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There is No God.

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    nurmuhammed
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    hi Kaiokenred,
    yes I realize now. Now I know what he is talking about.
    I am sorry for my misunderstanding.
    Just now, I did read the http//servantofthelight.com/content/view/7/1/.

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      Bender
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      hi Kaiokenred,
      yes I realize now. Now I know what he is talking about.
      I am sorry for my misunderstanding.
      Just now, I did read the http//servantofthelight.com/content/view/7/1/.

      Salaam,

      I read a little to understand what he means, he totally lost me here

      The Arabic word is not one word. It actually consist of three words in this order. First word is =Allathee means "who is". This in writing is well know to be only written as or Al but this Al does not mean "the". It is followed by , Laa, meaning "not" and finally , illah, meaning the pagan Arab God or God in general. Hence the whole phrase would translated as "who is not god".

      I wonder how he understand this
      5922 ...
      according to his understanding we have to understand this part of this verse as "He who is not god, who is not god except He..."
      nope

      Salaam,
      Bender

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        nurmuhammed
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        hi Abdun Nur,
        Man, to say GOD or ALLAH is not wrong. Because we are talking here about same sole creator.
        It is just a language differences man.

        • Important thing when a human translates words from Quran human shall translate it very carefully, I mean with optimal dictionary base. !

        -* group

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          adjwi
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          hi Abdun Nur,
          Man, to say GOD or ALLAH is not wrong. Because we are talking here about same sole creator.
          It is just a language differences man.

          • Important thing when a human translates words from Quran human shall translate it very carefully, I mean with optimal dictionary base. !

          -* group

          Hello everyone,

          My understanding is that a God, a unique God, never-the-less a GOD, admits a deity, deism, religion, adoration etc..., etc... etc... These whole activities consist in distraction in learning about allah and his dean as guidance for we, his creation and most importantly in doing the activities that serve allah's will for his creation. If your belief is held with blind faith, tradition, dogma, etc... rather than a belief upheld with science, knowledge, learning, reflection, etc... than admit such beliefs have different values. They produce different activities. Allah is rabb, rabb is the creator. So basically the idea is to forget GOD, forget religion and those two words DO NOT mean allah and dean. But then, this understanding could be wrong...

          Peace,

          adjwi

          p.s. I suggest going easy with the 'man' as it sounds lacking respect

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            nurmuhammed
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            Dear adjwi,
            man what is your problem with word "GOD"???
            what's wrong by saying "man" ???

            http//farm2.staticflickr.com/1006/1369952540_be029c8337.jpg

            Take it easy!

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              Kaiokenred
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              Peace Abdun Nur,

              I read your essay Freedom means responsibility and it made sense a lot, but this verse is confusing me

              And , when your Lord said to the angels, "Indeed, I will make upon the earth a successive authority." They said, "Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?" Allah said, "Indeed, I know that which you do not know." 2/30

              What's your opinion on this? And can you please clarify in some way that which Bender asked?

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                Kaiokenred
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                Here's some food for thought
                http//www.awakeningblog.com/statue-of-liberty.html

                Watch the video. I don't know if it's true or not, decide what you believe yourself.
                But if it's true and the term "god" was first used by the Queen of Babylon to name his husband a SUN GOD, and herself the Queen of Heavens, why in the world would Allah be something that generated from a human's brain? ( And all that to call her husband a god and herself a goddess )

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                  Ruuube
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                  Here's some food for thought
                  http//www.awakeningblog.com/statue-of-liberty.html

                  Watch the video. I don't know if it's true or not, decide what you believe yourself.
                  But if it's true and the term "god" was first used by the Queen of Babylon to name his husband a SUN GOD, and herself the Queen of Heavens, why in the world would Allah be something that generated from a human's brain? ( And all that to call her husband a god and herself a goddess )

                  Personally I think you are looking at it backwards.

                  God is the best description we have for... God. If God was to speak to us in terms we didn't understand, we wouldn't be able to make sense of it. The question 'Why is the soap bubble round?' comes to mind.

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                    Kaiokenred
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                    Personally I think you are looking at it backwards.

                    God is the best description we have for... God. If God was to speak to us in terms we didn't understand, we wouldn't be able to make sense of it. The question 'Why is the soap bubble round?' comes to mind.

                    If you read more posts on this thread you'd see evidence that Allah is indeed not god.

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                      Ruuube
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                      If you read more posts on this thread you'd see evidence that Allah is indeed not god.

                      2163, 2555, I could go on.

                      I'd rather not construe literal verses to fit a different opinion or worldview.

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                        Kaiokenred
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                        2163, 2555, I could go on.

                        I'd rather not construe literal verses to fit a different opinion or worldview.

                        Translations you believe are obviously from traditionalists, thus heavily affected by hadiths and corrupted.
                        I only accept translations from SOL, others are just a shadow of their true meaning.
                        Many times I happened to see translations not fitting with Abdun Nur's view and thus my own, and then got worried and didn't know what to believe anymore, but then I still found explanations for them.
                        Even some verse that says " Ilahi anass " and is translated by traditionalists as "God of mankind" referring to Allah on the previous verses, has another translations, " A deity for worship and adoration is the mental confusion ",
                        so you're not really proving anything with that verse

                        And 2555 doesn't exist, did you mean 255, if so I don't see the problem.

