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william matthews
Was Allah The Moon God of Ancient Arab Pagan?
Historical evidences, impartial logic, well versed references and all available circumstantial judgments can very well prove that—(a) Allah name of deity was pre-existed much before the arrival of Islam, (b) Pre-Islamic Pagan peoples worshipped Allah as their supreme deity (moon-god). Allah’s name existed in pre-Islamic Arab. In ancient Arab the Allah was considered to be the supreme God/deity (as Moon-God) and Arab Pagans worshipped Allah before Islam arrived.
Let us examine below some valid questions and answers :
Did the Pagan Arabs in pre-Islamic times worship 360 gods? Yes.
Did the pagans Arabs worship the sun, moon and the stars? Yes.
Did the Arabs built temples to the Moon-god? Yes.
Did different Arab tribes give the Moon-god different names/titles? Yes.
What were some of the names/titles? Sin, Hubul, Ilumquh, Al-ilah.
Was the title “al-ilah” (the god) used as the Moon-god? Yes.
Was the word “Allah” derived from “al-ilah?” Yes.
Was the pagan “Allah” a high god in a pantheon of deities? Yes.
Was he worshipped at the Kabah? Yes.
Was Allah only one of many Meccan gods? Yes.
Did they place a statue of Hubul on top of the Kabah? Yes.
At that time was Hubul considered the Moon-god? Yes.
Was the Kabah thus the “house of the Moon-god”? Yes.
Did the name “Allah” eventually replace that of Hubul as the name of the Moon god? Yes.
Did they call the Kabah the “house of Allah”? Yes.
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Nelson Chitima
The history of Islam takes us to a "moon god" called allah that was chosen to be worshipped as the only god over and above other gods. That can't be the same as the one and only God of the Christians
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After reading many of the comments posted by others it appears that I have little to offer on the subject. I once studied under a group that called themselves "students of Islam". In my dealings with that group "The most high god" was called by the name "Allah". I found several similarities in what I had learned my whole life as a Christian though I was still young (18). It taught principles like 'you reap what you sew', 'treat others the way you want to be treated' and other wise things amongst those lines. So as a result I started to study to gain knowledge, wisdom and understanding. After a few years I was reacclimated with my Christian roots and have been "at home" ever since. I didn't learn major details about others in the Muslim faith but I did know coworkers and such who were Muslim. Once I saw a Muslim eating a ham sandwich, I felt like there were too many contradictions for me. I'm so happy that God took the time to bring me home and that I was able to be baptized according to the Bible and accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.
Paul Desing
No, if you deny the Son, you deny the Father.
Danny Hickman
The answer that got 55 votes for this question begins by not making much sense, and then gets worse.
He says he was formerly a Muslim. (his words); then he says he doesn't know who Allah is.
Then how can he know if Allah and Jehovah are the same person?
I don't know very much about Islam, and don't want to know. I take it to be a "knock off" religion. It looks like what's known in TV land as a spinoff. You take a popular star of a successful show and start a new show centered around that star.
Islam is a spinoff of the Judeo-Christian tradition / religion.
The most popular answer I referred to, pointed out the differences between the two: Jehovah has a Son, the producers of the myth of a God called Allah, opting to not give him any children. ( I believe that if Jehovah didn't have a Son, Allah would probably have a son and a daughter).
That long list of differences between Jehovah and a rival myth that (not who, that) wouldn't exist if Jehovah didn't exist, lends too much realness to a made up deity, as far as I'm concerned.
No, Christians and Muslims don't worship the same God. But I do believe that Allah is an Islamic mythical version of the real Jehovah God.
A I is finally an admission of there being a way to make fake seem real! Real enough to fool a husband about his wife, or vice versa.
The makers of Allah don't claim the spirit of Allah will come to live in Muslims. I think they blew it there; they could have blamed him for a lot of stuff they do...