Islam, the False Pagan Babylonian Religion, Exposed: “Allah” (Ba’al)
Pre Arabic Pagan Moon God / Muhammad False Prophet
Islam, the False Pagan Babylonian Religion, Exposed: “Allah” (Ba’al) is the Pre Arabic Pagan Moon God / Muhammad False Prophet
Original Author: Posted by: comingworldwar3 | July 27, 2010
https://comingworldwar3.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/allah-pre-arabic-pagan-moon-god-an-expose-on-islam/?unapproved=8424&moderation-hash=4a7d1e3c3293371db5ffbee3198be031#comment-8424
Re-posting in full with no editing for further spreading of the Truth so that others are not deceived by this False Religion to which is a Demonic Political Ideology.
“The Arabs, before the time of Mohammed, accepted and worshipped, after a fashion, a supreme god called Allah” – (Encyclopedia off Islam, I:302, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1913, Houtsma)
“The name Allah, as the Quran itself is witness, was well known in pre-Islamic Arabia. Indeed, both it and its feminine form, Allat, are found not infrequently among the theophorous names in inscriptions from North Africa” – (Islam: Muhammad, and His Religion, New York: The Liberal Arts Press, 1958, p. 85)
The word “Allah” comes from the compound Arabic word, al-ilah. Al is the definite article “the” and ilah is an Arabic word for “god.” It is not a foreign word. It is not even the Syriac word for God. It is pure Arabic. – (There is an interesting discussion of the origins of Allah, in “Arabic Lexicographical Miscellanies” by J. Blau in the Journal of Semitic Studies, Vol. XVII, #2, 1972, pp. 173-190)
Neither is Allah a Hebrew or Greek word for God as found in the Bible. Allah is a purely Arabic term used in reference to an Arabian deity. Hastings’ Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics I:326, T & T Clark, states:
‘”Allah” is a proper name, applicable only to their [Arabs’] peculiar God.’
According to the Encyclopedia of Religion:
‘”Allah” is a pre-Islamic name . . . corresponding to the Babylonian Bel’ – (Encyclopedia of Religion, I:117 Washington DC, Corpus Pub., 1979)
For those who find it hard to believe that Allah was a pagan name for a peculiar pagan Arabian deity in pre-Islamic times, the following quotations may be helpful:
“Allah is found . . . in Arabic inscriptions prior to Islam” – (Encyclopedia Britannica, I:643)
“The Arabs, before the time of Mohammed, accepted and worshipped, after a fashion, a supreme god called Allah” – (Encyclopedia off Islam, I:302, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1913, Houtsma)
“Allah was known to the pre-Islamic . . . Arabs; he was one of the Meccan deities” – (Encyclopedia off Islam, I:406, ed. Gibb)
“Ilah . . . appears in pre-Islamic poetry . . . By frequency of usage, al-ilah was contracted to Allah, frequently attested to in pre-Islamic poetry” – (Encyclopedia off Islam, III:1093, 1971)
“The name Allah goes back before Muhammad” – (Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend, I:41, Anthony Mercatante, New York, The Facts on File, 1983)
“The origin of this (Allah) goes back to pre-Muslim times. Allah is not a common name meaning “God” (or a “god”), and the Muslim must use another word or form if he wishes to indicate any other than his own peculiar deity” – (Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, I:326, Hastings)
To the testimony of the above standard reference works, we add those of such scholars as Henry Preserved Smith of Harvard University who has stated:
“Allah was already known by name to the Arabs” – (The Bible and Islam: or, The Influence of the Old and New Testament on the Religion of Mohammed, New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897, p. 102)
Dr. Kenneth Cragg, former editor of the prestigious scholarly journal Muslim World and an outstanding modern Western Islamic scholar, whose works are generally published by Oxford University, comments:
“The name Allah is also evident in archeological and literary remains of pre-Islamic Arabia” – (The Call of the Minaret, New York: Oxford University Press, 1956, p. 31)
“In recent years I have become increasingly convinced that for an adequate understanding of the career of Muhammad and the origins of Islam great importance must be attached to the existence in Mecca of belief in Allah as a “high god.” In a sense this is a form of paganism, but it is so different from paganism as commonly understood that it deserves separate treatment” – (William Montgomery Watt, Muhammad’s Mecca, p. vii. Also see his article, “Belief in a High God in Pre-Islamic Mecca”, Journal of Semitic Studies, Vol. 16, 1971, pp. 35-40)
Caesar Farah in his book on Islam concludes his discussion of the pre-Islamic meaning of Allah by saying:
“There is no reason, therefore, to accept the idea that Allah passed to the Muslims from the Christians and Jews” – (Islam: Beliefs and Observations, New York, Barrons, 1987, p. 28)
According to Middle East scholar E.M. Wherry, whose translation of the Quran is still used today, in pre-Islamic times Allah-worship, as well as the worship of Ba-al, were both astral religions in that they involved the worship of the sun, the moon, and the stars – (A Comprehensive Commentary on the Quran, Osnabruck: Otto Zeller Verlag, 1973, p. 36)
Astral Religions
In Arabia, the sun god was viewed as a female goddess and the moon as the male god. As has been pointed out by many scholars such as Alfred Guilluame, the moon god was called by various names, one of which was Allah! – (Islam, p. 7)
The name Allah was used as the personal name of the moon god, in addition to other titles that could be given to him.
