Waryaa | Unrecorded Date Salama.... As I have put my crackwise about this distictive brother of ours into other forums; hence allow me not to introduce him. He, who had dig out as far of fallacies and fictitious as he could find about that untruthful Book. Here, once more, his own words about...: Now ask a Christian man, if he had heard the word--"Alleluya." No Christian worth the name will fail to recognize it. Whenever the Christian goes into ecstasy, he explaims--"Alleluya! Alleluya!", just as we Muslims might exclaim the Takbir--"Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!" Ask him, what is Alleluya? Take him to the book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament, Chapter 19; we are informed there that John, the disciple of Jesus, saw a vision, in which he heard the angels in heaven singing, Alleluya, Alleluya. Ask him again, what is Alleluya! Is it "hip, hip, hooray; hip, hip, hooray!" Are angels in heaven singing--hip, hip, hoorays to God? Everytime when God creates a new galaxy, do the angels explaim--"hip, hip, hooray!" when He explodes a super-nova, do the angels say, "Hip, hip, hooray!" How absurd! Then what is Alleluya? The last syllable "YA" is a vocative and exclamatory particle in both Arabic and Hebrew meaning "OH!" In other words YA=OH, (the vocative); and YA=(!), a note of exclamation, or an exclamatory particle, or as is more commonly known an exclamation mark. The Semite, both Arab and Jew, begins with the exclamatory particle or exclamation mark. The Westerner, in his language end with exclamatory particle or exclamation mark, eg. Stop! Go! Fire! Bang! Let us repeat the above Tasbih (words of praise) as an Arab or a Jew: ALLE-LU-YA will be YA-ALLE-LU because, as explained above, YA is always at the beginning in both Arabic and Hebrew. YA ALLE LU would be YA ALLA HU: meaning, "OH ALLAH!" (You are the only Being Who deserves worship and praise) Unbiased Christians will not fail to recognize Allah as none other than his--El, Eli, Alle, Elah, Alah, Allah. Call upon Him by any name, for His are the Most Beautiful names, as long as those names are not contaminated and as long as they do not conjure up in our minds the images of men or monkeys howsoever glorified they might have been. Quite Peace!! P.S.--If any error, as I remorse, is my sole unawareness. |