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Beautiful Names of
ALLAH
Mentioned in the Bible
Compiled by
Dr. Syed Mohammed Mohiuddin Habeebi
Syed Ahsan Habibi
No Copyrights
Acknowledgement
It is to acknowledge that while adopting the Hebrew letter
"Chet" for the Sacred Names of ALLAH from OT listed at serial
numbers 1, 2, 15, 18, 28, 30, 34, 40, 52, 61, 65, 67, 69, 70, 80, has
been substituted for its variant form as "H" [see p. 24 for more
details]
Preface
"ALLAH", the Name itself witnesses with all its Glory and
Majesty that "He" is the Only One True Godthe Creator
and the Sustainer of the worlds.
History provides us the evidence that the Messengers of
ALLAH were sent to every nation. It was never the
intention of the Almighty to differentiate people based on
the Messengers and messages. The Holy Quran throws
light on this fact and says (2:213) "(All) people are a single
nation; so ALLAH raised Prophets as bearers of good
tidings and as Warners, and revealed therewith the
Scripture with the truth that it might judge between
mankind concerning that wherein they differed".
The spirit of all messages and missions of every Messenger
has always been the sameshowing the right path. We
know that several Prophets were sent to various nations
with messages in their own languages to create familiarity
and understanding with the addressee. Such as Abraham,
Moses, David, Jesus and lastly Muhammad (Peace and
mercy of ALLAH be upon them) were sent to accomplish
this prestigious Divine mission.
Although their languages in which messages were
conveyed were different, the Name of One True God
ALLAH is found to be the same and intact in spite of
various linguistic mutations.
It is amazing to note that most of the Beautiful Names of
ALLAH mentioned in the Quran and Hadith are also found
in the Bible.
Thus, from the above scenario it is a comprehensible
reality that since beginning of times all the Prophets
proclaimed the Name of One True God as ALLAH with
other Beautiful Attributes.
Whether He was called as the Gracious and the Merciful,
the Sovereign and the Holy One, the Exalted in might and
the Irresistible, the Supreme and the Most High, the
Creator and the Evolver, all these Beautiful Names are still
ALLAH
The Everliving One True God,
The Cherisher and the Sustainer of all the worlds
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mentioned in the Arabic Holy
Quran and also found in Hebrew-OT, almost 2526
times and in Aramaic-NT nearly 1320 times.
ALLAH-the Name of One True God is unique with all
the languages of humanity, wherein it was never
applied to any being other than the One True God the
Self-Subsisting One, from Whom all things subsist.
Encyclopaedia Britannica1 defines ALLAH as the
"Standard Arabic word for God, used by Arab
Christians as well as by Muslims. According to the
Quran, ALLAH is the Creator and judge of
humankind, Omnipotent, Compassionate, and
Merciful. The Muslim profession of faith affirms that
there is no deity but God and emphasizes that He is
inherently One: nothing is like unto Him. Everything
that happens occurs by His commandment;
submission to God is the basis of Islam. The Quran
and the Hadith contain the 99 "Most Beautiful
Names" of God, including the One and Only, the
Living One, the Real Truth, the Hearer, the Seer, the
Benefactor, and the Constant Forgiver."
The BBC World service2 admits the reality that the
Quran is the actual word of God and contains the
fundamental beliefs of Islam.
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Noun "
" ALAH for One True God, and if the
consonant "lamed" is doubled then it could be rightly
pronounced as ALLAH. All the Semitic languages like
Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic allows the consonants
to be doubled with a grammatical reasons.5 In
Hebrew "Dagesh forte is a dot that can be placed in
any letter, except for gutturals letter (Aleph, Chet,
Ayin) and Resh, to show that the letter is doubled."6
Therefore, evidently we can affirm that the consonant
"lamed" can be doubled when used for the Holy Name
of ALLAH.
Structural formation of Elohim
The Ancient form of the word ALAH+iym (or
ELOH+iym) is written as " +
" without using
any vowel. However, later after the introduction of
vowels in Hebrew, this word was added with a vowel
"chataf segol and chirik" in the present OT which makes
the present readers to pronounce it as Eloh-iym rather
than ALAH-iym. To be noted "
" - ALAH is the
First Name for God given in the Tanakh.
See Genesis (1:1) without vowel signs if consonant
lamed is doubled it can be read as
Re'shiyth 'ALLAH iym bara' shamayimeh'-rets
This with vowels
is read as Re'shiyth 'Eloh-iymbara' shamayimeh'-rets.
However, in Arabic version you can even find Elohiym translated as ALLAH, because of the fact that
structural formation of Elohim is from ALAH-iym.
Fee al-badi' khalaqa Allahu as-Samaawaat wa al-ard:
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the
earth.
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When
used
for
Respect
and
Excellence
One
True
GOD
Pronominal
suffix
One
True
GOD
Plural
sign
false
gods
Consonant
lamed
should
be
doubled
lamed
-meem
should
be
doubled
no
consonant
is doubled
followed
by
Singular
passage
Singular
passage
Plural
passage
Pronounced as
ALLAH
ALLAH
-iymma:
O
ALLAH
elohiym
Ref
Gen
1:1.
Psl.
45:6
etc.
Psl.
36:7
42:1
43:1
44:1
etc.
Ex.
32:8
;23
etc.
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-ALAH)
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-ALAH), he could do
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*According to Ben-Yehudas Dictionary another form of "Chet" (i.e. ch similar to Arabic Hey)
is "H" in the same manner as "Machmad" can be read as "Mahamad" (Peace be upon him).
Therefore, the variant form of Rachman or Rachum is Rahman and Rahum, providing
evidence that a word written with "Chet" (i.e., ch) in Hebrew can have a variant form as "H".
