Deconstructing al-fatiha and variant traditions makes it to al-fatiha and what a disaster

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Feb 28, 2012 at 07:59

Our dear Amin seems to be busy learing Hebrew: Mazel Tov

For the readers: Allah seems to be in the habit of repeating himself ad nauseum so for example we can read let us say the story of Adam seven times in the Qur'an as per Shiekh al-Azhar (see below) and the funny thing is if the repeated stories in the Qur'an are removed the book of Allah would shrink to the size of a little booklet and these are the words of shiekh al-azhar so our dear Amin does not say that we kuffar make things up and here we go

ولغوا لغواً كثيراً ، حول تكرار قصة آدم فى القرآن ، وقالوا إنها تكررت خمس مرات. ونحن نقول بل تكررت سبع مرات.

كما فعلوا الشىء نفسه مع التكرار الوارد فى سورة " الرحمن " وادعوا أن القرآن إذا حُذف منه المكرر لم يبق منه إلا ما يملأ كراسة واحدة.

So he is saying that if the repeated ayas are removed from the qur'an as in the case of the story of adam the Qur'an would shrink to the size of a little booklet!

What a disaster

Now this is how this strange phenomenon was explained

1. The very wise pagan Arabs were also amused about why would the god of Muhammad seems to repeat himself so much and their great conclusion was that التكرار يعلم الحمار or that the way to teach a donkey is through repeating the same material ad nauseum! Oh read this anyway you want

2. Or it could be as Wansbrough suggested in his variant traditions that the Qur'an has many authors and those that collected those logias and pericopes just stitched the material together and put it in a codex form without any editing. Oh did i make it clear that this phenomenon means that the Qur'an has multiple authors?

3. The Islamic tradition tells us that this strange phenomenon is because of what is called asbab al-nuzul or the reasons of revelations which means that there must have been a reason for Allah to repeat himself but we are not invited to know why! How absurd

4. Or Allah had a limited stock of revelations and he keeps re-using them! Very originnal

Oh and here is the whole web page so you our dear Amin can read about this disaster if you can read Arabic

http://www.elazhar.com/qadaiaux/8.asp

So what does this have to do with surat al-fatiha?

It seems that this phenomenon of Allah repeating himself made it to surat al-fatiha as in

bism allah al-rahman al-rahim al-hamdu lel lahi rab al-3alameen al-rahman al-raheem

and why would allah repeat himself and the reality without such repeating of the Quranic material shiekh al-azhar tells us that the qur'an will shrink to the size of a little booklet

What a disaster

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