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This article is about the Arabic word «Allah». For the Islamic view of God, see God in Islam. For other uses, see Allah (disambiguation).

Allah (;[1][2] Arabic: الله, romanized: Allāh, IPA: [ʔaɫ.ɫaːh] (listen)) is the common Arabic word for God. In the English language, the word generally refers to God in Islam.[3][4][5] The word is thought to be derived by contraction from al-ilāh, which means «the god», and is linguistically related to the Aramaic words Elah and Syriac ܐܲܠܵܗܵܐ (ʼAlāhā) and the Hebrew word El (Elohim) for God.[6][7] The feminine form of Allah is thought to be the word Allat.[8]

The word Allah has been used by Arabic people of different religions since pre-Islamic times.[9] The pre-Islamic Arabs worshipped a supreme deity whom they called Allah, alongside other lesser deities.[10] Muhammad used the word Allah to indicate the Islamic conception of God. Allah has been used as a term for God by Muslims (both Arab and non-Arab) and even Arab Christians[11] after the term «al-ilāh» and «Allah» were used interchangeably in Classical Arabic by the majority of Arabs who had become Muslims. It is also often, albeit not exclusively, used in this way by Bábists, Baháʼís, Mandaeans, Indonesian and Maltese Christians, and Sephardi Jews,[12][13][14] as well as by the Gagauz people.[15] Similar usage by Christians and Sikhs in West Malaysia has recently led to political and legal controversies.[16][17][18][19]

Etymology

The etymology of the word Allāh has been discussed extensively by classical Arab philologists.[20] Grammarians of the Basra school regarded it as either formed «spontaneously» (murtajal) or as the definite form of lāh (from the verbal root lyh with the meaning of «lofty» or «hidden»).[20] Others held that it was borrowed from Syriac or Hebrew, but most considered it to be derived from a contraction of the Arabic definite article al- «the» and ilāh «deity, god» to al-lāh meaning «the deity», or «the God».[20] The majority of modern scholars subscribe to the latter theory, and view the loanword hypothesis with skepticism.[21]

Cognates of the name «Allāh» exist in other Semitic languages, including Hebrew and Aramaic.[22] The corresponding Aramaic form is Elah (אלה), but its emphatic state is Elaha (אלהא). It is written as ܐܠܗܐ (ʼĔlāhā) in Biblical Aramaic and ܐܲܠܵܗܵܐ (ʼAlâhâ) in Syriac as used by the Assyrian Church, both meaning simply «God».[23]

History of usage

Pre-Islamic Arabians

Regional variants of the word Allah occur in both pagan and Christian pre-Islamic inscriptions.[9][24] Different theories have been proposed regarding the role of Allah in pre-Islamic polytheistic cults. According to the Islamic scholar Ibn Kathir, Arab pagans considered Allah as an unseen God who created and controlled the Universe. Pagans believed worship of humans or animals who had lucky events in their life brought them closer to God. Pre-Islamic Meccans worshiped Allah alongside a host of lesser gods and those whom they called the «daughters of Allah.»[10] Islam forbade worship of anyone or thing other than God.[25] Some authors have suggested that polytheistic Arabs used the name as a reference to a creator god or a supreme deity of their pantheon.[26][27] The term may have been vague in the Meccan religion.[26][28] According to one hypothesis, which goes back to Julius Wellhausen, Allah (the supreme deity of the tribal federation around Quraysh) was a designation that consecrated the superiority of Hubal (the supreme deity of Quraysh) over the other gods.[9] However, there is also evidence that Allah and Hubal were two distinct deities.[9] According to that hypothesis, the Kaaba was first consecrated to a supreme deity named Allah and then hosted the pantheon of Quraysh after their conquest of Mecca, about a century before the time of Muhammad.[9] Some inscriptions seem to indicate the use of Allah as a name of a polytheist deity centuries earlier, but nothing precise is known about this use.[9] Some scholars have suggested that Allah may have represented a remote creator god who was gradually eclipsed by more particularized local deities.[29][30] There is disagreement on whether Allah played a major role in the Meccan religious cult.[29][31] No iconic representation of Allah is known to have existed.[31][32] Allah is the only god in Mecca that did not have an idol.[33] Muhammad’s father’s name was ʿAbd-Allāh meaning «the slave of Allāh».[28]

Islam

In Islam, Allah is the unique, omnipotent and only deity and creator of the universe and is equivalent to God in other Abrahamic religions.[12][13] Allah is usually seen as the personal name of God, a notion which became disputed in contemporary scholarship, including the question, whether or not the word Allah should be translated as God.[34]

According to Islamic belief, Allah is the most common word to represent God,[35] and humble submission to his will, divine ordinances and commandments is the pivot of the Muslim faith.[12] «He is the only God, creator of the universe, and the judge of humankind.»[12][13] «He is unique (wāḥid) and inherently one (aḥad), all-merciful and omnipotent.»[12] No human eyes can see Allah till the Day Of Judgement.[36] The Qur’an declares «the reality of Allah, His inaccessible mystery, His various names, and His actions on behalf of His creatures.»[12] Allah doesn’t depend on anything.[37] God is not a part of the Christian Trinity.[38] God has no parents and no children.[39]

The concept correlates to the Tawhid, where chapter 112 of the Qur’an (Al-‘Ikhlās, The Sincerity) reads:

۝[40] SAY, God is one GOD;
۝ the eternal GOD:
۝ He begetteth not, neither is He begotten:
۝ and there is not any one like unto Him.[41]

and in the Ayat ul-Kursi («Verse of the Throne»), which is the 255th verse and the powerful verse in the longest chapter (the 2nd chapter) of the Qur’an, Al-Baqarah («The Cow») states:

Allah! There is no deity but Him, the Alive, the Eternal.

Neither slumber nor sleep overtaketh Him.

Unto Him belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth.
Who could intercede in His presence without His permission?

He knoweth that which is in front of them and that which is behind them,
while they encompass nothing of His knowledge except what He wills.

His throne includeth the heavens and the earth,
and He is never weary of preserving them.

He is the Sublime, the Tremendous.

In Islamic tradition, there are 99 Names of God (al-asmā’ al-ḥusná lit. meaning: ‘the best names’ or ‘the most beautiful names’), each of which evoke a distinct characteristic of Allah.[13][42] All these names refer to Allah, the supreme and all-comprehensive divine name.[43] Among the 99 names of God, the most famous and most frequent of these names are «the Merciful» (ar-Raḥmān) and «the Compassionate» (ar-Raḥīm),[13][42] including the forementioned above al-Aḥad («the One, the Indivisible») and al-Wāḥid («the Unique, the Single»).

