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    Cerberus
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    What is this translation ? It's very contradictory to my (basic) knowledge of classical arabic confused

    For example, Rabb, it would easily be translated to "Lord" (as in land lord) Rabb al-Alameen (Lord of the worlds).

    But here Rabb takes a (deeper?) meaning of "manage your affairs", making every occurence of "Rabb" referring to the person itself i.e "manage MY affairs" and not to a third party that is a "Lord" (i.e the Maker, Creator).

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      bkanwar2
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      Most words have different meanings. A given meanings should be decided based upon the context of other words used in a given sentence. A pre-determined meaning can not be used to assign meanings to other words in a sentence.

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        hansolo
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        Your version
        9619
        By no means, you do not need to be submissive, or bowing down or even coming close to occupying yourselves in such acts.

        SAHIH INTERNATIONAL
        9619
        No! Do not obey him. But prostrate and draw near .

        Really interesting How can it be that the translations differ sooooo much ? Doesn't the arabic text say the same exact thing. Why cant just someone translate the exact words that say in the arabic.

        confused

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          bkanwar2
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          Your version
          9619
          By no means, you do not need to be submissive, or bowing down or even coming close to occupying yourselves in such acts.

          SAHIH INTERNATIONAL
          9619
          No! Do not obey him. But prostrate and draw near .

          Really interesting How can it be that the translations differ sooooo much ? Doesn't the arabic text say the same exact thing. Why cant just someone translate the exact words that say in the arabic.

          confused

          Do you see word Allah in the verse? Why does it need to be inserted in brackets? Can it not be to give whole verse a predetermined meanings?

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            imrankhawaja
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            oh my GOD.....

            ok i have a sentence in english " i am watching TELEVISION with sweet potatoes that cooked in sunflower oil"

            televison meanings... FAR view
            sweet potatoes = a kind of vegetable shape like potatoe and its sweet/honey/sugar
            sunflower oil= oil from flower at sun wordy meanings actual meanings oil get from sunflower a flower that shapes like sun...

            now see the sentence..

            i am looking at FAR VIEW with honey/sugar/ mix potatoe cooked by the oil from flower which is shaped like sun ...

            99 percent people really cant understand by veiwing far is tv... instead they will think i m looking at far place...lol nope

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              hansolo
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              Do you see word Allah in the verse? Why does it need to be inserted in brackets? Can it not be to give whole verse a predetermined meanings?

              Yeah still... the translation you provided doesnt even remotely sound like it is the same verse actually

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                (96101)
                abdan
                A slave N ? accusative masculine indefinite noun

                (96102)
                idh
                when T ? time adverb

                (96103)
                all
                he prays? V ? 3rd person masculine singular (form II) perfect verb

                How can the above text become this Watch out, worship is a slavery.

                Where did "Watch out" come from ?

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                  imrankhawaja
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                  Where did "Watch out" come from ?

                  its comes from to b careful... watchout , everytime you do research... just kidding

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                    bkanwar2
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                    (96101)
                    abdan
                    A slave N ? accusative masculine indefinite noun

                    (96102)
                    idh
                    when T ? time adverb

                    (96103)
                    all
                    he prays? V ? 3rd person masculine singular (form II) perfect verb

                    How can the above text become this Watch out, worship is a slavery.

                    Where did "Watch out" come from ?

                    idh means "lo behold". When is meaning of Idh. No one uses "lo behold" in English any more. Its meaning is "Watch out", look or pay attention etc.
                    https//www.google.com/search?q=www.google.com&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoften-USIE-SearchBox&ie=&oe=#q=behold+definition

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                      Man_of_Faith
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                      But here Rabb takes a (deeper?) meaning of "manage your affairs", making every occurence of "Rabb" referring to the person itself i.e "manage MY affairs" and not to a third party that is a "Lord" (i.e the Maker, Creator).

                      You cannot make a one syllable word containing only two letters to mean anything advanced. The word means something like Developer. For the same reason the Jews called their spiritual teachers for "Rabbi", because it means something like "he who develops", but more comprehensibly understood as "teacher".

