The word “Allah” is not an exclusive Muslim use
Frankly I don’t have any problems if those from the Abrahamic religions were to use the word “Allah” in their religious liturgy. Its not something which should be of a surprise, since the word Allah simply means “The God” in Arabic and it is used extensively in the Arabic Bible. Its not even a noun in the language, just a word to describe the God, the prefix al- being the definitive article and ilah meaning “god” in Arabic. As a side note, it should be noted that the word Elohim (which is the Hebrew synonym to the Arabic Allah) — the suffix -im being the definite article for eloh (god) — is used in the Hebrew translation of the Qur’an as well.
So what is this fuss with the usage of the word Allah? Its not exclusive to Muslim usage and as long as the pseudo-monotheists keep their distance and do not proselytise to Muslims based on this similarity, I do not have any problems with this. I suspect that this issue is being raised for political rather than religious issues by a certain secular-nationalist Malay political party.
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this is enlightening … so it means God and it if u use it, its ur god, and if i am gonna use it, its my god …
Comment by earl-ku — December 23, 2007 @ 8:57 pm
Now this is something I can agree on. But seriously, we hardly utter it but it does appear in a few written articles from the East Malaysians. Definitely this stunt is to gain political mileage. I wonder what Mr. Sotong is going to do?
Comment by lilian — December 24, 2007 @ 2:25 am
Just the BN being BN.Better speak up mr PM, 900,000 Catholics are wondering.
Comment by Emmanuel — December 25, 2007 @ 7:47 am