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    bkanwar2
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    Which conclusion?

    Alef-Lam-Heh is a fabricated root. This word is nothing but the AL prefix on a Heh pronoun and it means "the who being like". With a Lam extra as the full root it means "the who being" or one's being or existence.

    This is further indicated because allah as allahem which is not written but while grammatically correct if was a root would be and this kind of grammar reoccurs within Arabic many times.

    Please share a linguistic rule that suggest a personal pronoun can be made definite by the use of definite particle "Al". Forget Classic Arabic show us an example from a modern language. A personal pronoun since it refers to a certain person or something specific is automatically definite. It doesn't require a definite article.

    For example, " Manny is the he who wrote above quote" is correct, or the sentence "Manny is he who wrote above quote"?

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      Please share a linguistic rule that suggest a personal pronoun can be made definite by the use of definite particle "Al". Forget Classic Arabic show us an example from a modern language. A personal pronoun since it refers to a certain person or something specific is automatically definite. It doesn't require a definite article.

      For example, " Manny is the he who wrote above quote" is correct, or the sentence "Manny is he who wrote above quote"?

      Sorry if i missed something important but why forget Classical Arabic?

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        Sorry if i missed something important but why forget Classical Arabic?

        Nothing important, most don't know Classic Arabic rules. I just wanted to highlight that it is linguistically absurd to say that a definite article is needed to make a pronoun definite. No mater, whichever language one wants to discuss.

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          The_Sardar
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          Nothing important, most don't know Classic Arabic rules. I just wanted to highlight that it is linguistically absurd to say that a definite article is needed to make a pronoun definite. No mater, whichever language one wants to discuss.

          Well let us hear what brother Manny_E has to say.

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            Well let us hear what brother Manny_E has to say.

            Why do you wait to hear from anyone. Just google search and find out if pronouns are definite or indefinite and why?

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              Why do you wait to hear from anyone. Just google search and find out if pronouns are definite or indefinite and why?

              Because i have not much knowlegde of grammar. I don't know what to search. Besides the reason i want to wait it's because i want to hear Manny's response.

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                Arabic works that way, you can place on to say "the he", so your example which is grammatically incorrect in English is correct in Arabic. You can't just generalize that because you speak English and an unspecified amount of languages the same way it means Arabic is spoken the same way.

                If you say "it is he who" you can use in Arabic because it causes "he" to be complemented with sufficient semantics. If you instead speak of unknown or unspecified person you would say which means "it is the person who", it can be used without any word tagged because the word itself is like a subject.

                The difference if you do not use is that it can be anyone person within a context who fulfill some criteria in a sentence. alone is NEVER written as an Arabic word must contain at least two letters.

                Try placing "the" before every Arabic word which starts with AL and it would sound ridiculous in English.

                Please do a count and tell how many total alphabets are in in the order from left to right.

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                  Although I'm beginning to grasp the formula of how it's spelled and why according to the grammar for . I accept I've not been utterly right. Point is, is pretty anomalous in Arabic but I'd say it is + to be honest.

                  So you are counting only four alphabets? Correct?

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                    Arabic is read from right to left.

                    Sorry my bad, but you didn't answer the question. Are there only four alphabets? If you are not sure than it is okay to say so.

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                      The letters are there, four aren't they? I've written the word so many times I've lost the count and you ask an irrelevant question which is already answered in itself.

                      Anyone who looks can see they are four.

                      Great, so please tell us do see a shadda in .? What do you know a shadda implies in a given text?

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                        Great, so please tell us do see a shadda in .? What do you know a shadda implies in a given text?

                        Isn't shadda a vocalization mark? The vocal marks didn't exist until Abbasid era i think.

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                          Isn't shadda a vocalization mark? The vocal marks didn't exist until Abbasid era i think.

