Was Allah The Moon God of Ancient Arab Pagan?
(Re-Post, previously published on August 4, 2003)
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.
Were al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat called “the daughters of Allah”? Yes.
Yusuf Ali explains in fn. 5096, pg. 1445, that Lat, Uzza and Manat were known as “the daughters of God [Allah]”
Did the Qur’an at one point tell Muslims to worship al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat? Yes. In Surah 53:19-20.
Have those verses been “abrogated” out of the present Qur’an? Yes.
What were they called? “The Satanic Verses.”
The variable names (Sin, Hubul, llumquh, Al-ilah) of moon god were used by various tribes of pagan Arabs. Pagan god SIN was the name of Moon-god.
Who is actually Allah?
According to Islamic Theologians (Mullahs, Maulana, Moulavis, etc.), or Islamic teachings– Allah is the supreme God or creator who (suddenly one day?) talked or introduced Himself with Prophet Muhammad through an Angel named Gabriel, disclosing the truth that it is the Allah who created everything in the universe. Surprisingly, Qur’an never defines the word “Allah” as to who actually Allah was or what was the relation of Allah with pagans. I believe, 99% percent of Muslims do believe that—Allah’s name was invented or started right from the time when Gabriel disclosed the truth (?) to Prophet Muhammad in the cave of Hira Parvat (Mountain) and gave Muhammad the Quran. They believe that before this truth was revealed—pagan Arabs were in the total darkness (Andhakar Zuug) and they used to worship various puppet goddess and that the pagans were very evil people. I can bet on this fact that no mullahs ever told us the real truth, neither they believe this clean truth that “Allah” was in fact a pre-existing deity in pagan Arabia. What a hypocrisy?
Some important factors which will suggest that the name“Allah” was already in use by Pagans as their chief God/deity:
(A) In pre-Islamic days, that Muslims call the Days of ignorance, the religious background of the Arabs was pagan, and basically animistic. Through Moon, Sun, Stars, Planets, Animals, wells, trees, stones, caves, springs, and other natural objects man could make contact with the deity. At Mekka, “Allah” was the chief of the gods and the special deity of the Quraish, the prophet’s tribe. Allah had three daughters: Al Uzzah (Venus) most revered of all and pleased with human sacrifice; Manah, the goddess of destiny, and Al Lat, the goddess of vegetable life. These three daughters of Allah (there is a Quranic verse about them) were considered very powerful over all things. Therefore, their intercessions on behalf of their worshippers were of great significance.
(B) Arabs used to give their children names such as—Abdullah (slave of Allah). Clean proof was the fact that, Muhammad’s father’s name was “Abdullah”. Logical analogy here is—had there been no “Allah” in pre-Islamic Arab, there could be no Abdullah or slave of Allah in Arabia.
(C) Even today, in the entire Arab World, not only Muslims but all other non-Muslim (Jews, Christians, Sabians, Bahai, an atheist etc.) Arabs says—“Ya Allah” as the expression of surprise or unhappiness/sorrow.
(D). Albert Hourani’s statement: “The Islamic name used for God was “Allah”, which was already in use for one of the local Gods (it now used by Arabic-speaking Jews and Christians as the name of God (A history Of Arab people by Albert Hourani, 1991, page-16, Belknap press of Harvard University, USA)
History tells us two theories of Allah’s existence in and around the Kaba Sharif: (1) Pagans used to call the largest Statue amongst the 360 deities as ALLAH—whom they used to consider the chief/supreme deity (god). Or, (2) Pagan Arabs used to worship 360 deities inside Kaba Sharif, and they used to consider them different smaller deities under the total control of a single most powerful chief deity called “ALLAH” who was invisible (Nirakar) and was the all-powerful, all-knowing, and totally unknowable.
Amazing Similarities with Hindu Religion:
In India’s Hindu religion is quite similar to the number two theory (above) of pagan belief. Although, Hindus worship many different Goddesses—they invariably have faith upon a single supreme invisible deity called “Bhagaban” (some call it “Ischhaar”) whom they call “Nirakar”. And, surprisingly there is no sculptural image/figure for this Bhagaban. But all Hindus worship Him along with other numerous deities. This Bhagaban is considered as the lord of all other deities. What would happen—if some intelligent prophet would have asked Hindus to give up worshipping other goddesses and keeping only Bhagaban as their only deity making it a monotheist religion just like Islam? Could it not be another religion like Islam?
