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Are Allah and God the same thing?
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The word "God" is a title.There are many named gods, worshiped in the world today.Allah is one of them.
*** sh chap. 12 pp. 284-287 pars. 1-6 Islām?The Way to God by Submission ***
?IN THE name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.? This sentence translates the Arabic text, above, from the Qur?ān. It continues: ?Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds: The Beneficent, the Merciful: Owner of the Day of Judgement. Thee (alone) we worship; Thee (alone) we ask for help. Show us the straight path: The path of those whom Thou hast favoured; Not (the path) of those who earn Thine anger nor of those who go astray.??The Qur?ān, surah 1:1-7, MMP.
2 These words form Al-Fātiḥah (?The Opening?), the first chapter, or surah, of the Muslim holy book, the Holy Qur?ān, or Koran. Since more than 1 in 6 of the world?s population is Muslim and devout Muslims repeat these verses more than once in each of their five daily prayers, these must be among the most recited words on earth.
3 According to one source, there are over 900 million Muslims in the world, making Islām second only to the Roman Catholic Church in numbers. It is perhaps the fastest growing major religion in the world, with an expanding Muslim movement in Africa and the Western world.
4 The name Islām is significant to a Muslim, for it means ?submission,? ?surrender,? or ?commitment? to Allāh, and according to one historian, ?it expresses the innermost attitude of those who have hearkened to the preaching of Mohammed.? ?Muslim? means ?one who makes or does Islām.?
5 Muslims believe that their faith is the culmination of the revelations given to the faithful Hebrews and Christians of old. However, their teachings diverge from the Bible on some points, even though they cite both the Hebrew and the Greek Scriptures in the Qur?ān. (See box, page 285.) To understand the Muslim faith better, we need to know how, where, and when this religion started.
Muḥammad?s Calling
6 Muḥammad was born in Mecca (Arabic, Makkah), Saudi Arabia, about 570?C.E. His father, ‛Abd Allāh, died before Muḥammad?s birth. His mother, Āminah, died when he was about six years old. At that time the Arabs practiced a form of worship of Allāh that was centered in the Mecca valley, at the sacred site of the Ka‛bah, a simple cubelike building where a black meteorite was revered. According to Islāmic tradition, ?the Ka‛bah was originally built by Adam according to a celestial prototype and after the Deluge rebuilt by Abraham and Ishmael.? (History of the Arabs, by Philip K.?Hitti) It became a sanctuary for 360 idols, one for each day of the lunar year.