Allah, the moon god, was married to the sun goddess. Together they produced three goddesses who were called “the daughters of Allah.” These three goddesses were called Al-Lat, Al-Uzza, and Manat.
The daughters of Allah, along with Allah and the sun goddess were viewed as “high” gods. That is, they were viewed as being at the top of the pantheon of Arabian deities.
“Along with Allah, however, they worshipped a host of lesser gods and “daughters of Al-lah” – (Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend, I:61)”
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Allah – the Moon God
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/moongod.htm
The Archeology of The Middle East
The religion of Islam has as its focus of worship a deity by the name of “Allah.” The Muslims claim that Allah in pre-Islamic times was the biblical God of the Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles. The issue is thus one of continuity. Was “Allah” the biblical God or a pagan god in Arabia during pre- Islamic times? The Muslim’s claim of continuity is essential to their attempt to convert Jews and Christians for if “Allah” is part of the flow of divine revelation in Scripture, then it is the next step in biblical religion. Thus we should all become Muslims. But, on the other hand, if Allah was a pre- Islamic pagan deity, then its core claim is refuted. Religious claims often fall before the results of hard sciences such as archeology. We can endlessly speculate about the past or go and dig it up and see what the evidence reveals. This is the only way to find out the truth concerning the origins of Allah. As we shall see, the hard evidence demonstrates that the god Allah was a pagan deity. In fact, he was the Moon-god who was married to the sun goddess and the stars were his daughters.
The reader must know that Ismael was a Hebrew.
Archaeologists have uncovered temples to the Moon-god throughout the Middle East. From the mountains of Turkey to the banks of the Nile, the most wide-spread religion of the ancient world was the worship of the Moon-god. In the first literate civilization, the Sumerians have left us thousands of clay tablets in which they described their religious beliefs. As demonstrated by Sjoberg and Hall, the ancient Sumerians worshipped a Moon-god who was called many different names. The most popular names were Nanna, Suen and Asimbabbar. His symbol was the crescent moon. Given the amount of artifacts concerning the worship of this Moon-god, it is clear that this was the dominant religion in Sumeria. The cult of the Moon-god was the most popular religion throughout ancient Mesopotamia. The Assyrians, Babylonians, and the Akkadians took the word Suen and transformed it into the word Sin as their favorite name for the Moon-god. As Prof. Potts pointed out, “Sin is a name essentially Sumerian in origin which had been borrowed by the Semites. ”
In ancient Syria and Canna, the Moon-god Sin was usually represented by the moon in its crescent phase. At times the full moon was placed inside the crescent moon to emphasize all the phases of the moon. The sun-goddess was the wife of Sin and the stars were their daughters. For example, Istar was a daughter of Sin. Sacrifices to the Moon-god are described in the Pas Shamra texts. In the Ugaritic texts, the Moon-god was sometimes called Kusuh. In Persia, as well as in Egypt, the Moon- god is depicted on wall murals and on the heads of statues. He was the Judge of men and gods. The Old Testament constantly rebuked the worship of the Moon-god (see: Deut. 4:19;17:3; II Kngs. 21:3,5; 23:5; Jer. 8:2; 19:13; Zeph. 1:5, etc.) When Israel fell into idolatry, it was usually the cult of the Moon-god. As a matter of fact, everywhere in the ancient world, the symbol of the crescent moon can be found on seal impressions, steles, pottery, amulets, clay tablets, cylinders, weights, earrings, necklaces, wall murals, etc. In Tell-el-Obeid, a copper calf was found with a crescent moon on its forehead. An idol with the body of a bull and the head of man has a crescent moon inlaid on its forehead with shells. In Ur, the Stela of Ur-Nammu has the crescent symbol placed at the top of the register of gods because the Moon-god was the head of the gods. Even bread was baked in the form of a crescent as an act of devotion to the Moon-god. The Ur of the Chaldees was so devoted to the Moon-god that it was sometimes called Nannar in tablets from that time period.
