Why the fear?

Jan 08, 2015

Prominent Iranian-American theologian Reza Aslan said.that it was blasphemous for anyone to say that ‘Allah’ was even the name for God, stressing that God does not have a name.

The government must have a very “horrific” idea of its own people if it felt it had to ban non-Muslims’ from using the word ‘Allah’ out of fear that it would lead Muslims astray. “The idea that God has a name is bid’ah, it is shirik.

The idea that these grey-bearded men have now decided that this is the name of God, as though God has a name, is, to me as a Muslim, religiously offensive,’ said Reza.

Source: The Malaysian Insider