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A Quranist and Quran translation tampering QXP

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    unknownuser
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    Would it be better called exegesis/tafseer?

    By the way, there is a hadeeth about people nitpicking every single fault baselessly while ignoring themselves. I'll find it, God willing.

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      Leoxyz
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      Peace Leoxyz,

      The accusation that the translation is "tampering" the quran is baseless because the text you are quoting from is not a translation. The text, called QXP, is self-described as "more of an understanding from within the Qur?an itself" as Arnold quoted for you in the preface. Thus, any and all criticism regarding it's worthiness as a translation is completely irrelevant.

      The authors clearly went to great lengths to explain their goals and probably to avoid this very type of misunderstanding. I would suggest reading the preface again to better grasp this.

      Peace,
      Tay

      Which interpretation/tafseer of this aya signifies "rub the feet".??

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        Tay
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        Peace Leoxyz,

        It appears Arnold has posted an email from one of the authors that addresses this very question.

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          Leoxyz
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          Peace Leoxyz,

          It appears Arnold has posted an email from one of the authors that addresses this very question.

          Dear
          Thanks for this info.
          I am anxiously waiting for it.Because if my conception is wrong ,I will be extremely happy on its rectification.

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            I hope you have booked your appointment. May I suggest that going through the NHS can get you a slight discount on the price of the frame.

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            IKUM and AKUM are not grammatically important here.

            KUM is sufficient (YOUR in plural). The flow of the verse here means 'wipe your feet'. Shias are right here but for the wrong reason.

            The Sunnis write AKUM.

            The Shias write IKUM from the so-called non-existent QIR'AT IBN 'ABBAS (Abdullah bin Abbas bin Abdul Muttalib.)

            Hazrat Abdullah bin Abbas was the son of the exalted prophet's paternal uncle, Hazrat Abbas). How could the prophet's cousin have a different copy of the Qur'an.

            Interestingly, through the same non-existent QIR'AT IBN 'ABBAS, the Shias bring support for MUT'AH (temporary marriage.) They maintain that that QIR'AT said, "Marry women ILA AJALIM-MUSAMMA" (Marry women for an appointed or pre-determined time).

            Allah says in 2231 - DO NOT MAKE ALLAH'S VERSES A LAUGHING STOCK.

            You know QIR'AT means a way of reciting and not writing.

            I hope, I am clear.

            -SA

            I also wonder what happened to Little Old Lady, did "her" proxy break down?

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              Leoxyz
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              I hope you have booked your appointment. May I suggest that going through the NHS can get you a slight discount on the price of the frame.

              I also wonder what happened to Little Old Lady, did "her" proxy break down?

              Dear '
              Do not take the shelter of Weak and Fabricated "Hadiths" (what a pity taking shelter of Fabricated Hadiths and www.blablabla.)
              My authority is Quran

              Translate it and prove it .
              The second source of this Quranic aya;
              http//www.islamicity.com/MOSQUE/ARABICSCRIPT/AYAT/5/5_6.htm

              In other words you are trying to tell me that Maazullah this Aya is not correct .
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                Samia
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                In other words you are trying to tell me that Maazullah this Aya is not correct .
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                Salaam Leoxyz

                It's not about a verse being correct or incorrect. No one is saying it's incorrect. It's about vocalization of the word "arjulakum or arjulikum". If one adopts the fisrt one, and on mere grammatical grounds, it will follow wash your faces wujuuhakum", so it will mean wash your feet.

                On the other hand, if one adopts wa arjulikum", it will follow rub your heads ru'uusikum" and it will mean rub your feet.

                or

                And for your information, no one here messes with qur'aan, quite the opposite. If some people divide their efforts between the quraan and some twenty-hundreds other books, we concentrate ALL our efforts on the quraan. Keep an open mind and try to read more than talk.

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                  Leoxyz
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                  Salaam Leoxyz

                  It's not about a verse being correct or incorrect. No one is saying it's incorrect. It's about vocalization of the word "arjulakum or arjulikum". If one adopts the fisrt one, and on mere grammatical grounds, it will follow wash your faces wujuuhakum", so it will mean wash your feet.

                  On the other hand, if one adopts wa arjulikum", it will follow rub your heads ru'uusikum" and it will mean rub your feet.

                  or

                  And for your information, no one here messes with qur'aan, quite the opposite. If some people divide their efforts between the quraan and some twenty-hundreds other books, we concentrate ALL our efforts on the quraan. Keep an open mind and try to read more than talk.

                  Dear Samia
                  Thanks for reply
                  Arabic is read and translated according to voweling (ihraab).
                  according to illiterate people like me.Please correct if I am wrong.
                  you have quoted two ayaas with two different vowelling.Only one is correct.Naturally both cannot be correct at the same time.

