malakat ayanuhum - Arabic gender endings?
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Salam alaikum,
I am hoping someone will be good enough to help me with this little problem i am having. I am trying to understand the verses of the Quran that use 'malakat aymanukum', but i dont speak Arabic and dont understand the significance of the endings. Can someone please let me know if the gender case at the end of the word is refering to the people being 'possessed' or the people doing the 'possessing'?
The variations ive noticed are
malakat aymanukum
malakat aymanuhunna
malakat yaminuka (?)
malakat aymanukunMany thanks to anyone who takes the time to put me straight on this point.
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Peace,
I will hopefully begin writing an article on the sex laws/rules and rape in the Quran very soon, which will include an explaination of "ma malakat aymanukum".
All translations I've seen say "posses/possessed", "who are committed to you by oath", "whom your right hand possesses", etc. - ie. they are possessed, but I cannot help you with the technicalities.
Try Project Root List, perhaps.
http//www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume8/00000318.pdf - but you need to be able to read Arabic. -
Salam alaikum,
I am hoping someone will be good enough to help me with this little problem i am having. I am trying to understand the verses of the Quran that use 'malakat aymanukum', but i dont speak Arabic and dont understand the significance of the endings. Can someone please let me know if the gender case at the end of the word is refering to the people being 'possessed' or the people doing the 'possessing'?
The variations ive noticed are
malakat aymanukum
malakat aymanuhunna
malakat yaminuka (?)
malakat aymanukunMany thanks to anyone who takes the time to put me straight on this point.
Salamun alaika,
http//haqeeqat.org.pk/English%20Tafsir%20e%20Haqeeqat/00.Tabweeb%20Part%202/001.%20Roots%20originating%20in%20Surat%20002/2.224/5.gif This is a Possessive Phrase. The First Nominative Definite Feminine Broken Plural Noun, grammatically singular is the Subject of Verb. The Suffixed Possessive Pronoun is for Second Person; plural; masculine, in genitive state. The Object of Verb is elided. The Object Pronoun referring back to the Relative Pronoun is usually elided. However, if the Relative Pronoun is the Subject, the Pronoun in the linkage clause referring back to it is not elided.
The Woman/Man upon whom the right hand of you have the authority for managing her/his affair
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Thank you for your replies. The bold part in the above went over my head / but am i right that youre saying the endings indicate WHO the hand is possessing, rather than the gender of the person doing the possessing?
so aymanuKUM indicates neither gender is being possessed specifically?
does yaminUKA indicate the person being possessed is multiple females? (as in verse 3350 & 3352) ?
ws
Btw Progressive1993, i am also trying to fingure this out. Im looking at this phrase and the others that specifically indicate slaves with out using malakat aymanukum and also looking at verses on chastity and modesty, so we can swap notes if you like
ws
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malakat aymanukum = what your (plural+maculine or mix of Masculine+ feminine) hands posses
malakat aymanuhunna = what your (plural + feminine) hands posses
malakat yaminuka (?) = what your (singular+masculine) hand possess
malakat aymanukun - what your (plural + feminine) hands posses -
It is the right hand of somebody, that is, ayman (plural, right hands) or yamin (singular, right hand), who is or are the possessor of whatever is possessed. It is therefore understood that the person whose hand is the possessor is the actual possessor, the right hand indicating that it is not any possession or property, but a certain relationship according to moral and legal principles that ties one person to the other and that is why it is spoken of RIGHT hand. Not the wrong or left hand.
The possessed is designed by the MA of Ma malakat, litterally translated is What is possessed or what was possessed. malakat is the verb that indicates being in possession, being in charge, to have responsibility for something. The hum, hunna, kum, are merely the pronouns to designate the owner of the hand or the owners of the hands that possess, be it second person or third person of either sex or number, plural, dual or singular.
Salaam