Servant Of The Light.

Salam,
as a muslim i feel it is my duty to warn about the dangers of wrong belief and a wrong belief is that Allah is not god as i understand you are demonstrating after seeing your article on your web site( allah and god) but please don't just take my word for it i have the proof from the quran itself as my father was with in a similar belief and i found some ayats to comfirm my belief ie Allah is god and not visa versa ie that Allah isn't ,so straight to the point:

first its mentioned in surah (nas) (114,ayat 3) that allah is: Illahin-nas , god of the mankind ,

next one is in surah Nisaaa (women) (4 ayat 171) innamal-laahu Ilaahunw-Waahid Allah hu god one

and last but not least :

Surah Nahl 16 (the bee ayat 22):

Ilaa-hukum Ilaahunw-waahid your god is one god..

no where can i find Allah saying in Quran that Allah isn't god but i can find in quran that allah is god remember :Allahu Illah

i have seen some people on the web translate la illaha illah as :no god only Allah... but this is denouncing that Allah is god and leads to unbelief ..in my understanding Illah is the same as a ,asma ulhusna ..

if you have something of a better understanding to this then myself please do so and explain vie quran to me if my understanding is incorrect as we as muslims are duty bound to remind each other to the truth vie quran and uphold the truth to one another ... and my intention here is not of an argumentative nature but that we can all learn from each other the correct path Inshallah and lastly please forgive me if i've in anyway translated or put incorrect transliteration as i've tryed my best to put forward the truth here from a quran that i'm borrowing and that i'm no expert in arabic...

may Allah guide us all to the siraatal-mustaqiim ie the straight way inshallah...
salaam

Salaam Abdul Raffi,

thank you for the questions, we are attempting a translation on the website, as you may have noticed, this is a slow process,but we think the result are very good so far.

As the translation is so clear and detailed, logical and flows in a continued pattern of reasoned expression, it seems to achieve the stated truth, a clear guide in every detail.

The Surah 114 has just been posted on the site, which may help you in further understanding the perspective of this website and answers part of your questions.

As we translate the Surahs the others will also become plain,

thank you again, I hope this is helpful,

Abdun Nur

May Peace be your nature,

I tend to disagree with Allah = not God, as I think it leads to confusion.

A God is none other that "That which presides", like a president. The supreme presider is labeled GOD.

The actuality of it coincides with your intended meaning however so I cannot totally disagree. God is NO THING, meaning energy is at rest(salaam/nirvana, etc). WHen energy is at rest, there are no objects, because matter is not formed. All there is is conciousness/will, two sides of the same "no"thing :o) All it does is SEE and DECIDE. All else is done by Its manifestation of energy. Once God/man WILLS a thing (at the proper time for man, anytime for God), energy begins to move and therefore objects are manifested. This is how God creates and how man creates.

So I guess I agree with your overall understanding , but how it is presented will be confusing. Perhaps instead of "not God" we use "not thing" :o)

Salaam Sebek,

you are correct in so far as Not God is inadequate to explain the idea of Not God, and the full translation of the phrase Allah will, as I get time, replace any Not God statement on the site, the meaning of Allah is explained in the essay 'A Careful Linguistic Analysis of the term Allah':
http://servantofthelight.com/content/view/129/162/

Allah - “The One who neither is, nor shall be a deity for worship and adoration” is the latest view of the phrase, as the hidden rules of classical Arabic grammar are discovered, this new grammar information also alters the translation work, which we are revising at present to incorporate these new developments.

There is a fundamental difference between the two concepts of God and Allah, you would propagate confusion by ever using the term God, a deep and horrible confusion.

A God is an outside force that controls the universe, a being in command.

Allah is a single consciousness, absolutely nothing else exists, that manifest every aspect and moment of all reality in to being instant to instant, without this constant manifestation nothing would exist.

May Peace be your nature,

I have no real disagreement with what you say on this matter so I wont go any further. Good work.