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Why do Muslims prefer calling Allah by the Arabic name Allah instead of the English word God? – Dr Zakir Naik

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Why do we Muslims prefer calling Allah by the Arabic name Allah instead of the English word God?
The reason is because a person can play mischief with the English word ‘God’. For example, If you add ‘s’ to God, it becomes gods that’s plural of god. There is nothing like plural Allah.

قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ
Say He is Allah, one and only,
If you add ‘dess’ to god, it becomes goddess, that means a female god. There is nothing like male Allah or female Allah. Allah (swt) has got no gender.
If you add a ‘father’ to god, it becomes godfather, he is my godfather, he is my guardian. There is nothing like Allah-father or Allah- abbaa in Islam.
If you add a mother to god it becomes godmother. There is nothing like Allah-mother or Allah-Ammi in Islam.
Allah is a unique word.
If you prefix a ‘tin’ before god it becomes tin-god, there is nothing like tin-Allah in Islam. That’s the reason we Muslims, we prefer calling Allah by the Arabic word Allah instead of the English word God.

And this word Allah, I being a student of comparative religion this word Allah is mentioned in the scriptures of the major world religions and it’s also mentioned in the Bible.
If you read the Bible it’s mentioned in the Gospel of Mark ch no. 15 verse no. 34 as well as Gospel of Matthew ch. 27 verse 46
When Jesus Christ (pbuh) when he was put on the cross
He cries out “Elahi, Elahii, Lama Sabachthani”
Which means My God, My God why has thou forsaken me?
In every Bible any translation you pick up, any language whether it be English Bible, Hindi Bible, Tagalu Bible, French Bible, German Bible. Any Bible you pick up this word “Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachtani” has been maintained in its pure form.
Why?
Allah knows the best.
Why have these original words have been maintained?
And than the translation says,
My God, My God why has thou forsaken me?
But the original Ellah, ellah lama sabachtani has been maintained for reasons, best known to Allah(swt) in all the Bibles.
You pickup any version of the Bible,
King James Version, RSV version, New American Standard version, New world translation any version out of hundreds available, any language of the Bible. This verse “Elahi, Elahii, Lama Sabachthani” has been maintained and the translation if it’s the English Bible, My God, My God why has thou forsaken me?
Now if you want to try it out that people say but natural “Eli, Elahii, Lama Sabachthani” Does not sound similar to “My God, My God why has thou forsaken me?” Does it sound similar to Joha, Joha why has thou forsaken me? And the answer is no.
Now if you translate into Arabic “Elahi, Elahii, Lama Sabachthani” it will read “Allah, Allah Lamata taractani”. Hebrew and Arabic they are Semitic languages, “Elahi, Elahii, Lama Sabachthani”, “Allah, Allah Lamata taractani”. this sounds similar. So Jesus Christ (pbuh) too used the same word Allah for almighty God.
And this word Allah I being a student of comparative religion is mentioned in the scriptures of major world religions.
That’s the reason we Muslims we prefer calling Allah by the Arabic word Allah instead of the English word God.

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