Any Evidences for 'Allah' Before Islam?

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tell him to explain what is islam. Islam is submission to GOD, therefore it existed from the time of Adam AS. Therefore islam was always existent but it got "PERFECTED" when Muhammad saws came.

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Argh, I still dont think I've made it clear.

This person believes Yahweh is G-d and so forth and that Allah is a different G-d.

so he has asked me if Allah is G-d to al the other prophets is there any mention of this name?? because muslims hold it to be His Name.
 
IsaAbdullah said:
Argh, I still dont think I've made it clear.

This person believes Yahweh is G-d and so forth and that Allah is a different G-d.

so he has asked me if Allah is G-d to al the other prophets is there any mention of this name?? because muslims hold it to be His Name.
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You are clear. It is just that we seem to be having difficulty in presenting something that would make sense to your friend. It is a language problem. Much of theOld Tetement was written in Hebrew. Allah would have been translated into the language of the people. An analogy would be an Englishman named John, is his name John or is it the Spanish Juan? They are both the same name. A name is deeper then the pronouniation or the spelling of a word.
 
IsaAbdullah said:
Argh, I still dont think I've made it clear.

This person believes Yahweh is G-d and so forth and that Allah is a different G-d.

so he has asked me if Allah is G-d to al the other prophets is there any mention of this name?? because muslims hold it to be His Name.
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According to many religion scholars, Allah derives from the hebre word el which comes from Elohim or something like that...visit islamtomorrow.com, there is an explanation of it I think
 
I posted this already, but I'm happy to repost. I'm a linguist, and this is what I know: it's not a borrowing, it's a cognate - a native word with cousins in related languages.

In Semitic languages, the original root word for a divine being was *il-, which appears in all branches of the family.

It appears in Akkadian (Babylonian-Assyrian) as il-um, female ilat-um (-um is the same as Arabic al-). There was no god called simply Ilu in Akkadian, though - it was just a word for any god.

It appears in Aramaic-Syriac as Elah-a "God" from *il- + -âh- "great" (-a is the equivalent of Arabic al-

It appears in Hebrew as hâ-El "God" < *il- and Elôhim < *il-âh- + -im. It is only used for the monotheistic divinity.

It appears in ancient Arabian (Northern and Southern) as han-ilahu, feminine han-ilatu; both appear as terms for any divinity (a god/dess) and as proper names (The God; The Goddess). Sometimes you find inscriptions that say "the god of Bosra is Lâh" or "the goddess of al-Hijr is Lât" just like you find ones in Jordan that say "the god of Petra is "He-of-Vegetation (Dhû l-Sharâ)".

In Arabic, it appears as both ilah "god" and as a proper name, Lâh (as in the Shahâda, lâ ilaha illâ al-Lâh.) We also know that Lât - a war goddess - is also mentioned in the Qur'ân along with 3Uzzâ - a protector and mother goddess. Along with "Fate", Manât, they are mentioned by name as false idols.

It is clear from all the various evidences that *Ilat- became *Ilât- because of the parallel with *Ilâh-.

The 7unufâ' and Ahlu l-Kitâb appear to have identified Lâh as "God", which is exactly the cognate word anyway. North Arabian "pagan" religions were very strongly aniconic and monotheistic-oriented, although they paired the main divinity into a married pair. In Nabatæa, the pair was 3Uzzâ' and Dhû l-Sharâ; in other areas, it was Lâh-Lât.
 
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