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Resolve the confusion--pronoun in 16:66 and 23:21

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    Man_of_Faith
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    Mazhar,

    I think he forgot to add traditional grammar rules in the original post.

    All physical realm is governed by rules. Language is no exception. Without rules, chaos is the outcome. One's failure to comprehend does not mean that rules are of no relevance.

    Yes. The grammar and language in Qur'an is built around rules. But not according to biased scholars.

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      The exact same pattern is used for Maryam, where in 2191 and in 6612 is used.

      Peace --

      2191 and the one guarding private part hers so blew we in her (i.e. Mary) from spirit ours and we made her and son hers sign to the creations

      6612 and Mary daughter Imran the one guarding private part hers so blew we in him (i.e. Imran) from spirit ours and truthful she in words lord hers and written his and was (f/s) from the devout

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        Bender
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        No explanation means that the suggested translation is not backed by the rules of the language of source text.

        Salaam,

        Not sure what translation you are referring to.
        If you mean with the rules of the language, the Arabic school grammar then I agree.
        There are a lot of verses which contradicts the Arabic school grammar but they fit perfectly in the Quranic "grammar".

        A sentence in the text is like a Protein wherein 22 amino acids are in a special sequence whose boundary is determined by the "start amino acid" and "stop amino acid". Similarly in Arabic language there are "start words" to know from where a sentence begins.
        Waw is one of the most frequently used "start word".

        I never take WAW as a beginning of a new sentence BUT a prolongation of the previous sentence EXCEPT when WAW is used at the beginning of a verse.

        In Arabic language, equivalent to 22 amino acids, there are 22 case endings for a noun which define their role in the sentence. MANAFI3U is in nominative case which tells us that it is the subject of a new sentence beginning with Waw.

        That whole part you mentioned has no meaning without the previous part ( ) because of the FEEHA. Therefore it's not a new sentence but prolongation.

        Salaam,
        Bender

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          Bender
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          Salaam,

          I found these understandings to be not correct. Sorry.

          Salaam,

          You don't have to be sorry )

          But in both the aayaat the word used is means what? To me it means, stomach or middle/center. Whose stomach is the question!

          No I do not think that's the correct question. It is clear that the ayaat talks about ALAN3AAM.
          The HAA and HI are not referring to ALAN3AAM but to MIMMA FI BOTUN.
          I know it's hard to understand because it goes against traditional grammar, but give it a try to understand what I am saying.

          If stomach is referring to , then the use of along with is correct. But then how is also used with ?

          The only option left is and both could refer to a plural unlike Arabic grammar. And again it confirms that alQuraan is not based on Arabic grammar rules.

          BLUE Totally not agreed, this makes the book unclear and is an contradiction.

          The exact same pattern is used for Maryam, where in 2191 and in 6612 is used.

          Yes I know these 2 verses. I wanted to mention them earlier but not sure if it is of the same sort, have to study it a bit more.

          May Allah increase our knowledge and guide us on His path pr
          mmKhan

          May Allah increase our knowledge and guide us on His path pr
          Bender

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            Mazhar
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            Mazhar,

            I think he forgot to add traditional grammar rules in the original post.

            Yes. The grammar and language in Qur'an is built around rules. But not according to biased scholars.

            Will you please quote one or two rules built in Qur'aan and one or two rules of "biased scholars" which are at variance with those of Qur'an. Be specific.

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              Mazhar
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              There are a lot of verses which contradicts the Arabic school grammar but they fit perfectly in the Quranic "grammar".

              Salam Bender,

              Would you like to quote one verse which contradicts the Arabic school grammar specifically referring its rule?

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                Mazhar
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                The HAA and HI are not referring to ALAN3AAM but to MIMMA FI BOTUN.
                I know it's hard to understand because it goes against traditional grammar, but give it a try to understand what I am saying.

                You are partially correct that masculine pronoun does not refer to ALAN3AAM. Feminine pronoun Ha refers to ALAN3AAM. You are correct that masculine pronoun refers to Milk singular masculine object.

                It is exactly according to grammar of Arabic. , I will explain it later. Let me tell you that the traditional as well as the Modern translators have little cared for the grammar rules. They just follow old translations by merely substituting a word with some synonym here and there.

