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How to read and study The Quran? - new article

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    Raaajah
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    Mazhar

    Without reading you start striking against the wall. His quote, I am talking, not your quote of hamza. Read his quote and get your eyes opened.

    My eyes are opened brother, its time for you to open up yours, Don;t try to behave like "Aflatoon" and stop calling him, Imam Bukhari and others wandrers and their works, guess works that is beneath you.

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      Mazhar
      quranacademy.org

      Quran reaches its real Syriac root of qeryn (quryan, QRYN) which refers to 'religious reading'.

      I was talking of Dr. Alphonse Mingana

      Would you like to tell us where the Syriac language got it's roots from?

      Alphonse Mingana (born as Hurmiz Mingana, 1878 Sharansh, village near Zakho, Ottoman Empire (present day Iraq) - died 5 December 1937 Birmingham, England) was an Assyrian theologian, historian, orientalist and a former priest who is best known for collecting and preserving the Mingana Collection of ancient Middle Eastern manuscripts at Birmingham

      Do you ally yourself with such people? According to hadith science one wouldn't accept the words of such people so readily. Quran 496

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        Far

        Would you like to tell us where the Syriac language got it's roots from?

        offcourse you know the answer and furthermore this has nothing to do with present post of mine, any how this is the laymans information

        Syriac began as an unwritten spoken dialect of Old Aramaic in northern Mesopotamia. The first evidence we have of such dialects is their influence on the written Imperial Aramaic from the 5th century BC.
        All the Semitic languages' are built up from triliteral roots that is, the great majority of the words are derived from a simple verbal form, of which the essential elements are three consonants.
        The Syriac alphabet, which derived its letters from forms ultimately akin to those of the Old Hebrew and Phoenician alphabets, has the same twenty-two letters as the Hebrew.

        Far

        Do you ally yourself with such people? According to hadith science one wouldn't accept the words of such people so readily. Quran 496

        again this is not what is being discussed. Did I said I ally with him? this only tells you jumped in without reading the posts
        quote by Raaajah

        even though i am a critic of Dr.Mingana but to call him a wandrer and his work a guess work is far cry

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          Mazhar
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          Don;t try to behave like "Aflatoon" and stop calling him, Imam Bukhari and others wandrers and their works, guess works that is beneath you.

          For every moment in time there is/was a book. Aflatoon did not benefit from the Book of his time, instead decided to roam about at his own in all fields circularly, in the hope to find some truth, with the result that one never gets the Straight Path given in simple words by the Book. The Book is sublime and is The Guide, rest is unending "Gup Shup".

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            Raaajah
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            Mazhar

            The Book is sublime and is The Guide, rest is unending "Gup Shup".

            And how did you know that the book is sublime? now please don't start quoting from the book it self!

            Just give me a prove that the book is Sublime?

            waiting for your reply

            Raj-ah

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              Mazhar
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              Mazhar
              And how did you know that the book is sublime? now please don't start quoting from the book it self!

              Just give me a prove that the book is Sublime?

              waiting for your reply

              Raj-ah

              Experience and by applying inteelect bestowed by Allah to human beings for differentiating between scum and fact.
              The prove that the Book is sublime is like the Sun which for us is the most bright star. It needs no proof to establish an already admitted fact. The quote from the Book would have been more powereful and convicing, but you have stopped quoting it.

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                Raaajah
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                Mazhar

                Experience and by applying inteelect bestowed by Allah to human beings for differentiating between scum and fact.
                The prove that the Book is sublime is like the Sun which for us is the most bright star. It needs no proof to establish an already admitted fact. The quote from the Book would have been more powereful and convicing, but you have stopped quoting it.

                I have just stopped you from "adhoc" argument/ a circular reference.

                That intellect seems to be bestowed on you my brother, but others need evidence a solid proof.

                You said
                The Book is sublime and is The Guide, rest is unending "Gup Shup

                If anything else is gupshup then why use intellect? why use experience?

                Quite a contradiction in your statement.

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                  Thanks, since gup shup exists in abundance in the atmosphere/society we live in, therefore, intellect has to be applied to differentiate between scum and the fact, and that is basic job and function and purpose of intellect.

