Arabic vocabulary
إِلَٰهٌ is how you say “god” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
فقال أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وأنك رسوله
Then he said: I bear witness that there is no deity but Allah, and that you are His messenger.
لَا إِلَٰهَ — there is no deity. la = 'no' (absolute); ilah = 'deity, god' — together 'there is no god' (the opening of the testimony of faith).
From: Early Converts to Islam →﴿فَتَعَالَى اللَّهُ الْمَلِكُ الْحَقُّ لا إِلَهَ إِلا هُوَ رَبُّ الْعَرْشِ الْكَرِيمِ﴾
Exalted is Allah, the True Sovereign; there is no deity except Him, Lord of the Noble Throne.
إِلَٰهَ — deity. This noun, deity, is the thing being categorically denied, and it takes a bare accusative ending with no nunation because the total-denial construction demands exactly that shape. So its form itself signals that not a single such thing exists.
From: False Prophets →OpenArabic teaches words like إِلَٰهٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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