A temple of the Moon-god has been excavated in Ur by Sir Leonard Woolley. He dug up many examples of moon worship in Ur and these are displayed in the British Museum to this day. Harran was likewise noted for its devotion to the Moon-god. In the 1950’s a major temple to the Moon-god was excavated at Hazer in Palestine. Two idols of the moon god were found. Each was a stature of a man sitting upon a throne with a crescent moon carved on his chest . The accompanying inscriptions make it clear that these were idols of the Moon-god. Several smaller statues were also found which were identified by their inscriptions as the “daughters” of the Moon-god. What about Arabia? As pointed out by Prof. Coon, “Muslims are notoriously loath to preserve traditions of earlier paganism and like to garble what pre-Islamic history they permit to survive in anachronistic terms.”
During the nineteenth century, Amaud, Halevy and Glaser went to Southern Arabia and dug up thousands of Sabean, Minaean, and Qatabanian inscriptions which were subsequently translated. In the 1940’s, the archeologists G. Caton Thompson and Carleton S. Coon made some amazing discoveries in Arabia. During the 1950’s, Wendell Phillips, W.F. Albright, Richard Bower and others excavated sites at Qataban, Timna, and Marib (the ancient capital of Sheba). Thousands of inscriptions from walls and rocks in Northern Arabia have also been collected. Reliefs and votive bowls used in worship of the “daughters of Allah” have also been discovered. The three daughters, al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat are sometimes depicted together with Allah the Moon-god represented by a crescent moon above them. The archeological evidence demonstrates that the dominant religion of Arabia was the cult of the Moon-god.
In Old Testament times, Nabonidus (555-539 BC), the last king of Babylon, built Tayma, Arabia as a center of Moon-god worship. Segall stated, “South Arabia’s stellar religion has always been dominated by the Moon-god in various variations.” Many scholars have also noticed that the Moon-god’s name “Sin” is a part of such Arabic words as “Sinai,” the “wilderness of Sin,” etc. When the popularity of the Moon-god waned elsewhere, the Arabs remained true to their conviction that the Moon-god was the greatest of all gods. While they worshipped 360 gods at the Kabah in Mecca, the Moon-god was the chief deity. Mecca was in fact built as a shrine for the Moon-god.
This is what made it the most sacred site of Arabian paganism. In 1944, G. Caton Thompson revealed in her book, The Tombs and Moon Temple of Hureidha, that she had uncovered a temple of the Moon-god in southern Arabia. The symbols of the crescent moon and no less than twenty-one inscriptions with the name Sin were found in this temple. An idol which may be the Moon-god himself was also discovered. This was later confirmed by other well-known archeologists.
The evidence reveals that the temple of the Moon-god was active even in the Christian era. Evidence gathered from both North and South Arabia demonstrate that Moon-god worship was clearly active even in Muhammad’s day and was still the dominant cult. According to numerous inscriptions, while the name of the Moon-god was Sin, his title was al- ilah, i.e. “the deity,” meaning that he was the chief or high god among the gods. As Coon pointed out, “The god Il or Ilah was originally a phase of the Moon God.” The Moon-god was called al- ilah, i.e. the god, which was shortened to Allah in pre-Islamic times. The pagan Arabs even used Allah in the names they gave to their children. For example, both Muhammad’s father and uncle had Allah as part of their names.
The fact that they were given such names by their pagan parents proves that Allah was the title for the Moon-god even in Muhammad’s day. Prof. Coon goes on to say, “Similarly, under Mohammed’s tutelage, the relatively anonymous Ilah, became Al-Ilah, The God, or Allah, the Supreme Being.”
This fact answers the questions, “Why is Allah never defined in the Qur’an? Why did Muhammad assume that the pagan Arabs already knew who Allah was?” Muhammad was raised in the religion of the Moon-god Allah. But he went one step further than his fellow pagan Arabs. While they believed that Allah, i.e. the Moon-god, was the greatest of all gods and the supreme deity in a pantheon of deities, Muhammad decided that Allah was not only the greatest god but the only god.
In effect he said, “Look, you already believe that the Moon-god Allah is the greatest of all gods. All I want you to do is to accept that the idea that he is the only god. I am not taking away the Allah you already worship. I am only taking away his wife and his daughters and all the other gods.” This is seen from the fact that the first point of the Muslim creed is not, “Allah is great” but “Allah is the greatest,” i.e., he is the greatest among the gods. Why would Muhammad say that Allah is the “greatest” except in a polytheistic context? The Arabic word is used to contrast the greater from the lesser. That this is true is seen from the fact that the pagan Arabs never accused Muhammad of preaching a different Allah than the one they already worshipped. This “Allah” was the Moon-god according to the archeological evidence. Muhammad thus attempted to have it both ways. To the pagans, he said that he still believed in the Moon-god Allah. To the Jews and the Christians, he said that Allah was their God too. But both the Jews and the Christians knew better and that is why they rejected his god Allah as a false god.