As Neal Walters (admin of Hebrew resources (USA) and author of "At Home with Hebrew")
said, "The hardest thing is to transliterate a Hebrew sound that does not exist in the English
language. Thus, what do we put in English for a "chet" or a "chaf". Some people use "ch",
some use "kh", some people use an H with a dot under it, some would use a capital "H",
where as a lower case "h" would be a HEI" (as similar to Arabic Hah).
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43. AL-A'LAA "Glorify the name of thy GuardianLord Most High, Who hath created, and further,
given order and proportion; Who hath ordained
laws. And granted guidance; And Who bringeth
out the (green and luscious) pasture, And then
doth make it (but) swarthy stubble" Quran (87:15). He is ALLAH the Exalted, the Holy, Who is
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68. AL-QAYYUM "ALLAH! There is no God but He,the Living, the Self-subsisting, Eternal" Quran
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Epilogue
We have witnessed the glaring and illustrating reality of the
Sacred and Beautiful Names of ALLAH co-existing in the Quran,
Hadith, and Bible. In spite of linguistic differentiation, we find
the wonderful similarity both from phonetic and connotative
point of view.
It is time that we take to heart, the call of ALLAH. We should
give the required attention and response to the global, universal,
humanistic and forward-looking call.
As stressed by the Holy Quran (2:21) "O mankind! Serve your
Guardian-Lord Who created you and those before you so that
you may guard (against evil)". And it also calls upon mankind
(35:3) "O mankind! Call to mind the favour of ALLAH on you; is
there any creator besides ALLAH who gives you sustenance
from the heaven and the earth? There is no God but He; whence
are you then turned away?"
"The
Tauhid"
affirms
Annemarie
Schimmel,
"the
acknowledgment of God's Unity was to remain the heart of
Islam in whichever way it was understood, and the only sin that
cannot be forgiven is shrik, 'associating something to God.'"
"The duty of human beings is to surrender to this Unique,
Omnipotent God, the Merciful, the Compassionate; to surrender
from the bottom of one's heart, with one's whole soul and one's
entire mind. The word 'Islam' means this complete surrender to
the Divine Will; and the one who practices such surrender is a
Muslim" (Islam: An Introduction, State University, NY, 1992, p.14).
Thus, "Islam is not a new religion founded by Prophet
Muhammad (Peace be upon him). Muhammad (Peace be upon
him) was chosen by God to deliver His Message of Peace,
namely Islam. He was born in Arabia, and was entrusted with
the Message of Islam when he was at the age of forty years. The
revelation that he received is called Koran, while the Message is
called Islam (A peaceful way of surrendering to God). Muhammad
(Peace be upon him) is the very last Prophet of God to mankind.
He is the final Messenger of God. His Message was also to the
Christians, the Jews and the rest of mankind. He was sent to
those religious people to inform them about the true mission of
Jesus, Moses, Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham (Peace be upon them).
Muhammad (Peace be upon him) is considered to be the
summation and the culmination of all the Prophets and
Messengers that came before him. He purified the previous
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References:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: www.britannica.co.uk
2. BBC World Service, Bush House, London UK : www.bbc.co.uk
3. Wikipedia encyclopaedia: Jimmy Wales, 2003. http://en.Wikipedia.
org/ wiki/Samaritan_Hebrew_language.
4. Mankind's search for God / Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.A.: Watchtower
Bible and Tract Society of New York: International Bible Students
Association, c1990 (BL80.2 .M2853 1990).
5. Ibid: 3.
6. Andrews University, Michigan, 2005, Lesson 2: On-Line Hebrew.
7. Tractate Succah 49a; See Jerusalem, Eye of the Universe, Rabbi Aryeh
Kaplan, chapter 8: www.ohr.edu/ask_db/ask_main.php
8. The Holy Tongue Canon Michael Lewis Ed, This article appeared in
The Hebrew Catholic No: 78, pg. 23.
9. Encyclopedia of Thelema, 2005, Ecclesia Gnostica Universalis.
10. C. L. Seow, A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew (Nashville: Abingdon
Press, 1987), p. 19.
11. Ethelyn Simon, The first Hebrew primer for adults, 2nd ed.
(Oakland, CA: EKS Publishing Company, 1983), p. 48.
12. The standard Hebrew grammar, E. Kautzsch, Gesenius' Hebrew
Grammar, 2nd English ed., A. E. Cowley, trans. (London: Oxford
University Press, 1910, 1976), pp. 398, 399.
13. www.Jewishencyclopedia.com
14. Ibid: 4.
15. The Mythology of All Races, Vol. 5, pp. 42-43.
16. Dr. Pastor Cohen G. Reckart, Yahweh is a pagan name
1986:www.jesus-messiah.com
17. Torah (Taurat) the word of Almighty ALLAH revealed upon
Prophet Moses (Peace be upon him).
18. Psalms (Zabur) the word of Almighty ALLAH revealed upon
Prophet David (Peace be upon him) after the contamination of
Torah (Taurat).
19. Gospel (Injeel) the word of Almighty ALLAH revealed upon
Prophet Jesus (Peace be upon him) after the contamination of
Psalms (Zabur).
20. Quran the word of Almighty ALLAH revealed upon the last
Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) after the contamination
of Gospel (Injeel). It is the last revelation of ALLAH for the
guidance of entire creation, and ALLAH Himself took its
responsibility for its preservation, as He said in Quran (15:9) "We
have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and We will
assuredly guard it (from corruption)".
21. Calligraphy of "The Most Beautiful Names of ALLAH," by Tosun
Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti, Threshold Books, 1985.
22. Sunan Tirmidhi (5/530, Hadeeth No: 3507), by Imaam Tirmidhi.
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