Now some factors which will suggest “Allah” was the Moon-god of Arab pagans:
(A) In Qura’n there are at least a dozen verses in which Allah repeatedly swears by the names such as moon, sun, stars, planets, night, wind etc. It is a mystery why the creator Allah (?) should swear by his creations. Normally, we swear by the name of something much superior to us, such as we swear by God or by the name of our father (who is considered senior or superior to us). But we never swear by the name of something inferior to us. Here in the Quran swearing fashions of Allah (God) by moon or stars hinting us that Allah considered these things superior to himself. And this makes us to think (otherwise) as to who actually acted as Allah in Quran? However, in his explanation of why the Qur’an swears by the moon in Surah 74:32, “Nay, verily by the Moon,” Yusuf Alli comments, “The moon was worshipped as a deity in times of darkness”(fn. 5798, pg. 1644). Perhaps, this swearing of Allah was due to the usual/cultural habits of worshipping moon as their God in pagan customs.
(B) Yousuf Ali stated (Page-1921-1623 of his English Translation of Holy Quran):
“Moon-worship was equally popular in various forms………Apollo and Diana—the twin brother and sister, representing the sun and moon. …in the Vedic religion of India the moon god was Soma, the lord of the planets…….moon was male divinity in ancient India. Moon was also male divinity in ancient Semitic religion, and the Arabic word for the moon “qamar’ is of the masculine gender, on the other hand, the Arabic word for sun “shams” is feminine gender. The pagan Arabs evidently looked upon the sun as a goddess and the moon as a God.
The Pagan deities best known in the Ka’ba and round about Mecca were Lat, Uzza, and Manat.…the 360 idols established by the Pagans in the Ka’ba probably represented the 360 days of an inaccurate solar year. This was the actual modern pagan worship as known to the Quraish contemporary with our prophet”
(C) Influence of Moon in Islam:
Who can deny the paramount influences of moon in Muslim’s life? In Islam, moon is considered holiest astronomical object, and moon is the guiding light of all Islamic rituals/festivals. Contradictions and conflicts are very common with the dates of Eids and Ramadan and obviously it is a chronic problem and moon is the nucleus of this problem. Crescent moon and stars are the symbolic sign in the national flags of many Muslim countries, and it is present over the Mosques, in the Muslim graveyard etc.
Prophet Muhammad compromised to Pagans to establish Islam in Arabia:
Prophet Muhammad did his clever tactics of adapting many rites of paganism into Islam, in order to accommodate Islam among the pagan Arabs. He made lots of political pacts with the Pagan Leaders such as Abu Suffian to accommodate his new idea of religion and he agreed to incorporate many of the Pagan rituals in Islam. Prophet Muhammad asked the pagans to worship only the “Allah” the largest God,
And destroy the idols of all other gods and goddesses that existed in Kabah. To establish oneness (monotheist) of God, he repeatedly asked them not to make any partners to Allah (That is why we can find hundreds of Quranic verses “asking not to make any partners to Allah). Finally, the Prophet was able to convince (by force of course) the pagans to destroy all idols, and on return (he) agreed (perhaps) to keep the “Names” of the goddess of most famous Pagan tribes as the alternative names of Allah—hence Islam has 99 NAMES of Allah.
Prophet Muhammad did command his followers to participate in these pagan ceremonies while the pagans were still in control of Mecca. (Please See Yusuf Ali, fn. 214, pg. 78). … “the whole of the [pagan] pilgrimage was spiritualized in Islam…” (Yusuf Ali: fn. 223 pg. 80). In the Tafsir (of Quran-2:200) maoulana Yousuf Ali stated: “After Pilgrimage, in Pagan times, the pilgrims used to gather in assemblies in which the praises of ancestors were sung. As the whole of the pilgrimage rites were spiritualized in Islam, so this aftermath of the Pilgrimage was also spiritualized. It was recommended for pilgrims to stay on two or three days after the pilgrimage, but they must use them in prayer and praise to God.(#223 of Shane’nazul by Maoulana Yousuf Ali, page-81)
In Islam many rituals performed (today) by devoted Muslims in the name of Allah are connected to the pagan worship that existed before Islam. Pagans practices of the Pilgrimage of Kabah once a year–the Fast of Ramadan, running around the Kabah seven times, kissing the black stone, shaving the head, animal sacrifices, running up and down two hills, throwing stones at the devil, snorting water in and out the nose, praying several times a day toward Mecca, giving alms, Friday prayers, etc. are strictly followed by Muslims today. Nobody can deny the fact that, all the above rituals of Muslim’s hajj today—existed well before the arrival of Islam.
