The Absurd Report

Many people believe that Islam, Judaism, and Christianity are connected in some way or another.. Judaism and Christianity are connected, there is no question about that. But what about Islam? It is true that the Koran (the Bible of the Muslims) mentions Jesus, Mary, John the Baptist etc… But did this information come from God? Is the God of Islam, and the God of the Bible, the same God?

Who is Allah?

The Muslims say that the God of the Bible, and the god of Islam, are one and the same God? But what are the origins of Allah. Did he come from the Bible? Or from ARABIAN PAGANISM?

The word “Allah” is a contraction of “Al-ilah,” ‘al’ meaning “the” and “ilah” meaning ‘god.’ Early biographers said that “al-ilah” comes from ‘El” or ‘Elohim,” meaning the God of the Bible but, “Early scholars attested the diffusion of this belief SOLELY TO CHRISTIAN AND JUDAIC INFLUENCES. BUT NOW a growing number of authors maintain that this idea [of Allah] had older roots IN ARABIA…” (Studies in Islam, Swartz, p.12, emphasis mine).

Ceasare Farah concludes: “There is NO REASON therefore, to accept the idea that Allah passed to the Muslim from the Christians and the Jews” (Islam, p.28, emphasis mine). We must look for the ORIGINS OF ALLAH AMONG THE ARABIAN DEITIES,and NOT from the Judeo-Christian Bible!

The Arabs had tribal gods in which they worshipped. Every tribe had their own God. “The Quraysh tribe into which Muhammad was born was particularly devoted to ALLAH…” (Islamic Invasion, Morey, p.51, emphasis mine). Before Muhammad was EVER BORN, his tribe worshipped Allah, and he was the CHIEF GOD OF MECCA: “Its been pointed out that Mecca was in the control of the Quraysh tribe into which Muhammad was born” (ibid., pp.39-40). Since they were in control of Mecca, it was only right that their God was chief of the Kaaba in Mecca.

“In pre-Islamic days, called the Days of Ignorance, the religious background of the Arabs was pagan, and basically animistic. Through wells, trees, stones, caves, springs, and other natural objects man could make contact with the deity… At Mekka, Allah was the chief of the gods and THE SPECIAL DEITY OF THE QURAISH, THE PROPHET’S TRIBE. Allah had three daughters: ” (Van Ess, John, Meet the Arab, New York, 1943, p. 29)

Zwemer writes: “But history establishes beyond the SHADOW OF A DOUBT that even the PAGAN ARABS BEFORE MUHAMMAD TIME, knew the CHIEF GOD BY THE NAME OF ALLAH…ilah is used for any god and Al-ilah (contracted to Allah, i.e, the god), was the name of the SUPREME. Among the Arabs this term denoted the CHIEF GOD of three hundred and sixty idols…As final evidence, we have the fact that centuries BEFORE Muhammad the Arabian Kaaba, the temple at Mecca, was called Beit Allah, the House of God…” (Muhammad is Mecca, pp.25-26, 31-36, emphasis mine).

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