                          Shadda represent duplication of the alphabet it is applied upon. In other words there are two same alphabets written as one with Shadda mark applied indicating this fact. Please confirm this fact. One doesn't need to be a linguistic expert to do it. Just Google search it. So if this is how Allah is written in Arabic. It would imply that there are not just 4 alphabets in Allah i.e., it is not just but rather it is . Furthermore, there is an Alif above this shadda. In grammatical terms it is called Dagger Alif. Since it is above Shadda, implying it has to be double, as well. Now if one were to write these alphabets in a sequence. These would written as . Since Arabic is a cursive script, meaning alphabets are combined to one another in writing. These can be combined as and further combined as . The technical/grammatical term for such combining of words in writing is called Al-Naat.

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                            There is one thing i noticed in the Arabic word in Allah. See this crown above the word? That crown mark is not there in Birmingham Manuscript , look at this picture brother Noon Waalqalami
                            http//oi64.tinypic.com/2v9sq3t.jpg

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                              There is one thing i noticed in the Arabic word in Allah. See this crown above the word? That crown mark is not there in Birmingham Manuscript , look at this picture brother Noon Waalqalami

                              I don't know which crown you are seeing. It is a Siin like mark which is what shadda is, or how it is represented in the text. The text of Quran as we see it today was fixed/improved over 250-300 years or may be even longer after its supposed inception. So one is bound to see differences in written text over that time period until the text was codified finally as we see it today.

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                                I don't know which crown you are seeing. It is a Siin like mark which is what shadda is, or how it is represented in the text. The text of Quran as we see it today was fixed/improved over 250-300 years or may be even longer after its supposed inception. So one is bound to see differences in written text over that time period until the text was codified finally as we see it today.

                                That manuscript is from mid-600s i think, see the forum post by Noon https//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9607061.0

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                                  Al-Fathia, literally it means ?the opening or unlocking?. If one pays close attention to concepts in this Sura. It becomes evident that having command over all disciplines of knowledge has and would always lead to opening and unlocking the mysteries of universe. It also makes sense to adopt this mode of conduct over a mode of conduct of worshiping any unseen entity. This mode of conduct appears more capable, as well a practical approach to solving and dealing with issues of life.

                                  Readers are totally free not to agree with this translation. However, they are encouraged to use their reason and logic in evaluating this translation, knowing most can?t have required linguistic know how.

                                  Surah 11

                                  With nobility of One who doesn?t engage in worship comes the extreme and lasting concern for sufferings or misfortune of others.

                                  Surah 12

                                  The acceptance for not engaging in worship helps to achieve the command over all the disciplines of knowledge,

                                  Surah 13

                                  Due to the extreme, lasting concern for sufferings or misfortunes of others,

                                  Surah 14

                                  This has been an eternal mode of conduct for people.

                                  Surah 15

                                  You beware we are excited about it also you beware we are seekers of knowledge.

                                  Surah 16

                                  It guides us from fleeing the path which is original, straight, undeviating and unceasing.

                                  Surah 17

                                  Those fleeing the path, if you were to scrutinize them; it would be nothing but cause of anger for the confounded, perplexed and unable to see right path.

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                                    The_Sardar
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                                    I have 2 questions and it's not to be derogatory but you have checked the root words of all of the verses in the chapter? And secondly does the word Fatia occur in the Quran?

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                                      I have 2 questions and it's not to be derogatory but you have checked the root words of all of the verses in the chapter? And secondly does the word Fatia occur in the Quran?

                                      Yes I have. The root is used at multiple place, however, to best of my recollection not in this shape/form or word format.

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                                        Yes I have. The root is used at multiple place, however, to best of my recollection not in this shape/form or word format.

                                        But what about Fatiha? Does the word occur in the Quran?

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                                          There's no so-called "shadda" there, it's an invention. My computer system doesn't even print it out because I've omitted it. If I write on here it's not visible.

                                          Like I wrote is which is meaning what I said, which is speaking about a person's existence or being.

                                          Didn't diacritic marks were invented in somewhere mid-800s or early-900s. Sorry if i got it wrong.

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