PENGGUNAAN KALIMAH ALLAH OLEH BUKAN ISLAM DI MALAYSIA - PANDANGAN DR JASSER AUDA

I see the point and I could even agree with the philosophical argument that non-Muslims might not mean what we mean by using the word "Allah". However, again, 

(1) we don't have the right to change their scripts the way the wrote them and their religious language they use, whatever it is. And 

(2) even if we were right, we Muslims don't really have ownership or copyright over the usage of the name of "Allah", legally speaking. Let me also add that enforcing such opinion by the force of law has political consequences that are quite negative on Muslims in Malaysia and even on Muslim minorities elsewhere


Jasser Auda adalah timbalan pengarah Pusat Perundangan dan Etika Islam di Yayasan Qatar, Doha. Beliau adalah jawatankuasa pengasas dan ahli lembaga eksekutif International Union of Muslim Scholars (Kesatuan Antarabangsa Ulama’ Islam) dan telah mengajar syari’ah Islam, terutama sudut maqasidnya, di pelbagai institusi akademik di seluruh dunia. Beliau telah menulis dan menerbitkan banyak artikel dan sejumlah buku dalam bahasa Arab dan Inggeris, paling terbaru Between Sharia and Politics: Questions in the Post-Revolutions Era. (Antara Shari’ah dan Politik: Persoalan dalam Era Pasca-Revolusi)