Al-Kindi, one of the early Christian apologists against Islam, pointed out that Islam and its god Allah did not come from the Bible but from the paganism of the Sabeans. They did not worship the God of the Bible but the Moon-god and his daughters al-Uzza, al-Lat and Manat. Dr. Newman concludes his study of the early Christian-Muslim debates by stating, “Islam proved itself to be…a separate and antagonistic religion which had sprung up from idolatry.” Islamic scholar Caesar Farah concluded “There is no reason, therefore, to accept the idea that Allah passed to the Muslims from the Christians and Jews.” The Arabs worshipped the Moon-god as a supreme deity. But this was not biblical monotheism. While the Moon-god was greater than all other gods and goddesses, this was still a polytheistic pantheon of deities. Now that we have the actual idols of the Moon-god, it is no longer possible to avoid the fact that Allah was a pagan god in pre-Islamic times. Is it any wonder then that the symbol of Islam is the crescent moon? That a crescent moon sits on top of their mosques and minarets? That a crescent moon is found on the flags of Islamic nations? That the Muslims fast during the month which begins and ends with the appearance of the crescent moon in the sky?
CONCLUSION
The pagan Arabs worshipped the Moon-god Allah by praying toward Mecca several times a day; making a pilgrimage to Mecca; running around the temple of the Moon-god called the Kabah; kissing the black stone; killing an animal in sacrifice to the Moon-god; throwing stones at the devil; fasting for the month which begins and ends with the crescent moon; giving alms to the poor, etc.
The Muslim’s claim that Allah is the God of the Bible and that Islam arose from the religion of the prophets and apostles is refuted by solid, overwhelming archeological evidence. Islam is nothing more than a revival of the ancient Moon-god cult. It has taken the symbols, the rites, the ceremonies, and even the name of its god from the ancient pagan religion of the Moon-god. As such, it is sheer idolatry and must be rejected by all those who follow the Torah and Gospel. moongod.htm
Further information: thoroughly study the links in this file and also in The Cult of the Moon God, The Vatican and Islam
Allah is sin. Often depicted as a wise old man with a long beard, the moon god Sin was one of the most important Babylonian gods. His main temples were situated at Ur and Harran. The moon god “sin” was elevated to the top of the Babylonian pantheon by Nabu-na’id (Nabonidus) in an effort to make Babylonian religion more acceptable to subjects like the Arabians and Arameans. The Arabians esteemed the moon god, but had more difficulty identifying with Marduk, the supreme Babylonian deity associated primarily with the city of Babylon. The god Sin, “The Controller of the Night,” had the crescent moon as his emblem, and the lunar-based calendar, which became the primary religious symbols of Islam, was worshiped in Arabia as AI-Ilah. Mecca became the center of all pagan religions of Arabia before Mohammed. AI-Ilah, the Moon God, was the “Lord of the Ka’aba” (“cube”) which held the pagan black rock idol and was formerly the center of pagan worship, ruling over 360 idols. Lucrative trade routes resulted in meca.
Pagans who lived in Saudi Arabia before Muhammad was born worshiped toward Mecca because Mecca is where their idols were located. Because this pagan worship centered on Mecca was so widespread, a rapid acceptance of Muhammad’s new religion was possible. Thus, Islam is a previously heathen religion modified into a monotheistic form by discarding all the other pagan gods except for Al-Ilah. Al-Ilah simply became Al-lah over time.
Islam still worships a black stone idol as well as Al-Ilah the sin god. Al-Ilah was the pagan Lord of the Ka’aba when Muhammad made up Islam, he just dropped the “i” and name has been simplified to Allah. The Ka’aba black cube in Mecca houses the occult black rock of Allah. It is of course still the center of pagan Islamic worship today. The requirement for a Holy Pilgrimage (hajj) to Mecca, in order to circle the Ka’aba. The site of the black stone idol is to be circled 7 times and kissed. Pilgrims then run to the Wadi Mina to throw stones at the “devil”. Islam incorporates beliefs in jinns which are demons genies, fairies. They believe in spells, magic stones, fetishes, and animistic beliefs (spirits living in inanimate objects). See: Suras 55; 72; 113, 114. These pagan rites are practiced in Islam today.