Most Muslims use the untranslated Arabic phrase in shā’a llāh (meaning ‘if God wills’) after references to future events.[44] Muslim discursive piety encourages beginning things with the invocation of bi-smi llāh (meaning ‘In the name of God’).[45] There are certain phrases in praise of God that are favored by Muslims, including «Subḥāna llāh» (Glory be to God), «al-ḥamdu li-llāh» (Praise be to God), «lā ilāha illā llāh» (There is no deity but God) or sometimes «lā ilāha illā inta/ huwa» (There is no deity but You/ Him) and «Allāhu Akbar» (God is the Most Great) as a devotional exercise of remembering God (dhikr).[46]

Silk textile panel repeating the name Allah, North Africa, 18th century

In a Sufi practice known as dhikr Allah (Arabic: ذكر الله, lit. «Remembrance of God»), the Sufi repeats and contemplates the name Allah or other associated divine names to Him while controlling his or her breath.[47] For example, in countless references in the context from the Qur’an forementioned above:

1) Allah is referred to in the second person pronoun in Arabic as «Inta (Arabic: َإِنْت)» like the English «You«, or commonly in the third person pronoun «Huwa (Arabic: َهُو)» like the English «He» and uniquely in the case pronoun of the oblique form «Hu/ Huw (Arabic: هو /-هُ)» like the English «Him» which rhythmically resonates and is chanted as considered a sacred sound or echo referring Allah as the «Absolute Breath or Soul of Life»—Al-Nafs al-Hayyah (Arabic: النّفس الحياة, an-Nafsu ‘l-Ḥayyah)—notably among the 99 names of God, «the Giver of Life» (al-Muḥyī) and «the Bringer of Death» (al-Mumiyt);

2) Allah is neither male or female (who has no gender), but who is the essence of the «Omnipotent, Selfless, Absolute Soul (an-Nafs, النّفس) and Holy Spirit» (ar-Rūḥ, الرّوح) — notably among the 99 names of God, «the All-Holy, All-Pure and All-Sacred» (al-Quddus);

3) Allah is the originator of both before and beyond the cycle of creation, destruction and time, — notably among the 99 names of God, «the First, Beginning-less» (al-Awwal), «the End/ Beyond [«the Final Abode»]/ Endless» (al-Akhir/ al-Ākhir) and «the Timeless» (aṣ-Ṣabūr).

According to Gerhard Böwering, in contrast with pre-Islamic Arabian polytheism, God in Islam does not have associates and companions, nor is there any kinship between God and jinn.[35] Pre-Islamic pagan Arabs believed in a blind, powerful, inexorable and insensible fate over which man had no control. This was replaced with the Islamic notion of a powerful but provident and merciful God.[12]

According to Francis Edward Peters, «The Qur’ān insists, Muslims believe, and historians affirm that Muhammad and his followers worship the same God as the Jews ( 29:46). The Qur’an’s Allah is the same Creator God who covenanted with Abraham». Peters states that the Qur’an portrays Allah as both more powerful and more remote than Yahweh, and as a universal deity, unlike Yahweh who closely follows Israelites.[48]

Christianity

The Christian Arabs of today have no other word for «God» than «Allah»,[49] except Jehovah’s Witnesses who add the biblical name «Jehovah» (يهوه) to the title «Allah».[50] Similarly, the Aramaic word for «God» in the language of Assyrian Christians is ʼĔlāhā, or Alaha. (Even the Arabic-descended Maltese language of Malta, whose population is almost entirely Catholic, uses Alla for «God».) Arab Christians, for example, use the terms Allāh al-ab (الله الأب) for God the Father, Allāh al-ibn (الله الابن) for God the Son, and Allāh ar-rūḥ al-quds (الله الروح القدس) for God the Holy Spirit. (See God in Christianity for the Christian concept of God.)

Arab Christians have used two forms of invocations that were affixed to the beginning of their written works. They adopted the Muslim bismillāh, and also created their own Trinitized bismillāh as early as the 8th century.[51] The Muslim bismillāh reads: «In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful.» The Trinitized bismillāh reads: «In the name of Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, One God.» The Syriac, Latin and Greek invocations do not have the words «One God» at the end. This addition was made to emphasize the monotheistic aspect of Trinitarian belief and also to make it more palatable to Muslims.[51]

According to Marshall Hodgson, it seems that in the pre-Islamic times, some Arab Christians made pilgrimage to the Kaaba, a pagan temple at that time, honoring Allah there as God the Creator.[52]

Some archaeological excavation quests have led to the discovery of ancient pre-Islamic inscriptions and tombs made by Arab Christians in the ruins of a church at Umm el-Jimal in Northern Jordan, which initially, according to Enno Littman (1949), contained references to Allah as the proper name of God. However, on a second revision by Bellamy et al. (1985 & 1988) the 5-versed-inscription was re-translated as «(1)This [inscription] was set up by colleagues of ʿUlayh, (2) son of ʿUbaydah, secretary (3) of the cohort Augusta Secunda (4) Philadelphiana; may he go mad who (5) effaces it.»[53][54][55]

The syriac word ܐܠܗܐ (ʼĔlāhā) can be found in the reports and the lists of names of Christian martyrs in South Arabia,[56][57] as reported by antique Syriac documents of the names of those martyrs from the era of the Himyarite and Aksumite kingdoms[58]

In Ibn Ishaq’s biography there is a Christian leader named Abd Allah ibn Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad, who was martyred in Najran in 523, as he had worn a ring that said «Allah is my lord».[59]

In an inscription of Christian martyrion dated back to 512, references to ‘l-ilah (الاله)[60] can be found in both Arabic and Aramaic. The inscription starts with the statement «By the Help of ‘l-ilah».[61][62]

In pre-Islamic Gospels, the name used for God was «Allah», as evidenced by some discovered Arabic versions of the New Testament written by Arab Christians during the pre-Islamic era in Northern and Southern Arabia.[63] However most recent research in the field of Islamic Studies by Sydney Griffith et al. (2013), David D. Grafton (2014), Clair Wilde (2014) & ML Hjälm et al. (2016 & 2017) assert that «all one can say about the possibility of a pre-Islamic, Christian version of the Gospel in Arabic is that no sure sign of its actual existence has yet emerged.»[64][65][66][67][68] Additionally ML Hjälm in her most recent research (2017) inserts that «manuscripts containing translations of the gospels are encountered no earlier than the year 873»[69]

Irfan Shahîd quoting the 10th-century encyclopedic collection Kitab al-Aghani notes that pre-Islamic Arab Christians have been reported to have raised the battle cry «Ya La Ibad Allah» (O slaves of Allah) to invoke each other into battle.[70] According to Shahid, on the authority of 10th-century Muslim scholar Al-Marzubani, «Allah» was also mentioned in pre-Islamic Christian poems by some Ghassanid and Tanukhid poets in Syria and Northern Arabia.[71][72][73]

Pronunciation

The word Allāh is generally pronounced [ɑɫˈɫɑː(h)], exhibiting a heavy lām, [ɫ], a velarized alveolar lateral approximant, a marginal phoneme in Modern Standard Arabic. Since the initial alef has no hamza, the initial [a] is elided when a preceding word ends in a vowel. If the preceding vowel is /i/, the lām is light, [l], as in, for instance, the Basmala.[74]

As a loanword

English and other European languages

The history of the name Allāh in English was probably influenced by the study of comparative religion in the 19th century; for example, Thomas Carlyle (1840) sometimes used the term Allah but without any implication that Allah was anything different from God. However, in his biography of Muḥammad (1934), Tor Andræ always used the term Allah, though he allows that this «conception of God» seems to imply that it is different from that of the Jewish and Christian theologies.[75]

Languages which may not commonly use the term Allah to denote God may still contain popular expressions which use the word. For example, because of the centuries long Muslim presence in the Iberian Peninsula, the word ojalá in the Spanish language and oxalá in the Portuguese language exist today, borrowed from Arabic inshalla (Arabic: إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللَّٰهُ). This phrase literally means ‘if God wills’ (in the sense of «I hope so»).[76] The German poet Mahlmann used the form «Allah» as the title of a poem about the ultimate deity, though it is unclear how much Islamic thought he intended to convey.