                I hope you had given a little thouht to my post wherein I gave example of 22 amino acids. Now I give you another similarity

                The "physiology" of translation of a discourse/text is like human physiology digestive system. During digestion two main processes occur at the same time

                Mechanical Digestion larger pieces of food get broken down into smaller pieces by tearing, slicing, churning and mixing while being prepared for chemical digestion. Mechanical digestion starts in the mouth and continues into the stomach.

                Chemical Digestion several different enzymes break down macromolecules into smaller molecules that can be more efficiently absorbed. Chemical digestion starts with saliva and continues into the intestines.

                A dollop of food put in the mouth can be equated to a sentence in a discourse. The objective of digestion is to acquire necessary nutrients and energy for sustaining the life. The objective of translation of Grand Qur'aan is to acquire guidance embedded in its sentences for living an upright life which will ensure pleasurable continuance of life for ever.

                Mechanical Digestion is like parsing the sentence, breaking it down into pieces of smallest grammatical unit parts of speech and morphological structures; segregation of phrases.

                Chemical Digestion is like syntactical parsing of the sentences wherein the role and function of each grammatical unit of the sentence is determined in relation to other elements of the sentence. This process yields the semantic information embedded in the sentence. Application of this process upon the entire discourse will provide all the necessary ingredients for sustaining life as the digestive system eventually provides all the amino acids, sugars, fatty acids and glycerol.

                A sentence is the part of a speech or a written discourse that has a complete and independent meaning. Sentence segmentation refers to identifying sentences in a text. The process of sentence segmentation is a basic step for discourse analysis because text stream need to be separated into coherent sentences in order to enable effective analysis for information retrieval, summarization, understanding and translation.

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                  Bender
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                  You are partially correct that masculine pronoun does not refer to ALAN3AAM. Feminine pronoun Ha refers to ALAN3AAM. You are correct that masculine pronoun refers to Milk singular masculine object.

                  Salaam,

                  If I'm partially right then I like to know on what I'm wrong.

                  It is exactly according to grammar of Arabic. , I will explain it later. Let me tell you that the traditional as well as the Modern translators have little cared for the grammar rules. They just follow old translations by merely substituting a word with some synonym here and there.

                  I hope you had given a little thouht to my post wherein I gave example of 22 amino acids. Now I give you another similarity

                  GREEN To be honest I don't know anything on amino acids, I don't even know what they are.

                  The "physiology" of translation of a discourse/text is like human physiology digestive system. During digestion two main processes occur at the same time

                  Mechanical Digestion larger pieces of food get broken down into smaller pieces by tearing, slicing, churning and mixing while being prepared for chemical digestion. Mechanical digestion starts in the mouth and continues into the stomach.

                  Chemical Digestion several different enzymes break down macromolecules into smaller molecules that can be more efficiently absorbed. Chemical digestion starts with saliva and continues into the intestines.

                  A dollop of food put in the mouth can be equated to a sentence in a discourse. The objective of digestion is to acquire necessary nutrients and energy for sustaining the life. The objective of translation of Grand Qur'aan is to acquire guidance embedded in its sentences for living an upright life which will ensure pleasurable continuance of life for ever.

                  Mechanical Digestion is like parsing the sentence, breaking it down into pieces of smallest grammatical unit parts of speech and morphological structures; segregation of phrases.

                  Chemical Digestion is like syntactical parsing of the sentences wherein the role and function of each grammatical unit of the sentence is determined in relation to other elements of the sentence. This process yields the semantic information embedded in the sentence. Application of this process upon the entire discourse will provide all the necessary ingredients for sustaining life as the digestive system eventually provides all the amino acids, sugars, fatty acids and glycerol.

                  A sentence is the part of a speech or a written discourse that has a complete and independent meaning. Sentence segmentation refers to identifying sentences in a text. The process of sentence segmentation is a basic step for discourse analysis because text stream need to be separated into coherent sentences in order to enable effective analysis for information retrieval, summarization, understanding and translation.

                  Thank you for your thoughts!!!

                  Salaam,
                  Bender

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                    Bender
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                    Salam Bender,

                    Would you like to quote one verse which contradicts the Arabic school grammar specifically referring its rule?

                    Salaam,

                    BLUE I don't know any grammar rule by it's arabic or english name, so no I can not do that. But I can give you a looooooooooooooot of verses which I am sure are going against arabic school grammar.