Islam Exposed!:
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/false_religions.htm#islam
The pre-Islamic origin of “Allah”:
http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-allah-pre-islamic-origin.htm
http://www.answering-islam.org/
http://www.youtube.com/user/Muslims4Jesus
http://www.youtube.com/user/IslamXplained
What the West Doesn’t Know about Islam
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7513102344113888504#
Axis of Islam: Verses of Hate:
http://pedestrianinfidel.blogspot.com/2005/09/axis-of-islam-verses-of-hate.html
A COMPARISON BETWEEN MUHAMMAD AND JESUS CHRIST
A COMPARISON BETWEEN MUHAMMAD AND JESUS CHRIST
Posted by: comingworldwar3 | June 12, 2011
https://comingworldwar3.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/a-comparison-between-muhammad-and-jesus-christ/
By George Zeller and Steve Van Nattan
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Islamic%20Muslim/muhammad_verses_jesuschrist.htm
Mohammed was the prophet of war;
Christ is the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6-7).
Mohammed’s disciples killed for the faith;
Christ’s disciples were killed for their faith (Acts 12:2; 2 Timothy 4:7).
Mohammed promoted persecution against the “infidels”;
Christ forgave and converted the chief persecutor (1 Timothy 1:13-15).
Mohammed was the taker of life;
Christ was the giver of life (John 10:27-28).
Mohammed and his fellow warriors murdered thousands;
Christ murdered none but saved many (compare John 12:48).
Mohammed’s method was COMPULSION;
Christ’s aim was voluntary CONVERSION (Acts 3:19).
Mohammed practiced FORCE;
Christ preached FAITH (John 6:29,35).
Mohammed was a WARRIOR;
Christ is a DELIVERER (Col. 1:13; 1 Thessalonians 1:10).
Mohammed conquered his enemies with the sword;
Christ conquered his enemies with another kind of sword, the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God (Hebrews 4:12; Acts 2:37).
Mohammed said to the masses, “Convert or die!”;
Christ said, “Believe and live!” (John 6:47; 11:25-26).
Mohammed was swift to shed blood (Romans 3:15-17);
Christ shed His own blood for the salvation of many (Ephesians 1:7).
Mohammed preached “Death to the infidels!”;
Christ prayed “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34).
Mohammed declared a holy war (Jihad) against infidels;
Christ achieved a holy victory on Calvary’s cross (Colossians 2:14-15) and His followers share in that victory (John 16:33).
Mohammed constrained people by conquest;
Christ constrained people by love (2 Corinthians 5:14).
Modern terrorists derive their inspiration from Mohammed and carry out their despicable atrocities in the name of his god;
Christians derive their inspiration from the One who said, “Blessed are the peacemakers” (Matthew 5:9).
Modern day disciples of Mohammed respond to the terrorist attacks by cheering in the streets;
Modern day disciples of Christ are deeply grieved at past atrocities carried out by those who were “Christians” in name only (the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, etc.).
Many Muslims are peaceful and peace-loving because they do not strictly follow the teachings of their founder;
Many Christians are peaceful and peace-loving because they do strictly follow the teachings of their Founder (Romans 12:17-21).
Mohammed said the Koran is authoritative only in Arabic, and only in his dialect;
The Bible is authoritative in many languages around the world, for God knows all things and can inspire His Word in more than one language.
Mohammed hated music;
Jesus and His disciples sang hymns, and the Apostle commanded the Lord’s Church to sing. (Matthew 26:30, Ephesians 5:19, Colossians 3:16)
Mohammed allowed that a Mullah, Imam, or Mufti of Islam can be a terrorist and moral animal like Osama bin Laden;
The Bible requires that a leader in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ must be above reproach, and when this is not true, Christians demand such a fallen leader be removed from leadership. (1 Timothy 3:1-7, 5:19-20)
Islam calls on its followers to observe Five Pillars, while all other aspects of life can be vulgar and not affect the Muslim’s prospects in Paradise.
The Bible calls on the Christian to submit to the total change of his life by the Spirit of God– NO area of life and thought is the choice of the follower. (Romans 12:1-2)
The Muslim looks forward to eternity in Paradise where there will be virgins who are used for eternal perpetual copulation.
The Bible believing Christian looks forward to being with Jesus Christ and is delighted with that. (2 Corinthians 5:8)
Mohammed said the witness of a woman was half the value of the witness of a man; and Muhammed said a women goes to Paradise because she satisfies her husband sexually; The Bible teaches that a husband is to love his wife and be willing to die for her. (Ephesians 5:25)
Mohammed called upon his servants to fight;
Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world; if My kingdom were of this world, then would My servants fight . . .but now is My kingdom not from here” (John 18:36)
Mohammed ordered death to the Jews (see A.Guillaume, The Life of Muhammad, Oxford University Press [1975], p. 369);
Christ ordered that the gospel be preached “to the Jew first” (Romans 1:16).
