GIVE ME A BREAK!
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Salamun alaykum
Try " Pacifist " ( in the broadest sense of the word ) .
Ok I wasnt specific enough, whats the arabic word for pacafist, or someone who strives to be peaceful?
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Peace Samia,
Let me correct you
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" The bedounines/Arabs say we became believers. You should rather say we became muslims, because no faith has yet entered your hearts. If you obey God and His messenger, none of your good work will be dcreased".
rather it should beThe bedouins/the people of the forest/desert/wilderness/the Arabs have said "We have faith/We will be faithful." Say "You do not have faith. You should rather say We have been submissive/We will be submissive. Faith/faithfulness has not entered your hearts yet, but if you obey God and/meaning his messenger nothing you do will be belittled in any way. . ."
The difference in the translations was to point out where MUSLIM should have been SUBMISSIVE.
If anyone has questions about the different tenses the perfert tense in Arabic can mean future, past or conditional.
Godbless,
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Peace,
You guys must understand the way Old Classical Arabic works. There are common words now for certain concepts but they are standardized whereas Old Classical Arabic works off the the rules of its forms and how they combine with the roots.
In MSA (Modern Standard Arabic ) pacifist is silmeeyun
Aslama is the fourth Arabic form coinciding with Afa&ala
It has a number of meanings. They are all related to the concept of silm(peace/peaceableness), salaam (peace) or salaamat (soundness/safeness/salvation) (from salima)
Aslama can be 'to make peace' , 'to come into peace' 'to come into safety/salvation' 'to greet (make salaam)', to pacify, to bring someone into safety as well apart form Arabic grammatical forms it can mean 'to pay early' to 'submit over' and 'even to quit something or someplace' mostlikely spin offs of this basic concept taken for certain context, paying someone money you owe them early can easily be seen as pacifying them, and from there these specific meanings spread and even develop. I would have to consult my grammar book for other meanings of the form and how this word could have been used then by people who didn't follow standard words but knew these forms and how to use them inside out.
Godbless,
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peace Kurt,
so we shouldnt be for or against anything or we wont think clear?
Well, I am for God and against satan, I am for good deeds and against bad ones, is this wrong
No, being FOR God is not wrong necessarily. However, it can compromise your judgement. A perfect example of this is the religious extremists (Christian/Muslim/other) who are so convinced God is on their side they commit injust acts upon others with no consideration.
'al quran' itself requests the reader to challenge it, ponder it, scrutinise it, research out with it, even disprove it etc. What does this tell you about the relationship God wants you to have with Him?Even many good & bad deeds require for you to ponder and consider the best approach. If you mix emotion with trying to do the right thing, your judgement is more likely to be compromised.
Dont get me wrong, at times, emotion can be a good thing, but not when trying to consider and weigh up evidence.
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Peace sis "honor",
Yeah you were really being emotional there. Infact the Quran even gives an example which shows tht "islam" aint a name at all
They act as if they are doing you a favor by embracing Submission! Say, "Do not count YOUR ISLAM/submission(islaamakum) asa favor upon me. GOD is the One who is doing you a great favor by guiding you to the faith, if you are sincere."
Here GOD talks about "your islam" clearly using the term as a common and not proper noun with the appended "kum(your; plural)". GOD Bless!Salam johnny_k
First of all you completely took that ayat out of text.This ayat if you read the entire surah, and ayats before and after, is referring to people who during the time of the prophet Muhammad, took the name of Islam, so as to be like a trend, to be a follower for the sake of just pleasing others, but with no real belief or understanding why they should believe what they do, so that is what this is talking about. NOT as some example so as not to call our religion something other than Islam.
Honor
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Salaam all
Well said JK, and I add
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" The bedounines/Arabs say we became believers. You should rather say we became muslims, because no faith has yet entered your hearts. If you obey God and His messenger, none of your good work will be dcreased".Salam Samia~
Sis, please read the reply I made to johnny_k in this thread as you are doing the same thing he did, anyone can take an ayat out of place, and use it at will for something in a refutation, but it is only supported and relevant when you know what the ayat belongs to, meaning ayats before and after. Your ayat, is not good enough to refute my standpoint. You have like johnny_k taken it out of its purpose.
