Multiple meaning vs Explaining itself
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@ sunna-hero
Just wanted to express my feeling after reading you when arguing in this thread, you used several time the words habibi, dude or feminist dude and keep saying "you are not an arabic speaker" or what ever, it clearly denotes disrespect, arrogance and maybe also someone hurted.
I wanted to say that because after reading http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9604760.0 you really look like a different person in this thread.
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@ sunna-hero
Just wanted to express my feeling after reading you when arguing in this thread, you used several time the words habibi, dude or feminist dude and keep saying "you are not an arabic speaker" or what ever, it clearly denotes disrespect, arrogance and maybe also someone hurted.
I wanted to say that because after reading http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9604760.0 you really look like a different person in this thread.
Relax relax relax dude group
and please mind your own business.. as intefering in someone others business is disrespectful and arrogant
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The problems you did not mention.
Interestingly, you quote the first bullet point listed at www.Quran434.com and neglect the rest. Here is the entire quote
Let me read your webpage from start to end and then I will come back to you dude
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I am back again
So I have read the whole quote.
Walaw tara ith yatawaffa allatheena kafaroo almala-ikatu yadriboona wujoohahum wa adbarahum wa thooqoo AAathaba al hareeqi
= And if you could but see when the angels/controllers* are taking (unto themselves, i.e. at death) those who reject striking their faces/fronts and backs and (say) "taste the penalty of the fire."Fakayfa itha tawaffathumu almalaikatu yadriboona wujoohahum wa adbarahum
= So/then how (will it be) when the angels/controllers* take them (unto themselves, i.e. in death) striking their faces/fronts and their backs?yes these are the verses we are talking about.. sun
*angels is better translated as controllers, i.e. forces in control of certain functions/laws. There are some controllers we know about, e.g. those found in nature F=ma, E=mc? etc. and some we do not know about.
This is merely a interpretation
In the above two verses, translators commonly use "beat / strike / smite", and whilst this may seem acceptable on the surface this translation does have significant problems when examined more closely
Really confused Lets see...
In 850 it says if only you could see, thus clearly implying that what the controllers are doing cannot be seen. And since it is at the time of death, then the controllers cannot be striking the physical fronts/faces and backs as this would be observable.
very illogical reasoning... just because you dont see something happen, does not mean that it is not physical. Like I do not see Wakas right now but that does not mean that he does not exsist physically.. And quran el karim does talk about physical exsistence after death
Does man think that We will not gather his bones? Indeed, We were able to make his fingertips...quran el karim surah qeyamah 4.
And if you could see when they are standing over the Fire, they say "If only we could be sent back, we would not deny the revelations of our Lord, and we would be believers!" quran el karim 6,27
Just because you dont see them does not mean that what happens to them is not physical. That would mean that hell is not physical.
It could be suggested that at death, this is a special/unique transition phase so perhaps the controllers are indeed beating/striking but in a different form somehow, and the living simply cannot see it. It causes problems with verses such as 737, 1628, 851, 693-94 in which the controllers are in communication with people being taken at death, and the ones taken are listening properly and answering, but this is highly unlikely if they are being beaten at the same time!
737 Who is more wicked than he who invents lies about God, or denies His revelations? These will receive their recompense from the record; so that when Our messengers come to terminate their lives, they will say "Where are those whom you used to call on besides God?" They said "They have abandoned us!" And they bore witness upon themselves that they were rejecters.
16,28 Those whom their lives are terminated by the angels, while they had wronged themselves "Amnesty, we have not done any evil!" "Alas, God is aware of what you have done."
Yes they will say these things and be beaten.. Whats the problem in that dude, I dont understand confused
It causes a clear problem with 693 when it describes the controllers as stretching/extending forth or opening their hands/powers when taking them at death saying "Bring out your souls...". This sounds unlike striking/beating, and there is no implication of this in the verse at all.
Still illogical..
