Allah

Message / Question

what are your view on allah brother?

Response

I have addressed this issue before, so I’ll be relatively brief this time. Whilst there are many Christian leaders today who declare that Christians, Jews and Moslems do NOT serve the same God, I have to disagree. The 3 great monotheistic faiths worship the same God (known to Christians simply as God, to the Jew as Jehovah and the Moslem as Allah). The Jews first recognised a single deity, and they were alone in such a belief. Their God was one whose name could not be spoken and was given the name JHVH, an unpronounceable name to which vowels were added (mostly later by Christians) to form the name Jehovah. However, the common word for “god” in the Hebrew was “El” and thus God was often referred to by that prefix plus another descriptive word (e.g. El-Berith, the God of covenant; Beth-El, the house of God etc). In the Aramaic language, which is naturally similar to Hebrew, the equivalent prefix is AL. The Aramaic word lyh (pron lah) means high (as in great or "lofty") thus together Al and lah means the high God. Arabic-speakers of all monotheistic faiths, including Christians and Jews, use the word “Allah” when referring to God. The God that each of the monotheistic faiths claim to follow is that one same God – the God of Abraham, the one who created Adam.

I believe that it is indisputable that all three faiths claim to worship this one (and same) God, however the way that their worship is conducted and the belief systems that they follow and the practices in which they engage in their attempts to worship this One True God, are vastly different. It is this religious structure, belief and practice they have developed within their particular “religion” that divides the three monotheistic faiths, NOT the God that each claims to serve.