The Koran says, “Fight in the cause of Allah” (Qu’ran 2.244);
The Bible says, “we wrestle not against flesh and blood” and “the weapons of our warfare are not carnal” (Ephesians 6:12; 2 Corinthians 10:4).
The Koran says, “Fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them” (Qu’ran 9.5);
Christ said, “Preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15).
The Koran says, “I will inspire terror into the hearts of unbelievers” (Qu’ran 8.12);
God inspires His terror into the hearts of believers (Isaiah 8:13).
The Koran (Qu’ran) is a terrorist manual which condones fighting, conflict, terror, slaughter, and genocide against those who do not accept Islam;
The Bible is a missionary manual to spread the gospel of peace to all the world (Romans 10:15).
Mohammed’s Mission was to conquer the world for Allah;
Christ’s mission was to conquer sin’s penalty and power by substitutionary atonement (2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 3:18).
Mohammed considered Christ a good prophet;
Christ pronounced Mohammed to be a false prophet (John 10:10; Matthew 24:11).
Mohammed claimed that there was but one God, Allah;
Christ claimed that He was God (John 10:30-31; John 8:58-59; John 5:18; John 14:9).
Islam is geocentric, that is, the whole universe is centered on the Kaaba in the Grand mosque in Mecca in Arabia, and all Muslims pray facing that direction;
Jesus Christ is the center of all Christian worship and fellowship, for He is “in the midst” where his saints meet anywhere on earth. (Matthew 18:20, John 4:22-23)
Mohammed’s Tomb: OCCUPIED!
Christ’s tomb: EMPTY!
Islam must be received, or you can be killed for rejecting it:
The Faith offered by Jesus Christ is for “whosoever will” to receive, and all men are permitted to reject it. (Revelation 22:17, John 3:16)
Those who leave Islam are killed in most Islamic nations;
Those who leave the true Church of Jesus Christ are allowed to do so with no revenge.
Now, is a Muslim submitted to Allah and Islam because he loves Allah?
NO!
He dare not leave Islam, and he is loyal purely out of fear.
The true Bible believer is loyal to Jesus Christ purely out of love.
1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 19 We love him, because he first loved us.
This concept is 100% alien to Islam– There is no love in Islam– Only fear and hate.
SOURCE
Allah the Islamic moon god in History
Bible Study - Apr 13, 2016
https://amredeemed.com/allah-the-islamic-moon-god-in-history/
Muslims claim that Allah is the God of the Bible. Yet “Allah” does not appear once in either the Old or New Testaments. The only time God is referred to by name in the Old Testament is either as YAHWEH (meaning “He (who) is”) or as a contraction, YAH. [Please note that the name “Jehovah” is not a biblical name of God instead was especially ‘created’ by Jews afraid to pronounce the Sacred Name by combining the consonants YHWH with the vowels from adonai, meaning “Lord”].
The word allah does exist in Hebrew but it is not a proper name and it never refers to God of the Bible. Neither is the word ‘alah’ or ‘allah’ in the Greek New Testament at all. Therefore the claim that ‘Allah’ was the name of God in the Bible(God of Israel) is without one single shred of evidence. God of the Bible and Israel has always been known as Yahweh, or (much less frequently) by the contraction Yah.
The Name Yahweh is shows up in the Third Commandment:
THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF YAHWEH THY ELOHIM [GOD] IN VAIN” (EX.20:7)
Origin of the Name Allah
So if Allah isn’t the name of the God of the Bible, just where did it come from? “Allah” comes from the compound Arabic word, al-ilah. Al is the definite article “the” and ilah is an Arabic word for “god”, i.e. the god. We immediately see that (1) this is not a proper name but a generic name like the Hebrew El (which was used of any deity; and (2) that Allah is not a foreign word (as it would have been if it had been borrowed from the Hebrew Bible) but a purely Arabic one. It would also be wrong to compare “Allah” with the Hebrew or Greek for God (El and Theos, respectively), because “Allah” is purely an Arabic term used exclusively in reference to an Arabic deity.
Allah in Archeology
Archaeologists have uncovered temples to the Moon-god throughout the Middle East. From the mountains of Turkey to the banks of the Nile, the most wide-spread religion of the ancient world was that of the worship of the Moon-god. In the first literate civilization, the Sumerians have left us thousands of clay tablets in which they described their religious beliefs. As demonstrated by Sjoberg and Hall, the ancient Sumerians worshipped a Moon-god who was called many different names. The most popular names were Nanna, Suen and Asimbabbar. His symbol was the crescent moon. Given the amount of artifacts concerning the worship of this Moon-god, it is clear that this was the dominant religion in Sumeria.
