Is the name Allah different from the name al-Ilah, or is it derived from it?
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The questioner : May Allah reward you, O Shaykh. You mentioned among the names of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) are Allah and al-Ilah.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Is al-Ilah derived from Allah, or...?
The Shaykh : Some of them mentioned that the original form of Allah is al-Ilah, and that the hamzah was deleted due to frequent usage, just as it was deleted in the word al-nas (people), whose original form is al-anas, and just as it was deleted in their saying khayr (good) and shar (bad), whose original forms are akhayr and asharr. Is that clear? And al-Ilah, its original form is al-Ilah, as some scholars of language mentioned.
The questioner : Some of them name [their children] 'Abd al-Ilah.
The Shaykh : Yes. It is permissible. It has ended, O Muhammad?
The reader: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and blessings and peace be upon the noblest of the prophets and messengers, our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
The author (may Allah preserve him) said: "Al-Ash'ari, Abu al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him), was in the last part of his life upon the methodology of the people of the Sunnah and Hadith, which is affirming what Allah has affirmed for Himself in His Book or on the tongue of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), without distortion, without denial of the divine attributes, without asking how an attribute is, and without comparing Allah to creation. And a person's methodology is what he said last, if he explicitly limited his statement to it, as is the case with Abu al-Hasan, as is known from his words in al-Ibanah. And upon this, the completion of following him is adhering to what he was upon last, which is adhering to the methodology of the people of Hadith and Sunnah, because it is the correct methodology that is obligatory to follow, which Abu al-Hasan himself committed to."
The Shaykh : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow them with excellence until the Day of Judgment. As for what follows:
We have heard what the Shaykh Muhammad al-Amin al-Shinqiti (may Allah have mercy on him) wrote, and his words are good and explicit. We spoke about Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari and that he had three stages: the Mu'tazilah, the Sunnah, and between them. And the last one is the Sunnah.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Is al-Ilah derived from Allah, or...?
The Shaykh : Some of them mentioned that the original form of Allah is al-Ilah, and that the hamzah was deleted due to frequent usage, just as it was deleted in the word al-nas (people), whose original form is al-anas, and just as it was deleted in their saying khayr (good) and shar (bad), whose original forms are akhayr and asharr. Is that clear? And al-Ilah, its original form is al-Ilah, as some scholars of language mentioned.
The questioner : Some of them name [their children] 'Abd al-Ilah.
The Shaykh : Yes. It is permissible. It has ended, O Muhammad?
The reader: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and blessings and peace be upon the noblest of the prophets and messengers, our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
The author (may Allah preserve him) said: "Al-Ash'ari, Abu al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him), was in the last part of his life upon the methodology of the people of the Sunnah and Hadith, which is affirming what Allah has affirmed for Himself in His Book or on the tongue of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), without distortion, without denial of the divine attributes, without asking how an attribute is, and without comparing Allah to creation. And a person's methodology is what he said last, if he explicitly limited his statement to it, as is the case with Abu al-Hasan, as is known from his words in al-Ibanah. And upon this, the completion of following him is adhering to what he was upon last, which is adhering to the methodology of the people of Hadith and Sunnah, because it is the correct methodology that is obligatory to follow, which Abu al-Hasan himself committed to."
The Shaykh : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow them with excellence until the Day of Judgment. As for what follows:
We have heard what the Shaykh Muhammad al-Amin al-Shinqiti (may Allah have mercy on him) wrote, and his words are good and explicit. We spoke about Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari and that he had three stages: the Mu'tazilah, the Sunnah, and between them. And the last one is the Sunnah.