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Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds; and blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his Family and Companions. Allah is referred to only by what Allah Himself or His Prophet ...

When speaking about God and Allah there’s no shortage of opinions. Many people think we all pray to the same god. This suggests the homogenization of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, as well as who ...

Many texts in the Quran and the Sunnah indicate the virtue of praising Allah and that it is what the dwellers of Paradise will say upon entering Paradise. The Prophet used to praise Allah during all ...

The doctrine followed by Ahl-us-Sunnah w-al-Jama‘ah (adherents to the Sunnah and the Muslim mainstream) is to follow the righteous predecessors in relation to the Names and Attributes of Allah. This ...

A Roman Catholic bishop has proposed that Dutch Christians call God “Allah,” said the Apeldoorn Reformatorisch Dagblad in an editorial. Tiny Muskens, bishop of Breda, dropped that bombshell on us last ...

KAULA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The name of God is sacred to Muslims, and the Arabic word for God, “Allah,” is universally invoked in Islamic prayers and practices. But are Muslims the only ones who can use ...

Some Muslim women are using feminine pronouns to refer to God. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Hafsa Lodi, who wrote about this movement in The Revealer, about what's driving this. There's a quiet ...

In my previous post I suggested that the God of ancient Israel -- known to Israelites as Yahweh -- lived for centuries in a polytheistic milieu and may well have had a goddess wife named Asherah. This ...