Rumor / Myth: The God of Islam and Muslims is not the God of Abraham, Moses and Jesus. Rather “Allah”

is a moon God referring to an idol statue which in Mecca during the time of prophet Muhammad’.

Busting the Myth

El Elohe = Al Illah = Allah

Meaning “The God”

Linguistically

Semitic languages are a group of related languages spoken by more than 467 million people across much

of the Middle East, North Africa and the Horn of Africa.

Marriam-Webster defines “Semitic: among relating to, or constituting a subfamily of the Afro-

Asiatic language family that includes Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Amharic. Arabic and Hebrew

are sister languages.

“Al” in Arabic means “The” similar to “EL” in Spanish.

In Genesis: “El Elohe” means God, in Arabic “Al Elah”, = ALLAH meaning “The God”, this word is also used

by Arabic Speaking Muslims

What is God in Islam you ask? The Quran states in chapter 2:136

“Say you all: "We believe in Allah (God), and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Ishmael,

Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) prophets from their

Lord: We make no difference between one and another of them: And to God we surrender our will in

Islam.“

In Genesis 33:20 “There he set up an altar and called it El Elohe Israel.” God is called El Elohe.

In “Marriam-Webster “ Elohim - Gen 1:1 Hebrew word God is Elohim.

Elohim is a Hebrew word which expresses concepts of divinity. It is related to the Hebrew word ēl, though morphologically it consists of the Hebrew word Eloah

with a plural suffix.

El Elohe = Al Illah = Allah