Good art is for all and Qur'an 1:2

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Apr 20, 2014 at 12:58

Hi Sara

I wanted to also bring to your attention that human beings share great art and inspiring songs as in the case of this Syro-Aramaic song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPH5PhxkS1I

I'm sure you know that Jews spoke Aramaic for a very long period of time and never lost the touch with this mother language (the Targumim is living witness to such fact) and compare this with the Arabs that destoryed their link to this great language and the only losers here are Muslims and as for why did Muslims sever such link? I would leave it to another post

And here is the rendition in Aramaic by Israeli singers of ܝܗ ܪܝܒܘܢ ܥܠܡ or Yah Ribbon Alam or in Arabic يا رب العالم or Ya Rab al-Alm and compare this with the Quranic Rab al-Alameen in Surat al-Fatiha or Q1:2

For the real meaning of the Quranic Rab al-Alameen or رب العالمين one have to consult the mother language and that is the language of the song and that would be Syro-Aramaic and the word rab or ܪܒ and in Arabic رب

http://www.assyrianlanguages.org/sureth/dosearch.php?searchkey=12015&language=id

And it means the chief and does not mean God

As for the word Olam ܥܠܡܐ and in Arabic عالم Alam and in Hebrew Olam and the Quranic al-Alameen العالمين the primary meaning of this word is really forever in Syriac and Hebrew as well as Arabic and yes it could mean the world but it is not the primary meaning

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%DC%A5%DC%A0%DC%A1%DC%90

and you will find the Syriac word Olameen in the last line in the Lord's Prayer in Syriac as in ܠܥܠܡ ܥܠܡܝܢ or L Olam Olameen (compare with the Quranic al-Alameen) which means forever and ever

http://wikisource.org/wiki/%DC%90%DC%92%DC%98%DC%A2_%DC%95%DC%92%DC%AB%DC%A1%DC%9D%DC%90

And indeed if we trun to al-Tabari's exegesis of رب العالمين or Rab al-Alameen

http://www.quran-for-all.com/t-1-3-2.html

He makes it clear that the word rab here really means chief and he has great difficulty in explaining why would the word al-Alameen be in the plural and if by this Allah was talking about the world of humans and the world of the Jinnis which really means and it seems to me that he did not realize that if this رب العالمين should be read as Syriac ܪܒ ܥܠܡܝܢ or Rab Olameen then the meaning of the Quranic verse would be very clear and it would mean that Allah is: "The Chief forever" and not Allah the God of the worlds (sic)

The point to be made is that good art is for all and that the meaning can be lost and it becomes what the listener is willing to understand and make sense of what he'she hears

May be human beings have more in common than they imagine

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