Motke: A perfect Hebrew word in the Qur'an that was misread by al-Mufasereen: HaKavod

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Jan 19, 2020 at 13:57

Hi Motke,

Prof Mudher Younes is a Palestinian-American and a Prof of Arabic examines Qur'an 100 or سورة العاديات and it says:

ان الانسان لربه لكنود

Or Truly mankind to his Lord to be Knod

However, the word Knod or كنود has no meaning and there is no Arabic root K-N-D

So al-Mufasereen believe that the verse means: Truly man is ingrate to his Lord

Younes believes that it is a misreading by al-Mufasereen of the Hebrew word Hakavod (the glory)

Notice that Hebrew V is vocalized as Arabic B, and remember that the Arabic rasm (ductus) had no dots so the Quranic word in question can be read as either the incorrect كنود or as the correct كبود which is clearly not an Arabic word and it is a loan word from Hebrew

The implications here are very significant. The Mufasereen in the 3rd century of Islam had no clue what the Qur'an is really saying as least in the case of this verse. It is a refutation to the Islamic claim that the Qur'an was memorized then written. If this was true al-Mufasereen would have known that the word is really Kabod not Kanod. Even if we give al-Mufasereen the benefit of the doubt that this might be a mistake by the scribes, then al-Tabari was not able to correct the error! So much for the Quranic claim that it is a book written in eloquent Arabic (no foreign loan words).

Here is the correct reading of the verse by Younes:

ان الانسان لربه لكبود

And here is the translation by Younes:

Truly man honors/is honored by/glorifies his Lord

Now the verse make sense

BTW: سورة العاديات or Qur'an 100 has no meaning when you read it in Arabic and then you discover that al-Mufasereen had no clue what it really means and we get another الله اعلم

And the wonderful echoes of: "Adon HaKavod Melech Hamlachim"

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