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Did all the Prophets refer to the word "Allah" as the One God worthy of worship, or did they name the One God in their own languages?

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Allah sent messengers with the languages of their peoples to explain His message to them and for them to understand it, so that proof might be established against them. The name "Allah" is a proper noun for the True God, and no one has dared to name himself with it. This name is the comprehensive one for all the beautiful names and the most exalted attributes, and it indicates the perfection of Allah's attributes, His uniqueness in them, and His having no partner. Researchers traced the word "Allah" in Semitic languages and found that it was used as (Eloh) in Hebrew, (Elah) in Aramaic, (Aloha) in Syriac, and (Ilah) in South Arabic, and that the original word is "Il." Researchers have mentioned that "Allah" is a proper noun in Islam and the Arabic language for the Creator, and that Arabic has preserved its words unlike Hebrew and Aramaic, which suffered extinction and changes in pronunciation due to the non-use of vowels, which confirms that the word "Allah" in other languages is derived or is the same as the Arabic word.

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