My answer is 'yes and no' )

Distinguishing between 'nabi' and 'rasool' - rasool are sent to all peoples and have 'knowledge of the book', whereas 'nabi' bring 'the book'.

Logically, all Nabi are rasool, but not all rasool are nabi. Thus "Mohammad is 'A' messenger of God, and the 'Seal' of the Nabi." shows he is the last Nabi, but one of many and not necessarily the last of the messengers.

Sorry about the lack of references, but years ago I went through quraan and listed every reference regarding 'Nabi' and 'Rasool', and made above conclusion. You can do the same!

Properties of rasool were A & B (forgotten details - one was 'knowledge of the book&#039
Properties of Nabi were A & B & C (forgotten details - one was 'bring the book&#039

Fred has A & B - therefore he is a rasool, but cannot be a Nabi because he lacks C
Joe has A & B & C - therefore he is a nabi, and also a rasool since he obviously has A & B

Modify Hmmm! ) RasulHamza's quote of 5725 above has just put me in doubt of my original characteristaion of Nabi/Rasul!!! Oh well - back to the drawingboard for a re-assesment. Doesn't alter my opinion about 'rasool to all peoples' meaning including modern times vs 'khatam un-nabi' meaning no more 'nabi's, though )!

My opinion

The 'Real' meaning is 'God' or whatever word you personally use to denote that which is actually known to all of us and denied by many.

It is a symbol or token.

However, arriving at a description will be impossible, since vocabulary is inadeqaute to provide a complete description. At best people will be describing a mixture of their own perceptions, feelings, interests, conditioning, hopes and fears etc., and only ever a part of the whole. There does not exist a 'something' that can fit the statement God = 'something'. (Except maybe God = God).

greetings idolfree,

expanding on what mu'min has written

the last vowel sound on a singular noun indicates the 'case' (nominitive, accusative or genitive) of the noun which relates to its function in the sentence.

Thus 27 starts 'khatama allaahu...' because Allah is the subject doing the action 'khatama'

But 29 starts 'yukhaadioon allaaha...' because Allah is the object of the verb 'they try to deceive'

Similarly, 'allaahi' will be found after prepositions that need the genitive case (like li, min, fi, etc. etc.). This genitive is also used in connecting adjectives/nouns together.

Regular plural nouns also change their endings depending on case, and this is the reason it is sometimes 'muminoon' and sometimes 'mumineen' etc.

Hi samina...

Actually, a 'root' is just a convenient starting point from which you can follow various paths to form other words. The simplest letter combination is chosen as the root.

Nearly all Arabic words have a three-letter root, which is also the '3rd-person-past-singular' verb, or 'he somethinged...'

Thus 'Sa-Li-Ma' - 'he was safe/secure/healthy'
''SHa-Hi-Du' - 'he witnessed'

From these you can make other past tenses - by adding bits on the end. You can make present tenses by adding bits on the front and end. You can change the meaning in standard ways by doubling the middle letter, by adding certain other letters, and combinations of these. You can make nouns for the person doing the action, the person on the receiving end, and the action itself (compare 'to pay' with 'payer', 'payee' and 'paying'). And then you can make other nouns with meanings linked to the root.

A root may have a couple of distinct meanings, determined by context. Often noun forms will relate to just one of the root meanings.

And if you like to start learning, I have made a very small start on a 'teach yourself Arabic' website which can introduce you to the basics
http//www.irreduciblefifth.force9.co.uk/arabic.

And to others here

salaam from simon who many years ago was active as 'behqabrestan' on some halem's yahoo discussion forum and OQS amongst others and recognises lots of names here like mquran, bahman (still advocating 19), layth, ...... So this is where everyone is....

Dar guzar az naam wa binigar dar sifat
taa sifataat rah numeyad sue dhat

Pass from names and look at qualities
until qualities show the way to essence

as for nobody being able to identify the words, i'm workin on it.

Some assistance, AaRon

to the 'thaalimeen' a fire...

aHaaTa 3rd person singular form IV from root HaWaTa (Ha, waw, Ta), when used with preposition 'bi', meaning it surrounded, closed in, beseiged
bihim preposition 'bi' with pronoun 'him' - them

suraadiquha noun derived from 4-letter root sardaqa (seen,re,dal,qaf) with feminine singular pronoun ending (relating back to 'a fire&#039, and in the nominative case indicating subject of the sentence, a canopy/pavillion.

Thus so far its(the fire's) canopy surrounding/beseiging them

wa and

in if

yastagheethoo 3rd person plural form X (asking for) from root ghaatha (ghein, ye, the) - they asked to be rained upon

yughathoo form IV (causation) - they caused to be rained

bimaa'i preposition 'bi' and 'maa'a' ending changed to match preposition - water or fluid

kalmuhli prefix 'ka' like, al - added as joining following noun to previous noun, along with genetive 'i' ending, to 'muhl' - choose from mineral, ore, molten copper, pitch, pus, poison, oily matter'

yashwi 3rd person sing it roasted/grilled/broiled/fried

alwujooh plural noun from waw, jeem, heh, the faces

or putting it together

...its canopy beseiging them and if they asked to be rained upon they cause to be rained a fluid like molten copper roasting their faces...

or something like that!

Usual caveat about errors applies