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Muhammad’s Philosophy of ALLAH

In this post, I will shed light on the word ALLAH and the history of this existence. The word Allah that is still not cleared that whether it is purely Arabic word or a loan from Syriac word ALLAHA. 

Whatever the source of the word ALLAH is, it is cleared that the word ALLAH or in other word ALLAH(god which is named as ALLAH) already existed before Muhammad’s preaching of his own ideology(religion of ISLAM). To prove my argument, we have to consider both Arabic language and history of Arabia. First I would dissect this sentence, which is the base of Islamic Ideology;  لا إله إلا الله. La ilaha il lallah. Meaning: “ There is no god but the god”. The most important point is if we look carefully then we would find out that no one asked Muhammad that who is “the god(ALLAH)��? Instead, all the pagans were not ready to deny other gods because they all worshiped other gods along with the god(ALLAH) and all the gods had special meanings to them. The pagans were against Muhammad because he was rejecting all their other gods and was giving privilege to only “the god(ALLAH)”. 

Secondly, if we try to dissect the sentence “La ilaha il lallah” then we come to know that LA means no, ilaha means god, illah means but, and allah means the god. The word ALLAH itself is a contraction of two words AL which is a definite article such as “The” in English and ILAH which means god. So Allah becomes special and it means the god linguistically. But we have to keep in mind that Allah may also be a loan word from Syriac word ALLAHA because in Arabic both AL ILAH and ALLAH are used. 

Historically, there were many names such as ABDULLAH, which showed that Allah was already understood by Arabs. Moreover, there is evidence from Quran that Allah has been understood as a ‘High God’ even before the adoption of Islam. This is suggested by passages like:

Q 43:87: “If thou ask them, who created them, they will certainly say, ‘God’(allah).”

Q 10:31: “Say: ‘Who is it that sustains you (in life) from the sky and from the earth? or who is it that has power over hearing and sight? And who is it that brings out the living from the dead and the dead from the living? and who is it that rules and regulates all affairs?’ They will soon say, ‘God’(allah). Say, “will ye not then show piety (to Him)?”

Q 39:38: “If indeed thou ask them who it is that created the heavens and the earth, they would be sure to say, ‘God’ (allah).” These verses seem to address ‘polytheists’ rather than Christians or Jews. Hence they would seem to suggest belief in a supreme creator God among ‘pagan’ Arabs. In brief, we find the use of ALLAH denoting either ‘the god’ in a specific context or an individual god who might have been viewed as a ‘high god’ before Islam. The term is also used by Christians to denote their God.

In the course of the Quran both rahman and allah are accepted as names for God (Q 17:110). Allah, who was probably already a prominent god in Mecca becomes ‘the God’ in the monotheistic sense of Islam. While Rahman is well known as a designation of the monotheistic God in South Arabia. It is also common in Jewish post biblical literature. What am i trying to mention here is that ALLAH was among the gods of pagans and every single pagan worshiped ALLAH and might considered ALLAH as the supreme god but Muhammad came up with a new ideology and the pagans were not ready to digest it. 

And please keep this post’s argument under consideration because my future posts will have references from this argument. 

Reference:  The relationship between Arabic Alla ¯h and Syriac Alla ¯ha ¯ 1 D av i d K i l t z  

Other references are already mentioned in above mentioned reference. 

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What does Islam mean

As I have already mentioned in the end of my last blog that Islam means submission, in this blog I take a comprehensive look at the word “ISLAM.” In order to understand the true meaning of the word ISLAM, we will have to consider some Arabic terminologies or in other words we will have to consider how Arabic words are made. 

