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So, Arabic-speaking Christians use “Allah” when referring to the God of the Bible. But the Islamic Allah doesn’t fit with the Bible’s description of God. As we’ve already noted, the Qur’an doesn’t teach that Allah is the “Father.” They say Allah is their lord, sustainer, caretaker, and provider.
Muslims believe in God, but their name for him is Allah, which literally means “God” in Arabic. Since Christians also speak to and about God, is it right for a Christian to refer to God as “Allah?”
Or is Allah a different God, the creation of Muhammad and fundamentally unlike the God of the Bible? In his 1984 book Muhammad and the Christian the Anglican bishop Kenneth Cragg writes, “The answer to the vexed question, ‘Is the God of Islam and the God of the Gospel the same?’ can only rightly be ‘Yes!’ and ‘No!’.”
Of all Islamic practices, five are paramount: proclaiming the Islamic motto, the shahada: ‘There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger’; praying the five daily prayers; fasting during the month of Ramadan; giving alms; and undertaking a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Allah and the god of the Bible. Allah is usually thought to mean “the god” (al-ilah) in Arabic and is probably cognate with rather than derived from the Aramaic Alaha. All Muslims and most...
When Muhammad founded Islam, he used "Allah" to refer to the same unitary God who met Abraham, according to the Bible and the Quran. Many Jews, Christians, and early Muslims used "Allah" and "al-ilah" interchangeably in Classical Arabic.
Some people see similarities between Allah in Islam and Yahweh in Christianity and conclude the two are the same deity. Is this claim valid and how should Christians respond? Pastors Mark Dever and John Piper explain how Islam rejects the God of the Bible by denying Christ.