                    You have to know that there was no grammar book included with the Quran. Grammar rules are man made not from Allah. This book is NOT made to fit arabic school grammar, It has it's own rules, structures, patterns, spelling etc etc etc independent from any human intervention.

                    Salaam,
                    Bender

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                      Man_of_Faith
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                      Peace,

                      You must also consider the possibility that the book called Quran had been laying forgotten for extensive years and the language forgotten to some extent and also that there was no standard of written language at the time. Muhammad (or what his name was) must have understood what he wrote, any person would write it the way he writes/speaks a language). Then someone retook its interpretation and could not really understand what it, ie. misinterpreted a lot and added diacritical marks to the best of their ability to preserve what they believed was right and also added verse numbers which often cut the sentences in the middle of clauses (which is a strong reason to suspect that they did not fully comprehend what they read).

                      When people came closer to each other with modern institutions standards became more common and a more collective way of using language in written form.

                      And if you deliberately take the interpretation of a word in any direction away from how it once was interpreted then you can cause it to 1000 years later connote an entirely different thing. It is clear that the words of Quran are deliberately used to justify a lot of senseless rituals and practices despite that no connotation can support it. With it you get praying birds and all matter of ridiculous inconsistencies. But most people just put the blind eye towards it and continue because to them the traditional interpretation is never wrong (they think) no matter how lame it sounds. They contradict themselves when they say to you "So you believe that billions of Muslims do wrong?" when God said "If you obey most people on Earth they will lead you astray because they listen to conjecture and only guess". Salat is such phenomenon, never criticized if it means prayer or not. Some have said it connotes connection/bond/tie but yet insist on prayer and also while there is a clear word that means pray/request/call/summon/implore that is "duwa/duah" and which is circumstantial and not timed. On the other hand there is glorification in the morning and evening.

                      And repeating the same passages, seven ones, several times is as if God will hear them better due to their many words and read chapters with 'say' commands directed towards people who do not believe and who do not hear the prayer anyways.

                      Have faith

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                        mmkhan
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                        Peace --

                        2191 and the one guarding private part hers so blew we in her (i.e. Mary) from spirit ours and we made her and son hers sign to the creations

                        6612 and Mary daughter Imran the one guarding private part hers so blew we in him (i.e. Imran) from spirit ours and truthful she in words lord hers and written his and was (f/s) from the devout

                        Salaam brother,

                        Thank you for your contribution.
                        But I am sorry to disagree with your understanding of 6612. I don't understand how Imran came in all of a sudden. The part of that aayat before is about Maryam and the part after that also referring to her.

                        There might be something we are missing, inshaAllah we will come to know when Allah wants us to know.

                        Salaam brother MoF,

                        Thank you.

                        May Allah increase our knowledge and guide us on His path pr
                        mmKhan

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                          mmkhan
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                          Salaam,

                          You don't have to be sorry

                          Salaam brother,

                          Thank you.

                          No I do not think that's the correct question. It is clear that the ayaat talks about ALAN3AAM.
                          The HAA and HI are not referring to ALAN3AAM but to MIMMA FI BOTUN.
                          I know it's hard to understand because it goes against traditional grammar, but give it a try to understand what I am saying.

                          Well, can you please tell me what are the two things in BUTOON that HAA and HI is referring to?
                          From your understanding it seems to me when RASOOLI-HI is used that means, that HI is referring to Rasool and not Allah? hmm

                          May Allah increase our knowledge and guide us on His path pr
                          mmKhan

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                            Mazhar
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                            Would you like to quote one verse which contradicts the Arabic school grammar specifically referring its rule?

                            Salaam,

                            BLUE I don't know any grammar rule by it's arabic or english name, so no I can not do that. But I can give you a looooooooooooooot of verses which I am sure are going against arabic school grammar.

                            Please reflect what have you written. You confess you don't klnow grammar rule but claim you can show verses which are going against arabic school grammar.

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                              Mazhar
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                              Three facts are mentioned in the second complex sentence about the Milk of herbivore mammals

                              A part of its composition is within its-Milk's "stomachs";
                              It is in the state central to broken down food and that of blood;

                              It acts for the drinkers like that which enters into the body easily.

                              Grand Qur'aan picturesquely portrays the Mammal's milk

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                                Bender
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                                Salaam brother,

                                Thank you.

                                Well, can you please tell me what are the two things in BUTOON that HAA and HI is referring to?

                                Salaam,

                                See my first post.