693 And who is more wicked than he who invents lies about God, or says "It has been inspired to me," when We did not inspire anything to him; or who says "I will bring down the same as what God has sent down." And if you could only see the wicked at the moments of death when the angels have their arms opened "Bring yourselves out, today you will be given the severest punishment for what you used to say about God without truth, and you used to be arrogant towards His revelations."
One of the punishment could be.... yes... beaten )
If this is indeed a beating/striking causing pain in some way, then this would be the only example in The Quran of an explicit punishment between death and the 'day of obligation/judgement/requital/due'.
Properly. Otherwise you want to say that 'striking' in the verse is a symbolic striking ? What does symbolic beaten mean anyway confused
In contrast, the controllers take those who are good with a greeting of peace/salam in 1632 and there is no mention of taking them gently for example.
Greeting of peace implies taking them gently.
To explain away these anomalies it could be suggested 850 and 4727 refer to post Judgement not at death, which would be much more plausible if DRB is interpreted in a punishment way, i.e. beat/strike, but no trasnlator or tafsir/interpretation I have read gives this option.
No tafsir or translation says 'symbolic beating'. Striking is striking. Hell is hell. Paradise is paradise. If you want to make everything symbolic or non-physical than its your interpretation, not whats actually written.
Thus, is there possibly a more suitable translation? Whatever the controllers are doing it is to their "fronts and backs" and this creates an imagery of a complete surrounding, coming at them from all directions, i.e. there is no escape. This imagery is similar to 693 mentioned above. Further, see 661 and 2139. The only other occurrence of the exact same form "yadriboona" is in 7320 in which it means journey or go/move about. Thus, taking the evidence into account, the Classical Arabic meanings of DRB and its usage in The Quran, it could be translated as the controllers set/march on or put forth or go/move about their fronts and backs, i.e. come at them from all directions. Even the English translation of "strike" has similar imagery to this, but "beat" does not. That is not to say it cannot mean "beat", it theoretically could, but it is not a particularly sound translation when cross-referenced.
.73,20 yadriboon fi ard means to hit the road. No human is mentioned as opposed to 8,50 and the verse in surah nisa.
As a side note, in M. Asad's notes, he says the early commentator Razi saw this phrase as an allegory "They have utter darkness behind them and utter darkness before them", suggesting he did not agree with the commonly stated understanding of beating/striking literally
Ibn Kathir and all other eraly commentator didnt saw this phrase as an allegory... And you dont have any evidence that Razi also ment a 'symbolic strike' as yourself.. you are merely guessing...
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sunnah-hero,
Thanks for replying to all the points this time. So to summarise your position
- they are being beaten physically in another form, at the time of death
- those taken at death are answering accurately while being beaten
- Even though there is no connotation of undergoing punishment while being taken in 693 you take it as such.
- You cannot find any other example in Quran wherein punishment is being meated out prior to j-day, other than these verses ---> thus, according to your Quranic paradigm punish first, judge later. Interesting.
And once again, you claim DRB with human object without preposition means physical strike. Wrong, please read the rest of www.Quran434.com e.g. 4357, 273.
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How about using CHASTISE THEM in Verse 434
thanks
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salaam hk,
Is your view "chastise them" for 434? I find that hard to believe, considering the argument with evidence put forth at www.Quran434.com
"cite them" provides perfect coherence throughout.
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sunnah-hero,
Thanks for replying to all the points this time. So to summarise your position
- they are being beaten physically in another form, at the time of death
- those taken at death are answering accurately while being beaten
- Even though there is no connotation of undergoing punishment while being taken in 693 you take it as such.
- You cannot find any other example in Quran wherein punishment is being meated out prior to j-day, other than these verses ---> thus, according to your Quranic paradigm punish first, judge later. Interesting.
And once again, you claim DRB with human object without preposition means physical strike. Wrong, please read the rest of www.Quran434.com e.g. 4357, 273.
Hit them means to hit them, it doesnt mean 'kiss them' or 'hug them' or 'say goodbye to them', as you claim o
Yes kuffar dont have to be judged before being punished, as they are already doomed to punishment and hell.