It is highly plausible to consider the fact that by incorporating much of the Pagan’s rituals in new religion Islam—Prophet successfully reduced the pagan-risk and it was perhaps one of the most important milestone-attempts to conquer the minds of Pagans resulting in massive breakdown of the Pagans’ moral and support to oppose Islam.
The central shrine at Mekka was the Pagan’s Kaaba (called House of Allah), a cube like stone structure which still stands though many times rebuilt. Imbedded in one corner is the black stone, probably a meteorite, the kissing of which is now an essential part of the Muslim’s pilgrimage.
It is a historical fact that the Ka’aba, the sacred shrine which contains the Black Stone, in Mecca was used for pagan idol worship before Islam and even called the House of Allah at that time. The name of the God whom the Arabs worshipped was the god of pantheon—Ali-ilah the god, the supreme, the predeterminer of everybody’s life or destiny—the chief God “Allah”
Who did not read the story of BLACK STONE which was very sacred (povitra) to all various tribes of Quraish. When one day this sacred stone was needed to transfer from one place to another, there was a quarrel amongst the various tribes, as to who will carry that sacred stone? Then most intelligent and righteous young boy Muhammad (was not a prophet then) invented the solution of this serious problem. He (Muhammad) put this sacred stone over a Chaddor (piece of cloth) and asked one representative from each tribe to hold the Chaddor and carry the stone. I narrated this story briefly just to prove that—black stone did exist long before Islam was invented.
In summary, it has been truthfully and logically proven with all possible available circumstantial evidences/rational that, Islam was not a new religion but it is a reformed paganism. I believe thatall these monotheistic religions have more or less similar origins. This idea of monotheistic religion was not a brand new invention. Monotheistic thought was declared by Ancient Pharaoh Kings, Mesopotamia’s king Hamarubi (3000 B.C.), and Alexander the Great (300 B.C.). Differences were, these kings demanded that they themselves were the God whom everybody should worship.
References:
1. The Holy Qur’an, Translated by A. Yousuf Ali, Published by Amana Corporation, Brentwood, Maryland, 1983
2. Buchari Sharif, Bengali Translation by Maulana Muhammad Mustafizur Rahman, Sulemani Printers and Publishers, Dhaka, Second edition-1999
3. A History of the Arab peoples, by Albert Hourani, the Belknap press of Harvard University press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1991
4. Dr. Robert Morey, 1996 Research and Education Foundation.
5. Gilchrist, The Temple, The Ka’aba, and the Christ (Benoni, South Africa, 1980), p. 16.
6. G. J. O. Moshay, Who Is This Allah?, (Dorchester House, Bucks, UK, 1994), pg. 138
7. Ibn Warraq, Why I Am Not A Muslim, (Prometheus, Amherst, 1995) p. 42.
8. Encyclopedia of Islam, eds. Lewis, Menage, Pellat, Schacht (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1971, II:1093.)
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10.The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology, Arthur Cotterell and Rachel Storm, Lorenz Books, New York 10011, Anness Publishing Limited 1999
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{2] your thinking is so shallow it is unreal but then again you are brainwashed like a Zombie by the misguided content here.
No I don’t think so. I am too strong for you that is why you no answers to my assertion. What happen to your so called intellect to refute my messages? To the contrary it is you who are being brainwash and mentally conditioned …… you are like the robot being programmed to do just that: Kill, instill fear and intimidation to the people just because they are not Muslims.
[3] Be prepared for the severe and bitter punishment of Allah, wait just wait, wait for when Allah’s punishment strikes you, you better repent and return to your Lord before it’s too late because one day when you experiencing immense suffering, you will think back to my words and these moments of how you rejected and ridiculed Allah’s truth.
Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.
[4] Don’t say you haven’t been warned. We all have to die one day and then we will see at the moment of death when you are totally helpless who is right and who was wrong and I sincerely hope you ponder about such. May Allah guide you back to truth.
Death……good. But lets us talk about death shall we.
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What is death? And why are people so afraid of death? We are scared of death because of attachment. Death means you are to let go of everything that means a lot to you. But what happen to a person who does not need all this attachment. Who have no more needs, no more fears … that is the real death. Real freedom.
The day I walked out from the mesjid after listening to the discourse on hate, is the day I died. So how a person who is already dead be dead? Please do not try to frighten me with this whole story of death and the punishment. No matter what you said will not deter me in fact I am more determined now to flush out the likes of you and expose your cruelty and tyranny.
