Malaysian govt seeks negotiated Allah solution

Published Date: January 27, 2010

Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak wants the Allah row to be settled through negotiation rather than through the courts, a local newspaper is reporting.

The Malaysian Insider says it understands the prime minister wants the dispute settled out of court, and Cabinet Minister Datuk Seri Idris Jala is key to talks which would to allow the restricted use of the word, a solution that could satisfy both Christians and Muslims.

Appointed last year to Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s Cabinet to spearhead the Government Transformation Programme (GTP), Jala is now the point man as the government seeks to find a solution the “Allah” dispute.

Jala, along with other personalities, understood to include Attorney-General Tan Sri Gani Patail, are now holding dialogues with Christian groups to find a way out of the seeming impasse.

Najib is understood to be concerned with the Christian vote his Barisan Nasional (BN) may lose, especially in its traditional vote bank of Sabah and Sarawak.

In the Sarawak interior, the issue is understood to have gained some traction.

Jala’s Kelabit tribe, which also uses the word “Allah” in its bible, have become particularly upset by remarks made by some West Malaysian Muslim leaders and with the government’s stand.

“Yes we are trying to find a moderate path, to find a national consensus on the issue.

“It is not easy because of the opposing forces. But I believe they (Christians) see our sincerity. They realise we are not playing politics,” Najib said in a televised interview.

Plans are now afoot for Najib to meet with Kuala Lumpur Archbishop Tan Sri Murphy Pakiam to hammer out a solution in the form of proper guidelines on how the word “Allah” can be used, the Malaysian Insider notes.

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Complications in way of an ‘Allah’ dispute resolution (Malaysian Insider)

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ALLAH IS ONE

Allah was not considered the sole divinity; however, Allah was considered the creator of the world and the giver of rain. The notion of the term may have been vague in the Meccan religion. Allah was associated with companions, whom pre-Islamic Arabs considered as subordinate deities. Meccans held that a kind of kinship existed between Allah and the jinn. Allah was thought to have had sons and that the local deities of al-ʻUzzá, Manāt and al-Lāt were His daughters. The Meccans possibly associated angels with Allah. Allah was invoked in times of distress. Muhammad's father's name was ‘Abdallāh meaning the “servant of Allāh.” or "the slave of Allāh"

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The Most Concise Definition of Allah
The most concise definition of God in Islam is given in the four verses of Surah Ikhlas which is Chapter 112 of the Qur’an:

"Say: He is Allah,
The One and Only.
"Allah, the Eternal, Absolute.
"He begets not, nor is He begotten.
And there is none like unto Him."
[Al-Qur’an 112:1-4]
The word ‘Assamad’ is difficult to translate. It means ‘absolute existence’, which can be attributed only to Allah (swt), all other existence being temporal or conditional. It also means that Allah (swt) is not dependant on any person or thing, but all persons and things are dependant on Him.

Surah Ikhlas - the touchstone of theology:

Surah Ikhlas (Chapter 112) of the Glorious Qur’an, is the touchstone of theology. ‘Theo’ in Greek means God and ‘logy’ means study. Thus Theology means study of God and to Muslims this four line definition of Almighty God serves as the touchstone of the study of God. Any candidate to divinity must be subjected to this ‘acid test’. Since the attributes of Allah given in this chapter are unique, false gods and pretenders to divinity can be easily dismissed using these verses.

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