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"say goodbye to them"?
Clearly, you haven't read Quran434.com
That would explain your view ;D
Looking forward to you refuting it WITH evidence.
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Peace
Thanks Wakas, for your informative article. Actually MY COMMON SENSE and LOGIC never reconciled with the meaning of DHARAB in the verse 434 as a PHYSICAL BEATING, but without any research on this subject it was status quo for me. Your brief informative work on this subject has clarified everything. Without going in details the most logical point in your article, which impressed me is that "VIOLENCE NEVER PRECEDES ARBITRATION" Islam never preaches violence, therefore the last resort in ANY matrimonial conflict is either mutual reconciliation, or mutual separation or DIVORCE through ARBITRATION. The BEATING is an innovation of the traditional Muslims .
Thanks
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Salaamun aleykum
I have a question about different views of interpreting the Quran. I know a lot here say that the Quran explains itself from other verses. for instance, to get the interpretation of nahar, daylight in 11.114 we can look in 91.1-3 to actually know what daylight is. Others extend the possibilities of choice of the actual word by refering to root-word dictionaries etc. and then look for different meanings by roots. for instance, 434 the word idribuhunna can mean strike, beat, set forth etc...
I have come to a very reflective period regarding this and i really wonder where the limit is set. I mainly think about 3.7 where God says that some people will get stuck on roots to extricate a certain meaning. But i also wonder if its correct to refer to that verse since we have actually have different choices. One word that really has a multiple meaning is ayat, which can mean sign, miracle and verse.
Peace and God bless you
Idribuhunna means to beat. Nahar is day.
One word can only mean one thing in a concrete context, but have another meaning in another context. People think differently and therefore you have different interpretations.
Quran is the Guidance for Jinn and men in every situation of their breath, till their death. Allah Guides whom He pleases and chooses towards Him who look up to Him. Every word and sentences in an ayat is righteously applicable to any situation of every one's breath by the seconds in its fractions. A single ayat has general meaning and inherent countless meanings which if you try to write even the oceans of ink, seven times more of such oceans of ink will dry out; yet, The Words of Quran remain still glowing, showing the signs of life by Allah, till the end of the world, to each individual during all their testing times as long as they are to survive.
One verse of Quran does not contradict with another verse of Quran from sura 11 to 91, however remote they are; likewise one explanation of an ayat that serves as guidance to one believer does not contradict with the other innumerable explanations of billions of believers for the same single ayat, given their situations that continuously change by the time. If only we look up to Allah, we shall know unless Allah Guides, there is no Guidance from Quran. Gibreel will be your guide who speaks the Guidance of Allah through his Rooh.
37 Guides us exactly into this sense. Pouya it seems you are already guided.
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"say goodbye to them"?
Clearly, you haven't read Quran434.com
That would explain your view ;D
Looking forward to you refuting it WITH evidence.
Dude I have already refuted your website in my previous posts.... But you still haven't given me any evidence for why 'beat them' isn't beat them despite all translators agree upon that... It's funny how a dude from Pakistan thinks he knows Arabic better then ALL Arab translators and all Arabs ;D
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Dude I have already refuted your website in my previous posts.... But you still haven't given me any evidence for why 'beat them' isn't beat them despite all translators agree upon that... It's funny how a dude from Pakistan thinks he knows Arabic better then ALL Arab translators and all Arabs ;D
Sorry, those translators even did not know what "beating" in English means and denotes. There is no such thing inbuilt in the Arabic Root unless so qualified.
Please have a look and try refuting it.
http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9604808.0
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Dude I have already refuted your website in my previous posts.... But you still haven't given me any evidence for why 'beat them' isn't beat them despite all translators agree upon that... It's funny how a dude from Pakistan thinks he knows Arabic better then ALL Arab translators and all Arabs ;D
Sorry old post.
This is an argumentative fallacy.
This dude Sunnah-hero used Argumentum ad Populum "appeal to the majority" to refute people and prove his point.