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                          Kaiokenred
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                          http//ldolphin.org/semir.html

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                            Zulf
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                            Even some verse that says " Ilahi anass " and is translated by traditionalists as "God of mankind" referring to Allah on the previous verses, has another translations, " A deity for worship and adoration is the mental confusion ",

                            To those who are well versed in arabic grammar
                            Does this alternate translation given above by Kaio hold in terms of grammar? Is it grammatically sound?
                            I believe Abdunur got "mental confusion' from meanings listed under the root Nun Waw Seen.

                            Peace

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                              Kaiokenred
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                              To those who are well versed in arabic grammar
                              Does this alternate translation given above by Kaio hold in terms of grammar? Is it grammatically sound?
                              I believe Abdunur got "mental confusion' from meanings listed under the root Nun Waw Seen.

                              Peace

                              Dr. Badar Kanwar is the one who translated it. The translation on Servantofthelight is done by him

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                                Zulf
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                                Ok.

                                I thought I'd ask someone on this forum who might like to share some about grammar (instead of tracking Dr. Badar down and asking him). Personally I'm not able to analyze it. Second of all it is always good to get a "second opinion", i.e. from someone who is not the author of that which is to be analyzed... like peer review.

                                Peace

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                                  Kaiokenred
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                                  Ok.

                                  I thought I'd ask someone on this forum who might like to share some about grammar (instead of tracking Dr. Badar down and asking him). Personally I'm not able to analyze it. Second of all it is always good to get a "second opinion", i.e. from someone who is not the author of that which is to be analyzed... like peer review.

                                  Peace

                                  Well lordfox told me it made sense. He knows arabic since he's from Morocco ( although he doesn't live there )

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                                    lordfox
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                                    Ok.

                                    I thought I'd ask someone on this forum who might like to share some about grammar (instead of tracking Dr. Badar down and asking him). Personally I'm not able to analyze it. Second of all it is always good to get a "second opinion", i.e. from someone who is not the author of that which is to be analyzed... like peer review.

                                    Peace

                                    You can call him on the phone if you want.

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                                      Someone
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                                      To those who are well versed in arabic grammar
                                      Does this alternate translation given above by Kaio hold in terms of grammar? Is it grammatically sound?
                                      I believe Abdunur got "mental confusion' from meanings listed under the root Nun Waw Seen.

                                      Peace

                                      Peace Zulf,

                                      Would you please provide the complete translated chapter (by Kaio) from where you took this phrase, so that I can analyze if this translation holds. I am an Arab, and I think I have a minimum knowledge about Arabic to check the veracity of this translation.

                                      But at first sight, the translator seems confused and confusing, because "ilahi an'nass" is not (and cannot be) a complete phrase as it is suggested in the translation, but only a "nominal group" acting like the "Object" of a complete phrase.

                                      Mohamed

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                                        Zulf
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                                        Would you please provide the complete translated chapter (by Kaio) from where you took this phrase, so that I can analyze if this translation holds. I am an Arab, and I think I have a minimum knowledge about Arabic to check the veracity of this translation.

                                        Peace Mohamed,

                                        I think it was this one
                                        http//servantofthelight.com/content/view/124/157/

                                        But then I noticed that in

                                        http//servantofthelight.com/content/view/193/229/

                                        ...al-nas is interpreted as a tribe of men... so I guess that leaves us with two different renderings. I just noticed.
                                        Anyway, in this article, the author is basically showing what happens if you ascribe other word meanings from a lexicon (Lane) to the arabic words, other than are usually used.

                                        Peace

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                                          Peace Zulf,

                                          Thank you for your help. Here is the translation provided on SOL website

                                          Surah 1141

                                          Think with your mind, and then make it manifest in your words and actions, that ?I seek protection and preservation from all the mental confusion with my Fosterer, Maintainer, Nourisher and accomplisher.?

                                          Surah 1142

                                          What is for you, the mental confusion?

                                          Surah 1143

                                          A deity for adoration and worship is the mental confusion.

                                          Surah 1144

                                          This mental confusion is, what makes one exceed due limits, so a wrongdoer, unjust, corrupt and wicked. This is the reason for one to go backwards and be held behind; just like a minds whisper, prompting that which is vain, unprofitable and destitute of good.

                                          Surah 1145

                                          Whomever falls back into melancholia, prompting that which is vain, unprofitable and destitute of good, is just like those, who returned back to the mental confusion.

                                          Surah 1146

                                          These are the ones among you concealing and veiling from their senses, these facts and hence, are in the mental confusion.

                                          Surah 1143
                                          A deity for adoration and worship is the mental confusion.

                                          For this translation to be correct grammatically, it has to be written in Arabic as

                                          in order to be a correct nominal sentence ( ), as the first noun should be definite.

                                          All the chapter is very poorly translated, full of grammatical and language errors. I don't have the time to go through all of them.

                                          I pity all those that are following blindly this kind of nonsense; without having the ability to verify the Arabic by themselves, or the humility to cross-reference with other translations or verses from the same translation to see by themselves the many contradictions.

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