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This is what een old Hindoe Weda said about Allah.
http://www.hinduism.co.za/kaabaa.htm
"In India’s Hindu religion is quite similar to the number two theory (above) of pagan belief. Although, Hindus worship many different Goddesses—they invariably have faith upon a single supreme invisible deity called “Bhagaban” (some call it “Ischhaar”) whom they call “Nirakar”. And, surprisingly there is no sculptural image/figure for this Bhagaban. But all Hindus worship Him along with other numerous deities. This Bhagaban is considered as the lord of all other deities. What would happen—if some intelligent prophet would have asked Hindus to give up worshipping other goddesses and keeping only Bhagaban as their only deity making it a monotheist religion just like Islam? Could it not be another religion like Islam?"
Now I'm quite confuse here.
Bhagavan, also written Bhagwan or Bhagawan is from the Sanskrit nt-stem bhaga-vant- which literally means "possessing fortune, blessed, prosperous" (from the noun bhaga, meaning "fortune, wealth", cognate to Slavic bog "god"), and hence "illustrious, divine, venerable, holy". Normally Bhagavan is referring to Man or Male. Thus the following names like Bhagavan Krishnan, Bhagavan Shiva. If a woman its Bhagavati. Bhagavan referring to Male God, while Bhagavati is the Goddess. So its Ischhaar for male and Ischhaari for female,Nirakar and Nirakari.
As my per understanding… for Hindus there are many form of god and goddess given the reason that there's so many people with all the different taste. You are entitled to your own god as long as you do not try to impose it on another person. But eventually at the highest level God/Goddess are but formless, attribute less and genderless, they refer to Brahman. Brahman are but lights. The various forms are but just the tool. For the Shivites they use the image of Shiva and when they place it before the light, it shine. The Shaktas uses DEVI and when they place her image, she shine too. The same goes for all the other… krishna etc. All strive to move towards the light, eventually as they come nearer to the light, all forms and images means nothing but only the light. They thereafter merge with the light and becoming the light. So I know many Hindus did not see the Islamic reasoning of Allah as being the light different from their views. While the Muslim maintain the separation, the Hindus believe in merging with the divine in this case the Light. You then become the light.
How different is that when the Muslim refering Allah as the Light? The Brahman did not ask the people to kill or force them to believe.
Sorry not mean to preach here… I thought I just like to share what I know.
Useless and wasted my time… even the verse quoted (53) did not says that we have to worship the daughter of Allah. it simply says if read from 15-25 that these were the stories made up by their fore fathers…
Eternal muslim.. man why u waste time here… you are gifted to have allah and moh. no worries.. enjoy. Please leave us alone. i know how to be best in the books of God.
Pray tell, why do Christian and Jewish Arabs call God Allah? Al ilah doesn't translate to moon god, just the god. This article is not based on fact, its more assumption, rather it uses Christian polemics in discrediting Allah. The author is not informed about the fact that the crescent is an ancient Turkish symbol, it used to be a sign of Tengrin, the sky god. Allah was probably not a moon god, perhaps he was a sky god like Tengrin. The Turkish people as we know accepted Islam and went as far as ruling over the Hejaz and the middle east. Their symbol was quickly adopted by muslims and since then the crescent became synonymous with Islam. I am well aware of the fact that pre-islamic arabs worshipped Allah along with other gods, but I believe that Allah and Allaat would have been a pair of gods most revered by the ancient arabs, most likely Allah being a sky god and Allaat being the earth mother god. If you actually have real hard evidence from the sciences of anthropology and archaeology, please present it.
Before you all start with the dissing, know that I have given up Islam and I'm interested in the truth. This article is simply not reflecting the truth. It is a Christian attempt to associate Allah with the moon, when in truth Arab Christian and Jews persist on calling the almighty "Allah", one wonders why they do so in the face of the possibility that Allah is a moon god. make no mistake, Christians and Jews will not willingly call god allah if it was proven without a shred of doubt that allah was in fact a moon god.
Kyk na:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayar-ul-Okul#The_Ka…
Jy en almal hier sal leer dat die outjie Purushottam Nagesh Oak wat hierdie allegasies maak was nie eerlik nie.
Ek glo nie dat Islam in die hindoe geloof begin het nie, dit is alles leuens. Allah was nooit a maan godt, hy was gepaar met Allaat die vroulikke Allah, wat eindelik 'n hemel god was, nie a maan god nie. Dit is leuens wat Hindoes vertel om hulle geloof te krediet terwyl hulle nie genoeg bewys om dit te doen. maar ons weet almal dat hinduism ook pappekak is, ons hoef nie te ver te kyk nie.
