More Syriac in the Qur'an

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Mar 1, 2014 at 11:10

For the readers this is beyond our dear GoD's poor tablighee education

The grammatical mistake in Q7:160 is as follows in Arabic garmmar subjects can be feminine or masculine and if there is a number before the subject the number will follow the gender of the subject

And in this case the verse says that Allah split them into twelve tribes and in Arabic it would be Allah split them into twelve (and here the correct grammar would be to use the masculine case as in Inthna 3Ashr) and the subject would remain in the sigular so it would be

Inthna 3Ashr Sabata(n) or 12 (male) TRIBE

What we have in the Qur'an is

Ithnata 3Ashrat Asbata(n) or

12 (female) TRIBES

And this is indeed a grammatical mistake

The only two explanations here is that

1. This is a mistake by Allah

2. Or and this is what Luxenberg suggests that what we have here is not Arabic but Arabized Syriac after all in Syriac the word tribe is a feminine word and therefore the number that is before it would be in the feminine case as we do find in the Qur'an and more Syriac where you would least expect it

So which one is it our dear GoD who lives among kuffar Syriac or a mistake you tell me

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