First let me paint this ayat in a story to get across my pointEunice is an Arab man, who along with his arab friends tells others that they meet, that they are believers. But Allah says, rather they should say they became muslims,..because ALLAH is saying NO FAITH YET HAS ENTERED THEIR HEARTS. listen carefully...they say THEY ARE believers, Allah says say YOU BECAME muslim. Them saying they are, means they are telling a falseness, for god knows that no faith has entered their hearts yet, but god telling them they became, is because it will take faith to enter their hearts to become muslims,and that can take time. God is always saying that many go to prayer without intention. Many people say they believe, really do believe, but have lost faith...this happens to people many times. To have faith, to follow the deen, to submit to god in that faith is to become muslim.
This is my opinion and my perception. If you don't agree, no worries. I am not here to argue, but to stay with my point.
May god guide us all, and lift the veil, so that none of us, are deaf, dumb and blind.
Honor
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peace Kurt,
No, being FOR God is not wrong necessarily. However, it can compromise your judgement. A perfect example of this is the religious extremists (Christian/Muslim/other) who are so convinced God is on their side they commit injust acts upon others with no consideration.
'al quran' itself requests the reader to challenge it, ponder it, scrutinise it, research out with it, even disprove it etc. What does this tell you about the relationship God wants you to have with Him?Even many good & bad deeds require for you to ponder and consider the best approach. If you mix emotion with trying to do the right thing, your judgement is more likely to be compromised.
Dont get me wrong, at times, emotion can be a good thing, but not when trying to consider and weigh up evidence.
"No, being FOR God is not wrong necessarily. " Necessarily??? ??? brickwall Wakas, ....I don't know what to say to you, sometimes you render me speechless. God only asks those who disbelieve, who doubt, who are hipocrits to challenge, dispute the Quran. You are absoultely out of line in saying the opposite. You may sound so calm, but your own emmotion is what is causing you to blindly say the wrong things as well. Where is the relevance in your rebuttal to Brother IronSky's comment? You are taking how he believes in God, and is all for God, and making it emmotional, and telling him, he can challenge and even try to dispute the Quran and God gives him permission??? ONLY TO A NON Believer, to do anything otherwise as a believer, would be to transgress,and focus on negative and senseless,wasteless time, rather than believe, accept, sumbit to the truth.
!!! Sheesh!
Peace be with you Wakas, I think you and I have some very different view points.
Honor
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Salaam Honor
Salam johnny_k
First of all you completely took that ayat out of text.This ayat if you read the entire surah, and ayats before and after, is referring to people who during the time of the prophet Muhammad, took the name of Islam, so as to be like a trend, to be a follower for the sake of just pleasing others, but with no real belief or understanding why they should believe what they do, so that is what this is talking about. NOT as some example so as not to call our religion something other than Islam.
Honor
Islam is Islam sister , just like a Rose is Rose , others may call It Magnolia or Poison Ivy but cannot changed the Subtance . So in many ways these people are trying to deceive themselves . As for Pleasing Others , they are called " Mental Shirk " , to which I am asking them to Emancipate themselves from . Perhaps you should start calling them by the meaning of their owns names in whatever language and see if they still Recognize Themselves ? peace
Cheers
p.s. Proper name has meanings , so it can be translated in the 21st century ( The age of Internet yay )
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peace,
i disagree wakas, and progod, you should change your name according to wakas logic, your name sounds to biased in favor of God
Interesting extrapolation, but the logic of mine you refer to does not address names, only thinking. If progod was indeed biased towards God to the extent of following blindly, then this would be problematic (for him mainly). Signs/ayats such as 1736 clearly demonstrate God does not want blind following.
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Honor, I do not understand the sequence in your illustration, so I inserted brackets within it to clarify
Them (Arabs) saying they are (believers), means they are telling a falseness, for god knows that no faith has entered their hearts yet, but god telling them they became (muslim), is because it will take faith to enter their hearts to become muslims,and that can take time.
