For Radwan and your Arabic lesson for today!

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Sep 5, 2006 at 18:51

My dear Radwan... you wrote:

"Jihad means one's utmost to realize a goal"

It could. But Jihad also means: holy war. Get it?

Then you wrote: "It is not the equivalent of war for which Arabic and the Qur'an use Qital."

This is total ignorance of the Arabic language so here is your lesson for today:

1. Harb is war.

2. Qital from the root QTL means: fighting

Big difference. All you need to do is to read Lisan al-'Arab ... As a matter of fact the early Muslim 'Ulama called jihad: al-Harb al-Muqaddasa. Or the holy war and they did not call it al-Qital al-Muqaddas. And do you know why? Because they knew that there is a difference between the word Harb and the word Qital.

That is not all as the fantasy goes on and on.

Then you wrote: "A mujahid is devoted to his or her causes use all physical, intellectual and spritual capacities to serve it."

Nonsense. Did you ever hear of Sibawayhe's F3L or are you familiar with the semitic root system or with Form verb?

1. The word Mujtahid (mufta3il) and a very different word and guess what? It means "he strives to improve himself physical, intellectual or spritual." (Tajtahid is f.)

2. The word Mujahid (mufa3il) means: a holy warrior.

...So much for Muslim education.

The rest of your post is your usual blah....blah....blah.

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