Who is Allah?

[Dashman90]

I dont wana go to deep down the rabbit hole, but if Allah seemed non existent before Islam, then is it possible that this could have been a modernised name for a pre-existing god/God?

 

[8Lou1]

The question should be WHAT is allah, not who.

Reason: no personification of what is described as ' outside of human paradigm'. Which means that if you take all human knowledge on all levels of being and all areas known to mankind, that thats not allah.

It also means that when one experiences something new, the old dies, but allah doesnt change and still is outside of human paradigm.

 

[Dashman90]

The question should be WHAT is allah, not who.

Reason: no personification of what is described as ' outside of human paradigm'. Which means that if you take all human knowledge on all levels of being and all areas known to mankind, that thats not allah.

It also means that when one experiences something new, the old dies, but allah doesnt change and still is outside of human

The question should be WHAT is allah, not who.

Reason: no personification of what is described as ' outside of human paradigm'. Which means that if you take all human knowledge on all levels of being and all areas known to mankind, that thats not allah.

It also means that when one experiences something new, the old dies, but allah doesnt change and still is outside of human paradigm.

I didnt ask who or what. But you kinda said what without even answering the question

 

[8Lou1]

True.
I wrote that, cause the surge for allah in history made me realize that.

Lets put it different when allah is beyond human, a creator god who has created several universes and rules them at allahs own term, dont you think it was allah, the Nameless One, the Invisible One all along?

And doesnt it make sense for a human to name anything, as allah ordered us so.

Our body is our veil, our roots are our glasses. Look at what calls you behind the veil of the name allah. Those are the old gods.

 

[glaive]

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for Allah. I wouldn't consider that too deep down a rabbit hole.

"Allah" is thought to be a contraction of al-

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, "the god," referring to a single supreme deity.

Originally, ʾilāh was used as an epithet for the West Semitic creator god ʾIlu (the

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), before being adopted as the proper name itself for this god.

 

[Amadeus]

I've been wondering about this too especially since part of my practice is doing stuff from sufism.

I spoke to some sufis who had completely different opinions than the majority.
One of them was sure that Allah is just a deity. Another thought it's nothing but a group of spirits.

There are some who think it's just an egregore.

Whatever it is, it has pretty strong hot and powerful energy.

The Quran and effects that come feel like a powerful magical system with distinctively different spirits than any other system. Great purifying effects, peace of mind, harmony, excellent spiritual states, all kinds of results.

 

[Mh4419]

Allah was existed before Islam, as Mohamad father's name was (Abdullah), even people warshiped to Allah before Islam beside Allah daughters (LAAT, MANAT, OZZA)

 

[AbammonTheGreat]

Its always good practice to ask the people practicing the religion what they worship instead of trying to historiographically or culturally point to some other diety as the true identity. Muslims claim "Allah" is the one true god of Abraham. The word Allah means "The God". As magicians we believe in intent. So if Muslims claim that Allah is the one true God of Abraham then that's what they're worshiping.

 

[Kepler]

A false god with no reality. A typical thought construct from a common primitive metaphysical model of reality with an imagined transcendent god at the pinnacle of it.

 

[MorganBlack]

Neoplatonism, ideas big enough to hold everyone and everything. The more esoteric Muslims are our Neoplatonic brothers, just in another cultural context.

This one is really good.
Read along with Neville Goddard and Dr. Iain McGilchrist.

Creative Imagination and Mystical Experience in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabî, by Henry Corbin

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More academic.
Illuminating the Divine: The Influence of Neo-Platonism in Islamic Philosophy

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"Illuminating the Divine: The Influence of Neo-Platonism in Islamic Philosophy" explores the profound synthesis of Neo-Platonic thought with Islamic intellectual traditions, a fusion that has shaped the contours of Islamic philosophy, theology, and mysticism for centuries. This work delves into the lives and legacies of seminal Islamic philosophers who, inspired by the rich tapestry of Neo-Platonism, embarked on a quest to understand the divine and articulate a vision of the cosmos that bridges the finite with the infinite. Through their engagement with Neo-Platonic principles, these thinkers developed sophisticated metaphysical frameworks, ethical theories, and models of knowledge that continue to resonate within the Islamic world and beyond. This book invites readers on a journey through the intellectual endeavors of these philosophers, illuminating the paths they carved in the pursuit of knowledge and the universal quest for understanding the divine. Keywords: Neo-Platonism, Islamic philosophy, metaphysics, theology, mysticism, Al-Farabi, Avicenna, Al-Ghazali, Ibn Rushd, Suhrawardi, Ibn al-Arabi, emanation, unity of being, intellectual history, cross-cultural transmission.