THE TITLE ALLAH.

THE LUNAR DEITY ALLAH.

 

 

THE TITLE ALLAH

 

 

The name/TITLE Allah is probably a contraction of the Arabic “al-Ilah,” meaning literally, “the God.”  The TITLE’s origin can be traced to the earliest Semitic writings in which the word for God was “il,” “El,” or “Eloah,” the latter two used in the Hebrew Old Testament Bible.  Allah is the standard Arabic word for “God” and was used by Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews before the rise of Arabic-Muslims.

 

Allah is believed to be derived from the Syriac “Alana,” which was pre-Islamic.  It is important to remember that “Allah” is a TITLE, meaning “God,” or “The God.,” and does not refer to a name or the Name of God.

 

Archaeological excavations have led to the discovery of ancient pre-Islamic inscriptions and tombs made by Arab Christians in the ruins of a Church at “Umm el-Jimal” in Northern Jordan, which initially, according to Enno Littmann (1949), contained references to Allah as the proper name of God.  Thus, Christians were the first to change the TITLE of Allah to a proper name, which, if so, would be incorrect.  For Archaeologists to assume it to be a name instead of the TITLE is inconsistent with now known history.

 

Christians in Malaysia and Indonesia use Allah to refer to “God” in the Malaysian and Indonesian languages.  Both of them are standardized forms of the Malay language.  The German poet Siegfried August Mahlmann (May 13, 1771 – December 16, 1826) used the form Allah as the TITLE of a poem about the ultimate Deity.

 

In the pre-Islamic “Zabad inscription,” God is referred to by the term “alif-lam-alif-lam-ha.”  This indicates that “Al-'ilah” means “The God,” without “alif” for “a.”

 

Regional variants of the word Allah occur in both pagan and Christian pre-Islamic inscriptions.  According to Marshall Hodgson, it seems that in the pre-Islamic Arabia, some Arab Christians undertook pilgrimages to the “Kaaba,” a pagan temple at that time, honoring Allah there as “The God Creator.”  In an inscription of Christian martyrion dated to 512 A.D., references to “al-ilah” appear in both Arabic and Aramaic.  The inscription opens with the phrase “By the Help of al-ilah.”  Note the improper none capitalization of the -- what was considered to be -- TITLE.

 

Pre-Islamic Meccans worshiped Allah alongside a host of lesser “gods” and those whom they called the “daughters of Allah.”  But this was still only a TITLE and not a proper name.

 

According to Gerhard Bowering, in his work, “God and his Attributes,” “Encyclopedia of the Qur'an,” edition, by Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Muhammad’s father’s name was “ ‘Abd-Allah,” meaning “The slave of Allah.”  Again, “Allah” being and refering to a TITLE.

 

 

THE LUNAR DEITY ALLAH

 

 

It is now believed, due to the standard coverup of Muslims, that the theory that Allah originated as a “moon god” began in 1901 with the archaeologist Hugo Winckler.  He associated Allah with a pre-Islamic Arabian Deity, either “Lah” or “Hubal,” whom he identified as lunar in nature.  By contrast, “Hubal” was a Deity worshipped at the Kaaba well before Islam.  This means that Allah was indeed originally worshipped as a “moon god.”  The overwhelming fact that the cresent moon is on top of Mosques today is a clear indication of the originality of this hipophsis.

 

“Hubal” is believed to have originated from the Levant or Mesopotamia regions.  Historian Philip K. Hitti theorizes that “Hubal’s” name may have been derived from an Aramaic term (pre Muhammad) for “spirit.”

 

Robert Morey’s book, “The Moon-god Allah in the Archeology of the Middle East,” claims that “Al-‘Uzzá” is identical in origin to “Hubal,” whom he asserts to be a “lunar deity.”

 

Eigth-Century Christians believed that Muslims were pagans who worshiped a “moon god” or “moon goddess.”  They also viewed the made up false prophet Muhammad as a “deciver.”  Also, as Islam being a pagan religion, borrowing aspects of Judeo-Christian monotheism by elevating the “moon god” “Hubal” to the rank of “Supreme God,” or “Allah.”

 

In the 8th-Century, Arab historian Hisham Ibn Al-Kalbi’s, in his work, “Book of Idols,” the idol “Hubal” is described as a human figure with a gold hand (replacing the original hand that had broken off the statue).  He had seven arrows that were used for divination.