                  Please give the correct Aya.Which one is correct??
                  So according to you (the criteria of reading) if someone reads/writes the word ( ) as "aalimulghab or aalamulghab" per your arabic and Quranists's lingual somersault ,it does not make any difference.It is ok to pronounce and write both ways.

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                    Leoxyz
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                    Salaam Aleikum,

                    AKUM vs IKUM - Wudhu

                    Posted By Dr. Shabbir - Florida
                    Date Tuesday, 28 November 2006, at 408 a.m.

                    Email

                    56 O You who have chosen to be graced with belief! When you congregate for Salat, wash your faces and your forearms, hands to the elbows. Lightly rub your heads and your feet to the ankles. ---.

                    "56. Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo itha qumtum ila alssalati faighsiloo wujoohakum waaydiyakum ila almarafiqi waimsahoo biruoosikum waarjulakum ila alkaAAbayni

                    ****faighsiloo wujoohakum = wash your faces,(notice the end of the word ..akum)

                    ****waimsahoo biruoosikum = wipe your head,(notice the end of the word ..ikum)

                    ****waarjulakum = and your feet ,(notice the end of the word ..akum)

                    Because the word waarjulakum is written with .....lakum, it follows the washing of the face.....lakum, grammatically.

                    For the feet to follow the wiping of the head it should have been writttten as waarjulikum , that is .....likum and NOT ....lakum as it is in the verse."

                    I have discussed this with several arabic speaking persons, and most confirm the verse says 'rub your head and feet'. But still i would like to understand the above better.

                    • A questioner

                    Answer

                    IKUM and AKUM are not grammatically important here.

                    KUM is sufficient (YOUR in plural). The flow of the verse here means 'wipe your feet'. Shias are right here but for the wrong reason.

                    The Sunnis write AKUM.

                    The Shias write IKUM from the so-called non-existent QIR'AT IBN 'ABBAS (Abdullah bin Abbas bin Abdul Muttalib.)

                    Hazrat Abdullah bin Abbas was the son of the exalted prophet's paternal uncle, Hazrat Abbas). How could the prophet's cousin have a different copy of the Qur'an.

                    Interestingly, through the same non-existent QIR'AT IBN 'ABBAS, the Shias bring support for MUT'AH (temporary marriage.) They maintain that that QIR'AT said, "Marry women ILA AJALIM-MUSAMMA" (Marry women for an appointed or pre-determined time).

                    Allah says in 2231 - DO NOT MAKE ALLAH'S VERSES A LAUGHING STOCK.

                    You know QIR'AT means a way of reciting and not writing.

                    I hope, I am clear.

                    -SA

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                    Uptill now I was in doubt that it might have happened by mistake.Now I am sure it was intentional.
                    Thanks a lot for this post.I am going to save it for future reference.
                    This shows such a big blunder because of lack knowledge of Arabic grammar I cannot express .
                    Now see the actual Aya

                    There are two verbs under discussion
                    = (ghasala) without any preposition (harf-e- jarr)
                    = (masaha) with preposition
                    = is connected with the verbs by a conjunction ( Harf-e-ataf) (waw)
                    Now the simple question is is object which verb (ghasala) or (masaha).
                    If it had been object of Masaha then it would have taken the effect of Preposition because " aatif" "maatoof" (- ) are always similar in Ihrab and and it would have become "arjulikum".

                    Since it has not taken the effect of the preposition (arjulakum), it means it is object of "ghasala" and not the object of Masaha.

                    This is so fundamental factor of grammar so that if some person has read just a few chapters of arabic grammar ,he knows these thing.

                    Example of "ataf on preposition"
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                    Reference Of Arabic Grammar'
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                    Ref Sharah Ajroomiyya By Saleh Bin Muhammad bin Hasan

                    If the standard of "scholars" is this what would happen to the followers.
                    May Allah Bless our Quran

                    (446) Among those who have become Jews ,there are some who alter the words from their context, *

                    Is the Holy Quran based on Hearsay Grammar and Translation ????????

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                      Dear brother/sisters.
                      QXP 2nd Edition 2005
                      Author Shabbir Ahmed ,M.D (Florida)
                      Actual Aya

                      Further Reference
                      http//www.islamicity.com/MOSQUE/ARABICSCRIPT/AYAT/5/5_6.htm
                      Traslated by Shabbir Ahmed
                      56 O You who have chosen to be graced with belief! When you congregate for Salat, wash you faces and your forearms ,hands to the elbows. Lightly rub you heads and your feet to the ankles

                      I challenge to Prove this translation from the Quranic Text .
                      Another Explicit example of Tanslation Tampering

                      hail

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                        Samia
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                        Dear Samia
                        Only one is correct.Naturally both cannot be correct at the same time.

                        Please give the correct Aya.Which one is correct??

