Peace everyone,
Here are a list of Allah's 99 names
http://home.clara.net/najm/99.html
Here is a list of the Zoroastrian god, Ahura Mazda's, 101 names.
http://coulomb.ecn.purdue.edu/~bulsara/ ... names.html
Do you see many similar names?
The names of God is not something found in Judaism or Christianity, but Zoroastrianism, the ancient Persian religion that was a common religion in Arabia. There were known as the Magians.
[20.8] Allah -- there is no god but He; His are the very best names.
[17.110] Say: Call upon Allah or call upon, the Beneficent God; whichever you call upon, He has the best names; and do not utter your prayer with a very raised voice nor be silent with regard to it, and seek a way between these.
[7.180] And Allah's are the best names, therefore call on Him thereby, and leave alone those who violate the sanctity of His names; they shall be recompensed for what they did.
Khorda Avesta 1:16-18
16. 'These are my names.
'And he who in this material world, O Spitama Zarathushtra! shall recite and pronounce those names of mine either by day or by night;
17. 'He who shall pronounce them, when he rises up or when he lays him down; when he lays him down or when he rises up; when he binds on the sacred girdle [[kusti]] or when he unbinds the sacred girdle; when he goes out of his dwelling-place, or when he goes out of his town, or when he goes out of his country and comes into another country:
18. 'That man, neither in that day nor in that night, shall be wounded by the weapons of the foe who rushes Aeshma-like and is Druj-minded; not the knife, not the cross-bow, not the arrow, not the sword, not the club, not the sling-stone shall reach and wound him.
[59.24] He is Allah the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner; His are the most excellent names; whatever is in the heavens and the earth declares His glory; and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
In the name of God. I praise and invoke the creator Ormazd, the radiant, glorious, omniscient, maker, lord of lords, king over all kings, watchful, creator of the universe, giver of daily bread, powerful, strong, eternal, forgiver, merciful, loving, mighty, wise, holy, and nourisher. May (his) just kingdom be imperishable. May the majesty and glory of Ormazd, the beneficent lord, increase. (Hither) may come the immortal, radiant, swift-horsed Sun. Of all sins ... I repent.
When the Quran says "And Allah's are the best names", obviously this is reference to the Persian god. More reason to say Muslims don't worship thesame God as Jews and Christians.
Reciting the names of God is something Muslims do blissfully unaware that it is a Persian belief, another testament that the Quran is a fabrication.