Why do you say Allah and not God?

[Silver]

It still seems to me that Allah is derived from al-Ilah but I don't see why that's a problem.
I have arabic texts about this but they are difficult to translate and they are at my grandparents' house.

Here's something that's kinda like the texts that I read:

The Arabic name Allah consists of the definite article "Al" [the] attached to the noun "Ilahun" [god -- allowing for the classical nunation]. When "Al" is attached, the I (aliph) of "Ilahun" become quiescent, the L of "Al" assimilates in pronunciation with the L of "Ilahun," and the word loses its nunation. Also Modern Arabic drops the final vowel [the case ending] in pronunciation. The resultant pronunciation is "Allah." However, the spelling in the Qur'an is Allah(u/i/a), where is the quiescent but written aliph, and the last vowel is the case ending [u for nominative, i for genitive, a for accusative]. The Arabic word "Ilahun" is the equivalent of Aramaic "Elah" [no case endings in Aramaic] and of Hebrew "Eloah" [no case endings]. It is then obvious that the word "Ilah" comes from a common Semitic root, EL or ILU/IL for the word (g)od, as do the words "Eloah" in Hebrew and "Elah" in Aramaic.

www.answering-christianity.com/allahorigin.htm

When we say that Allah is a proper noun we are allowing anti-muslims to say that it was the proper noun of a moon god.
So what if Allah comes from the word Al-Ilah. Why is it a bad thing? ILAH is a semetic word and ELAH which is a similar word was used by Jesus (PBUH).

 

[muslimapoclyptc]

then there are other idiots refuting it the other way in response to it being a noun used for moongod

What enables those idiots to use it that way, is the assumption that the name "Allah" is a contraction of "al-ilah". You'll notice that this assumption is a central part of their "moon-god" argument.

The reason it's central, is because of the idea that "al-ilah" was originally a title for a "moon-god" in ancient, pagan Arabia.

by the way why does it take you 2 hours from clicking reply to submit button? is it trouble with googling terms?

I get distracted.

 

[muslimapoclyptc]

It still seems to me that Allah is derived from al-Ilah but I don't see why that's a problem.
I have arabic texts about this but they are difficult to translate and they are at my grandparents' house.

Here's something that's kinda like the texts that I read:



www.answering-christianity.com/allahorigin.htm

When we say that Allah is a proper noun we are allowing anti-muslims to say that it was the proper noun of a moon god.
So what if Allah comes from the word Al-Ilah. Why is it a bad thing? ILAH is a semetic word and ELAH which is a similar word was used by Jesus (PBUH).

The reason, is that "al-ilah" is a generic title, meaning "the-god/deity", which can be pluralized and is not gender-neutral. It's application is also not limited to the Almighty.

It is this title, as well as the idea that "Allah" is a contracted form of it, which enables those anti-Muslims to make their moon-god argument.

The fact that the name "Allah" cannot be pluralized, is gender-neutral, and has only ever been used to refer to the Almighty, in itself refutes the idea that it is just a contraction of the generic title "al-ilah".

The word "Jesus" would've used in Aramaic was "Alaha". If anything, "Allah" is more likely the arabicized form of the Aramaic "Alaha", than it is a contraction of "al-ilah".

 

[doorster]

I am going to say it one last time and then I am going to try to get the thread closed since it was resolved long ago but when I used it for reference, some one derailed it

Allah comes from Arabic word illah/ellah which means someone worshipped; a god, a deity

Al + illah = Allah
The + God = "The Only One to be Worshipped" or The Only One worthy of being worshipped