A temple of the Moon-god has been excavated in Ur by Sir Leonard Woolley. He dug up many examples of moon worship in Ur and these are displayed in the British Museum to this day. Harran was likewise noted for its devotion to the Moon-god. In the 1950’s a major temple to the Moon-god was excavated at Hazor in Palestine. Two idols of the Moon god were found. Each was a stature of a man sitting upon a throne with a crescent moon carved on his chest. The accompanying inscriptions make it clear that these were idols of the Moon-god. Several smaller statues were also found which were identified by their inscriptions as the “daughters” of the Moon-god.
During the nineteenth century, Amaud, Halevy and Glaser went to Southern Arabia and dug up thousands of Sabean, Minaean, and Qatabanian inscriptions which were subsequently translated. During the 1950’s, Wendell Phillips, W.F. Albright, Richard Bower and others excavated sites at Qataban, Timna, and Marib (the ancient capital of Sheba). Thousands of inscriptions on walls and rocks in Northern Arabia have also been collected. Reliefs and votive bowls used in worship of the “daughters of Allah” have also been discovered. The three daughters, al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat are sometimes depicted together with Allah the Moon-god represented by a crescent moon above them.
Muslims will find this hard to believe but the facts must be faced. Archeology has found Allah. Allah existed as the Arabian moon god long before Muhammad ever introduced him to Arabs.
“But history establishes beyond the shadow of doubt that even the pagan Arabs, before Muhammad’s time, knew their chief god by the name of Allah and even, in a sense, proclaimed his unity…Among the pagan Arabs this term denoted the chief god of their pantheon, the Kaaba, with its three hundred and sixty idols.” –(The Muslim Doctrine of God, Samuel M. Zwemer 1905, p24-25)
“HISTORIANS LIKE VAQQIDI HAVE SAID ALLAH WAS ACTUALLY THE CHIEF OF THE 360 GODS [ONE FOR EACH DAY OF THE YEAR] BEING WORSHIPPED IN ARABIA AT THE TIME MUHAMMAD ROSE TO PROMINENCE. IBN AL-KALBI GAVE 27 NAMES OF PRE-ISLAMIC DEITIES… INTERESTINGLY, NOT MANY MUSLIMS WANT TO ACCEPT THAT ALLAH WAS ALREADY BEING WORSHIPPED AT THE KA’BA IN MECCA BY ARAB PAGANS BEFORE MUHAMMAD CAME. SOME MUSLIMS BECOME ANGRY WHEN THEY ARE CONFRONTED WITH THIS FACT. BUT HISTORY IS NOT ON THEIR SIDE. PRE-ISLAMIC LITERATURE HAS PROVED THIS.” — (WHO IS THIS ALLAH?, G.J.O.MOSHAY, 1994, P138)
“ISLAM ALSO OWES THE TERM “ALLAH” TO THE HEATHEN ARABS. WE HAVE EVIDENCE THAT IT ENTERED INTO NUMEROUS PERSONAL NAMES IN NORTHER ARABIA AND AMONG THE NABATIANS. IT OCCURRED AMONG THE ARABS OF LATER TIMES, IN THE THEOPHOROUS NAMES AND ON ITS OWN.”–(WHY I AM NOT A MUSLIM, IBN WARRAQ, 1995, P42)
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION SAYS: “‘ALLAH’ IS A PRE-ISLAMIC NAME … CORRESPONDING TO THE BAYLONIAN BEL” (ED. JAMES HASTINGS, EDINBURGH, T. & T. CLARK, 1908, I:326)
“ALLAH IS FOUND … IN ARABIC INSCRIPTIONS PRIOR TO ISLAM” (ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, I:643)
“ILAH … APPEARS IN PRE-ISLAMIC POETRY … BY FREQUENCY OF USAGE, AL-ILAH WAS CONTRACTED TO ALLAH, FREQUENTLY ATTESTED TO IN PRE-ISLAMIC POETRY” (ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ISLAM, EDS. LEWIS, MENAGE, PELLAT, SCHACHT; LEIDEN: E.J.BRILL, 1971, III:1093)
“THE NAME ALLAH IS ALSO EVIDENT IN ARCHEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY REMAINS OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA” (THE CALL OF THE MINARET, NEW YORK: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1956, P. 31).
THE NAME ALLAH IS ALSO EVIDENT IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY REMAINS OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA” (THE CALL OF THE MINARET, NEW YORK: OUP, 1956, P.31)
“ALLAH, THE MOON GOD, WAS MARRIED TO THE SUN GODDESS. TOGETHER THEY PRODUCED THREE GODDESSES WHO WERE CALLED ‘THE DAUGHTERS OF ALLAH’. THESE THREE GODDESSES WERE CALLED AL-LAT, AL-UZZA, AND MANAT.