Some Muslims leave the name «Allāh» untranslated in English, rather than using the English translation «God».[77] The word has also been applied to certain living human beings as personifications of the term and concept.[78][79]

Malaysian and Indonesian language

The first dictionary of Dutch-Malay by A.C. Ruyl, Justus Heurnius, and Caspar Wiltens in 1650 recorded «Allah» as the translation of the Dutch word «Godt».

Gereja Kalam Kebangunan Allah (Word of God Revival Church) in Indonesia. Allah is the word for «God» in the Indonesian language — even in Alkitab (Christian Bible, from الكتاب al-kitāb = the book) translations, while Tuhan is the word for «Lord».

Christians in Malaysia and Indonesia use Allah to refer to God in the Malaysian and Indonesian languages (both of them standardized forms of the Malay language). Mainstream Bible translations in the language use Allah as the translation of Hebrew Elohim (translated in English Bibles as «God»).[80] This goes back to early translation work by Francis Xavier in the 16th century.[81][82] The first dictionary of Dutch-Malay by Albert Cornelius Ruyl, Justus Heurnius, and Caspar Wiltens in 1650 (revised edition from 1623 edition and 1631 Latin edition) recorded «Allah» as the translation of the Dutch word «Godt».[83] Ruyl also translated the Gospel of Matthew in 1612 into the Malay language (an early Bible translation into a non-European language,[84]
made a year after the publication of the King James Version[85][86]), which was printed in the Netherlands in 1629. Then he translated the Gospel of Mark, published in 1638.[87][88]

The government of Malaysia in 2007 outlawed usage of the term Allah in any other but Muslim contexts, but the Malayan High Court in 2009 revoked the law, ruling it unconstitutional. While Allah had been used for the Christian God in Malay for more than four centuries, the contemporary controversy was triggered by usage of Allah by the Roman Catholic newspaper The Herald. The government appealed the court ruling, and the High Court suspended implementation of its verdict until the hearing of the appeal. In October 2013 the court ruled in favor of the government’s ban.[89] In early 2014 the Malaysian government confiscated more than 300 bibles for using the word to refer to the Christian God in Peninsular Malaysia.[90] However, the use of Allah is not prohibited in the two Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak.[91][92] The main reason it is not prohibited in these two states is that usage has been long-established and local Alkitab (Bibles) have been widely distributed freely in East Malaysia without restrictions for years.[91] Both states also do not have similar Islamic state laws as those in West Malaysia.[19]

In reaction to some media criticism, the Malaysian government has introduced a «10-point solution» to avoid confusion and misleading information.[93][94] The 10-point solution is in line with the spirit of the 18- and 20-point agreements of Sarawak and Sabah.[19]

National flags with «Allah» written on them

  • Flag of Saudi Arabia with the Islamic holy creed written on it

  • Flag of Afghanistan with the Shahadah written on it

Typography

The word Allāh is always written without an alif to spell the ā vowel. This is because the spelling was settled before Arabic spelling started habitually using alif to spell ā. However, in vocalized spelling, a small diacritic alif is added on top of the shaddah to indicate the pronunciation.

In the pre-Islamic Zabad inscription,[96] God is referred to by the term الاله, that is, alif-lam-alif-lam-ha.[60] This presumably indicates Al-‘ilāh = «the god», without alif for ā.

Many Arabic type fonts feature special ligatures for Allah.[97]

Since Arabic script is used to write other texts rather than Koran only, rendering lām + lām + hā’ as the previous ligature is considered faulty which is the case with most common Arabic typefaces.

This simplified style is often preferred for clarity, especially in non-Arabic languages, but may not be considered appropriate in situations where a more elaborate style of calligraphy is preferred.

—SIL International[98]

Unicode

Unicode has a code point reserved for Allāh, ﷲ‎ = U+FDF2, in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which exists solely for «compatibility with some older, legacy character sets that encoded presentation forms directly»;[99][100] this is discouraged for new text. Instead, the word Allāh should be represented by its individual Arabic letters, while modern font technologies will render the desired ligature.

The calligraphic variant of the word used as the emblem of Iran is encoded in Unicode, in the Miscellaneous Symbols range, at code point U+262B (☫).

See also

  • Abdullah (name)
  • Allah as a lunar deity
  • Emblem of Iran
  • Ismul Azam
  • Names of God—Kalsang Bhutia, Gloria Lotha, Marco Sampaolo, Matt StefonTesc, Noah Tesch and Adam Zeidan

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This article is about the Arabic word «Allah». For the Islamic view of God, see God in Islam. For other uses, see Allah (disambiguation).

Allah (;[1][2] Arabic: الله, romanized: Allāh, IPA: [ʔaɫ.ɫaːh] (listen)) is the common Arabic word for God. In the English language, the word generally refers to God in Islam.[3][4][5] The word is thought to be derived by contraction from al-ilāh, which means «the god», and is linguistically related to the Aramaic words Elah and Syriac ܐܲܠܵܗܵܐ (ʼAlāhā) and the Hebrew word El (Elohim) for God.[6][7] The feminine form of Allah is thought to be the word Allat.[8]

The word Allah has been used by Arabic people of different religions since pre-Islamic times.[9] The pre-Islamic Arabs worshipped a supreme deity whom they called Allah, alongside other lesser deities.[10] Muhammad used the word Allah to indicate the Islamic conception of God. Allah has been used as a term for God by Muslims (both Arab and non-Arab) and even Arab Christians[11] after the term «al-ilāh» and «Allah» were used interchangeably in Classical Arabic by the majority of Arabs who had become Muslims. It is also often, albeit not exclusively, used in this way by Bábists, Baháʼís, Mandaeans, Indonesian and Maltese Christians, and Sephardi Jews,[12][13][14] as well as by the Gagauz people.[15] Similar usage by Christians and Sikhs in West Malaysia has recently led to political and legal controversies.[16][17][18][19]

