The Syriac connection and Q2:69

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Mar 21, 2014 at 18:19

Hi Mike

This story is also about the Islamic tabreer and here the Muslims Ulama blamed the Jews for any Quranic claims that did not make any sense as in the case of the color of the cow

There are also traditions where we are told that Muhammad;s scribe Zaid Ibn Thabit was young and he had sidelocks (Payot) and used to wear a kippa so he was for sure a Jew

We are told in many traditions that Ibn Thabit learned Hebrew and was able to read the Hebrew Bible and tell Muhammad what is in it

We also have traditions that Muhammad had Makhatatat Siryaniya (Syriac texts) and he instructed Ibn Thabit to learn Syriac (so Muhammad can understand what the Peshitta is saying?) and we are told that Ibn Thabit did learn Syriac is 17 days! (It is hard to believe) but if this Ibn Thabit was indeed Jewish then all he had to do is to learn the Syriac ABGAD (alphabet) et voila he would be able to speak the language after all being Jewish would mean that he spoke Aramaic

So you see the Ulama were blaming the Jews if it did not make sense and if it made sense then they can say but a Jew (Ibn Thabit) said so

This is what Tabreer is all about

Now back to the color of the cow. As you might know the Arabs wrote their texts using the Syriac alphabet even for a time after the rise of Islam and these texts were called Garshouni texts and many of the old Quranic fragments have Syriac script converted by the Arabic script

And there are indeed a few examples in the Qur'an where the Syriac is clearly misread and examples would be Surat Qaf ق and Surat Sad ص and there is no doubt that the Syriac letter Sadhe ܨ was read correctely as Arabic Sad but it was also misread as Qaf and once the shift from Syriac to Arabic there is no going back because the Quranic connection to Syriac was lost

Now let us go back to the color of the cow in Arabic it would be

1. In the Psalms it would be حمراء or red (in the Quranic rasm it would be only حمرا without the letter hamza)

2. In the Qur'an it would be صفراء or yellow (in the Quranic rasm it would only be صفرا without the letter hamza which was also added by the Ulama)

This is how the word red in Garshouni would have been ܚܡܪܐ or Hamra and the word yellow in garshouni would be ܨܦܪܐ or Sapra and as you might know there is no letter hamza in the Quranic rasm or the basic layer of the Qur'an and that the Syriac letter P becomes in Arabic F

Now the last two letters in both words are the same R and A

The Syriac letter ܦ could very well be read by the untrained scribes as Syriac M or ܡ

As for the letter Sadhe ܨ it also can be read as Syriac ܚ or H

et voila Hamra becomes Safra and the color of the cow is yellow

I do believe that this is what happened

But again what do you expect from a plagiarist

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