I recall this thread (being on it myself) and believe I stood corrrected on it so I thought I'd post this because its related to Lambs thread.
Taken from here
Allah - Page 6 - Christian Forums
S Walsh shows (links as well)
The Arabic word for "god" is
ilah -
Allah is indeed
the name of a
false pagan god.
That is why the Islamic statement of of faith is:
"
La ilaha ill Allah" -
there is no god (
ilah)
but Allah.
Allah - Page 8 - Christian Forums
the Arabic word for god is ilah.
Even the koran states it as such:
3.62: This is the true account, the true explanation: There is no
Ilah (
God)
except Allah.
52:43: Have they an ilah (god) other than Allah?
5:4: Pronounce the Name of Allah: and fear Allah; for Allah is swift in reckoning
20:8:
Allah! There is no Ilah (
God) save Him. His are the most beautiful Names. To Him belong the most beautiful attributes
20:14: Verily, I am Allah. No Ilah (God) may be worshiped but I. So serve you Me, and perform regular prostration prayer for My praise. Verily the Hour is coming. I am almost hiding it from Myself
20:96: Now look at your ilah (god), of whom you have become devoted. We will (burn) it and scatter it in the sea! But your Ilah (God) is Allah: there is no ilah (god) but He. Thus do We relate to you some stories of what happened before from Our own Remembrance
8:45: O believers! When you meet an army, be firm, and think of Allahs Name much; that you may prosper
59:22: Allah is He, no other Ilah (God) may be worshiped; Who knows both secret and open; He, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. He is Allah, Whom there is no other Ilah (God); the Sovereign, the Holy One, the Source of Security, the Guardian of Faith, the Majestic, the Irresistible, the Superb, the Compeller: Glory to Allah! He is Allah, the Creator, the Evolver, the Bestower of Forms (or Colors). To Him belong the Best Names: whatever is in the heavens and on earth declares His Praises and Glory: and He is the Mighty, the Wise
Again, I'll state it quite simply:
Allah = Name.
Ilah = Arabic word/title which means god.
If Allah was merely the arabic word for "god" then it would say "La allaha ill Allah" - and it clearly doesn't.
Saying that,
god or ilah isn't a name, but merely a title.
Allah is the name of the Islamic god - which is a false one.
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It's a common misconception that the Arabic name
Allah corresponds to the English word
God, when in fact, throughout the Koran (one of the oldest known pieces of Arabic literature, and was originally written in it's Paleo-Arabic form) the Arabic
Allah is always, 100% of the time, used as a
name.
Now, God, in English, isn't a name - It's a title.
Just like
Lord is a title, not a name.
The koran uses the arabic word
ilah as the corresponding title to our English word
God, and therefore the corresponding title to the Spanish
dios and so on and so forth.
That is proven by the Koran quotes I have posted in a previous post.
A few months ago, some Muslims started a topic in the non-christian section of the forum stating as such - Allah is a name, not a word meaning "God" - bu tunfortunately, like many topics in that forum, it was locked and deleted.
Also, did a google search on "Arab Bible" and came across this page:
What happened to Allah?
Which confirms what I said, and actually shows that certain arabic bibles (like this one) use
ilah and not
Allah as the Arabic word/title for
God.
I wanted to post this because I stood corrected on it.
Peace
Fireinfolding
Noperz. The Muslims already believe Muhammad is in Isaiah 42 and how they learned to read Hebrew is beyond me. 