                      More morphologically perceived, Rabb means "Foundation-Giver". The best one word translation in English I could make of that is developer hence the above explanation. An alternative would be sustainer, but the word carries a more explicit meaning of providing development. One who can provide a foundation improves the life situation for people through growth.

                      Be well
                      Amenuel

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                        Cerberus
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                        I agree with you Man Of Faith, hence why I'm confused by the translation given in the original post.

                        961

                        You gather it together in order to manage your affairs with the help of timeless knowledge that was proportioned for this purpose.

                        Rabbi'ka is "Your Rabb", which part of the translation above refers to Rabb ?

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                          bkanwar2
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                          I agree with you Man Of Faith, hence why I'm confused by the translation given in the original post.

                          Rabbi'ka is "Your Rabb", which part of the translation above refers to Rabb ?

                          Rabb also means "managing affairs". You are having problems understanding because you are thinking and are used to viewing the world from lenses of a created personalized god of religion Islam. Would suggest to research and read a write up titled as "linguistic riddle solved for those who want to learn" on this very forum.

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                            Man_of_Faith
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                            I agree with you Man Of Faith, hence why I'm confused by the translation given in the original post.

                            Rabbi'ka is "Your Rabb", which part of the translation above refers to Rabb ?

                            I cannot make any sense of the translation.

                            961

                            My word by word "Make manifest about the attribute of your Rabb the one (who) shaped.." The passage is supposed to continue from that point, it is not a complete sentence, and the continuous discourse is necessary to make a definite rendition.

                            Be well
                            Amenuel

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                              bkanwar2
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                              I cannot make any sense of the translation.

                              961

                              My word by word "Make manifest about the attribute of your Rabb the one (who) shaped.." The passage is supposed to continue from that point, it is not a complete sentence, and the continuous discourse is necessary to make a definite rendition.

                              Be well
                              Amenuel

                              Language has several parts. Syntax is equally important in understanding the language. While words are building block with their meanings of own. How these are arranged in sentence imparts more meanings.

                              This is a verbal sentence.

                              an imperative verb, is the verb of verbal sentence, as well itself a whole sentence. It's root is Qaf-Ra-Alif. Its primary meanings is "he gathered it together". Meanings of recite is not primary meanings and is written in Lane with two horizontal bars implying this origin of root meaning to times of the classic Arabic are very very doubtful.

                              After, verb next part of a verbal sentence is "Faail". Which can not be by rule of Syntax " a prepositional phrase". Which is what we have next in order. Hence, only qualifier for this position is . I will stop here for you to verify, what I have said, as you seem interested in understanding and not just ridiculing without bases or just on faith alone.

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                                Cerberus
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                                Language has several parts. Syntax is equally important in understanding the language. While words are building block with their meanings of own. How these are arranged in sentence imparts more meanings.

                                This is a verbal sentence.

                                an imperative verb, is the verb of verbal sentence, as well itself a whole sentence. It's root is Qaf-Ra-Alif. Its primary meanings is "he gathered it together". Meanings of recite is not primary meanings and is written in Lane with two horizontal bars implying this origin of root meaning to times of the classic Arabic are very very doubtful.

                                After, verb next part of a verbal sentence is "Faail". Which can not be by rule of Syntax " a prepositional phrase". Which is what we have next in order. Hence, only qualifier for this position is . I will stop here for you to verify, what I have said, as you seem interested in understanding and not just ridiculing without bases or just on faith alone.

                                That's not true.

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                                  bkanwar2
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                                  That's not true.

                                  What is not true? Can you be more specific please, are you saying that a prepositional phrase can be a faail?

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                                    Cerberus
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                                    The faail "the one applying the verb" that you're looking for is IMPLICIT

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                                    You gather it together in order to manage your affairs with the help of timeless knowledge that was proportioned for this purpose.

                                    is indeed a verb in imperative tense (in arabic it's literally an "order" tense, as in "Do it!&quot

                                    To make it simple, looking at the "Do it" example, the "faail" i.e the one applying the verb"the subject" is "You", it's Implicit as you can see and not shown in the sentence. Same thing in arabic and its called Hidden.