Etymology

The etymology of the word Allāh has been discussed extensively by classical Arab philologists.[20] Grammarians of the Basra school regarded it as either formed «spontaneously» (murtajal) or as the definite form of lāh (from the verbal root lyh with the meaning of «lofty» or «hidden»).[20] Others held that it was borrowed from Syriac or Hebrew, but most considered it to be derived from a contraction of the Arabic definite article al- «the» and ilāh «deity, god» to al-lāh meaning «the deity», or «the God».[20] The majority of modern scholars subscribe to the latter theory, and view the loanword hypothesis with skepticism.[21]

Cognates of the name «Allāh» exist in other Semitic languages, including Hebrew and Aramaic.[22] The corresponding Aramaic form is Elah (אלה), but its emphatic state is Elaha (אלהא). It is written as ܐܠܗܐ (ʼĔlāhā) in Biblical Aramaic and ܐܲܠܵܗܵܐ (ʼAlâhâ) in Syriac as used by the Assyrian Church, both meaning simply «God».[23]

History of usage

Pre-Islamic Arabians

Regional variants of the word Allah occur in both pagan and Christian pre-Islamic inscriptions.[9][24] Different theories have been proposed regarding the role of Allah in pre-Islamic polytheistic cults. According to the Islamic scholar Ibn Kathir, Arab pagans considered Allah as an unseen God who created and controlled the Universe. Pagans believed worship of humans or animals who had lucky events in their life brought them closer to God. Pre-Islamic Meccans worshiped Allah alongside a host of lesser gods and those whom they called the «daughters of Allah.»[10] Islam forbade worship of anyone or thing other than God.[25] Some authors have suggested that polytheistic Arabs used the name as a reference to a creator god or a supreme deity of their pantheon.[26][27] The term may have been vague in the Meccan religion.[26][28] According to one hypothesis, which goes back to Julius Wellhausen, Allah (the supreme deity of the tribal federation around Quraysh) was a designation that consecrated the superiority of Hubal (the supreme deity of Quraysh) over the other gods.[9] However, there is also evidence that Allah and Hubal were two distinct deities.[9] According to that hypothesis, the Kaaba was first consecrated to a supreme deity named Allah and then hosted the pantheon of Quraysh after their conquest of Mecca, about a century before the time of Muhammad.[9] Some inscriptions seem to indicate the use of Allah as a name of a polytheist deity centuries earlier, but nothing precise is known about this use.[9] Some scholars have suggested that Allah may have represented a remote creator god who was gradually eclipsed by more particularized local deities.[29][30] There is disagreement on whether Allah played a major role in the Meccan religious cult.[29][31] No iconic representation of Allah is known to have existed.[31][32] Allah is the only god in Mecca that did not have an idol.[33] Muhammad’s father’s name was ʿAbd-Allāh meaning «the slave of Allāh».[28]

Islam

In Islam, Allah is the unique, omnipotent and only deity and creator of the universe and is equivalent to God in other Abrahamic religions.[12][13] Allah is usually seen as the personal name of God, a notion which became disputed in contemporary scholarship, including the question, whether or not the word Allah should be translated as God.[34]

According to Islamic belief, Allah is the most common word to represent God,[35] and humble submission to his will, divine ordinances and commandments is the pivot of the Muslim faith.[12] «He is the only God, creator of the universe, and the judge of humankind.»[12][13] «He is unique (wāḥid) and inherently one (aḥad), all-merciful and omnipotent.»[12] No human eyes can see Allah till the Day Of Judgement.[36] The Qur’an declares «the reality of Allah, His inaccessible mystery, His various names, and His actions on behalf of His creatures.»[12] Allah doesn’t depend on anything.[37] God is not a part of the Christian Trinity.[38] God has no parents and no children.[39]

The concept correlates to the Tawhid, where chapter 112 of the Qur’an (Al-‘Ikhlās, The Sincerity) reads:

۝[40] SAY, God is one GOD;
۝ the eternal GOD:
۝ He begetteth not, neither is He begotten:
۝ and there is not any one like unto Him.[41]

and in the Ayat ul-Kursi («Verse of the Throne»), which is the 255th verse and the powerful verse in the longest chapter (the 2nd chapter) of the Qur’an, Al-Baqarah («The Cow») states:

Allah! There is no deity but Him, the Alive, the Eternal.

Neither slumber nor sleep overtaketh Him.

Unto Him belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth.
Who could intercede in His presence without His permission?

He knoweth that which is in front of them and that which is behind them,
while they encompass nothing of His knowledge except what He wills.

His throne includeth the heavens and the earth,
and He is never weary of preserving them.

He is the Sublime, the Tremendous.

In Islamic tradition, there are 99 Names of God (al-asmā’ al-ḥusná lit. meaning: ‘the best names’ or ‘the most beautiful names’), each of which evoke a distinct characteristic of Allah.[13][42] All these names refer to Allah, the supreme and all-comprehensive divine name.[43] Among the 99 names of God, the most famous and most frequent of these names are «the Merciful» (ar-Raḥmān) and «the Compassionate» (ar-Raḥīm),[13][42] including the forementioned above al-Aḥad («the One, the Indivisible») and al-Wāḥid («the Unique, the Single»).

Most Muslims use the untranslated Arabic phrase in shā’a llāh (meaning ‘if God wills’) after references to future events.[44] Muslim discursive piety encourages beginning things with the invocation of bi-smi llāh (meaning ‘In the name of God’).[45] There are certain phrases in praise of God that are favored by Muslims, including «Subḥāna llāh» (Glory be to God), «al-ḥamdu li-llāh» (Praise be to God), «lā ilāha illā llāh» (There is no deity but God) or sometimes «lā ilāha illā inta/ huwa» (There is no deity but You/ Him) and «Allāhu Akbar» (God is the Most Great) as a devotional exercise of remembering God (dhikr).[46]

Silk textile panel repeating the name Allah, North Africa, 18th century

In a Sufi practice known as dhikr Allah (Arabic: ذكر الله, lit. «Remembrance of God»), the Sufi repeats and contemplates the name Allah or other associated divine names to Him while controlling his or her breath.[47] For example, in countless references in the context from the Qur’an forementioned above:

1) Allah is referred to in the second person pronoun in Arabic as «Inta (Arabic: َإِنْت)» like the English «You«, or commonly in the third person pronoun «Huwa (Arabic: َهُو)» like the English «He» and uniquely in the case pronoun of the oblique form «Hu/ Huw (Arabic: هو /-هُ)» like the English «Him» which rhythmically resonates and is chanted as considered a sacred sound or echo referring Allah as the «Absolute Breath or Soul of Life»—Al-Nafs al-Hayyah (Arabic: النّفس الحياة, an-Nafsu ‘l-Ḥayyah)—notably among the 99 names of God, «the Giver of Life» (al-Muḥyī) and «the Bringer of Death» (al-Mumiyt);

2) Allah is neither male or female (who has no gender), but who is the essence of the «Omnipotent, Selfless, Absolute Soul (an-Nafs, النّفس) and Holy Spirit» (ar-Rūḥ, الرّوح) — notably among the 99 names of God, «the All-Holy, All-Pure and All-Sacred» (al-Quddus);

3) Allah is the originator of both before and beyond the cycle of creation, destruction and time, — notably among the 99 names of God, «the First, Beginning-less» (al-Awwal), «the End/ Beyond [«the Final Abode»]/ Endless» (al-Akhir/ al-Ākhir) and «the Timeless» (aṣ-Ṣabūr).