                                From your understanding it seems to me when RASOOLI-HI is used that means, that HI is referring to Rasool and not Allah? hmm

                                May Allah increase our knowledge and guide us on His path pr
                                mmKhan

                                No there is a differnce in the structure. Maybe if you can quote the verse you have in mind I can try to show you the difference.

                                May Allah increase our knowledge and guide us on His path pr
                                Bender

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                                  Bender
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                                  Salaam,

                                  BLUE I don't know any grammar rule by it's arabic or english name, so no I can not do that. But I can give you a looooooooooooooot of verses which I am sure are going against arabic school grammar.

                                  Please reflect what have you written. You confess you don't klnow grammar rule but claim you can show verses which are going against arabic school grammar.

                                  Salaam,

                                  Yes I know what I have written. I indeed have almost zero arabic school grammar knowledge and zero knowledge about their naming but for sure I can give you a looooooooooooooooooooooooooot of verses which go against arabic school grammar.
                                  So how do I know? Simply because translators are not consequent. like the link you gave

                                  The next verbal complex informative sentence in both the above quoted Ayahs restricts the area of research to one aspect disclosing fundamental information/premises for research

                                  Please observe that the only difference between these two sentences is that of the gender of Suffixed Pronoun in the Possessive Phrases. The first Possessive Phrase has third person, singular, masculine possessive pronoun while in the second has third person, singular, feminine pronoun. In this sentence the feminine pronoun refers back to broken plural feminine noun which is grammatically singular; and the Prepositional phrase coupled with Possessive Phrase "Within the bellies of these female mammals".

                                  according to you "almost all the translators did the same error of referring the singular masculine pronoun to the plural feminine mammals mentioned in the earlier sentence"
                                  BUT your approach is not consequent either, you treat the same structures different. One time to ALAN3AAM and the other verse to FIBUTUUNIHI while they are of the same exact structure.
                                  This means your grammar rules have no explanation for this.

                                  They BOTH refer to MIMMA FI BUTUN. ONLY what is in the BUTON is different in both verses, and that why the difference in HI and HAA.

                                  Salaam,
                                  Bender

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                                    Mazhar
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                                    Salaam,

                                    Yes I know what I have written. I indeed have almost zero arabic school grammar knowledge and zero knowledge about their naming but for sure I can give you a looooooooooooooooooooooooooot of verses which go against arabic school grammar.
                                    So how do I know? Simply because translators are not consequent. like the link you gave

                                    The next verbal complex informative sentence in both the above quoted Ayahs restricts the area of research to one aspect disclosing fundamental information/premises for research

                                    Please observe that the only difference between these two sentences is that of the gender of Suffixed Pronoun in the Possessive Phrases. The first Possessive Phrase has third person, singular, masculine possessive pronoun while in the second has third person, singular, feminine pronoun. In this sentence the feminine pronoun refers back to broken plural feminine noun which is grammatically singular; and the Prepositional phrase coupled with Possessive Phrase "Within the bellies of these female mammals".

                                    according to you "almost all the translators did the same error of referring the singular masculine pronoun to the plural feminine mammals mentioned in the earlier sentence"
                                    BUT your approach is not consequent either, you treat the same structures different. One time to ALAN3AAM and the other verse to FIBUTUUNIHI while they are of the same exact structure.
                                    This means your grammar rules have no explanation for this.

                                    They BOTH refer to MIMMA FI BUTUN. ONLY what is in the BUTON is different in both verses, and that why the difference in HI and HAA.

                                    Salaam,
                                    Bender

                                    You cannot understand a single verse of Qur'aan except by your guesses, unless you know that every language is governed by rules.

                                    Like English, Arabic has also four types of sentences. First thing is segmentation of sentences in the discourse. You must know the start and end of the sentence, otherwise, you will keep conjecturing.

                                    The error I pointed out is that of treating the above quoted four words as two equivalent sentences whereas both are not the same. The first four words comprise a complete and independent sentence and its Possessive Pronoun femine refers back to feminine mammals. A pronoun always refer to a known entity. Except human females, Ha is used both for a singular feminine and plural feminine.

                                    The other four words are part of a complex sentence with additional dependant clauses which has a disambiguation noun masculine singular to clarify the masculine pronoun.

                                    English and Arabic possessive phrase are almost identical. means "the bellies, hidden pockets of him" and means the bellies, hidden pockets of her-those females".

