For Abu Sahajj and his poor Arabic part deux!

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Dec 14, 2006 at 07:17

Our dear Abu sahajj, I'm really trying hard to get you to improve your poor Arabic.

your wrote:

>wa salaam

here are other options that you have for your rather poor Arabic:

1. Drop the wa and make it: "al-Salaam" or "the peace" But I guess tablighees do not get the Arabic definite article "al" for reasons that I do not understand.

2. Add the definite article "al" and now we have the transliteration as: "wa al-salaam" or "and the peace" (and voclalize it as: was-salaam)

3. Another option that will include your Allah would be: wa salamuhu 3Alikum or and his peace be upon you.

"An Amercian Muslim anthology"! give me a break! As if we really care.

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