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How to read and study The Quran? - new article

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    Mazhar
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    Dear would you please let me know that gentleman who thought or said Qur'aan is from Root

    Dr. Mingana to name one.

    Without quoting the name of the Book/Theses/Source/Link this is called just throwing a name in the air. I don't think he was/is also a out of mind gentleman to think Qur'aan is from . Please quote some sensible person/lexicon or just go through the Qur'aan and see that could it mean anywhere even near to Qur'aan.

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      One should not feel shy to admit if something went on air due to misunderstanding or confusion.

      What ever I stated it is on the thread.

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        Mazhar

        One should not feel shy to admit if something went on air due to misunderstanding or confusion.

        Thanks for admitting then

        What ever I stated it is on the thread.

        Well, Ithink you can't delete it now after considerable time has passed by.

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          Mazhar

          Without quoting the name of the Book/Theses/Source/Link this is called just throwing a name in the air. I don't think he was/is also a out of mind gentleman to think Qur'aan is from . Please quote some sensible person/lexicon or just go through the Qur'aan and see that could it mean anywhere even near to Qur'aan.

          quranacademy.org

          Quran reaches its real Syriac root of qeryn (quryan, QRYN) which refers to 'religious reading'.

          I was talking of Dr. Alphonse Mingana

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            Mazhar

            I am sure we can help each other in learning to better understand and comprehend Qur'aan, if we move gradually in proper sequence of Qur'aan. Howere I have studied a little bit of this Root.

            Root

            if i can read it correctly i see a hamza over here

            I think there was no hamza in the Classical Arabic of the Koran, correct me if i am wrong. It had to be added so to fit the -later

            Hamza is not one of the 28 "full" letters, and owes its existence to historical orthographical inconsistencies in early Islamic times. In the Phoenician and Aramaic alphabets, from which the Arabic alphabet is descended, the glottal stop was expressed by leph, continued by Arabic alif.... To indicate that a glottal stop, and not a mere vowel, was intended, hamza was added diacritically to alif.

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              He says this
              "23 There is not much doubt in my mind that the word Kuran is imitated from the Syriac Kiryan. All the Biblical lessons to be read in the Churches are called by the Syrians Kiryans. The Prophet called simply his book by the word that was used to name the pericopes of the Revelation in the Christian Churches of his day. We should also remember that in the oldest MSS. of the Kur'an the word is simply written which may be, and has already been, read Kur'an or Kuran without hamzah. I suspect that this reading of the word without hamzah is reminiscent of an earlier pronunciation Kuryan or Kiryan (with a ya&#039 and that the hamzah pronunciation is a late reading adopted to make the word more Arabic and in harmony with the root of the verb kara'a. "

              He seems to be merely a wanderer, and guessing things.

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                Mazhar

                He seems to be merely a wanderer, and guessing things.

                What makes yo u say this, on what basis

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                  Mazhar
                  What makes yo u say this, on what basis

                  His just one quote, if you read with open eyes, suffices to conclude about it what I said.

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                    His just one quote, if you read with open eyes, suffices to conclude about it what I said

                    But I quoted about Hamza from wikepidia brickwall

                    even though i am a critic of Dr.Mingana but to call him a wandrer and his work a guess work is far cry. You also have passed almost same remarks about Imam Bukhari, we can disagree with his methodology(though it was the best available at his time) but say "Bukhari type of people" or undermine his reserach work is just too much and can only be done by an amateur mind.
                    My eyes are open what you need is to open your brain.

                    Alphonse Mingana (born as Hurmiz Mingana, 1878 Sharansh, village near Zakho, Ottoman Empire (present day Iraq) - died 5 December 1937 Birmingham, England) was an Assyrian theologian, historian,orientalist and a former priest who is best known for collecting and preserving the Mingana Collection of ancient Middle Eastern manuscripts at Birmingham

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                      But I quoted about Hamza from wikepidia brickwall

                      even though i am a critic of Dr.Mingana but to call him a wandrer and his work a guess work is far cry. You also have passed almost same remarks about Imam Bukhari, we can disagree with his methodology(though it was the best available at his time) but say "Bukhari type of people" or undermine his reserach work is just too much and can only be done by an amateur mind.
                      My eyes are open what you need is to open your brain.

                      Alphonse Mingana (born as Hurmiz Mingana, 1878 Sharansh, village near Zakho, Ottoman Empire (present day Iraq) - died 5 December 1937 Birmingham, England) was an Assyrian theologian, historian,orientalist and a former priest who is best known for collecting and preserving the Mingana Collection of ancient Middle Eastern manuscripts at Birmingham

                      Without reading you start striking against the wall. His quote, I am talking, not your quote of hamza. Read his quote and get your eyes opened.

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                        Mazhar

                        Without reading you start striking against the wall. His quote, I am talking, not your quote of hamza. Read his quote and get your eyes opened.

                        My eyes are opened brother, its time for you to open up yours, Don;t try to behave like "Aflatoon" and stop calling him, Imam Bukhari and others wandrers and their works, guess works that is beneath you.

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                          Mazhar
                          quranacademy.org

                          Quran reaches its real Syriac root of qeryn (quryan, QRYN) which refers to 'religious reading'.

