Nozzi: Your skill in English need to be improved. You have stood Bukhari on his head!

Submitted by Plato (India), May 31, 2009 at 18:38

Nozzi you write,

>>Sahih Bukhari, volume 4, Book 52, Number 53, "Narrated Asas bin Malik: The Prophet said, 'Nobody who dies and finds good from Allah ( in the hereafter) would wish to come back to this world even if he were given the whole world and whatever is in it, except the martyr who, on seeing the superiority of martyrdom, would like to come back to the world and get killed again (in Allah's cause)". The phrase, Nobody who dies and finds good from Allah, in Bukhari, volume 4, book 52, number 53 implies that these people that were martyred were undoubtedly to be non-muslims since there were those people that would not find good in Allah since they do not appreciate Allah. The phrase, Nobody...finds good from Allah, in Bukhari, volume 4, book 52, number 53 gives an absolute certainty that this verse should not be applicable to muslims since muslims are those that find good in Allah and they are those that believe in Allah and his Last Judgment Day. As Bukhari, volume 4, book 52, number 53 is not meant for muslims, it is erroneous to use it to support suicide bombing.<<

Nozzi, show the underlined sentence to somebody who has taken a degree in the English language and ask him or her whether it means what you claim it does. There are subtleties to the English language with which you are unfamiliar. You have been fooled by how the word 'nobody' and its use in this sentence.

Ask yourelf does Allah find any good in non-Muslims? If you answer honestly you will realise that the prophet is talking about Mulims who are killed in battle.

Regards

Plato

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