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                    Far
                    offcourse you know the answer and furthermore this has nothing to do with present post of mine, any how this is the laymans information

                    Syriac began as an unwritten spoken dialect of Old Aramaic in northern Mesopotamia. The first evidence we have of such dialects is their influence on the written Imperial Aramaic from the 5th century BC.
                    All the Semitic languages' are built up from triliteral roots that is, the great majority of the words are derived from a simple verbal form, of which the essential elements are three consonants.
                    The Syriac alphabet, which derived its letters from forms ultimately akin to those of the Old Hebrew and Phoenician alphabets, has the same twenty-two letters as the Hebrew.

                    Faragain this is not what is being discussed. Did I said I ally with him? this only tells you jumped in without reading the posts
                    quote by Raaajah

                    So if syriac began somewhere before that... why would you just accept one language's meaning of the root? Shouldn't you collect all the meanings used by that root when it comes to the words used in the quran as it defines itself?

                    You highlighted certain parts of who that individual was. Of course he is not what is being discussed, but even so we cannot take his words without him being verified by yourself.

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                      OPF

                      So if syriac began somewhere before that... why would you just accept one language's meaning of the root?

                      Because it seems to be the nearest, simple! meaning "religous reading". It can be from others,
                      but I brought it forward against MAzhar's post, where he said Quran cannot be from the root other than QRa.

                      OPF

                      You highlighted certain parts of who that individual was. Of course he is not what is being discussed, but even so we cannot take his words without him being verified by yourself
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                      Brother go ahead, please verify, and disagree but don't try to undermine any one's research work without merit as our brother Mazhar does.

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                        OPF

                        Because it seems to be the nearest, simple! meaning "religous reading". It can be from others,
                        but I brought it forward against MAzhar's post, where he said Quran cannot be from the root other than QRa.

                        OPF.

                        Brother go ahead, please verify, and disagree but don't try to undermine any one's research work without merit as our brother Mazhar does.

                        Huh? Errr... interesting format.

                        If the root of quran is nothing other than QRa... then of course it would be so because the quran says that the book is in arabic. To venture to other languages to understand the meaning would be a step beyond the quran. Of course we could learn how the semitic root developed.

                        Just like this religion was not fully complete until after the all the messages were given to the last prophet may he have peace. The same way we could consider that the semitic roots, or language and understanding of the terms, were not complete until the arabic had been developed. Well even to this day we are still learning of meanings of the root, such as even going to different dialects of arabic and understanding meanings through those dialects. Perhaps we could take understanding from everything termed as arabic. Such as North Arabian, or even South Arabian families. But Assyrian isn't termed as arabic.
                        http//www.answering-christianity.com/egg-shaped_earth.htm

                        As for disregarding his research... he was a missionary. Missionaries don't have a good reputation when it comes to islamic studies. So from that, I give him a negative mark.

                        And it seems like he lost all his http//www.mingana.bham.ac.uk/biog.pdf page 12.

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                          I believe there is a single correct interpretation of the quran in which EVERYTHING clicks into place. I get glimpses of it every so often when I trawl through the "gup shup" and find some sense. However that is on the condition that the quran is genuinely from our lord, which I have near certainty it is. If it isn't then it is merely a cleverly written book.

                          It is not that the book itself is sublime when it can be openly interpreted, rather it is sublime when the interpretation is in line with the book and both are well and truly aligned with reality. It then becomes the unlocking key to reality, a self-evident and clear answer as to why things are the way they are, and how to repair things that are not right. One has to wonder why so much effort goes into clouding its message and diverting people towards vain discourse when it should surely be easier to merely change the text of the book itself, supposing there is no such thing as "God".

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                            I believe there is a single correct interpretation of the quran in which EVERYTHING clicks into place. I get glimpses of it every so often when I trawl through the "gup shup" and find some sense. However that is on the condition that the quran is genuinely from our lord, which I have near certainty it is. If it isn't then it is merely a cleverly written book.

                            It is not that the book itself is sublime when it can be openly interpreted, rather it is sublime when the interpretation is in line with the book and both are well and truly aligned with reality. It then becomes the unlocking key to reality, a self-evident and clear answer as to why things are the way they are, and how to repair things that are not right. One has to wonder why so much effort goes into clouding its message and diverting people towards vain discourse when it should surely be easier to merely change the text of the book itself, supposing there is no such thing as "God".

