The meaning of the word Allah

   

 The word Allah is the greatest and the most comprehensive of the Divine Names, and when the word Allah is pronounced, it refers to the Creator alone, who has no partner, and there is no difference between all human beings in understanding the meaning of the word Allah, but the difference between them is whether they believe in Him and follow His Messengers, peace be upon them, or not, where Allah addresses His Messenger Muhammad (PBUH) in Aya (87) of Surat Alzukhruf saying "And if You asked them who created them, they would say Allah, so How are they being turned away?". The name Allah, and name Most Gracious (Al-Rahman) have superiority over other Beautiful Names of Allah, and the names of men that attributed to these two Names are the most beloved names to Allah, where Allah's Messenger (PBUH) said in narration of Ibn Umar: "The names dearest to Allah are Abd-Allah, and Abdu-Rahman" (Sahih Muslim 2132).   

 The word Allah carries all the attributes of perfection, and denotes all Beautiful Names of Allah, likewise, all Beautiful Names of Allah are a definition of Allah, as Allah has stated in Ayat (22-24) of Surat Alhashr "He is Allah, there is no God but He, the Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, the Most Gracious, The Most Merciful, He is Allah, there is no God but He, the King, the Holy, the Giver of peace, the Guarantor, the Dominator, the All-Mighty, the Irresistible, the Majestic, glory to be Allah from what they associate, He is Allah, the Creator, the Designer, the Giver of shapes, to Him belong the Most Beautiful Names, Whatever is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him, and He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise".

 No human being has been called by Allah since the beginning of creation, and no one will be called by it until the day of resurrection, and this is a challenge from Allah to all of His creation, as Allah says in Aya (65) of Surat Maryam "The Lord of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, so Worship Him, and Be patient in His worship, Do you know of any similarity to Him?", so Allah is the Creator of whatever is in the Heavens and the earth and none is worthy of His Name. Although the polytheists and idolaters had associated many humans, Angels, stones, and idols along with Allah Almighty in their worship but none of their false gods ever named as Allah, all they could do was that they derived the names of their idols from the Most Beautiful Names of Allah, when they derived Al-lat from Allah, and Aluzza from Alazeez: Almighty, so Allah will recompense them on the day of resurrection for what they used to do as mentioned in Aya (180) of Surat Ala'raf.