The Origin of the name Allah
One assertion concerning the name of Allah is doing the rounds as follows.
"If this were an authentic history, the textbook would explain that the
god
of Muhammad was man's creation. Arabia was a pagan nation that worshiped
over 300 gods. One of those was the moon god named, al-ilah. Legend has it
that the moon god mated with the sun god and had two daughters, both of
whom
were worshiped as goddesses. When Muhammad claimed to have had his
`vision'
and `revelation from Gabriel' he chose al-ilah as the god to build his
army
around. Muhammad shortened the name, al-ilah, to, Allah, and declared that
he alone should be worshiped. He forbade the worship of the daughters. To
this day, a crescent moon can be found at the front of every mosque,
acknowledging that Allah was, and is the moon god. All of this is missing
from the Houghton-Mifflin accounts."
Now on the face of it this argument might appear plausible to the
uninformed
and indeed it is circulated by some as a genuine view.
Note the writer is attacking the Houghton- Mifflin accounts because they
do
not contain what is presented as verifiable truth. It seeks to assert some
failure of the compilers to identify this valuable piece of information.
It
is not surprising that the accounts do not contain such references, as the
assertions are completely false, as we will see.
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