Our dear Samer the word bitaanah or the lining of his little coat revisited

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Jun 21, 2008 at 13:06

Our dear Samer wrote

1- يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَتَّخِذُوا بِطَانَةً مِنْ دُونِكُمْ لَا يَأْلُونَكُمْ خَبَالًا وَدُّوا مَا عَنِتُّمْ قَدْ بَدَتِ الْبَغْضَاءُ مِنْ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَمَا تُخْفِي صُدُورُهُمْ أَكْبَرُ قَدْ بَيَّنَّا لَكُمُ الْآيَاتِ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَعقِلون

You Allah is saying:

ya ayuha al-ladhiina aamanu la tatakhidhu bitaanatin (notice the i3rab) min dunikum blah....blah....blah

Or: O you believers do not take a lining of the coat from others than you

Wow I'm so impressed. But I have a slight correction to make: I believed that the Arabic word for lining of a coat or bitaanah has no alif after the beh but after checking Hans Wehr dictionary page 64B the word indeed has an alif which means that Allah could be talking about the coat lining. And yes the word bitaanah could mean entourage but it not commonly used as entourage as there are other words in Arabic that would covey such meaning as: hasham and taqm So why did your Allah not use such words? may be he was talking the lining of a coat! What do you think? I also checked for usage in colloquial Egyptian and Syrian Arabic (see Badawi Hinds dictionary page 84) and the word bitaanah only means: the lining of your coat. So much for drivel

And oh speaking of Arabic language roots: Are you aware that the root BTN is the same root for batni or abdominal, bataniya or blanket (batattin pl.), batin or interior, and bitaanah or lining of a coat and may be entourage? Remember: masr/misr, amsar/masr, musran and masareen? When would Muslims learn proper Arabic language grammar?

And do you think that may be your Allah was saying do not buy the lining of coats from others than you? What do you think? So much for drivel

>2- Check Al-Mawrid Arabic/English dictionary for the word entourage and you will find the meaning as I said Bitanah

You must excuse me but you are dishonest because you did not tell us that the word bitaanah also means the lining of a coat!

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