According to Gerhard Böwering, in contrast with pre-Islamic Arabian polytheism, God in Islam does not have associates and companions, nor is there any kinship between God and jinn.[35] Pre-Islamic pagan Arabs believed in a blind, powerful, inexorable and insensible fate over which man had no control. This was replaced with the Islamic notion of a powerful but provident and merciful God.[12]

According to Francis Edward Peters, «The Qur’ān insists, Muslims believe, and historians affirm that Muhammad and his followers worship the same God as the Jews ( 29:46). The Qur’an’s Allah is the same Creator God who covenanted with Abraham». Peters states that the Qur’an portrays Allah as both more powerful and more remote than Yahweh, and as a universal deity, unlike Yahweh who closely follows Israelites.[48]

Christianity

The Christian Arabs of today have no other word for «God» than «Allah»,[49] except Jehovah’s Witnesses who add the biblical name «Jehovah» (يهوه) to the title «Allah».[50] Similarly, the Aramaic word for «God» in the language of Assyrian Christians is ʼĔlāhā, or Alaha. (Even the Arabic-descended Maltese language of Malta, whose population is almost entirely Catholic, uses Alla for «God».) Arab Christians, for example, use the terms Allāh al-ab (الله الأب) for God the Father, Allāh al-ibn (الله الابن) for God the Son, and Allāh ar-rūḥ al-quds (الله الروح القدس) for God the Holy Spirit. (See God in Christianity for the Christian concept of God.)

Arab Christians have used two forms of invocations that were affixed to the beginning of their written works. They adopted the Muslim bismillāh, and also created their own Trinitized bismillāh as early as the 8th century.[51] The Muslim bismillāh reads: «In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful.» The Trinitized bismillāh reads: «In the name of Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, One God.» The Syriac, Latin and Greek invocations do not have the words «One God» at the end. This addition was made to emphasize the monotheistic aspect of Trinitarian belief and also to make it more palatable to Muslims.[51]

According to Marshall Hodgson, it seems that in the pre-Islamic times, some Arab Christians made pilgrimage to the Kaaba, a pagan temple at that time, honoring Allah there as God the Creator.[52]

Some archaeological excavation quests have led to the discovery of ancient pre-Islamic inscriptions and tombs made by Arab Christians in the ruins of a church at Umm el-Jimal in Northern Jordan, which initially, according to Enno Littman (1949), contained references to Allah as the proper name of God. However, on a second revision by Bellamy et al. (1985 & 1988) the 5-versed-inscription was re-translated as «(1)This [inscription] was set up by colleagues of ʿUlayh, (2) son of ʿUbaydah, secretary (3) of the cohort Augusta Secunda (4) Philadelphiana; may he go mad who (5) effaces it.»[53][54][55]

The syriac word ܐܠܗܐ (ʼĔlāhā) can be found in the reports and the lists of names of Christian martyrs in South Arabia,[56][57] as reported by antique Syriac documents of the names of those martyrs from the era of the Himyarite and Aksumite kingdoms[58]

In Ibn Ishaq’s biography there is a Christian leader named Abd Allah ibn Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad, who was martyred in Najran in 523, as he had worn a ring that said «Allah is my lord».[59]

In an inscription of Christian martyrion dated back to 512, references to ‘l-ilah (الاله)[60] can be found in both Arabic and Aramaic. The inscription starts with the statement «By the Help of ‘l-ilah».[61][62]

In pre-Islamic Gospels, the name used for God was «Allah», as evidenced by some discovered Arabic versions of the New Testament written by Arab Christians during the pre-Islamic era in Northern and Southern Arabia.[63] However most recent research in the field of Islamic Studies by Sydney Griffith et al. (2013), David D. Grafton (2014), Clair Wilde (2014) & ML Hjälm et al. (2016 & 2017) assert that «all one can say about the possibility of a pre-Islamic, Christian version of the Gospel in Arabic is that no sure sign of its actual existence has yet emerged.»[64][65][66][67][68] Additionally ML Hjälm in her most recent research (2017) inserts that «manuscripts containing translations of the gospels are encountered no earlier than the year 873»[69]

Irfan Shahîd quoting the 10th-century encyclopedic collection Kitab al-Aghani notes that pre-Islamic Arab Christians have been reported to have raised the battle cry «Ya La Ibad Allah» (O slaves of Allah) to invoke each other into battle.[70] According to Shahid, on the authority of 10th-century Muslim scholar Al-Marzubani, «Allah» was also mentioned in pre-Islamic Christian poems by some Ghassanid and Tanukhid poets in Syria and Northern Arabia.[71][72][73]

Pronunciation

The word Allāh is generally pronounced [ɑɫˈɫɑː(h)], exhibiting a heavy lām, [ɫ], a velarized alveolar lateral approximant, a marginal phoneme in Modern Standard Arabic. Since the initial alef has no hamza, the initial [a] is elided when a preceding word ends in a vowel. If the preceding vowel is /i/, the lām is light, [l], as in, for instance, the Basmala.[74]

As a loanword

English and other European languages

The history of the name Allāh in English was probably influenced by the study of comparative religion in the 19th century; for example, Thomas Carlyle (1840) sometimes used the term Allah but without any implication that Allah was anything different from God. However, in his biography of Muḥammad (1934), Tor Andræ always used the term Allah, though he allows that this «conception of God» seems to imply that it is different from that of the Jewish and Christian theologies.[75]

Languages which may not commonly use the term Allah to denote God may still contain popular expressions which use the word. For example, because of the centuries long Muslim presence in the Iberian Peninsula, the word ojalá in the Spanish language and oxalá in the Portuguese language exist today, borrowed from Arabic inshalla (Arabic: إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللَّٰهُ). This phrase literally means ‘if God wills’ (in the sense of «I hope so»).[76] The German poet Mahlmann used the form «Allah» as the title of a poem about the ultimate deity, though it is unclear how much Islamic thought he intended to convey.

Some Muslims leave the name «Allāh» untranslated in English, rather than using the English translation «God».[77] The word has also been applied to certain living human beings as personifications of the term and concept.[78][79]

Malaysian and Indonesian language

The first dictionary of Dutch-Malay by A.C. Ruyl, Justus Heurnius, and Caspar Wiltens in 1650 recorded «Allah» as the translation of the Dutch word «Godt».

Gereja Kalam Kebangunan Allah (Word of God Revival Church) in Indonesia. Allah is the word for «God» in the Indonesian language — even in Alkitab (Christian Bible, from الكتاب al-kitāb = the book) translations, while Tuhan is the word for «Lord».

