I Am Allah
- philhoraia
- Dec 5, 2024
- 2 min read
S 20:14 I am Allah. There is no god but me. So worship me and perform salat for my dhikr.
S 27:9 Musa, I am Allah, the mighty, the wise.
S 28:30 But when he came to it he was called from the right-hand side of the bank of the wadi in the blessed patch from the tree: Musa, I am Allah, lord of the ‘alamin.
Muslims will compare different Gospel accounts and claim discrepancies. But as the reader will notice, three very different versions of what was supposedly said are given in quran. And these supposedly from the same author, that author supposedly being Allah.
These three passages seem to be the only ones in which Allah introduces itself by name. These occurrences are no valid argument for the authorship of quran. Let's analyse them.
In the first, Allah says that there is no god but him. But quran speaks of creators. Allah is supposedly a creator. If the other creators are not gods, what are they? If they are not gods, is Allah one? It goes on to demand worship and salat. Was Musa not doing so hitherto?
In the second, Musa's name is inserted and Allah says that it is the mighty, the wise. And there's no mention of worship and salat.
In the third, Musa has been called by someone or something and hears a voice from a tree, not a bush, as so many critics mistakenly say. Allah addresses Musa by name and says that it is Allah and calls itself the lord of the 'alamin. Rabb al-'alamin is a calque of the Jewish expression Ribbon ha'Olamim. Although the author puts this in the mouth of Allah, the Ribbon ha'Olamim is not Allah but Jehovah. Allah is the name of the deity of quran. And it does not mean 'god', at least not in Arabic.
If 'we' is a plural of majesty used of a monad, Allah, why doesn't Allah in the passages above introduce itself saying'We are Allah'?
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