Wat het hinduism met islam te doen? Niks meer as wat hulle hierdie leuens aan ons voer nie.
Dit is net soveel diere-ontlasting
Well let me say that your email doesn't work, first of all. I tried twice from different servers. Are these not just some pre-islamic facts (except for the one in which you hint that a Qur'an existed before Islam)? I'm not sure i see what you're trying to convey here.Islam IS a religion simply re-introduced, just like Jesus and Moses and all the Prophets came to reinforce the one true Faith. Muhammad reshaped the faith in a way that removed the errors, wrongs and corruption that were mixed into it, maintaining as minimal changes as possible so that it would be easier to follow. Most importantly, he changed the perception of God to a truer one. THE NAME DOESN'T MATTER TO GOD, IT'S YOUR PERCEPTION OF HIM THAT COUNTS. "Allah" means The God, or The Judge. God can be also named by His attributes, as He Himself does this in His Words. Such as The Merciful, The Exalted etc. You speak as though there was a Qur'an before Islam, but there wasn't. Muhammad himself was illiterate as was most of Arabia at that time (and "illiterate" does not mean "stupid") the Qur'an wasn't actually compiled into pages of a Book until about a century after the Prophet's death, and until then it was kept safe and accurate in the hearts of the Muslims through their 5 daily prayers and recitation – note that this was a time of professional memorizers.Also, the Prophet would bring down verses from the Qur'an and post them in a challenge against poets (which they couldn't overcome). If it was a Qur'an already written before, then the verses wouldn't be original.I also have issue with the "message" that "FaithFreedom.org" has posted here about Islam. Clearly, this, as well as the gaps in your knowledge of Islam that I indicated above, suggests that you are not, or never were, truly a Muslim. In the email I would ask you to defend yourself, but here i can only comment…
Eternal Muslim, you saden me with your ignorance. You think you have knowledge, but all you have collected is lies. You all bleat like sheep of your all powerfil Allah, Yaweh, God. If they were all powerfull they wouldn't need fools like you to do thier bidding. The reason you want to belong to a self appointed elitist club is because you are cowards and you are afraid of knowledge, you are afraid of free thought. You cower to your VILE DEITIES, I cower to no imaginary being. I do not fear God or death. I like ancient Arabs am a God to myself, and I have to be diciplined and just, kind , protective of others. You and your kind have no compassion, no courage. You do not atake responsibility for your actions, favouring instead to say you are acting for Allah. Blind, Cowardly Scum. I spit on your prophets, I spit on your God.
How you all bicker and chalenge one another like spoiled children. ALL religion is a lie. ALL religious texts are corrupt. All religion takes away the truth and beauty that is HUMANITY. Christians Bibles are so flawed that the new testament could not stand any objective scrutiny. 47 'heretical gospels' were disgarded for the one text, the three other books contain edits of pagan texts, and editation has been rife over the centuries to suit the political agenda of the day. Just the same as Islamic and Judaeic texts. When the new testament was looking shaky, what did they do? Lets bolster this "New Testament" text of love with the hate filled 'Old Testament' with its vile tribal deity Yaweh/ Jehova. A spiteful, masogenistic, narccisist, meglomaniac which needs blind faith and constant reassurance from it's followers to allow it to exist. Does this 'God' ring any bells? Does it sound a bit like 'Allah'? The one who promises terrorist child killers a host of virgins (so many virgins doesn't anyone have a dick in paradise?) All religious dogma is a vile invention of the sick pervertors of humanity. A vile virus that through fear and ignorance spreads like a plague and CORRUPTS everything it touches. It is an interesting FACT that wherever a monotheistic religion based on Abraham/ Ibrahim/Allah/ Yaweh/Jehova has reared its' ugly head, knowledge, Science, Mathematics, Philosophy, Free thinking ,Empathy, Kindness, and Personal responsibility have all been sacrificed (along with the practitioners of these diciplines), and have plunged thier respective societies into the 'DARK AGES'The raising of historic 'EVIDENCE' is difficult because of the actions by these fear filled fanatics and the destruction they have carried out 'In The Name Of God', to cover thier tracks. These fanatics have spent massive effort in fabricating 'Proof' to support thier lies. Any evidence is only of academic consequense, because THERE IS NO GOD. We don't have to fear god because NO SUCH THING EXISTS (Yaweh tells all Christians to kill me for this remark!) All we have to fear is the misguided deluded mob that can't help being afraid of the truth. The TRUTH CAN DESTROY THEM, not in the pysical sense that they wish to destroy, ME ,US, HUMANITY., but without this delusion they may find their own HUMANITY and not wish destruction on anything.Alas I have found, it is NEARLY impossible to REASON with someone who is UN- REASONABLE / WITHOUT REASON. I state nearly impossible, so I don't see this post as a waste of time, TIME, TRULY THE MOST PRECIOUS THING WE HAVE, use it with kindness!
