Girl: Before you ask with something else, I ask, how could you reach the Supreme Being by chanting…
Prabhupada: By chanting, yes.
Girl: …by chanting of worldly name, tuned on prayer…
Prabhupada: That is not worldly name. Why do you mistake that? God's name is not worldly.
Girl: Because if you…, if you really know the tuning of God…
Prabhupada: Do you think Allah is wordly name?
Girl: We recognize that it is before Krsna, before Allah…
Prabhupada: That's all right, you recognize it. Allah, Allah is not worldly name. It is given by the authority, Muhammad, so you have to chant it, who knows God.
Girl: But he didn't really mean Allah is the name of God.
Prabhupada: If… Why do you say he didn't mean?
Girl: Because…
Prabhupada: That is you say. Muhammad did not say that "What I say, I did not mean it."
Girl: No, the name of God, he didn't mean Allah.
Prabhupada: You say. You say. Who cares for your word? Muhammad said this is the name of God. We have to accept, that's all.
Girl: So why…
Prabhupada: You cannot say he didn't mean. You are not a private secretary of Muhammad. [laughter]
Girl: So then how do they say that the name of God was in God…
Prabhupada: No, these things are not accepted.
Girl: …was before God…
Prabhupada: Don't talk childish.

(March 14, 1975, Tehran}