Motke: Classical Arabic and the basic sentence مبتدأ والخبر and قالوا v قالت

Submitted by dhimmi no more, May 31, 2019 at 14:40

Hi Motke,

The Qur'an is a strange book. It is as per Peters "text with no context" It is a book written by clearly multiple authors over a very long period of time. It was most likely written in Mesopotamia and it has nothing to do with al-Hijaz. I suspect that Luxenberg is very correct that the Qur'an is really a Qeryana (Lectionary) It was supposed to be addressing a bilingual Syriac/Arabic Christian community. There is so much Syriac in the Qur'an. The ultimate tragedy is that the earliest Mufasereen were not even Arabs the likes of al-Tabari were not Arabs and did not even live in al-Hijaz. They lived in distant Mesopotamia

Oh Kees Versteegh? I do not believe him. I believe that Muhammad or the authors of the Qur'an must have had knowledge or Syriac

Now a bit of Arabic grammar a sentence in classical Arabic would be مبتدأ والخبر for example: اليهود قالوا or The Jews (plural) Said (plural and masculine) then you provide what did they say You can also say ان اليهود يقولوا which is even better: Truly the Jews Say (present tense plural) after all the author of the Qur'an is "accusing" the Jews of saying and not of having said! I told you it is a strange book

It is very odd to say:

> Q9:30 says: قالت اليهود
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> Notice that the word قالت [...]
> it is in the feminine form [...]
> How did this happen? If we check the word Jews
> in Syriac it is ܝܗܘܕܝܘܬܐ or ihudaiuta
> Notice the "ta" at the end of the word

>Interesting. Thanks.

>(The conventional explanation is that a verb preceding a collective noun (يهود) can be either masculine or feminine, right? I typed "قالت العرب" into google and also got results.)

google is not correct. This should be العرب قالوا or even better العرب يقولوا

Notice that al-Mufasereen never explain odd Arabic in the Qur'an could it be because they want to prove that Quranic Arabic is correct when at times it is contrary to classical Arabic? I guess we will never know

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