Christians in Malaysia and Indonesia use Allah to refer to God in the Malaysian and Indonesian languages (both of them standardized forms of the Malay language). Mainstream Bible translations in the language use Allah as the translation of Hebrew Elohim (translated in English Bibles as «God»).[80] This goes back to early translation work by Francis Xavier in the 16th century.[81][82] The first dictionary of Dutch-Malay by Albert Cornelius Ruyl, Justus Heurnius, and Caspar Wiltens in 1650 (revised edition from 1623 edition and 1631 Latin edition) recorded «Allah» as the translation of the Dutch word «Godt».[83] Ruyl also translated the Gospel of Matthew in 1612 into the Malay language (an early Bible translation into a non-European language,[84]
made a year after the publication of the King James Version[85][86]), which was printed in the Netherlands in 1629. Then he translated the Gospel of Mark, published in 1638.[87][88]

The government of Malaysia in 2007 outlawed usage of the term Allah in any other but Muslim contexts, but the Malayan High Court in 2009 revoked the law, ruling it unconstitutional. While Allah had been used for the Christian God in Malay for more than four centuries, the contemporary controversy was triggered by usage of Allah by the Roman Catholic newspaper The Herald. The government appealed the court ruling, and the High Court suspended implementation of its verdict until the hearing of the appeal. In October 2013 the court ruled in favor of the government’s ban.[89] In early 2014 the Malaysian government confiscated more than 300 bibles for using the word to refer to the Christian God in Peninsular Malaysia.[90] However, the use of Allah is not prohibited in the two Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak.[91][92] The main reason it is not prohibited in these two states is that usage has been long-established and local Alkitab (Bibles) have been widely distributed freely in East Malaysia without restrictions for years.[91] Both states also do not have similar Islamic state laws as those in West Malaysia.[19]

In reaction to some media criticism, the Malaysian government has introduced a «10-point solution» to avoid confusion and misleading information.[93][94] The 10-point solution is in line with the spirit of the 18- and 20-point agreements of Sarawak and Sabah.[19]

National flags with «Allah» written on them

  • Flag of Saudi Arabia with the Islamic holy creed written on it

  • Flag of Afghanistan with the Shahadah written on it

Typography

The word Allāh is always written without an alif to spell the ā vowel. This is because the spelling was settled before Arabic spelling started habitually using alif to spell ā. However, in vocalized spelling, a small diacritic alif is added on top of the shaddah to indicate the pronunciation.

In the pre-Islamic Zabad inscription,[96] God is referred to by the term الاله, that is, alif-lam-alif-lam-ha.[60] This presumably indicates Al-‘ilāh = «the god», without alif for ā.

Many Arabic type fonts feature special ligatures for Allah.[97]

Since Arabic script is used to write other texts rather than Koran only, rendering lām + lām + hā’ as the previous ligature is considered faulty which is the case with most common Arabic typefaces.

This simplified style is often preferred for clarity, especially in non-Arabic languages, but may not be considered appropriate in situations where a more elaborate style of calligraphy is preferred.

—SIL International[98]

Unicode

Unicode has a code point reserved for Allāh, ﷲ‎ = U+FDF2, in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which exists solely for «compatibility with some older, legacy character sets that encoded presentation forms directly»;[99][100] this is discouraged for new text. Instead, the word Allāh should be represented by its individual Arabic letters, while modern font technologies will render the desired ligature.

The calligraphic variant of the word used as the emblem of Iran is encoded in Unicode, in the Miscellaneous Symbols range, at code point U+262B (☫).

See also

  • Abdullah (name)
  • Allah as a lunar deity
  • Emblem of Iran
  • Ismul Azam
  • Names of God—Kalsang Bhutia, Gloria Lotha, Marco Sampaolo, Matt StefonTesc, Noah Tesch and Adam Zeidan

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Передаётся от Абу Хурайры, да будет доволен им Аллах, что Посланник Аллаха ﷺ сказал: «Воистину, у Аллаха есть 99 имён – сто без одного, и тот, кто перечислит их, войдёт в Рай.»

Для братьев и сестёр, ищущих довольства Всевышнего через знания, редакция сайта «НА ИСТИНЕ» подготовила список из 99 имён Всевышнего: на арабском языке, транскрипцию, значение и их толкование великим исламским учёным имамом ас-Сану́си, да будет доволен им Аллах. Общеизвестно, что в этих достохвальных именах содержится бесчисленное количество пользы для поминающих их. Также известно от учёных, что великим достоинством их заучивания является то, что познание имён Аллаха ведёт к познанию Аллаха.

Список 99 имен Аллаха с переводом и значением

الله Алла́х = Обладатель божественности, то есть Могущества для творения мира.

الرحمن Ар-Рахма́н = Милостивый, Проявляющий Милость ко всему живому в этом мире.

الرحيم Ар-Рахи́м = Милосердный, Проявляющий Милость только к верующим в Вечной жизни.

الملك Аль-Ма́лик = Абсолютный Властитель. Тот, Кто обладает абсолютным Могуществом.

القدوس Аль-Кудду́с = Тот, у Кого нет недостатков, не подобный никому и ничему.

السلام Ас-Саля́м = Тот, кто чист от всех недостатков

المؤمن Аль-Му́мин = Тот, Кто подтверждает Свою правоту и правоту верующих.

المهيمن Аль-Муха́ймин = Тот, Кто осведомлен обо всем, что делают и говорят творения, наблюдающий за ними.

العزيز Аль-‘Ази́з = Могущественный, Сильный. Победитель, Тот, Кого нельзя одолеть.

الجبار Аль-Джабба́р = Тот, в Чьем владении не происходит ничего, помимо Его Воли.

المتكبر Аль-Мутакаббир = Тот, Кто превыше того, чтобы иметь качества созданного.

الخالق Аль-Халик = Размеряющий, Тот, Кто творит Вселенную из небытия.

البارئ Аль-Бари = Создатель, синоним имени Аль-Халик. Тот, Кто имеет влияние на все существующее.

المصور Аль-Мусаввир = Тот, Кто создал творения в различных образах.

الغفار Аль-Гаффар = Тот, Кто скрывает грехи своих рабов [от других рабов].

القهار Аль-Каххар = Господствующий. Тот, Кто подчинил Себе все вещи полностью.

الوهاب Аль-Ваххаб = Это Тот, Кто щедро одаривает многочисленными благами, не требуя ничего взамен.

الرزاق Ар-Раззак = Дающий всему живому пропитание, а также все, что рабы используют, будь то дозволено для них или не дозволено.

الفتاح Аль-Фаттах = Открывающий (Разъясняющий). Судья, Который рассудит рабов.

العليم Аль-‘Алим = Знающий в превосходной степени.

القابض Аль-Кабид = Уменьшающий. Тот, Кто уменьшает удел рабов по Своей Мудрости.

الباسط Аль-Ба́сит = Увеличивающий. Тот, кто увеличивает по Своей Щедрости и Милости удел рабов.

الخافض Аль-Хафид = Тот, Кто принижает, кого пожелает наказанием.

