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>>19750281
>The Name Allah encompasses all His names, so for example we don't say Al-'Azeez (the Almighty) is Allah, we always say Allah is the Almighty.
I actually remember coming across this idea in an argument Ibn Taymiyyah (ra) made against the Trinity in his "الجواب الصحيح لمن بدل دين المسيح". The Trinity says that Christ is the Logos begotten of the Father, and that the Logos is what Allah uses to create the world, and that the Holy Spirit is the Life He essentially gave to the world (so it is the Life of God, atleast, that's the idea Ibn Taymiyyah was attacking). Ibn Taymiyyah (ra) says that there is no reason to say the Word of God is God if by it you mean that Allah creates through His word or kalima, and he shows this by citing how common people don't invoke Allah by his power or His knowledge, but by His name only. They don't say, "Allah's wisdom, help me!" or "Allah's life, help me!" or "Allah's power, forgive me!" or "Allah's speech, give me strength!". They say, "Allah help me!" etcetera without personifying His attributes. So the teleology of faith by the Trinity is destroyed here by the Islamic conception of Allah, which does not deny that He creates things with His word or gives things life with His own life, and gives things mercy with His own mercy. So there is no reason to say the Logos is God, or that God is the Logos, but that the Logos is an attribute of God, and is included in His blessed name, Allah ﷻ.