UPDATE: Ruh of Allah

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" God was not booming clear instructions from on high. The divine voice

constantly changed the way it referred to itself—as " we, " " he, " " your

lord, " " Allah " or " I " —shifting its relationship to both the Prophet and

his audience. Nor was God distinctively male. Each recitation began

with the invocation: " In the name of Allah, the Compassionate ('al-

Rahman') and the Merciful ('al-Rahim'). " Allah was a masculine noun,

but the divine names al-Rahman and al-Rahim are not only grammatically

feminine but related etymologically to the word for womb. "

 

Karen Armstrong, Muhammad (Prophet For Our Time)

Chapter 2, 'Jahiliyyah', p.60

Harper Perennial - London, New York, Toronto and Sydney

ISBN-13 978-0-00-723248-2

ISBN-10 0-00-723248-9

 

http://adishakti.org/al-qiyamah/ruh_of_allah.htm

 

(Nicole, you will need to update your French translation too)