Now, Sikhs want to be part of suit over the word Allah

KUALA LUMPUR: The Sikh community in Malaysia has become the latest party seeking to intervene in the suit by the Catholic Church over the use of the word "Allah".

The Malaysian Gurdwaras Council filed an application to intervene in the suit through the firm Jagjit Singh & Co on Tuesday.

In a supporting affidavit, its president Jagir Singh said the word "Allah" in reference to God was an integral part of the original version of the Sikh holy book, the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji.

As such, he said, no followers of the Sikh religion would tolerate any obstruction on the use of the original terms taken from their holy book.

Jagir Singh said the council, the umbrella body of some 130 gurdwaras nationwide representing more than 100,000 of the Sikh religion, had an interest in the declaration sought by the applicant of the suit.

In the suit, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur Datuk Murphy Pakiam is seeking to declare that the Catholic weekly "Herald" is entitled to use the word "Allah".

He is also seeking to declare that its usage was not exclusive to Islam.

Rev Murphy, 70, had named the then Internal Security Minister (now Home Minister after the ministry was merged with the Home Affairs Ministry) and the Government as respondents in the application filed on March 19.

The archbishop is named as an applicant in the action in his capacity as publisher of the Herald.

Other parties which have applied to intervene in the suit are the Penang Islamic Religious Council, Terengganu Islamic Religious and Malay Custom Council, Federal Territories Islamic Religious Council and Perak Islamic Religious and Malay Custom Council.

Source: The Star, 04.07.2008, page N34

WHAT???????????

ok ummm... no offence to the sikh bros and sisters But Allah (swt) is Allah!!!
The Lord of the heavens and the earth.
if you do not believe in Him, His angels, messengers, books, in al qadar, the last day and paradise and hell!

then errr... i dont understand why they would want to use His name!
Gosh what is going on in this world???

The master of the Sikhs, its a myth, that he was a muslim, if not then he was really close to muslims. He kept telling in signs that the Quran is the truth

Allaah is the one and only God. If people want to use Allaah to refer to God then that is cool. No one can claim their right on the "name" however, apart from Islaam, because Islaam is the true religion, and the only religion accepted by Allaah.

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The Religion before Allah is Islam (submission to His will)... [Qur'aan, 3:19]

If anyone desires a religion other than Islam (submission to Allah) never will it be accepted of him...[Qur'aan, 3:85]

i dont know how it is with sikhs but christians calls the Creator, (YAHVE in Bible) in national lanuage of their country.Thats why there is God,Gott,Bóg,Deus,and also Allah for arabic christians.If God is Allah in malay language so thats why they wanted to use it, they are not Americans so they cant call Him God.

Ok so if sikhs beleive that their guru was a muslim or close to islam then why dont they follow islam?

it has been revealed to us that Allah's previous scriptures were the torah and injeel, you dont see muslims following them. no where in the Qur'an was the guru granth sahib mentioned nor any gurus named doesnt that make the sikhs think!!!

and i dont understand why arab christians use Allah!!!
isnt the word in arabic for God ilah? and gods ilahs?
Allah is the unique name for Allah swt and none who believe in Him should be able to use it to refer to other beings than ONLY Him!

(sorry about the exclamation marks lol)

but i just totally disagree wth that...
when i hear stuff like this it just makes me think man when are people going to wake up and use common sense... i say its signs of the qiyamah the whole world has lost the plot!

next you will be getting Hindus asking for permission to name Ganesh Allah (Astaghfirullah)

NO offence to any brothers and sisters frm other religions whatsoever, i respect all believes but i just dont agree with what they are tryingto do thats all.

ma salama.

Source: http://www.babylon.com/definition/Allah/

If 'Allah' is the standard Arabic term for 'God', then surely all Arabic speaking people would refer to God by that name ... regardless of how God is seen in their religion ...

ok fair enough, but then again, the Qur'an was revealed in arabic hence why you have Allah "arabic word" for God referring to God.

torah and injeel were also previous scriptures of the Amlighty Lord. so the arabic christians would make sense to say God in arabic.

the word in Hindi for God is bagwan i dont know what the word for God in punjabi would be which is the language that many sikhs speak so why not stick to your own language and refer to the god that they believe in, in their own language?

dear brother im not quarreling about who Allah swt is for.
just like He is the one that created me He also created you, my argument was merely over the word not over Allah. that is a silly presumption i must say made by you.

In my prespective i dont think it is logical for sikhs who dont even believe in Allah swt to use the word which is arabic that has nothing to do with their language and refer it to their god.

i'm not gonna sit here and argue about the god that you believe in not being the true God. i dont believe in sikhism nor practise it just like you dont believe in islam nor practice it.

surah 109 al kafiroon

To you be your religion to me mine.

Peace brother.

I'm not sure what you mean by Allah belongs to EVERYBODY. I think you may be using the word 'belongs' in a confusing fashion. Allah is not OWNED by anybody. If you mean (which is what I think you do) he is the God of everybody i.e. the sole creator of all mankind and that no human has an exclusive right over Allah then I understand your point. Sorry, its proberly just the wording.

The Jews, Chrisitans and the Hindus all actually believe in the EXISTENCE of the one, exact and same God i.e. Allah - the one true God who has no partners, rivals etc.

However, Islamically this belief in his existence ALONE does not make one a Muslim as one must believe that He (Allah) is the ONLY one to be worshipped and the crux of that is to worship Allah AS HE PRESCRIBED. After all we humans who are prone to errors could not devise error-free ways to worship God properly. Worship would become nonsensical over time.

So the worship God has prescribed for mankind MUST be adhered to strictly and hence the fundamental belief in the Qur'an, The Last Messenger Muhammad (peace be upon him) etc. Without these beliefs and followings one is not a Muslim.