Argument on 'Allah' Name in Malaysia- Church burnt - Page 2

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

I've always pondered. What if Dog made the world and some dyslexic transposition in time screwed us all forever.

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

I've always pondered. What if Dog made the world and some dyslexic transposition in time screwed us all forever.

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

I've always pondered. What if Dog made the world and some dyslexic transposition in time screwed us all forever.

Originally posted by: Summer3

Dec 31, 2009

Christians can use 'Allah'

KUALA LUMPUR - A MALAYSIAN court has ruled that Christians have the constitutional right to use the word Allah in reference to God.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court also said a government ban on non-Muslims using the word was illegal.

A Christian group hailed the ruling on Thursday as a victory for freedom of religion in the Muslim-majority country, where the issue has become a symbol of religious grievances of minority groups.

The court was ruling on a lawsuit filed by Malaysia's Roman Catholic Church in late 2007 after the government blocked non-Muslims from translating God as Allah in their literature.

Authorities have insisted that Allah is an Islamic word that should be used exclusively by Muslims to refer to God, and its use by other religions would be misleading. -- AP

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/SEAsia/Story/STIStory_472352.html

In our attempt to reconstruct the story of pre-Islamic Arabia we begin with the name of the country itself. As explained earlier the name is fully Sanskrit. Its central pilgrim centre, Mecca is also a Sanskrit name. Makha in Sanskrit signifies a sacrificial fire. Since Vedic fire worship was prevalent all over West Asia in pre-Islamic days Makha signifies the place which had an important shrine of fire worship.

Coinciding with the annual pilgrimage of huge bazaar used to spring up in Makha i.e. Mecca since times immemorial. The annual pilgrimage of Muslims to Mecca is not at all an innovation but a continuation of the ancient pilgrimage. This fact is mentioned in encyclopedias.

Originally posted by: Believe

I dont think God need any particuler name...Some people say :

Allah is a Sanskrit word. In Sanskrit Allah, Akka and Amba are synonyms. They signify a goddess or mother. The term Allah appears in Sanskrit chants while invoking goddess Durga i.e. Bhavani. The Islamic word Allah for God is therefore not an innovation but the ancient Sanskrit appellation retained and continued to be used by Islam

In our attempt to reconstruct the story of pre-Islamic Arabia we begin with the name of the country itself. As explained earlier the name is fully Sanskrit. Its central pilgrim centre, Mecca is also a Sanskrit name. Makha in Sanskrit signifies a sacrificial fire. Since Vedic fire worship was prevalent all over West Asia in pre-Islamic days Makha signifies the place which had an important shrine of fire worship.

Coinciding with the annual pilgrimage of huge bazaar used to spring up in Makha i.e. Mecca since times immemorial. The annual pilgrimage of Muslims to Mecca is not at all an innovation but a continuation of the ancient pilgrimage. This fact is mentioned in encyclopedias.

http://volker-doormann.org/the0.htm

Originally posted by: Believe

I dont think God need any particuler name...Some people say :

Allah is a Sanskrit word. In Sanskrit Allah, Akka and Amba are synonyms. They signify a goddess or mother. The term Allah appears in Sanskrit chants while invoking goddess Durga i.e. Bhavani. The Islamic word Allah for God is therefore not an innovation but the ancient Sanskrit appellation retained and continued to be used by Islam

In our attempt to reconstruct the story of pre-Islamic Arabia we begin with the name of the country itself. As explained earlier the name is fully Sanskrit. Its central pilgrim centre, Mecca is also a Sanskrit name. Makha in Sanskrit signifies a sacrificial fire. Since Vedic fire worship was prevalent all over West Asia in pre-Islamic days Makha signifies the place which had an important shrine of fire worship.

Coinciding with the annual pilgrimage of huge bazaar used to spring up in Makha i.e. Mecca since times immemorial. The annual pilgrimage of Muslims to Mecca is not at all an innovation but a continuation of the ancient pilgrimage. This fact is mentioned in encyclopedias.

http://volker-doormann.org/the0.htm

Allah is not a Sanskrit word, nor is it derived from a Sanskrit word, and neither is it synonymous with Amba or any Hindu deity. That website is just pure crackpottery.

Originally posted by: Emptiness

Allah is not a Sanskrit word, nor is it derived from a Sanskrit word, and neither is it synonymous with Amba or any Hindu deity. That website is just pure crackpottery.

These all different kind of interpretation and different opinion and views.....thats why I said Almighty doesn't need any name....😊

almighty may not need a name or form but the mortals sure do 😉

I can now appreciate the hindu tradition of several names & forms for same God, something that used to perplex me earlier 😊 Inspite of the outward difference the essence of God remains the same

In some traditions God must not be named, because the name is so pure or divine it cannot be mentioned by mortal lips.