An Invitation to Peace

“I became aware how near their God and their faith were to these
people. Their prayer did not seem to be divorced from their working
day; it was part of it – not meant to help them forget life, but to
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remember it better by remembering God.”
Allah, by the way, is not the name of the god of the Arabs or the
Muslims. It is the same God, the One and Only, to whom all true divine
traditions called. Allah simply means the God, that is, the only One to
whom divinity belongs and, therefore, the only One who is justifiably
worshipped, as opposed to the false forms and images that people’s
minds have qualified for worship. The word Allah is so exclusive to the
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One, True God that it has no plural, feminine , or diminutive, unlike
god with gods, goddess and godling. Allah transcends everything which
is from the nature of created beings. Allah stands for the completeness
of all that God is.
“Say: He, Allah, is One,
Allah the Eternally Besought (of all),
He is born of none and none is born of Him,
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And there is none comparable to Him.”
An Invitation to Peace
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Leopold Weiss, The Road to Mecca, p. 127
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Not that Allah is masculine of course, – the Absolute is unique and so has no opposites and
gender.
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Qur’an 112:1-4
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