"Al ladhina yutiqoonahu"
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Peace everyone.
I had this question last year, but I'm not sure the one person who responded really understood me. I will try again, and God willing, this time I will be a little more eloquent.
In 2184 God talks of "al ladhina yutiqoonahu" feeding poor people.
For years I thought this phrase was referring to people who had to "break their fasts" because it was too difficult for them to continue. Last year my wife and I were reading the verses in many different translations and found that some translated this phrase as "those who can afford it". This makes more sense to me once I looked up the definition of the word in Lane's Lexicon and the structure of the sentence.
I am not 100% on this, but was wondering if there is any linguistic possibility of it meaning "those who can bear it with difficulty". Unless, I am having a severe case of mental block I can't understand how God would be asking "those who find it difficult" to feed poor people. I guess it depends on what "it" is....if the "it" is referring to the feeding of the poor, then that makes no sense to me. If "it" refers to the act of fasting it might make sense, but I'm having a hard time putting that together with the rest of the verse.
Does someone have a grammatical explanation as to what this phrase is referring to?
God bless you.
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I was looking at this verse recently, so thought I'd re-post my analysis here as translators show variance in their interpretation of 2184.
See
https//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9606676.msg353432#msg353432
Then
https//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9606676.msg353464#msg353464
