What is this thing named Allah ? Allah is the ilah or Lord of the Meccan Kabaa shrine. It means Lord, or 'The One'. It has never meant 'god' in the Judeo-Christian sense. All cities, states and empires in Near Eastern history had 'protectors'. Athena protected Athens. Sin the Babylonian moon deity, Babylon. Bel or Baal the sky god in various towns and cities in the Levant and Sumeria. Allah was simply the pagan protector of Mecca.

“The name Allah, as the Qur'an itself is witness, was well known in pre-Islamic Arabia. Indeed, both it and its feminine form, Allat, are found not infrequently among the theophorous names in inscriptions from North Africa.” (Arthur Jeffrey, ed., Islam: Muhammad and His Religion (1958), p. 85.)

In particular the Allah-idol or protector was the Lord of the Meccan Quraish tribe, which was Mohammed's tribe before he invented the cult of Submission. Muhammad's family name was of course Abdullah or slave of Allah. The deity maintained by Muhammad's family was conveniently Hub'Al or the ilah of Mecca.

Allah or the 'One' was of course Hub'Al the moon deity which protected Mecca and its ruling elite the Quraish. This moon idol, a celestial deity had 3 daughters [or 2 and a wife], all of whom were viewed as intercessors [the Koran forbade intercession]. These were Al-at, Al-uzza, and Al-Manat, with the first two daughters having names which are a feminine forms of Allah. Allat is also known as the Sun Goddess and many believed she was the Allah's consort or wife. Thus there might be 2 daughters not 3.

It is proven through archaeology and extant records [including Moslem sources] that Hubal was the chief God of the 360 idol shrine at Mecca known as the Kaaba. Hubal was a statue likeness of a man whose body was made of red precious stones whose arms were made of gold. (see Islam George Braswell Jr.)

“Ibn Al-Kalbi gave 27 names of pre-Islamic deities...Interestingly, not many Muslims want to accept that Allah was already being worshipped at the Ka'ba in Mecca by Arab pagans before Mohammed came. Some Muslims become angry when they are confronted with this fact. But history is not on their side. Pre-Islamic literature has proved this.” (G. J. O. Moshay, Who Is This Allah? (Dorchester House, Bucks, UK, 1994), pg. 138).

The Kaaba shrine – a place of pilgrimage, offerings and thus money- was originally named Beit-Allah or the 'House of Allah'.

When Mohammed conquered Mecca in 630 AD leading a 10.000 man army [what prophet of peace does not wage unbridled war, engage in slaughter and murder, or have a sex-harem?]; he dispensed with all the idols except that of Hub'Al or Allah – his family's deity - represented by a black asteroid rock believed to be a gift to Mecca from the moon idol. Mohammed mandated that every Moslem pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in his lifetime [22:26-37 assures cash flow for the capital]; and kiss Hub'Al the black rock which represents Allah.

Muhammad's wife or daughter [depends on the historian] named Allat or the Sun goddess [and of fate], had a square stone in her honour inside a shrine in the city of Taif. Daughter idol Al-uzza was the goddess of east Mecca, and she received human sacrifices of propitiation. Al Manat was a celestial goddess worshipped by various tribes and along with 'Uzza likely represented Mars or Venus. These were outlawed by Muhammad on pain of death. Polytheism including Christianity is a capital sin in Islam.

However when the Moslems were weak the story was different. The Satanic verses make it clear that Muhammad was willing to tolerate worship of these other celestial idols as long as his family's deity Hub'Al, was venerated as the chief and supreme god. But once the Moslems had wiped out pagan Arab resistance through war, the 'Satan inspired' verses were conveniently expunged from the Koran – itself a collection of ideas, poems, and verses which long pre-date Islam. Hub'Al was installed as a singular deity of worship.

Thus Allat, 'Uzza and Manat disappear from the record, erased by the man whose family idol Hub'Al the 'Lord' of Mecca, was to morph into the only free-will force in the universe. From moon idol to the only 'god', the story of Hub'Al.