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Parents Named their child 'Allah'
Rank: Veteran Joined: 11/17/2009 Posts: 1,049
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Can that child travel to Middle East? Parents Elizabeth Handy and Bilal Walk want to name their 22-month-old daughter ZalyKha Graceful Lorraina Allah.Just as absolute power corrupts leaders, so does absolute fanaticism blind the people from logic
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/22/2008 Posts: 2,721
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Shida iko wapi. Mungai na Wangai wamejaa huku na hawaulizwi na mtu.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/20/2008 Posts: 6,275 Location: Kenya
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Kusadikika wrote:Shida iko wapi. Mungai na Wangai wamejaa huku na hawaulizwi na mtu. Exactly @kusadikika! It is wa-Ngai or Mu-Ngai etc... It is NOT Ngai, the Supreme Creator. Je! Umeshamuona mtu mmoja anajiita "NGAI"???
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/18/2011 Posts: 12,069 Location: Kianjokoma
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Kusadikika wrote:Shida iko wapi. Mungai na Wangai wamejaa huku na hawaulizwi na mtu. I thought Mungai is from the name of the disease, mumps which goes by the same name in Gikuyu?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/20/2008 Posts: 6,275 Location: Kenya
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I think this is largely due to ignorance about the meaning of something. If people bothered to understand the meaning, then it would be very easy to know what one is doing.
Just like "Ngai" is Kikuyu word for the "Supreme God", and Mungai (mu-Ngai) means "of-God", or Muigai (Mu-igai) means "of-the-Devider" (historically DIVIDED the region around Kirinyaga i.e. Mt. Kenya among the 9 daughters of Mumbi)... Similarly, the Word "Allah" is Arabic word to mean "The God". Allah does not mean "God" but "THE God" i.e. the Supreme God. And by the way this Arabic word is not exclusive to Islam, but for any Arab speaking person who believes in a Supreme Creator, which include even the Arab Christians who refer to Almighty God as "Allah". So if you find an Arab person who prays to a supreme God, then he calls that supreme God ALLAH... and that person is not necessarily a Muslim.
So naming your kid "The God" will not arise if one understands the meaning. It is inappropriate because you can imagine the child becomes an adult and writes an application letter, he would sign "Yours faithfully, The God Nandwa"
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 9/11/2015 Posts: 1,024
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They should go for it. Touchy feelings should not distract them. Then the child does something great for humanity, wins a Nobel or something and they are all forced to say it.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,823 Location: Nairobi
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AlphDoti wrote:I think this is largely due to ignorance about the meaning of something. If people bothered to understand the meaning, then it would be very easy to know what one is doing.
Just like "Ngai" is Kikuyu word for the "Supreme God", and Mungai (mu-Ngai) means "of-God", or Muigai (Mu-igai) means "of-the-Devider" (historically DIVIDED the region around Kirinyaga i.e. Mt. Kenya among the 9 daughters of Mumbi)... Similarly, the Word "Allah" is Arabic word to mean "The God". Allah does not mean "God" but "THE God" i.e. the Supreme God. And by the way this Arabic word is not exclusive to Islam, but for any Arab speaking person who believes in a Supreme Creator, which include even the Arab Christians who refer to Almighty God as "Allah". So if you find an Arab person who prays to a supreme God, then he calls that supreme God ALLAH... and that person is not necessarily a Muslim.
So naming your kid "The God" will not arise if one understands the meaning. It is inappropriate because you can imagine the child becomes an adult and writes an application letter, he would sign "Yours faithfully, The God Nandwa" I know a guy called NGAI... not mungai but NGAI! a kyuk fellow! Kulikuwa a Jehova wanyonyi and co. All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/20/2008 Posts: 6,275 Location: Kenya
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Anti_Burglar wrote:
They should go for it. Touchy feelings should not distract them. Then the child does something great for humanity, wins a Nobel or something and they are all forced to say it.
I'm asking is that English? Is that Arabic? If meaning means nothing to you, then by God it is gibberish, it is not English, it is not Arabic... You see, human intelligence has enabled us to develop language, a system of communication that uses symbols in a regular way to create meaning. Having structure of a language, is a vital importance to human beings. Quote:Language gives us the ability communicate our intelligence to others by talking, reading, and writing. Psychologist Steven Pinker puts it: language is the 'the jewel in the crown of cognition” (Pinker, 1994). New York, NY: William Morrow. Although other species have at least some ability to communicate, none of them have language. So if we do not care about meaning, and settle for gibberish, then we are no different from animals...
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/20/2008 Posts: 6,275 Location: Kenya
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masukuma wrote:AlphDoti wrote:I think this is largely due to ignorance about the meaning of something. If people bothered to understand the meaning, then it would be very easy to know what one is doing.
Just like "Ngai" is Kikuyu word for the "Supreme God", and Mungai (mu-Ngai) means "of-God", or Muigai (Mu-igai) means "of-the-Devider" (historically DIVIDED the region around Kirinyaga i.e. Mt. Kenya among the 9 daughters of Mumbi)... Similarly, the Word "Allah" is Arabic word to mean "The God". Allah does not mean "God" but "THE God" i.e. the Supreme God. And by the way this Arabic word is not exclusive to Islam, but for any Arab speaking person who believes in a Supreme Creator, which include even the Arab Christians who refer to Almighty God as "Allah". So if you find an Arab person who prays to a supreme God, then he calls that supreme God ALLAH... and that person is not necessarily a Muslim.
So naming your kid "The God" will not arise if one understands the meaning. It is inappropriate because you can imagine the child becomes an adult and writes an application letter, he would sign "Yours faithfully, The God Nandwa" I know a guy called NGAI... not mungai but NGAI! a kyuk fellow! Kulikuwa a Jehova wanyonyi and co. They are definitely impostors. They are self-proclaimed individuals who don't care about the true meaning of the names or words, or don't respect the true owner of the names. If it were the time of Gikuyu, the father of Kikuyu people, he would be summoned to face Mt. Kenya to answer charges of blasphemy.
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