الرافع Ар-Рафи’ = Тот, Кто возвышает, кого пожелает Своей Милостью.

المعز Аль-Муизз = Дающий силу кому пожелает, в этом мире и в вечных мирах.

المذل Аль-Музилль = Лишающий силы, кого пожелает.

السميع Ас-Сами’ = Всеслышащий. Тот, для Кого раскрывается все существующее —будь то вечное или сотворенное.

البصير Аль-Басыр = Всевидящий.

الحكم Аль-Хакам = Законодатель. Никто не может отвратить Его предопределение, или отменить Его решение, или пересилить Его повеление.

العدل Аль-‘Адль = Справедливый. Тот, Кто имеет право поступать как пожелает.

اللطيف Ал-Латыф = Проницательный. Проявляющий доброту к Своим рабам, и тогда это атрибут действия.

الخبير Аль-Хабир = Знающий о сути всех вещей.

الحليم Аль-Халим = Откладывающий наказание тех, кто этого заслуживает, и Прощающий их затем.

العظيم Аль-‘Азым = Великолепный. Тот, Чьим совершенствам нет числа и предела.

الغفور Аль-Гафур = Прощающий. Тот, Кто скрывает грехи Своих рабов.

الشكور Аш-Шакур = Благодарный. Тот, Кто щедро вознаграждает даже за небольшие благие поступки.

العلي Аль-Алий = Возвышенный. Тот, Кто настолько совершенен, что человеческий разум не в состоянии постичь Его совершенство.

الكبير Аль-Кабир = Великий. Тот, Чье совершенство не могут постичь умы.

الحفيظ Аль-Хафиз = Хранитель. Тот, Кто оберегает что пожелает и кого пожелает [из творений].

المقيت Аль-Мукыт = Могущественный. Тот, Кто наделяет творения всем необходимым для их существования.

الحسيب Аль-Хасиб = Достаточный.

الجليل Аль-Джалиль = Величественный.

الكريم Аль-Карим = Щедрый. Наделяющий многочисленными благами.

الرقيب Ар-Ракыб = Оберегающий, от Которого ничего не скроется.

المجيب Аль-Муджиб = Отзывчивый. Тот, Кто помогает всем просящим Его.

الواسع Аль-Васи’ = Тот, Чьи Знание и Милость всеохватны.

الحكيم Аль-Хаким = Мудрейший. Тот, Чьи действия безупречны и всегда точно соответствуют Его Знанию и Воле.

الودود Аль-Вадуд = Тот, Кто любит Своих верующих рабов, и они Его любят.

المجيد Аль-Маджид = Обладатель высокого положения.

الباعث Аль-Ба́ис = Тот, Кто воскрешает рабов после их смерти для Суда и воздаяния [им за то, что они совершали при жизни].

الشهيد Аш-Шахид = Свидетель. Тот, от Кого ничто не скроется.

الحق Аль-Хакк = Истинный. Тот, Чье Существование — истина.

الوكيل Аль-Вакиль = Доверенный. Тот, Кого достаточно.Аллах — Единственный, Кто определяет итог вверенного Ему дела.

القوى Аль-Кавий = Всесильный, Всемогущий.

المتين Аль-Матин = Непоколебимый. Тот, Чья Сила огромна и бесконечна.

الولى Аль-Валий = Оказывающий помощь. Тот, под Чьим управлением и контролем находитсявсе существующее.

الحميد Аль-Хамид = Достохвальный. Тот, Кого восхваляют, Достойный хвалы.

المحصى Аль-Мухсы = Учитывающий. Тот, Кто исчислил, охватил все.

المبدئ Аль-Мубди = Основатель, Тот, Кто положил начало человеку, то есть сотворил его.

المعيد Аль-Му’ид = Возвращающий, Тот, Кто возвращает творения после их создания (умерщвляет их), затем снова возвращает к жизни.

المحيى Аль-Мухйи = Животворящий. Тот, Кто оживляет.

المميت Аль-Мумит = Тот, Кто умерщвляет живое и лишает сильных силы через смерть.

الحي Аль-Хайй = Живущий. Тот, Кто не переставал существовать и быть Живым.

القيوم Аль-Кайум = Независимый. Тот, Кто существует всегда и не перестает существовать.

الواجد Аль-Ваджид = Богатый. Тот, Кто ни в чем не нуждается.

الماجد Аль-Ма́джид = Величественный. Синоним имени Маджи́д.

الواحد Аль-Вахид = Единый, Единственный, Тот, у Кого нет сотоварища.

الصمد Ас-Самад = Постоянный, Вечный, Который никогда не исчезнет.

القادر Аль-Кадир = Могучий, Обладатель всеобъемлющего Могущества.

المقتدر Аль-Муктадир = Могущественный, Обладатель беспредельного Могущества

المقدم Аль-Мукаддим = Приближающий. Тот, Кто располагает творения ближе.

المؤخر Аль-Муаххир = Отделяющий, Тот, Кто располагает творения дальше.

الأول Аль-Ауваль = Первый. Тот, Чье Существование не имеет начала.

الأخر Аль-Ахир = Последний. Тот, Чье Существование не имеет конца.

الظاهر Аз-Захир = Явный посредством ясных доводов и очевидных признаков, указывающих на Него; Знающий явное.

الباطن Аль-Батын = Сокровенный, Тот, в отношении Которого немыслим образ; Знающий скрытое.

الوالي Аль-Вали = Покровитель. Властелин всех вещей, Управляющий ими.

المتعالي Аль-Мута’али = Превознесённый. Тот, Кто пречист от обладания качествами творений.

البر Аль-Барр = Добродетельный. Делающий добро для Своих творений.

التواب Ат-Тавваб = Принимающий. Тот, Кто прощает, кого пожелает из своих рабов и принимает их покаяние.

المنتقم Аль-Мунтаким = Наказывающий. Тот, Кто одерживает верх над Своими врагами и наказывает их за ослушание.

العفو Аль-‘Афувву = Прощающий грехи, Одаривающий милостями.

الرؤوف Ар-Рауф = Милостивый. Синоним имени Ар-Рахим.

مالك الملك Малик аль-Мульк = Царь Царей, Обладатель власти – вся власть у Аллаха, и Он даёт ее, кому пожелает.

ذو الجلال والإكرام Зуль-Джаляли валь-Икрам = Обладатель Величия и Радушия. Тот, Кто заслуживает возвеличивания и почтения.

المقسط Аль-Муксыт = Тот, Кто справедлив в Своих решениях.

الجامع Аль-Джами = Собирающий. Тот, Кто соберет все творения в День Суда.

الغني Аль-Ганий = Богатый, Самодостаточный. Тот, Кто не нуждается в творениях.

المغني Аль-Мугни = Обогащающий. Тот, Кто выполняет нужды творений.

المانع Аль-Мани’ = Ограждающий. Помогающий верующим и Защищающий их.

الضار Ад-Дарр = Сокрушитель. Причиняющий вред, кому пожелает.