                          I was talking of Dr. Alphonse Mingana

                          Would you like to tell us where the Syriac language got it's roots from?

                          Alphonse Mingana (born as Hurmiz Mingana, 1878 Sharansh, village near Zakho, Ottoman Empire (present day Iraq) - died 5 December 1937 Birmingham, England) was an Assyrian theologian, historian, orientalist and a former priest who is best known for collecting and preserving the Mingana Collection of ancient Middle Eastern manuscripts at Birmingham

                          Do you ally yourself with such people? According to hadith science one wouldn't accept the words of such people so readily. Quran 496

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                            Far

                            Would you like to tell us where the Syriac language got it's roots from?

                            offcourse you know the answer and furthermore this has nothing to do with present post of mine, any how this is the laymans information

                            Syriac began as an unwritten spoken dialect of Old Aramaic in northern Mesopotamia. The first evidence we have of such dialects is their influence on the written Imperial Aramaic from the 5th century BC.
                            All the Semitic languages' are built up from triliteral roots that is, the great majority of the words are derived from a simple verbal form, of which the essential elements are three consonants.
                            The Syriac alphabet, which derived its letters from forms ultimately akin to those of the Old Hebrew and Phoenician alphabets, has the same twenty-two letters as the Hebrew.

                            Far

                            Do you ally yourself with such people? According to hadith science one wouldn't accept the words of such people so readily. Quran 496

                            again this is not what is being discussed. Did I said I ally with him? this only tells you jumped in without reading the posts
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                            even though i am a critic of Dr.Mingana but to call him a wandrer and his work a guess work is far cry

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                              Don;t try to behave like "Aflatoon" and stop calling him, Imam Bukhari and others wandrers and their works, guess works that is beneath you.

                              For every moment in time there is/was a book. Aflatoon did not benefit from the Book of his time, instead decided to roam about at his own in all fields circularly, in the hope to find some truth, with the result that one never gets the Straight Path given in simple words by the Book. The Book is sublime and is The Guide, rest is unending "Gup Shup".

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                                Mazhar

                                The Book is sublime and is The Guide, rest is unending "Gup Shup".

                                And how did you know that the book is sublime? now please don't start quoting from the book it self!

                                Just give me a prove that the book is Sublime?

                                waiting for your reply

                                Raj-ah

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                                  Mazhar
                                  And how did you know that the book is sublime? now please don't start quoting from the book it self!

                                  Just give me a prove that the book is Sublime?

                                  waiting for your reply

                                  Raj-ah

                                  Experience and by applying inteelect bestowed by Allah to human beings for differentiating between scum and fact.
                                  The prove that the Book is sublime is like the Sun which for us is the most bright star. It needs no proof to establish an already admitted fact. The quote from the Book would have been more powereful and convicing, but you have stopped quoting it.

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                                    Mazhar

                                    Experience and by applying inteelect bestowed by Allah to human beings for differentiating between scum and fact.
                                    The prove that the Book is sublime is like the Sun which for us is the most bright star. It needs no proof to establish an already admitted fact. The quote from the Book would have been more powereful and convicing, but you have stopped quoting it.

                                    I have just stopped you from "adhoc" argument/ a circular reference.

                                    That intellect seems to be bestowed on you my brother, but others need evidence a solid proof.

                                    You said
                                    The Book is sublime and is The Guide, rest is unending "Gup Shup

                                    If anything else is gupshup then why use intellect? why use experience?

                                    Quite a contradiction in your statement.

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                                      Thanks, since gup shup exists in abundance in the atmosphere/society we live in, therefore, intellect has to be applied to differentiate between scum and the fact, and that is basic job and function and purpose of intellect.

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                                        Far
                                        offcourse you know the answer and furthermore this has nothing to do with present post of mine, any how this is the laymans information

                                        Syriac began as an unwritten spoken dialect of Old Aramaic in northern Mesopotamia. The first evidence we have of such dialects is their influence on the written Imperial Aramaic from the 5th century BC.
                                        All the Semitic languages' are built up from triliteral roots that is, the great majority of the words are derived from a simple verbal form, of which the essential elements are three consonants.
                                        The Syriac alphabet, which derived its letters from forms ultimately akin to those of the Old Hebrew and Phoenician alphabets, has the same twenty-two letters as the Hebrew.

                                        Faragain this is not what is being discussed. Did I said I ally with him? this only tells you jumped in without reading the posts
                                        quote by Raaajah

                                        So if syriac began somewhere before that... why would you just accept one language's meaning of the root? Shouldn't you collect all the meanings used by that root when it comes to the words used in the quran as it defines itself?

                                        You highlighted certain parts of who that individual was. Of course he is not what is being discussed, but even so we cannot take his words without him being verified by yourself.

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                                          OPF

                                          So if syriac began somewhere before that... why would you just accept one language's meaning of the root?

                                          Because it seems to be the nearest, simple! meaning "religous reading". It can be from others,
                                          but I brought it forward against MAzhar's post, where he said Quran cannot be from the root other than QRa.

                                          OPF

                                          You highlighted certain parts of who that individual was. Of course he is not what is being discussed, but even so we cannot take his words without him being verified by yourself
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                                          Brother go ahead, please verify, and disagree but don't try to undermine any one's research work without merit as our brother Mazhar does.

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