                                    Like proteins, a sentence can be very short in length and very long.

                                    Milk has fat globules, and globules are what is signified by Arabic word . And signifies mammary glands of those female mammals.

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                                      Bender
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                                      You cannot understand a single verse of Qur'aan except by your guesses, unless you know that every language is governed by rules.

                                      Salaam,

                                      Sure every language has it own rules, so is the language of The Quran, and it's rules are not described in your grammar book.

                                      And of course I am only guessing, just like you and everyone else in this world.

                                      Like English, Arabic has also four types of sentences. First thing is segmentation of sentences in the discourse. You must know the start and end of the sentence, otherwise, you will keep conjecturing.

                                      I already gave you how I handle the WAW and I use this method for ALL verses.
                                      You use your method only for some verses. The part you gave as an independent sentence, I have given you my reasons why it can never be independent. You did not comment on that, to show me wrong.
                                      Besides that your method is not consistent it has I believe not even a rule in your grammar books.
                                      If I am wrong on this then please provide me with the grammar rule which shows me when to use WAW as a start of a sentence and where not.

                                      The error I pointed out is that of treating the above quoted four words as two equivalent sentences whereas both are not the same. The first four words comprise a complete and independent sentence and its Possessive Pronoun femine refers back to feminine mammals. A pronoun always refer to a known entity. Except human females, Ha is used both for a singular feminine and plural feminine.

                                      The other four words are part of a complex sentence with additional dependant clauses which has a disambiguation noun masculine singular to clarify the masculine pronoun.

                                      NO In BOTH verses the 4 words (nusqeekum mimma fee butooniha/hi ) are NOT independent sentences, they have no meaning without the first part of the verse (Wainna lakum fee alanAAami laAAibratan). They are subjected to the first part.
                                      AND in both verses the last parts after (nusqeekum mimma fee butooniha/hi ) are not independent sentences they have no meaning without the 4 words.

                                      English and Arabic possessive phrase are almost identical. means "the bellies, hidden pockets of him" and means the bellies, hidden pockets of her-those females".

                                      Like proteins, a sentence can be very short in length and very long.

                                      Milk has fat globules, and globules are what is signified by Arabic word . And signifies mammary glands of those female mammals.

                                      Can you please answer this question.
                                      If we had this sentence

                                      Wainna lakum fee alanAAami laAAibratan nusqeekum mimma fee butooniHA min bayni farthin wadamin labanan khalisan saighan lilshsharibeena

                                      And I would ask you to what the red HA is referring to, then what would be your answer? Please answer this according to your grammar rules.

                                      Salaam,
                                      Bender

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                                        Peace --

                                        2191 and the one guarding private part hers so blew we in her (i.e. Mary) from spirit ours and we made her and son hers sign to the creations

                                        6612 and Mary daughter Imran the one guarding private part hers so blew we in him (i.e. Imran) from spirit ours and truthful she in words lord hers and written his and was (f/s) from the devout

                                        fi ha - fi Maryam

                                        fi hi - fi farj Maryam

                                        Salaam

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                                          Mazhar
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                                          Can you please answer this question.
                                          If we had this sentence

                                          Wainna lakum fee alanAAami laAAibratan nusqeekum mimma fee butooniHA min bayni farthin wadamin labanan khalisan saighan lilshsharibeena

                                          We do not have this sentence. You work on guesses, not concrete sentences of Qur'aan. This sentence made by you suffers vagauness.
                                          Meanings are not only in words but in grammar too, every case ending has meanings.

                                          Like English, Arabic has also four types of sentences. First thing is segmentation of sentences in the discourse. You must know the start and end of the sentence, otherwise, you will keep conjecturing.

                                          I already gave you how I handle the WAW and I use this method for ALL verses.
                                          You use your method only for some verses. The part you gave as an independent sentence, I have given you my reasons why it can never be independent. You did not comment on that, to show me wrong.

                                          Waw is used both for conjunction in compound sentences, and in circumstantial clause of a complex sentence; and inititation of a sentence.
                                          In compound sentences with Waw the elements of first sentence need not be reiterated; the purpose of conjunction is economy of words. Compound sentence has two independent clauses/sentences which are joined by conjunction to save repetition of words. Therefore, Arabic sentence is a new independent sentence and not a dependent clause.

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