Artikel di bawah ini mungkin bisa dihubungkan dengan disebutnya Bulan dalam Al-Quran. Ritual Islam juga banyak berkaitan dengan Bulan:
In Arabia, the sun god was viewed as a female goddess and the moon as the male god. As has been pointed out by many scholars such as Alfred Guilluame, the moon god was called by various names, one of which was Allah! [Alfred Buillaume, Islam (London: Penguin Books, 1954), p. 6] The name Allah was used as the personal name of the moon god, in addition to other titles that could be given to him. Allah, the moon god, was married to the sun goddess. Together they produced three goddesses who were called "the daughters of Allah." These three goddesses were called Al-Lat, Al-Uzza, and Manat. The daughters of Allah, along with Allah and the sun goddess were viewed as "high" gods. That is, they were viewed as being at the top of the pantheon of Arabian deities. "Along with Allah, however, they worshipped a host of lesser gods and 'daughters of Allah.'" [Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend, I:61] The Mandaean remnants of the early Nazoreans are also asociated with a place called Hauran: "In his Semitic Mythology, Langdon indicates that Allat was the high goddess of choice, even more than Allah. In Safatic inscriptions of Hauran, she was referred to as Alilat, Alitta, Hallat, or by her Babylonian title, Allitu. In South Arabia, which we will treat later, she was ILAT. This shows the linguistic variation caused by migration along the trade routes from Phoenicia, Assyria, Babylon, and Sumer. The Nabataeans claimed that Allat was the goddess-consort of Dusares, which duplicated the North Arabian marriage of Tammuz and Ishtar, the Babylonian godhead. " For this reason the muslim have destroyed all ancient documents and inscriptions of Allah. However, many pre-islamic names of those goddess names were recorded: In pre-Islamic Arabia we know about such names as Abd' Allat (abd'=servant), Abd' Manat, Abd' al-Uzza, Abd' Allah, defined by the parents' belief. If this trend happened to apply to Muhammed, we might suggest that his name was Abd' al-Uzza (Abdul Uzza). We know that during his younger years, Muhammed sacrificed to the deity al-Uzza, which most likely was his family's deity. Even the early Muslim writer Ibn al-Kalbi, in his Book of Idols, counts Muhammed amongst the followers of al-UzzaUzza. Concerning this devoted worshipper of al-Uzza, who opposed Muhammed's mission with fervour, was this revealed in a very early Meccan sura: "He will be plunged in flaming fire..." and thus he was renamed Abu Lahab, 'the father of flame', and the name Abdul Uzza vanished... If Muhammed's name really was Abdul Uzza this might explain why his real name is neither mentioned in Muslim sources nor by Muhammed himself. mediacare http://www.mediacare.biz [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
