Revisitng the Quranic disaster tur sineen and to be more specific the word sineen

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Feb 19, 2012 at 15:58

The word sineen is another Quranic linguistic disaster and it very well could be a plural for the word Sina/Sinai/Sina' and one wonders how many Sinai do we have and it is a reminder of the strange plural for the word Elias as in Eliaseen

And do not forget that al-Tabari tells us that it very well could be an Ethiopic word for hassan and yes the word tur is mountain in Syriac! Oh I'm shocked foreign words in the Qur'an but all of this really means that Muslims really do not know what the Qur'an really says and why is that our dear Amin who is studying Hebrew Mazel Tov!

So let us see what Sheikh al-Azhar is telling us about this Quranic disaster of tur seneen and is the word sineen a plural for Sinai and here is what he is saying

وجاء فى سورة " التين " (والتين والزيتون * وطور سينين * وهذا البلد الأمين) (2).

فلماذا قال سينين بالجمع عن سيناء ؟ فمن الخطأ لغوياً تغيير اسم العَلَمَ حباً فى السجع المتكلف " ؟

هذا قولهم ، ذكرناه بالحرف الواحد. وكما يرى القارئ الكريم أن هذه الشبهة شبهتان: إحداهما فى " إلياسين " ، والثانية فى " سينين " وإن كان المقصود لهم من الشبهتين واحداً

So our dear Amin Sheikh al-Azhar needs help!

Oh in part two i will provide you with his pathetic answer

For the readers al-Zamakhshari correctely believed that these plural forms, sineen and eliaseen, have some thing to do with the morphology of the words in Syriac but he had no clue what it was

So here is the word Sinai in Syriac Eastern Syriac : ܣܝܼܢܝ Western Syriac : ܣܺܝܢܝ Eastern phonetic : ' si nai

And here is the word sineen سينين which is no more than a misreading of the word in Syriac so it is not really a plural form for the word sinai

So stay tuned for Sheikh al-Azhar explanation of this disaster

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