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Hebrew
name of the Creator
,
i.e.
Eloha. The Jews are using the
plural form of respect when they say “Elohim”. (in the eastern
languages there are two types of plural: one is of numbers and
the other is of respect).The word “Allaha” sounds closer to the
Aramaic word for God used by Jesus, namely “Allaha” (see
Encyclopedia Britannica 1980 under Allah and Elohim). So while
the name Allah is strange to non-Muslims, it is not strange to all
Prophets from Adam to Muhammed, (pbut) as they propagated
in principle the same Islam,
i.e.
total submission to ALLAH. The
word Allah denotes the personal
name of the Supreme Being.
It
is not subject to plurality or gender,
so there is no such thing as
Allahs, or male or female Allah, as there are Gods and Goddess
in the English language. It is also confusing to use the words
God and Creator as many English-speaking Christians still
consider Jesus to be God and Creator. Not only the name Allah is
strange to the non-Muslims but also the way Muslims worship
Allah with ablution, bowing, kneeling, and prostrating. Modern
Christians have deliberately abandoned the ablution (washing of
face, arms, feet, and moistening of the hair) prior to worship; but
it is still a requirement for Muslims. All the Prophets did this
ablution as seen in the following passages of the Bible:
Exodus
40:31-32:
“And
Moses
and Aaron and his sons washed their
hands and their feet thereat, when they went into the tent of the
congregation, and when they came near unto the alter they
washed; as the Lord commanded Moses.” Although Paul
corrupted the teachings of Jesus (pbuh) he was still faithful in
respect to ablution as seen in
Acts 21:26.
“Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself
with them as in
I Corinthians 11:5,6 and 13
: “But every woman
that prayeth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: