What Mustansir Mir really says about kharruu liladhqaan
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San, please stop evading the questions I've asked repeatedly now
You stated
I agree. Cherry picking one word to change and calling one word an idiom is kinda not an idiom, more like a pun.My questions are
"I stayed up to the wee hours of the night." - This is an idiomatic phrase.
Am I staying awake? Or is that a metaphor for something else because there is an idiom in the sentence?
Am I staying up during the night? -
Whoa san, watch out you're on the radar now! (radar meteorite space get it? nm) P
I assume you meant savage_carrot, ths. And I'm only slightly excited at your mistake unlike some allegedly are. You're not getting the point of my posts, they were analogies based on the discussion and I suppose I went overboard (oh no! will they ever stop!).
It is a one word difference, with everything else the same. Sure you could call it an idiom, but you could also call it a pun. It's like "time waits for no man" and then saying you know actually time is the name of a girl and she hates being stood up for dates, thus she will not wait for any man.
Anyways.
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By the way, if you stayed up till the wee hours of the night you are actually literally staying awake through most of the night regardless of what you were doing.
sorry san, I had it all typed out.
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According to the aptly named site, UsingEnglish, it is
http//www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/
Savage Carrot I notice you are still evading the question.
It is a one word difference, with everything else the same. Sure you could call it an idiom, but you could also call it a pun
So is "wee hours of the night" - 1 word difference, just like in 17107.
Also, whether you understand it or not does not change the fact that Mustansir Mir, the only actual scholar in this tired bunch, is saying that one does physically fall according to that idiom.
But that is all I have time for, I'll have to return later.
EDIT
Before I leave, I noticed that not a single one of you except Mazhar actually commented on the Arabic grammar I posted about. Given that this is a site about the Quran, written in Arabic, I find that odd.
So while I'm gone, feel free to comment on that, as that is what this debate actually pertains to.
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Ahh right, the internet google thing search you accused Wakas of being guilty of? Yeah, we're all guilty of something after all...
I am not translating a book using google translate, I am finding out if a particular phrase is an idiom. If you can't tell the difference between those 2 things then sorry.
Also here are some more references for you
http//idioms.thefreedictionary.com/the+small+hours
http//www.goenglish.com/Idioms/Wee+Hours+Of+The+Night.asp
http//www.englishcafe.com/blog/idioms-and-expressions-second-moment-hour-56980
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http//www.goenglish.com/Idioms/Wee+Hours+Of+The+Night.asp This is how it is actually used in the language.
No, there is no "one word" difference there, it's not even in the same ballpark.
I like the way you slip that in the end though. Classy.
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I hope Mazhar doesn't take this the wrong way, but I have a hard time understanding any of his posts.
Salam Savage,
How are you, all 3046 posts!! since I have only one post on this thread, and that is of course a difficult one, because it was to handle Mustansir who worked on advanced grammer and language issues while forgetting elementaries of Arabic language.
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Salam Mazhar,
Yes, the ones where you talk about grammar. They are excruciatingly difficult to understand and it's not because I don't get the grammar (some might call this defensive, I call it clarification!) but because they are worded very peculiarly. Most of the posts I've read are talking about grammar, the rest I have no idea so I don't know about all 3046.
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Salam Savage,
Grammer is a peculiar subject. Hence it has to be worded very peculiarly otherwise a wrong perception can be obtained.
It is excruciatingly difficult only when there is lack of interest in grasping the original perception contained in second language since one cannot know the message conveyed by a sentence merely by searching meanings of individual words of a sentence of that language in dictionaries, as many people do and compile "scholarly dissertations". Grammer of any language is basically developed for non natives and for putting serious matter in writing.
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Are we seriously comparing (and drawing a conclusion of!) an idiom/pun in English to a Quranic sentence? ??? A bit of a stretch.
Regarding Mazhar's 'grammar'
This sort of anatomizing the quranic language is conjectural at best. I ask you, which came first The quran or the grammarians?
Secondly, Mazhar's post (no offense to him, because i think its a language issue) are often incomprehensible.
Please note I never said to ignore grammar.
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Salam
Thought I?d comment. With the issue of salat obviously there are differing views and it?s natural (I think) that people get emotionally attached to what they believe so they can get offended easily.
Nothing wrong with difference of opinion with justifications, at the end of the day God knows absolute truth.
So Lanes uses other examples, are they the only ones sighted? Gotta link I could check out?
Quran uses idioms, and we know that from the verse 37
In regards to your reference 17107 hypothetically it is a possible clear refers to physical prostration... when you read the verse is that what you visualise? That the knowledge came to them and based on that they believed and they fell down in prostration? Maybe that?s what you visualise.
Something that might not seem significant but probably is 17109 doesn?t mention sujjud. So wouldn?t it be wrong to associate sujjud to ?youkharuna llathakini? in all references? Considering one interpretation of sujud is known as physical prostration on the ground etc, doesn?t this challenge the idea ?
BTW is Mir contactable?
Peace
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So, the phrase "wee hours (of the night)" seems to be taken by many as 'idiom'. OK. FYI, this is the way it's understood literally
BIG hours
in 12-hour format 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, (12)
in 24-hour format 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23Small/wee hours (0), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
here's a haiku to help memorize
Nami's a wee wee
She falls in the wee hours
One, two, three, four, five!Feel free to take it as 'idiomatic' still, though.
regrammar
Actually i treat grammar the same way i treat the lexicon (consistency throughout AQ) . My non-commenting on the grammar discussion is purely subjective. -
Regarding Mazhar's 'grammar'
This sort of anatomizing the quranic language is conjectural at best. I ask you, which came first The quran or the grammarians?
Secondly, Mazhar's post (no offense to him, because i think its a language issue) are often incomprehensible.
Please note I never said to ignore grammar. Jack
Salam Jack,
It can be seen and examined from another angle too. In appearance, i.e. coming to human knowledge, is the Qur'aan first or the Arabic language? If Arabic language is pre-dated then its grammer was also there though it had not been scripted. Every language has built in rules, and their organized description is what the grammer is all about.
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peace Mazhar,
Of course some grammar is in place pre-Quran, but post-Quran it was more fixed/rigid and written about. That is why grammar has a role to play, but other things, such as logic, cross-reference etc also have roles. They must be used together, intelligently.
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peace Mazhar,
Of course some grammar is in place pre-Quran, but post-Quran it was more fixed/rigid and written about. That is why grammar has a role to play, but other things, such as logic, cross-reference etc also have roles. They must be used together, intelligently.
Peace Wakas,
Grammar-syntax and morphology is the translation of above statement. Logic is broadly the relationship between specific events, situations, or objects, and the inevitable consequences of their interaction. And this can be achieved only by knowing the relationship of words describing events, situations and objects in any book. Principles are principles, if they do not permit wild wandering and to draw conclusions of choice, it does not mean that they are rigid.
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Salaam Sarah,
So Lanes uses other examples, are they the only ones sighted? Gotta link I could check out?
He mentions the Quranic verse and a few of the examples here under the entry kh-r-r.
He mentions the rest here, in the first column, about half way down.
These are pdf scans from Project Quran List. First one is linked to in the entry for kh-r-r, and the other at dhal-qaf-nun
In regards to your reference 17107 hypothetically it is a possible clear refers to physical prostration... when you read the verse is that what you visualise? That the knowledge came to them and based on that they believed and they fell down in prostration? Maybe that?s what you visualise.
The way I visualize it is that they fall to the ground in humility and overwhelming emotion, and then perform a prostration.
Something that might not seem significant but probably is 17109 doesn?t mention sujjud. So wouldn?t it be wrong to associate sujjud to ?youkharuna llathakini? in all references? Considering one interpretation of sujud is known as physical prostration on the ground etc, doesn?t this challenge the idea ?
I read this verse just as I read the above one, that yukhirruuna liladhqaani simply means to fall down to the ground in submission/defeat.
This verse differs from the other in that once they are on the ground they don't prostrate, they begin to cry.
When I asked a sheikh about this verse last summer, I was told that these verses should be read with 2573, where it is said "when they are reminded of the verses/signs of their lord, they do not fall deaf and blind thereat."
He was saying that the true believers are overwhelmed with emotion and khushoo3, whilst the disbelievers perform their tasks without emotion, simply because they have to.
These verses relate to 1074-5 ?Woe to those who pray but hearts are not in the prayers."
It is simply about khushoo3. Check Kh-Shiin-Ayn here at Project Quran List.
BTW is Mir contactable?
I would imagine that as a professor he would be very contactable. Perhaps this is what we need to do.
The reason I started this thread was to expose the ungenuine statement by wakas in his article
Professor Mustansir Mir is very clear in "Verbal Idioms of The Quran", in which he cites "fall to the chin" as a verbal idiom meaning extreme humility, for the chin represents pride...
Grammatically, the accusative word "sujjudan" in "yakhorruun lil'adhqaan sujjudan" names the action or manner of the verb preceding. In other words, it describes how "they fell to their chins". So if "they fell to their chins" is an idiom then "sujjadan" is also idiomatic and is not body-physical.This is ungenuine because that is not what Mustansir Mir is saying. He is saying, as do all traditional Sunni or Shia scholars, that it means extreme humility - but Wakas is neglecting to add that Mustansir Mir is "very clear" about the fact that it is "body-physical"
"to fall down on one's face in humility.
Kharra 1i dh-dhaqani implies extreme humility"
So Mir is saying EXACTLY what all traditional Muslim clerics say
Which is why I cannot understand why Wakas uses this as evidence for his argument that sujood is not physical in this verse, since Mustansir Mir most certainly does not say that, and even your neighborhood mullah would say that it is an idiom. There is no one in Islamic theology that I am aware of who states that that verse is NOT an idiom, just as there is no one who states that it is NOT body-physical.