                        Sorry, I am not in a position to say which is correct, and I do not see why both cannot be correct. When it is cold, and I have no access to warm water, I would rub my feet; or if I am somewhere where the sink is too high for me, I can't just splash water on the floor, so I rub. Otherwise I wash them (washing is the default in my case). Perhaps God left it like that as a way of making things easy for us.

                        So according to you (the criteria of reading) if someone reads/writes the word ( ) as "aalimulghab or aalamulghab" per your arabic and Quranists's lingual somersault ,it does not make any difference.It is ok to pronounce and write both ways.

                        From the context, it is very clear where it is "3aalamulghaib" and where it is "3aalimul ghaib"., the first being (the world of the unseen) and the latter is (the Knower of the unseen). This is not a question of "tashkeel, vocalization"/grammar. these are two different words.

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                          Leoxyz
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                          Sorry, I am not in a position to say which is correct, and I do not see why both cannot be correct. When it is cold, and I have no access to warm water, I would rub my feet; or if I am somewhere where the sink is too high for me, I can't just splash water on the floor, so I rub. Otherwise I wash them (washing is the default in my case). Perhaps God left it like that as a way of making things easy for us.

                          From the context, it is very clear where it is "3aalamulghaib" and where it is "3aalimul ghaib"., the first being (the world of the unseen) and the latter is (the Knower of the unseen). This is not a question of "tashkeel, vocalization"/grammar. these are two different words.

                          It means Quran has two versions as far as this aya is concerned
                          One = with "arjulalkum
                          one = with "arjulikum
                          What is your opinion about this aya ?
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                          uptill now I had the opinion that some groups are playing only with the meaning now I realize that Quran words are also under threat.
                          Now "Tahreef bil Lafz" is also taking place.

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                            Samia
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                            It means Quran has two versions as far as this aya is concerned
                            One = with "arjulalkum
                            one = with "arjulikum
                            What is your opinion about this aya ?
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                            uptill now I had the opinion that some groups are playing only with the meaning now I realize that Quran words are also under threat.
                            Now "Tahreef bil Lafz" is also taking place.

                            Only now you realized that there are different ways in reading some words? These are very old opinions. It was never considered manipulation. If you think that quraanists invented these two ways of reading this verse or any other verse, or that these are innovations of modern times, then you are really pathetic!

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                              unknownuser
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                              Only now you realized that there are different ways in reading some words? These are very old opinions. It was never considered manipulation. If you think that quraanists invented these two ways of reading this verse or any other verse, or that these are innovations of modern times, then you are really pathetic!

                              I will save Agent Smith the time and say

                              Please provide reference. More questions to follow.

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                                Tay
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                                Peace OPF,

                                Sorry I missed this

                                Would it be better called exegesis/tafseer?

                                If I recall correctly, the good Dr. and co. built upon the Parwez exposition of the quran for QXP. The employment of tasreef is a staple of the text and, for the most part, whenever an ayah is expounded upon it is well-referenced, citing the occurrences which lead the authors to exegete what they have.

                                So, to answer your question, imo, "exposition" would best describe it, with exegesis a close second.

                                Peace,
                                Tay

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                                  Leoxyz
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                                  Only now you realized that there are different ways in reading some words? These are very old opinions. It was never considered manipulation. If you think that quraanists invented these two ways of reading this verse or any other verse, or that these are innovations of modern times, then you are really pathetic!

                                  It is not I ,it is you who is accepting these "aya manipulation".I still believe that it is "arjulakum" and never translate it as "rub the feet".
                                  It is you people who insisting that both meaning are present.So you are accepting that "arjulikum' is also correct.
                                  Who is changing the"Quran " and PATHETIC?

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                                    Samia
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                                    It is not I ,it is you who is accepting these "aya manipulation".I still believe that it is "arjulakum" and never translate it as "rub the feet".
                                    It is you people who insisting that both meaning are present.So you are accepting that "arjulikum' is also correct.
                                    Who is changing the"Quran " and PATHETIC?

                                    http//bani.anime.net/o_rly.jpg

                                    (reference www.OPF.co.uk)

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                                      Leoxyz
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                                      http//bani.anime.net/o_rly.jpg

                                      (reference www.OPF.co.uk)

                                      Why are you looking so "horrible" madam?
                                      Are you ok?

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                                        Leoxyz
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                                        Peace OPF,

                                        Sorry I missed this
                                        If I recall correctly, the good Dr. and co. built upon the Parwez exposition of the quran for QXP. The employment of tasreef is a staple of the text and, for the most part, whenever an ayah is expounded upon it is well-referenced, citing the occurrences which lead the authors to exegete what they have.

                                        So, to answer your question, imo, "exposition" would best describe it, with exegesis a close second.

                                        Peace,
                                        Tay

                                        pervez (may Allah rest his soul in peace and forgive his shortcomings) was comparatively a sensible person.Not like today's "pseudointellectuals" who do not know even the "i3raab " of "ma3toof/ma3toof alai".

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