Allah (God): Difference between revisions

According to [[Islam]], '''Allāh''' is the Creator of the Universe. Allah does not mean 'God' but rather '' 'the God' '' and is thus one of the remnants of [[Pagan Origins of Islam|Islam's pagan origins]]. In the pre-Islamic era, Allah was the supreme creator god of the Arabs.<ref name="EM">[http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/allah.html "Allah"] - Encyclopedia Mythica from Encyclopedia Mythica Online; Accessed June 15, 2007.</ref> Yet he was still only one god among the many others they believed in. The goddesses; ''Allāt'' (the feminine form of “Allah”, meaning '' 'the goddess' ''),<ref>Arne A. Ambros, and Stephan Procházka - [http://jis.oxfordjournals.org/content/19/3/400.extract A Concise Dictionary of Koranic Arabic (p. 306)] - Weisbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3895004006</ref><ref>[http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e1332 Lat, al-] - Oxford Islamic Studies Online</ref><ref>Mify narodov mira 1984. Article: Allat</ref> ''Manāt'', and ''al-‘Uzzá'' were Allah's daughters. One of the [[five pillars of Islam]] is to accept that Allah is the only God (Arabic: la ilaaha il Allah)