Kalam
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False Allah is the word for the god in Arabic the word for god in Arabic is ilah
This is misleading. Ilah ( اله ) simply means "deity"; it doesn't refer to any specific being. "God" is Allah ( الله‎ ), a contraction of al-ilah -- the noun ilah prefixed by the definite article al ( ال ).
Hence the use of "Allah" in Arabic translations of the Bible:
فِي الْبَدْءِ خَلَقَ اللهُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضَ
Fi 'l-badi' khalaqa Allahu as-Samaawaat wa 'l-Ard
("In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" - Gen. 1:1)
Note that the forum software renders Arabic script improperly as individual, unconnected letters in their isolated forms.
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