Allah
Allah Play writes ) is the word Arab , which means " God. " It is also the name of God in Islam , or "Bill" "My God" in Hebrew (not the name of the prophet Elijah ) ; Eloah , meaning "God" in Hebrew, the Hebrew words "Elohim" (the plural of Eloah) or Adonai (Lord) are not used to pronounce " Yahweh "in the Old Testament.
For some linguists, this explanation is not valid and would of folk etymology . The apocope of ilah i is not credible because it is the first vowel of the word actually means "god." They also argue that the term is often preserved by sacred taboo is a contraction of Al Ilah, (the God) in Arabic. The word consists of article al, which marks the determination as our article "the", and ilah, which means (a) god ". Al followed by Allh would ilah apocope the second term, which would therefore hamza unstable. The word was then univerb. So, Allah would translate literally as "God" - that reminds you use the word "God" written with a letter capital in French.
The detailed exegeses (such as that of al-Tabari , of Ibn Kathir or Al-Qurtubiy ) discuss the various opinions on the etymology of the word Allah in early exegesis of the first sura.
Typography
In the word , the shadda does not indicate gemination but the assimilation of the lam of the article to another lam ; it would otherwise deal with a word Alllah, what does the Arabic language phonologically not.
To the long vowel is not rated by an alif. The spelling of the word was established before the letter alif used to record the long vowel. Representing a diacritic alif is added on the shadda to indicate the pronunciation.
It has a glyph in Unicode (FDF2) and UTF-8 (EF B7 B2)
Usage
Quranic passages that recall the name Allah appointed to the Meccans before the Islamic period the Creator God . That Allah had gods associated with the Arabs regarded as subordinate deities, son of the gods and Al- Uzza , Al-Manat , and al-Lat were nominated as his daughters . Mohammed's father's name was Abdullah, "servant of Allah."
The word Allah is used by Muslims worldwide, and by the Arabic-speaking Christians, Jews or others. Most French Muslims prefer to use that name rather than the word "God", among others, because it may take a feminine (goddess), and Allah is, according to Muslim beliefs, unique, and is neither male nor female. :
1, attribute: the creator (Al Khaliq): ie, that Allah may give to any thing material existence from nothing.
2nd attribute: the omniscient (Al Aalim): His knowledge encompasses all things. He knows everything at all times.
3 rd attribute: that Subsisting himself (Al Qayyum): Allah does not depend on anything to survive, and everything depends on him. This attribute, he derives his immortality. While all living beings in nature depends for survival of elements that are external, such as water, oxygen or food.
4th attribute: the unshakable (Al Matine): Allah is unchanging. No failure can take. Thus, it needs neither rest nor sleep and remains steadfast in its omnipotence. While all living beings in nature is fatigue, aging, his physical and mental faculties deteriorate over time and eventually die.
Besides these four divine attributes, are used and 95 more are available on the article dealing with the most beautiful names of God in Islam , Arabic .
Also according to the Koran, God is unique in its essence, it has no equal in the universe and the Muslim faithful to worship him is exclusive ( Tawhid ), according to Sura 112 Al-Ikhlas [ref. required] (so-called pure monotheism) verse 4.
Notes and references
- ar-Razi, A Treatise on the Divine Names, Translation from Arabic: Maurice Glotton. Spiritual heritage, al-Burak edition (669 pages). ISBN 2-84161-111-6 , pp. 211-258.
- The Jerusalem Bible, ed. Cerf, Paris 1973. ISBN 2-220-02015-0 , Mathieu, 25, 45-47; p.1474
- The Jerusalem Bible, ed. Cerf, Paris 1973. ISBN 2-220-02015-0 , Marc, 15, 33-34, p.1503.
- Letter Christian Eloah.
- God - Allah
- Qur'an , "The Thunder", XIII , 16; (ar) , "The Spider", XXIX , 61-63; (ar) , "Lokman", XXXI , 25; (ar) , "Troops" XXXIX , 38; (ar)
- Qur'an , "The Star", LIII , 19-22, (ar) , "The Bee", XVI , 57; (ar) and "The Ranks", XXXVII , 149; (ar)
- Mnakaalar, Talat Koyiit. ed. Diyanet Vakfi Trkiye Yayinlari, Ankara 1989. ISBN 975-389-019-2. p.76 ff.
- ar-Razi, A Treatise on the Divine Names, Translation from Arabic: Maurice Glotton. Spiritual heritage, publishing al-Burak. pp 211-258 (669 pages). ISBN 2-84161-111-6.
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Bibliography
- ar-Razi, A Treatise on the Divine Names, Translation from Arabic: Maurice Glotton. Spiritual heritage, publishing al-Burak. (669 pages). ISBN 2-84161-111-6.
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