Let me know if the above is correct.
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peace honor,
"No, being FOR God is not wrong necessarily. " Necessarily??? Huh?
Does this mean you disagree with the example I gave of the extremist Christians/Muslims/other? i.e. them being FOR God does not compromise their judgement?
God only asks those who disbelieve, who doubt, who are hipocrits to challenge, dispute the Quran.
Since you like to study surrounding context of verses, can you tell us whom 1736 is directed to? Are you saying it is hypocrites/disbelievers? Please clarify and ideally bring supporting evidence.
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peace honor,
Does this mean you disagree with the example I gave of the extremist Christians/Muslims/other? i.e. them being FOR God does not compromise their judgement?
Since you like to study surrounding context of verses, can you tell us whom 1736 is directed to? Are you saying it is hypocrites/disbelievers? Please clarify and ideally bring supporting evidence.
Wakas,
First my let me state, I will not answer a question regarding a statement you made, that was in refuttal to Ironsky,.. that was completely irrelevant. While you may find your example of Christians or Jews or whatever being extreme as some sort of relevancy, I believe you are out of context, and took a simple statement of faith on behalf of IronSky and changed it in to determining whether someone really is a believer or an extremist, and how that comprimies their judgement. This is not a topic that I am discussing at this point.
Also, You can challenge me all you want, I am not so arrogant as to always try and disprove you. I will rise to the challenge, but I will not always, I am not here to prove anything to you. And I don't want to waste my time doing so, all the time. I will get back with you on this challenge in due time.
Honor
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Peace,
Ironsky and others you can disagree with the knowledge I put to you or not. I just put forth pure knowledge from Classical Arabic. You can disagree with that if you chose but that is on you. Furthermore, I am for God, but I first anaylized who and what God is before i decided to commit my faithfulness to Him. I am for him all the way, but we know from the Quran that &aql or intelligence and tafkeer (thinking) and hukm(deciding) are our most important assets. Emotion can get in the way of that especially when we have vested interests in titles and names and not the ideas that these names mean. In this case we have people who pledge themselves to a title and he civilization and people it represents despite it being the wrong term for the message that God gave us. What we have here, unfortunately are people who can't see the forest from the trees and who are not willing to follow logic and God (despite the names) at all costs.
Wakas is right that emotion can cloud judgement, and skepticism when it is an emotion (mistrust) can also cloud judgement, but critique and analyzing is not scepticism. You definitely have to let go of your emotional attachment to tell the truth. Then once you've seen the fleeting reality of these words and how they are not so connect to God but to this world then you will see you're error and hopefully you can fill your heart not with faith in Islam but with faith that involves submitting and making peace with God.
Godbless,
Anwar -
Peace sis "honor",
Salam johnny_k
First of all you completely took that ayat out of text.This ayat if you read the entire surah, and ayats before and after, is referring to people who during the time of the prophet Muhammad, took the name of Islam, so as to be like a trend, to be a follower for the sake of just pleasing others, but with no real belief or understanding why they should believe what they do, so that is what this is talking about. NOT as some example so as not to call our religion something other than Islam.
Honor
JK- This is the first time somebody has told me tht i took some verse out of context in the Quran. Shows me tht ur actually doing your best to analyse the Quran. Respect. ). BUT i also have my reasons as to why i believe my quote was relevant. As "progod" also mentioned the term "ism" can mean to charactesize and we can see tht when GOD talks about His names, He means His attributes which we do not need to recite in Arabic. Moreover do you claim tht Abraham used the Arabic term "Muslim" whilst tht term as such was nonexistent in his time? Neither this verse nor any others could possibly imply tht the terms "muslim" or "islam" are proper names. Our way of life should not be termed in any particular language. The reaons as to why the Quran was revealed in Arabic could be many eg Arabic has a rich grammar which makes it more easy to determine whther the reference is male or female even by using mere verbs. But claiming tht it was revealed in Arabic so we do not translate specific terms like "islam" or "muslim" doesnt seem to make any sense. GOD Bless!
