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If the letter following the hamza is an alif itself: (as in آكُل ʾākul) alif maddah will occur. II. If the hamza is final: If a short vowel precedes, the hamza is written over the letter (alif, wāw, or yāʾ) corresponding to the short vowel. Otherwise, the hamza is written on the line (as in شَيْء shayʾ "thing"). III.
Al-Ism al-Aʿẓam (Arabic: ... Allah al-Akbar (اسم الله الأکبر, 'the Greatest Name of God'), [5] [6] refers in Islam to the greatest name of Allah, [7 ...
In a hadith narrated by Sahih al-Bukhari, it is mentioned that Allah has 99 names. Abu Hurairah reported that God has ninety-nine Names, i.e., one hundred minus one, and whoever believes in their meanings and acts accordingly, will enter Paradise; and God is witr (one) and loves 'the witr' (i.e., odd numbers).
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, a classical commentator of the Qur'an, has noted some twenty opinions regarding these letters and mentions multiple opinions that these letters present the names of the Surahs as appointed by God. In addition, he mentions that Arabs would name things after such letters (for example, 'eye' as 'ع', clouds as 'غ', and whale ...
However, in vocalized spelling, a small diacritic alif is added on top of the shaddah to indicate the pronunciation. In the pre-Islamic Zabad inscription, [98] God is referred to by the term الاله, that is, alif-lam-alif-lam-ha. [36] This presumably indicates Al-'ilāh means "the god", without alif for ā.
Alif إ أ is generally the carrier if the only adjacent vowel is fatḥah. It is the only possible carrier if hamza is the first phoneme of a word. Where alif acts as a carrier for hamza, hamza is added above the alif, or, for initial alif-kasrah, below it and indicates that the letter so modified is indeed a glottal stop, not a long vowel.
it indicates that the consonant is followed by a long ā, where the alif is normally written. /aː/ hamzat al-waṣl: هَمْزَةُ الْوَصْل It indicates that the ʾalif is not pronounced as a glottal stop (written as the hamza) ∅
"Al ilah" means "The God", and it is a contraction of the definite article al-and the word ʾilāh (Arabic: إِلَٰه, "god, deity"). As in English, the article is used here to single out the noun as being the only one of its kind, "the God" (the one and only) or "God". Therefore, Allāh is the Arabic word for "God".