Tablighee delusions

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Mar 25, 2012 at 08:24

Our dear Amin who earned not one but three degrees in Arabic and who is learing Hebrew Mazel Tov wrote this little gem

The word اسفارا occurs just once and then when talking about Torah.

Hello: the word asfara in the Qur'an is plural and not singular unless we have more than one Torah (sic)

The singular of the word is Sifr and it is a perfect Syriac word for book and it is used as a loan word in Christian Arabic as well as Coptic liturgy as in sifr al-takween or the book of Genesis and sifr al-khuruj or the book of Exodus

That is consistant in use with how the word is used in Syriac too.

Gobbledygook

Again the word for writing/book is about the same across Arabic Hebrew Syriac and Aramaic.

K T B or V.

What does this have to do with the word sifr you tell us?

The word Asfara - is a rare word in Aramaic, Syriac, Arabic and Hebrew.

How do you know? let me guess you have no clue and this is tablighee BS right?

Why the delusions?

But here is a little test for you go and ask one of your Arab masters to use the word sifr in a sentence they will have no clue then ask a Christian Arab the same question and let us see what the answer will be

And do you know what? this is not used by your Arab masters because it is not an Arabic word just like Tur

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