Why, If a God existed, would it need to have its' existance reassured five times a dayWhy, If a God existed, would it not be able to do its own will (having created a universe) without involving mere mortals?Why, If a God was omnipotent and all knowing, what purpose does prayer serve?Why, If a God was truly merciful, would it be an indescriminate killer or judge and punish its beloved creation?Why, If there was a God, would catastrophic events not be let alone by religious groups and the victims allowed to suffer. After all, this destruction and suffering must be the will of god,( Oh,God is testing you, but being god it knows the outcome so why test?) Religious groups rally round without fail 'To do Gods work ' to save and care for these people with 'HUMANITARIAN AID' It's not the religion that is key here, but HUMANITY. The beauty of humanity is shrouded by, and falsley claimed by religion.Why does God need human beings?Simply without us there would not be a God, because we invented God,and Religion for corruption and controll. For men who seek gain and authority to impose thier will on others by lies, fear and false promises..One person with a delusion is regarded as mentaly ill. If more people share a delusion, this reinforces the delusion and creates mass hysteria. If enough people buy (and you do 'buy' ) into a delusion it becomes a religion, and as such is now seen as acceptable, even desirable, eventhough it is the same delusion that, when only one person suffered from it, it was seen as MADNESS! . WAKE UP! SEEK THE TRUTH! DO NOT SEEK TO JUSTIFY LIES, OR BE APPOLOGISTS FOR A SUPERNATURAL SPOOK IN THE SKY! FEAR NOTHING, FOR THERE IS NOTHING TO FEAR! (except if you choose ignorance)
You seem like a very very angry person. Anger is fear. What's that all; about? Before we go on and on and on about whether God exists or not, before we go on and on about what "He" said, what "He" wants, what "He" cares about and why, dont; you think we should take a moment to transcend infinity and define the term "God."
Just at thought.
[...] While Muslims claim to be merely a branch of the tree of Abraham like the Christians and Jews, their thinking is not the same as those two groups. While there are some concepts the Muslims have that are understandable in the general sense, such as theocracy, it is in searching the details that one finds that Islamic concepts are not at all like Christian and Jewish ones. In fact, Islam shares more philosophically with the old pagan cults. This fact has led a number of people to speculate or claim that Allah is actually not the God of Abraham, but derived from a pagan moon god of the Ancient World, Allah of the pre-Muslim Arab Meccans — note the crescent moon shape in Islamic symbol and flags. [For a well-researched look at this whole issue, please click here.] [...]
He is Allah, than Whom there is no other God, the Knower of the Invisible and the Visible. He is the Beneficent, Merciful. (22) He is Allah, than Whom there is no other God, the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One, Peace, the Keeper of Faith, the Guardian, the Majestic, the Compeller, the Superb. Glorified be Allah from all that they ascribe as partner (unto Him). (23) He is Allah, the Creator, the Shaper out of naught, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifieth Him, and He is the Mighty, the Wise. (24)
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NO NOT TRUE: http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Sources/Al… http://www.islamtomorrow.com/allah/moon_god.asp
Definitely not true http://www.answering-christianity.com/moon_god.ht…
I know man that Allah is the Moon God of the Arabs. Ive been saying it all along… But the Pakistani Shudra Reader, just refuses to believe me. Sigh……….
I have made my points I had to here, I’m now off to study the Brilliant Islamic Sites which refute this one. I have really enjoyed during the course of my studying these sites seeing how they topple one by one all of Ali Sina’s and the rest of his cronies weak and feeble arguments against the perfect truth of Islam. I’m off to study the potent refutations made against this site
I’m a Muslim forever
Excellent article.
Allah is an alien from outer space………came to earth in this big gigantic space ship….
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Allah is the Greatest
I was curious to see what answering-christianity dot com had to say about atheism and agnosticism, sadly all links referring to those topics are not working.