النافع Ан-Нафи’ = Благотворитель. Приносящий пользу, кому пожелает.

النور Ан-Нур = Освещающий (путь), Наставляющий.

الهادي Аль-Хади = Ведущий. Тот, благодаря чьему руководству наставлены на истинный путь верующие и находит все живое то, что ему необходимо, и остерегается вреда.

البديع Аль-Бади’ = Творец. Тот, Кто сотворил все существующее.

الباقي Аль-Бакы = Вечный. Тот, Чье Существование бесконечно.

الوارث Аль-Варис = Наследующий. Тот, к Кому отойдет всё имущество с исчезновением его владельцев.

الرشيد Ар-Рашид = Наставляющий, Ведущий [прямым путем].

الصبور Ас-Сабур = Терпеливейший. Тот, Кто не спешит наказывать грешников.

Другие имена Аллаха

Таковы имена нашего Господа. Но не стоит следовать расхожему мнению, что имён всего 99. Это большое заблуждение. Количество Его имён не ограничивается числом 99. Подтверждение этому мы находим в Досточтимом Коране, где упомянуты имена, не входящие в традиционный список 99-ти, но также являющиеся священными именами, которыми описан Господь миров. Это такие имена, как المولى (аль-Мауля, Покровитель), الناصر (ан-Насыр, Помощник), الغالب (аль-Галиб, Победитель), الفاطر (аль-Фатыр, Создатель), القریب (аль-Кариб, Ближайший) и другие.

И благодарим нашего Создателя за то, что он облегчил для верующих пути приближения к Себе и дал возможность просить у Него через Его имена, с которыми мы можем удостоиться места в Раю. И нет силы и могущества ни у кого, кроме Аллаха.

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Аллах — имя собственное Бога, Господа и Царя людей, Творца всего сущего. Все остальные имена Аллаха являются атрибутами этого прекрасного имени. Всевышний сказал: «Аллах — нет божества, кроме Него; у Него самые прекрасные имена» (сура 20 «Та, ха», аят 8) . Поэтому мы говорим, что Ар-Рахман, Ар-Рахим, Аль-Ваххаб — это имена Аллаха, но не говорим, что Аллах — это одно из имён Ар-Рахмана.

Относительно этимологии этого имени между знатоками арабского языка нет единого мнения. Выдающийся грамматист аль-Халиль ибн Ахмад аль-Фарахиди (ум. 170/786) был одним из тех, кто считал, что имя Аллах не является производным от какого-либо имени или глагола. Иначе этим именем могли бы называться и те, кто несправедливо претендует на божественность. Однако же в Коране мы читаем, что даже Фараон не назвал себя Аллахом, а только богом. Он сказал: «О знатные люди! Я не знаю для вас иного бога, кроме меня» (сура 28 «Рассказ», аят 38).

Тем не менее, по мнению большинства улемов, имя Аллах образовано от слова аль-илях (божество), то есть это Тот, Кто заслуживает поклонения и обожествления. Люди обожествляют разные творения, они поклоняются пророкам, ангелам, звездам, огню, солнцу, земле, разным идолам, но это не значит, что эти существа заслуживают их поклонения. Никто, кроме Аллаха, не заслуживает того, чтобы человек преклонялся перед ним, молился ему, любил его больше всего на свете, жил только ради него.

Имя Аллах вмещает в себя все эти смыслы, и этим оно превосходит все другие имена Всевышнего. Именно это имя произносит человек в момент своего духовного перерождения, когда он принимает ислам. Он говорит: «Ашхаду ан ля иляха илля-Ллаху», то есть свидетельствую, что нет божества, достойного поклонения, кроме Аллаха. Большинство улемов считают, что это свидетельство не засчитывается, если вместо имени Аллах человек назовёт любое другое имя Всевышнего.

Взывая к Аллаху посредством этого имени, можно сказать: يا الله «Йа Аллах» или اللهم «Аллахумма». По мнению аль-Халиля ибн Ахмада, Сибавайхи и басрийских грамматистов, слово Аллахумма означает «О Аллах», где вместо первых двух букв алиф и йа добавлена удвоенная мим в конце.

Куфийские грамматисты считали, что слово Аллахумма является сокращением от мольбы يا الله أُمَّنَا بِخَيرٍ «О Аллах, направь нас к благому». Это очень смелое суждение, и оно вызвало критику со стороны многих имамов. Если бы оно было правильным, то после слова Аллахумма можно было бы не просить ничего больше, а мы знаем, что это не так и Аллахумма используется как обращение, за которым следует просьба.

Существует мнение, что мим в конце слова Аллахумма указывает на множественное число и используется для усиления смысла. Таких примеров много не только в арабском, но и в других семитских языках.

Например, в ветхозаветных текстах встречается слово Элохи́м, в котором окончание множественного числа —им добавлено к древнееврейскому элоах (бог). Слово Элохи́м согласуется с глаголами в единственном числе и служит для выражения уважения и величания Бога.

Таким же образом в обращении Аллахумма содержится возвеличивание Аллаха и указание на множественность Его совершенных атрибутов. В таком ракурсе можно понимать высказывание известного грамматиста ан-Надра ибн Шумайла (ум. 818) о том, что сказавший Аллахумма будто призывает Аллаха всеми Его именами.

Познавший имя Аллаха постигает и главную цель своего сотворения, что заключается в поклонении только Ему. Служить Аллаху, быть Ему хорошим и благодарным рабом не просто наше предназначение, но и величайшая добродетель. Поэтому во многих аятах Корана верующих, которые заслуживают похвалы, Всевышний называет Своими рабами. И Пророка Мухаммада, мир ему и благословение Аллаха, Аллах также называет Своим рабом, когда напоминает ему о величайших из благ, оказанных ему, например, о ниспослании ему Корана или переносе его из Мекки в Иерусалим: «Благословен Тот, Кто ниспослал Своему рабу фуркан, чтобы он предостерёг творения» (сура 25 «Различение», аят 1); «Свят Тот, Кто перенёс ночью Своего раба из Заповедной мечети в мечеть Аль-Акса» (сура 17 «Ночной перенос», аят 1).

Связь между Аллахом и Его рабом — наикрепчайшая из всех связей, существующих на земле. Она поддерживается поклонением Аллаху и отказом от преклонения перед кем-либо, кроме Него, а также поминанием Его. Велика благодать Его имени и поминания Его, и потому сказано в Коране: «Знайте же, только в поминании Аллаха находят успокоение сердца» (сура 13 «Гром», аят 28).

От одного лишь произнесения имени Аллаха по всему телу пробегают мурашки. Если же верующий славит имя Его с любовью и надеждой, пропуская через себя его глубочайшие смыслы, то он обретает уверенность и покой. В его сердце не остаётся места для тревог и сомнений, и причиной тому огромная сила, которая скрывается в этом имени и которая стоит за ним. Сила, в которую мы уверовали и на которую уповаем. И эта сила — Аллах, наш Господь.

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