The Quranic disaster in hadhan lasahiran and modern Arabic

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Oct 9, 2011 at 08:58

For the readers; Quranic and the so called classical Arabic are language/languages that no one ever spoke not back then and not now as the truth is the spoken and written Arabic became middle Arabic almost right away after the Arab invasion of the Middle East as the civilized reshaped the Arabic language spoken and written and indeed the likes of Ibn Manzur's dictionary Lisan al-Arab is really middle Arabic that is full of words that would have no meaning for Muhammad or his generation as in all the Arabized Greek words introduced by the Nestorians the likes of Huenin Ibn Ishaq who translated the Greek learning into Syriac and then into Arabic and in the process Arabized many Greek words the likes of balgham and safra that would have no meaning for Muhammad but are now perfect words in Arabic

The most significanr change was in the grammar of the arabic language and for example the disappearance of the grammatical cases or the nominative (al-kitabu jamilu(n)), accusative (yaktuba al-kitaba) , genitive cases (kitabu al-katibi) and now they are el-kitab gamil, biyekteb el-kitab and kitab el-kateb as in Egyptian Arabic

Sorry I realize that grammar is a dry subject but there is no other way to explain what really happened without the above bit of grammar

What we have now is most Arabs would have no clue that in hadhan lasahiran is a mistake in grammar as many have no clue about grammatical cases anymore and I suspect that the majority of Muslims whose mother tongue is arabic would have no clue about the grammatical rule in wa akhawatiha which would rule such sentence and in hadhan should be in hadhayne and even if one point out to them that this is a grammatical mistake you will get the answer that in hadhan is bel taqreeb or it is close enough and this is fine with them

What a disaster

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