The Muslim god 'Allah' is both Polytheistic and Pagan!

Muslims have always assumed that their god, Allah, is the only god, and that he has always been "one god". Yet, we now find that this god that the Qur'an refers to throughout its pages may not be the correct god at all, and that whoever wrote the Qur'an should have done a little more investigating before borrowing that name, or rather that title for their god. The Arabic name 'Allah' is borrowed from the earlier Nabataean Aramaic name for god 'Ilaha', but that is not necessarily his name either. Let's explain. In Petra, the seat of the Nabataean empire, around 600 miles north of Mecca, the senior god which was worshiped was referred to as 'Dusharah'. There is the ruin of a temple to Dusharah in Petra today. That was his formal name. But his generic title was 'Ilaha', which simply means 'the god', nothing more. Yet, it is that title which now has become in Arabic 'Allah', the god of Islam. Ironically, the Qur'an only borrowed and then used the generic title 'Allah' to refer to their god, not realizing that it was nothing more than a title. But it gets worse, because the god Dusharah had a wife named Al-Uzza, whose generic title was 'Al-lat', which is the feminine form of 'Allah', the generic title of the Nabataean god. These two names, Al-Uzza and Al-Lat should not be a surprise to Muslims as they are well known to them because they are both in the Qur'an, in Surah 53:19-20, known historically as the 'Satanic Verses', a title made famous a number of years ago by the author Salman Rushdie when he published a book with that title. But that creates a further problem. If Al-lat is the wife of Allah, then this contradicts the Qur'an, since in Surah 6:101 it says that since Allah is 'one' he can have no wife. Yet it's clear that Allah does have a wife...Al-lat...which also implies that he is more than just 'one'. Whoever wrote the Qur'an made a big mistake in borrowing the name of the northern Nabataean god Allah, without first understanding the implications of who that god was. It turns out that the Allah of the Qur'an is not only Petran (which means he is not from Mecca at all), but he is also Pagan, and more importantly, Polytheistic. Always look before you borrow anything from a pagan culture, and especially a god from one's polytheistic neighbors, because it may come around to 'bite' you. If only the writers of the Qur'an had looked to the Bible to find out what God's true name was. Moses knew it, and even asked God what His name was in Exodus 3:13; and God told him His name in verses 14-15; "Yahweh" is the name He gave Moses, which is God's true, Holy, Personal, Unique, and Eternal name. In fact in verse 15 God then said to Moses "this is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation". That is the name every prophet used 6,823 times in the Old Testament, and the same name Jesus used from Himself in John 8:58. Yet, nowhere in the Qur'an will you find that name; because whoever wrote the Qur'an decided to choose the wrong name, a Petran, Pagan and Polytheistic name instead. Note: This episode was first recorded in December 2019. © Pfander Centre for Apologetics - US, 2021 (46,480)