Learning Connection!?
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Real Learning Connection (RLC)! Where did you get that from?
Let us check the answer?
In order to make a link that would support the idea that God and His malaika are connecting the learning, that is, teaching the believers, you provide verse 2851. Let us read the whole verse
2851, wa laqad was salna lahumul qawla laalahum yatadhakaroon? We have brought them the Word that they may receive admonition.
I do not want to go into details that may distract from the intention of this post. You say that WE in this verse refer to God and His controllers (malaika). I think this is a pure conjecture. If you want to say that all WEs in the Book speaking about God, refer to God in His malaika, then this is a complete error. When this was discussed a time ago others and myself provided many verses that showed this understanding as error but here I will quote only one verse to destroy this theory.
158, ma nunazila almalaikata ila bil haqi wa makanu idhan munthareem/ We do not send down the malaika (controllers) except with truth, and then they would have no more delay.
I guess this suffices.
Now in 2851 it is simply We have brought them It does not say, Me and the controllers have brought. But you needed to make a link to God and His controllers in 3343, 56 to make a confirmation to your take!
Now let us go back to 3343, 56 and other verses with the very same wordings. Here are the verses you base your learning connection on (I put them they way you understand the word salat’
3343, He it is who yusalli aleykim (connect the learning on you = teach you) and His malaika, to send you out of darknesses into Light and He is merciful to the believers.
3356, Verily, God and His malaika, yusalloon alan nabiy (connect the learning on the preacher = teach) o you who have believed, saloo alyhi (connect the learning on him= now it becomes learn)
Notice that the verses make no changes in the words except for the person (yusalli, is the verb for the third person singular present, and yusaloon, the third person plural for the same verb). The pronouns remain the very same (aley(kum), aley(hi)). If the relations is changed then at least the pronoun would have changed (like to you and from himetc). But no such a change is made?
To see that this Book is from the Wise All-knowing, please pay attention to the expression inal laha wa malaikatahu/God AND His malaika yusaloon. We will later on get to this GW.
Now, the third verse
984, And do not you ever tusalli ala ahadin (connect the learning) to/on any of them who dies and do not persist on his grave, they rejected God and His messenger and died as rebellious.
Here we have the very same verb, in the second person imperative in the negative (do not). We also have the very same pronoun. So, according to you (who do not accept any multi-meaning theory, remember, the symbol ALWAYS refer to the same) the verse MUST read this way
And do not connect the learning to any of them (teach) who dies.
This is the absurdity you do not want to see so you defend it by saying that some religious leaders!? Orthodox Christians, do this and do that?.
God clearly speaks about the one who dies and this is confirmed in the very verse in the other part that says; They rejected God and His messenger and died as rebellious, and it is clear THIS IS DONE TO THEM , the ones who die. It is just manifest that the verb refers to them. There is no any practice going on here. Do we reject the sunni going on practice of ritual prayer to invent another going on practice of speaking nice words on behalf the dead man!. The only going on practice in the verse is the death
Now for the sake of study the objective study, I will provide the forth verse with the same expression;
9103, take from their property an alms and salli aleyhim (connect the elarning on them verily your learning connection is security to them and God is all Hearing, All knowing.
How come, out of a sudden that we have sessions of learning connection when the sadaka is taken?
Your understanding implies that the messenger would start session of learning connection whenever some sadakat are collected, as if he was paid alms for the learning connections!? God messengers do not do that? They do not ask for reward.
Now replace this with commit to /support for salli and your commitment/ support for salataka in the verse. Remember the sadaka /alms are for supporting those who needs support among the believing people.
The commitment and support of God (and His malaika) is strongly present in the Book that it is almost impossible to escape the eye of a student. It is one of the principles doctrines in the Book. When God asked the malaika at the very beginning of the discourse of mans journey, he asked them to do sujood to the one set for vicegerent. The whole scene represents the commitment of the malaika to God to support the vicegerent. As long as we remain in the service of God as vicegerent set by Him the help from Him and His malaika will come forth. (634, 2240, 4051, 477, 812, and many others)
This is why i do not see this 'learning connection' to be fitting for as salat. As salat is a concept far deeper that a 'learning connection'. It encompasses wider concept in the system of God.
Peace