                                    After, verb next part of a verbal sentence is "Faail". Which can not be by rule of Syntax " a prepositional phrase". Which is what we have next in order. Hence, only qualifier for this position is

                                    So you chose Rabbi'ka as the faail. nope

                                    For further explanation, while keeping it simple there is a second verb in that verse too
                                    past verb, its faail ? Implicit and refers to HE, translate it to whatever verb you found in your dictionnary, "created" would be it for me. If you check the previous word "Rabbi'ka" the previous HE is actually referring to Rabb, the link between the two is "" easily translated to "that".

                                    Gather them you get Rabbi'ka that created.

                                    Now we already know what's Rabb, the "ka" is simply "your"
                                    Finally we get Your Rabb that created.

                                    Link it to the first part of the verse, I'll go with "recite" as the first verb so it's gonna be
                                    "Recite in the name of your Rabb that created"

                                    the following website might help http//www.learnarabiconline.com/sentence-parsing.shtml

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                                      bkanwar2
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                                      I was hopping that at last there is someone who is ready and capable of rationale discussion on this forum. I would present evidence of the real meanings of just the first word letter root and its meanings. Recite is written with two horizontal bar further down. Lane gives explanation of his annotations of two horizontal bars in his preface. Two horizontal bars signify really very very broken signification as original meaning of the root.

                                      http//www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume7/00000030.pdf

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                                        Man_of_Faith
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                                        This is discussing very much rationally, actually both Cerberus and me. We might disagree on lexical data, but we do include sensible grammar at least.

                                        A ' qaraa - B ' aseme - Rabb ' ek - al' dhi - khalaqa

                                        Be/Do/Make Manifest With Feature Rabb One Shaped

                                        You cannot make void Arabic grammar when rendering a translation.

                                        And I did once ask you to break down your renditions into tiny pieces in order to explain morphology why you reach to such conclusions that you do. You got some explaining to do.

                                        And original manuscript's Arabic does not contain any "bars" if you refer to diacritical markers. I do not recognize them. In my world a word does always mean the same no matter occurrence. This was just a way for the ancient interpreters to be able to extract multiple meanings to shape their interpretation as according to themselves. My remake of Quran's passages have removed every diacritical marker except a few which seem native such as (alef with madda) used to mark emphatic stress not altering the meaning but like I wrote give emphasis to a word and is noticed in pronunciation by stress on the letter.

                                        Be well
                                        Amenuel

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                                          This is discussing very much rationally, actually both Cerberus and me. We might disagree on lexical data, but we do include sensible grammar at least.

                                          A ' qaraa - B ' aseme - Rabb ' ek - al' dhi - khalaqa

                                          Be/Do/Make Manifest With Feature Rabb One Shaped

                                          You cannot make void Arabic grammar when rendering a translation.

                                          And I did once ask you to break down your renditions into tiny pieces in order to explain morphology why you reach to such conclusions that you do. You got some explaining to do.

                                          And original manuscript's Arabic does not contain any "bars" if you refer to diacritical markers. I do not recognize them. In my world a word does always mean the same no matter occurrence. This was just a way for the ancient interpreters to be able to extract multiple meanings to shape their interpretation as according to themselves. My remake of Quran's passages have removed every diacritical marker except a few which seem native such as (alef with madda) used to mark emphatic stress not altering the meaning but like I wrote give emphasis to a word and is noticed in pronunciation by stress on the letter.

                                          Be well
                                          Amenuel

                                          Peace,

                                          very good interpretation, this indeed almost captures the essense of this ayah.

                                          i say almost because of course the depth is greater than any single word. 'a picture says a thousand words' and every letter is a picture, surely as Allh reminds us, even if the trees of the earth were pens and the sea ink, and the like thereof, still the Words of Allh would not be exausted. And i firmly trust that it is true even if all man and jinn gathered to produce the quran they couldnt.

                                          I have been working, largely in vain to interpret the quran (translate it) into another language (english, and maori), but i realized, you realy cant.. but then it hit me, it just needs un-translating, back into the pictures that make it up, because then it is (with Gods will) easy to understand, although I must say, Immanuel, you have a insight for getting the essense of words. 'feature' and 'manifest' realy are quite good explanations of the concepts

                                          peace, and may Allh bless you, and guide us all to a better understanding.

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