“THE DAUGHTERS OF ALLAH, ALONG WITH ALLAH AND THE SUN GODDESS WERE VIEWED AS “HIGH” GODS. THAT IS, THEY WERE VIEWED AS BEING AT THE TOP OF THE PANTHEON OF ARABIAN DEITIES” (ROBERT MOREY, THE ISLAMIC INVASION, EUGENE, OREGON, HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS, 1977, PP.50-51).
Now these 3 daughter goddesses of Allah normally wouldn’t mean anything, but interestingly enough they show up in the Qur’an’s ‘Satanic verses’. This ensures the identity of Allah as the pagan moon god of the Arabs whose symbol was the crescent moon. Islamic clerics in Mecca still insist on the canon of the Satanic Verses to this day. So here is the verses straight out of the Qur’an.
HAVE YOU THOUGHT UPON ALLAT AND AL-UZZA,AND, THE THIRD (GODDESS), MANAT? WHAT! FOR YOU THE MALE SEX, AND FOR HIM, THE FEMALE? BEHOLD, SUCH WOULD BE INDEED A DIVISION MOST UNFAIR! THEY ARE NAUGHT BUT NAMES WHICH YOU HAVE NAMED, YOU AND YOUR FATHERS; FOR WHICH ALLAH HAS SENT DOWN NO AUTHORITY (WHATEVER). THEY FOLLOW NAUGHT BUT CONJECTURE AND THE LOW DESIRES WHICH (THEIR) SOULS INCLINE TO; AND CERTAINLY THE GUIDANCE HAS COME TO THEM FROM THEIR LORD. HOW MANY-SO-EVER BE THE ANGELS IN THE HEAVENS, THEIR INTERCESSION WILL AVAIL NOTHING EXCEPT AFTER ALLAH HAS GIVEN LEAVE FOR WHOM HE PLEASES AND THAT HE IS ACCEPTABLE TO HIM. –QURAN 53:19-23&26
Original text:
HAVE YE THOUGHT UPON AL-LAT AND AL-UZZAAND MANAT, THE THIRD, THE OTHER? THESE ARE THE EXALTED CRANES (INTERMEDIARIES) WHOSE INTERCESSION IS TO BE HOPED FOR. –ORGINAL QURAN 53:19-20
CONCLUSION
THE PAGAN ARABS OF OLD WORSHIPPED THE MOON-GOD ALLAH BY PRAYING TOWARD MECCA SEVERAL TIMES A DAY; MAKING A PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA; RUNNING AROUND THE TEMPLE OF THE MOON-GOD CALLED THE KABAH; KISSING THE BLACK STONE; KILLING AN ANIMAL IN SACRIFICE TO THE MOON-GOD; THROWING STONES AT THE DEVIL; FASTING FOR THE MONTH WHICH BEGINS AND ENDS WITH THE CRESCENT MOON; GIVING ALMS TO THE POOR, ETC. ALL OF WHICH IS IDENTICAL TO WHAT MUSLIMS TODAY ARE REQUIRED BY MUHAMMAD TO DO.
So who is Allah? Simply put he is only a repackaged moon god considered chief among 360 gods Arabs had all throughout history. Allah was married to the sun goddess and had 3 daughter goddesses, all 3 being repeated by name in the Qur’an. Far from the all knowing, omnipotent God of creation and the universe that is in the Bible, Allah turns out to be no more than a statue of a moon god of bygone Arabian countries who have come and gone.
Instead the God of the Bible is the God of Israel whose country and people have been preserved by Him, against constant and best attempts to wipe them out. This very real God of Israel, Yahweh, made a promise recorded in the pages of the Bible to Israel that they would remain a nation and people ever before Him until the sun and moon stopped shining.
This same God also makes a promise that if we come to Him and accept His son Christ Jesus, called Yahshua, we would be saved and enjoy true Heaven with Him. This Heaven is not the sick twisted dream of Muhammad with rivers of wine and 72 virgins(of either gender that suits your fancy). Rather this Heaven is a perfect place with no disease, no sickness, no violence and no injustice. Sound too good to be true? It gets even better. Yahweh doesn’t tie you up in rituals and prayers with the threat of rearranging your face if you don’t get it right. Instead He values a relationship of love and constant communication at anytime, anywhere, and any way. And best of all, this is all a free gift from Him. You don’t need to do anything to earn it, in fact you can’t. All you need to do is accept the gift He gives by believing in His son Jesus who died in your place to pay for all your sins. Won’t you accept his free gift today? Biblical Foundations