                            Sure I can agree with that. How is the Syriac root used?

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                              Sure I can agree with that. How is the Syriac root used?

                              It's not within my knowledge to answer that question, I'm just adding my 0.02c which, given the topic of this thread, seem to be in Ugandan dollars.

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                                It's not within my knowledge to answer that question, I'm just adding my 0.02c which, given the topic of this thread, seem to be in Ugandan dollars.

                                You mean answer that?

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                                  FAR

                                  Just like this religion was not fully complete until after the all the messages were given to the last prophet may he have peace. The same way we could consider that the semitic roots, or language and understanding of the terms, were not complete until the arabic had been developed. Well even to this day we are still learning of meanings of the root, such as even going to different dialects of arabic and understanding meanings through those dialects. Perhaps we could take understanding from everything termed as arabic. Such as North Arabian, or even South Arabian families. But Assyrian isn't termed as arabic

                                  Sorry it is very hard to agree with your above assertion, You mean to say from Abraham to Moses and down to Essa the religon was not FULLY COMPLETE o o that is new theory for me?
                                  Syriac had a fundamental cultural and literary influence on the development of Arabic which replaced it towards the end of the eighth century. how can we ignore this language's impact on Quran? considering Syriac was a major language among Christian communities in the Middle East before Arabic.

                                  "In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth . . . "

                                  "Fee al-badi' khalaqa Allahu as-Samaawaat wa al-Ard . . . "

                                  The noun "Allah" predates Islam and comes to the Arabic language from Syriac.

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                                    FAR

                                    As for disregarding his research... he was a missionary. Missionaries don't have a good reputation when it comes to islamic studies. So from that, I give him a negative mark.

                                    To discard some one's research on the basis of his religous believing is not justifiable in any court.
                                    You are Wrong again! my brother, to name few
                                    Dr. Gary Miller was an Ex-Christian missionary who understood Islam well, he was a mathematician and theologian too. He converted to Islam after reading the Quran and finding out that the Quran did not hold any mistakes or contradictions.

                                    Gary Miller?s has produced numerous articles on Islam and the Quran which are published online.

                                    and

                                    David Benjamin Keldani who wrote "Muhammad in the Bible".

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                                      FAR
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                                      FAR
                                      Sorry it is very hard to agree with your above assertion, You mean to say from Abraham to Moses and down to Essa the religon was not FULLY COMPLETE o o that is new theory for me?
                                      Syriac had a fundamental cultural and literary influence on the development of Arabic which replaced it towards the end of the eighth century. how can we ignore this language's impact on Quran? considering Syriac was a major language among Christian communities in the Middle East before Arabic.

                                      "In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth . . . "

                                      "Fee al-badi' khalaqa Allahu as-Samaawaat wa al-Ard . . . "

                                      The noun "Allah" predates Islam and comes to the Arabic language from Syriac.

                                      Quran 53 and John 1612 and Isaiah 42 through to Isaiah 54.

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                                        FAR
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                                        FAR
                                        To discard some one's research on the basis of his religous believing is not justifiable in any court.
                                        You are Wrong again! my brother, to name few
                                        Dr. Gary Miller was an Ex-Christian missionary who understood Islam well, he was a mathematician and theologian too. He converted to Islam after reading the Quran and finding out that the Quran did not hold any mistakes or contradictions.

                                        Gary Miller?s has produced numerous articles on Islam and the Quran which are published online.

                                        and

                                        David Benjamin Keldani who wrote "Muhammad in the Bible".

                                        Who said we're discarding it? Quran 496 speaks about if a wicked person brings news... then we investigate. It doesn't say "ignore ignore".

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                                          FAR

                                          Who said we're discarding it?

                                          FAR

                                          As for disregarding his research... he was a missionary. Missionaries don't have a good reputation when it comes to islamic studies. So from that, I give him a negative mark.

                                          to take one's study with prejudice is not a good way, dear, that is what most Muslims, wether Quranists, Shia, Sunni or any other cultists do when they read Quran,
                                          Quran=word of God
                                          Quran=100%
                                          nope nope

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