One of the most common criticisms of the Qur'an by polemicists particularly christians
is that the name of God 'Yahweh' found in the Torah is simply not there in the Qur'an, so Allah is the
name of God in the Qur'an not Yahweh. And this of course for them is a a big problem. I'm happy to
say that Dr Ali Atai who had the immense privilege of talking with on Friday, he can read
and write biblical hebrew, biblical greek, arabic obviously English, persian and he's an expert on
the Bible and the Qur'an and here's a short extract from the video you can see on youtube
i'll link it in the description below where he responds to this this criticism that
the name of God in the Qur'an is Allah not Yahweh and having listened to this carefully i personally
find Dr Ali Atai's comments and analysis to be completely convincing and if i didn't think
they were convincing i would say so but i happen to think they are and they effectively deal with
this issue once and for all so i hope people will pay attention to what he says and take it on
board and perhaps we can move on from this issue which is basically a red herring. OK enjoy! Verse
eight he says i am the lord ani adonai i am yod hey the tetragrammaton that is my name i will
not give my glory to another nor share my praise with carved idols now where critic will say here
but the name of God in the Quran is Allah it's not Yahweh so here's my response to this the the
word 'Yahweh' is a human invention in the Tanakh the name of God is represented by four letters
it's called the tetragrammaton the shema forage nobody knows how to pronounce these letters
or what they really mean the the words yahweh or jehovah are fabrications of the tetragrammaton
that are not scriptural however sometimes in the tanakh the tetragrammaton is abbreviated
as who or ho in hebrew with the two middle letters the hey and the wow the hay and the valve
these are the the prominent letters of the tetragrammaton for example
and i mentioned this last time as well the name joshua yehoshua the lord is salvation
hey and yo hoshua the name elijah eli who my god is the lord who hey and the quran says allah allah
illahu allah allah illah illah who god there is no god but who the ha and the wow same letters
right say whoa is god the one and only so this is confirmed in the quran you know it's it's a bit
strange to me that christians claim that emmanuel mentioned in in isaiah 7 14 is a prophecy jesus
this is what matthew says but jesus's name was not immanuel it was jesus the name's
emmanuel and jesus have nothing in common the response would be well the meaning of emmanuel
applies to jesus okay so what is the meaning of the tetragrammaton
nobody knows definitively but the dominant opinion is that it probably has something
something to do with eternality that god is okay fine that meaning is also in the quran okay
that's the first sentence of ayatul kurusi the verse of the throne chapter 2 verse 255
god there is no god but who he the living the living meaning the eternal the self-subsisting
so in that first line you have the meaning of an ismul adam
so the tetragrammaton is confirmed in the quran both in its articulation as well as in its meaning
okay and obviously that's that we can talk about that that's a different topic but this
is a very common trope right allah is not the tetragrammaton uh the name of god is yahweh
the word yahweh does not appear anywhere in the bible you've added these vowels is it interesting
they're christians i i i agree i hear this all the time but of course the word yahweh
is never mentioned in the new testament either it's not as if the gospels have this word
around paul never mentions the word he has anyone else said it's pretty absent from the
new testament yeah so we'll use the same you know christian again the christians will say
emmanuel is not the name of jesus oh that's what his name means okay then fine what does yahweh
mean it probably means which means to be it's the present tense verb of of of the of the verb
which means to be meaning god is uh eternal and that meaning is also found uh in the quran