The word Islam derives from the Arabic root sīn-lām-mīm (SLM [ س ل م ]). Many different words are created from this root word by inserting different vowels between the three root consonants. Many English speakers wrongly assume that if two Arabic words share the same root word then their meanings are related when in reality the fact that some words share the same root word does not imply a relationship between the meanings of the words. For instance, all of these words are derived from the root S-L-M:

Islam      اسلام      Submission Salam     سلام       Well-being/Peace Salama   سلما       The stinging of a snake or the tanning of the leather Saleema سليما       To be saved or to escape from danger (when referring to a                                 female) Saleem   سليم        To be saved or to escape from danger (when referring to a                                 male) Aslam      اسلم        To submit Istaslama استسلاما  To surrender Musal      مسل       Undisputed Tasleem  تسليم       To receive a salutation or becoming submitted

Many people have wrongly attempted to equalize the word Islam with peace by showing that Islam, meaning 'submission', shares a root word with Salaam, meaning 'peace'. But if such relationships between the meanings of Arabic words could be created then that would imply that there is a relationship between one of the derivations of the words Salama, meaning the stinging of the snake or tanning the leather, and Salam, meaning peace; a relationship which obviously does not exist. So, such an attempt is useless and has no real worth but mere falsehood,

Now, let’s prove that word Islam means submission throughout the Quran. It is understood to mean "submission to Allah." In spite of whatever noble intention has caused many Muslims to claim that Islam is derived primarily from peace, this is not true. 

Chapter 2 verse 131: When his Lord said to him, "Submit", he said "I have submitted [in Islam] to the Lord of the worlds."  Here the word Aslam is used means to submit .

Chapter 2 verse 132: And Abraham instructed his sons [to do the same] and [so did] Jacob, [saying], "O my sons, indeed Allah has chosen for you this religion, so do not die except while you are Muslims." Here the word Muslimoon is used means SUBMISSIVE.

Chapter 3 verse 88: So is it other than the religion of Allah they desire, while to Him have submitted [all] those within the heavens and earth, willingly or by compulsion, and to Him they will be returned?” Here it is cleared that religion of Allah is to submit before his will and the word Islam means submission.

There are in fact many verses to prove further that what Islam means, Islam indeed means Submission and that is the reason that no person after accepting Islam could ever ask Muhammad that why Allah did this or that. And that’s how Muhammad became undisputed Leader of Arabic world in the name of God(Allah). 

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Sects in Islam Part 2

..... The  beginning of sects in Islam dates back to the event of Ghadeer Khum. From this event two main sects of Islam which have now further sub sects, came into existence. 

So, it happened, when Muhammad after completing his last Pilgrimage(Hajj) was coming back to Madina. He was accompanying Muslims from almost all the Islamic regions and after the verse 67 chapter 5 of Quran revealed to him, he gathered all the Muslims presented there and addressed them. If you read the verse then you would find out that this event was so important that Allah told Muhammad “If you do not do this then you have not delivered my message.”. So, did Muhammad, what his Allah had commanded him to do. According to Shias and most of the Sunnis; Muhammad told everyone presented there that “man kuntu mawlahu fa `Aliyyun mawlahu“ "For whoever, I am his Leader (mawla), 'Ali is his Leader (mawla)." But then Sunnis further argue about what is meant by the word Mawla here. But some Muslims even asked the authenticity of this saying of Muhammad and reject this saying completely. And that was the time, from where the first two sects of Islam (ahle Tashi and aehle Sunnah) came into being. Aehle Tashi are also called Shia and they are the followers of Muhammad, Ali and 11 successors of Ali. Aehle Sunnah are also called Sunni and they are the followers of Muhammad only. Other then this basic difference, there are many other differences between these sects but that I can not mention in this post as it is not our concern.  

Indeed both parties have strong arguments against each other. What are their arguments and who is right and who is wrong, that’s not the purpose of my writing here. All I want is, you to think critically about this beginning of sects in the presence of Muhammad. 

 Here are few questions, I am putting forward. Think about these questions and if you have good answers then please comment below. 

 1. What was the message of Allah for which verse 67 chapter 5 was revealed? 

2. What is meant by the word “mawadha” in verse 23 chapter 42? 

 3. If the verse 67 Chapter 5 was revealed before the last sermon then, had not Muhammad and Quran, what have been said in last sermon already told many times before? 

 4. If Allah had really appointed Ali as a successor of Muhammad and had asked love for Aehl e bait( family of Muhammad) in return of everything, then is it not favoritism or something like that?

