Eurasia and the Americas worship "Allah." And, they have worshipped him for centuries – Muslims, Christians and Jews.

To denigrate "Allah" is to denigrate the object of faith for millions, including millions of our own Christian brothers and sisters in faith.

To illustrate, I offer the plea of one Middle Eastern evangelical Christian to his brothers and sisters in the West, from an article, "Allah and the Christian Arab," which appeared in the 2012 book, "Toward Respectful Understanding and Witness Among Muslims:"

"Please never, never speak against the glorious name of Allah, a name that has been loved and revered by millions of God's children down through the centuries."

2. Allah is the pre-Islamic, Aramaic-derived Arabic word for God

It is often claimed that "Allah" originated within pre-Islamic Arabian paganism, was exported throughout the Middle East and North Africa via the Arab conquests and was subsequently adopted by Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews.

However, historical and etymological evidence rather compellingly points us in the opposite direction. 

Historically, Judaism and Christianity were both widespread and well known within pre-Islamic Arabia and they shared a common name for God. That name was "Allah."

Furthermore, "Allah" is in all etymological likelihood derived (via Syriac) from Aramaic, the third most common language of the Bible and the language Jesus Christ himself spoke.

Any guess as to the Aramaic word for God used by Jesus? "Alâh-â."

3. Muslims maintain that they worship the same God as Christians and Jews – the God of Abraham, Moses, Jesus and so on

As followers of Christ, it is imperative for us to listen to people on their own terms and in their own words, "not via the distorted and defensive lenses" of historical animosity.

Therefore, when the Quran, Muhammad and the early Muslim community speak of the "one true God," they intentionally speak of "Allah" – the one God already known to Christians and Jews.

Islam clearly recognizes a common affinity with both Judaism and Christianity and deliberately worships the God of both Christians and Jews – "Allah."

4. Although vital differences remain, Christian and Muslim beliefs about God are significantly more similar than some might initially suppose

To paraphrase Miroslav Volf in his book, "Allah: A Christian Response," the similarities between Christian and Muslim conceptions of God in their description of God's being, character and ethical expectations allow us to conclude with confidence that Muslims and Christians do, in fact, worship the same God.

Volf asserts that "normative" Christians and Muslims "agree on the following six claims about God:"

●     There is only one God, the one and only divine being

●     God created everything that is not God

●     God is radically different from everything that is not God

●     God is good

●     God commands that we love God with our whole being

●     God commands that we love our neighbor as ourselves