ITS ORIGIN, ITS STRENGTH, AND ITS WEAKNESS, 149 
Most High), while the latter is the goddess Allat* mentioned 
in the Qur'an as worshipped by the heathen Arabs. The name 
Allah Ta‘ala’, in which the word Allah is the exact equivalent © 
of 6 @eds in Greek, is significant of the fact that the One True 
Gopf was stillacknowledged by the Arabs in Herodotus’ time. 
The same fact is clear from the name Beitwllah, or “House of 
Gop,” given from very early times to the Ka‘abah at Mecca, 
a shrine to which Diodorus$ informs us that all the Arab tribes 
in his time paid great respect. And in the celebrated collec- 
tion of Arabic poems termed Mu‘allagat, which have come 
down to us from pre-Islamic times, we find the name of Gop 
with the article (Allah) repeatedly occurring.| Again such 
* Strah LIII, 19, ,..;\)|, probably “the Goddess.” 
+ In speaking of the pre-Islamic Arabs, Weil says :—“ Hoérten aber 
dabei nicht auf, an ein héchstens Wesen zu glaube, welches vor Mohammed 
schon Allah taala genannt ward.” (‘‘Mohammed der Prophet,” p. 18.) 
Sir W. Muir, “Life of Mahomet,” p. xvii, note, agrees with this, 
t Vide Sayyid Ahmad, “Essay on the History of Meeca,” p. 6; 
Sfrah IT, 119. 
§ “lepoy dywraroy puta tywpevoy bird mavtey “ApdBov weperrdrépov- 
(Diodorus Siculus, Lib. IIT.) 
|| Zg., An Nabighah (Diw4n, poem I, verses 23, 24) :— 
47 Sbsr S74 OBnxO I mov CP“tr Pu no 2 62 CAn iG U9 + 
. = \ \ Sead be t & as 
ile oe plats ox \ wr esa al | (hey s} — 
ACR FOr” 9 GF ee OGLE! oe o%9? Z r=) 2 Z CPI Bsr ve 
Again, Poem ITI, verses 9, 10 :— 
PEA Geman are 8 (oe OG? “7 Zr 9 ZOAGE rare TOE 77 (CYS 
Riad Wgied’ ee Seer os Neel als} Sey | 
I FULF DBPL POP 6A  Cirrr os S 77 PF IP umeor Sow 2 Us 
SE were oy fede 11 
—S1,S Jalal! | PaArons cdily 
Labid also says :-- 
Fh ) -G -o 7 GF 
Jeoly lp ai be Dad 
pile ate ah) tet, i 