And if you think that Allah knows the best and he had appointed Ali as Muhammad’s successor and we must accept it. Then you are right, because Islam really means submission not peace. And that’s my next topic .

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Sects in Islam part 1

Islam or more precisely Islamic Ideology has been in this world for more than 1400 years. But in fact since the beginning of Ibrahimic religions and it goes back to Moses in Pharaohs’ reign. I am dating back Ibrahimic religions back to Moses because we do not find enough evidence if Ibrahim existed. But that’s not my topic today.

Today, the religion of Islam or Islamic Ideology is solely based on the teaching of Quran and every Muslim no matter to which sect of Islam he belongs to has firm belief that Quran is the word of God(Allah) and not ever edited by any human being. If every Muslim believes in this word of God then why are there many sects and according to one saying of Muhammad(founder of Islamic Ideology), “ there will be 73 sects among Muslims and only one will go to heaven as this sect will have truth”. I wonder if any Muslim asked Muhammad that why would Allah want this? Well leave it, who cares if anyone asked or not. But the fact is now we have indeed more than 73 sects in Islam and if you do not believe it, then do some homework and research all around the world and at last if you stay alive then you would have known that there are indeed more than 100 sects!

In the picture above, the chart shows how they are divided, big group to small groups then further smalls and so on. So, the question is how did it happen if they all have the same belief that Quran is the word of God and they follow it then why sects and sects. I asked this question to few scholars and everyone had the same reply “there are sects because people did not understand the true meaning of Allah’s word”. Then I asked them “Have you understood the true meaning?” So they replied “yes as much as I have studied.”. It means every sect thinks that the other sect is wrong. Almost 95% of Muslims also believe that Quran itself is not enough to understand. In order to understand Quran one needs Ahadees(sayings of Muhammad or in shias’ case sayings of Imams as well) which explains Quran in clear words. But there is no such belief among Muslims that Ahadees are also authenticated like the words of Quran and in order to check if the saying of Muhammad is authenticated, it must match with Quran’s words. Does it not sound complex and confusing? Indeed it is…..

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About me

Okay, so this guy in the picture above is not me. Indeed, I do not look a bit like him. The reason I choose to display this as my picture because I do not want to make you feel that some alien is introducing himself. Why am i preferring to be anonymous? If you will read my future posts then you will definitely come to know the reason behind all this anonymity stuff.

Well, I am not a professional writer, most of the times you will find my writing as someone is talking to you and sharing his mind with you. But I hope that as time passes I will have better writing skills to convey my message to general readers.

One more thing I want to clear that my target readers are not some literature or linguistic guys but everyone who can understand simple English with few grammatical mistakes.

Here we go, let me come to the main point. The question is why did I begin blogging ? And answer is quite serious, so please have a serious mood for a while! around a month before I had decided to live carefree, happy go life without caring about what the world does. But unluckily I could not keep my this f*** off attitude and decided to roll my sleeves and dive in. Dive in what? Well, recently on new Year eve something terrible happened. Where? ans: In turkey. more than 40 innocent people get killed. Oh my God! how did it happen? Do not say oh my God please! because God does everything. He is omniscient, omnipotent and blah blah. I am sorry I did not mean that. So called IS( Islamic State) claimed the attack.

“Islamic state has nothing to do with Islam.”

“They are not even Muslims.”

They are not even human beings.”

And so on... you would have definitely heard or read these comments from Muslims all over the world.

Well, I am here to prove through my writings that dear Muslims, they (IS) are Muslims, indeed the real Muslims, the true followers of Muhammad( founder of Islam). The problem is not with them, the problem is with the scripture that Islamic state and other Muslims all over the world are following alike. And I am here to write and disclose the game, which is played by one of the biggest dogmatic religions of the world, so called ISLAM.

So, I have cleared what I am going to write about. Now, it is up to you guys(readers) to read or not. But I promise I would not use any abusive word, so the followers of Islam are really welcomed to read my writings and comment back if I am wrong somewhere. All critics are welcomed.