For Plato and Q7:158 and islam is only the religion of the Arab "people"!

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Jan 29, 2007 at 07:34

Hi Plato, If you need any help with translations just let me know. I do not read everything posted. Just use one of my posts and let me know.

Now Q7:158 says: qul ya-ayuha al-nasu ini rasul allah ilaikum jami3an Or: 1. Qul means say 2. ya ayuha means O you 3. al-nasu or the people. Notice the word nass means people (see Wortabet dictionary page 279). The word mankind means al-bashar (see Wortabet page 257). Very diefferent word with a very different meaning. 4. ini means I'm 5. rasul Allah means the messenger of Allah 6. Ilaikum means to you 7. jami3an means all. So the aya says: "Say: O you people I'm the messenger of Allah to you all."

But notice that this is Allah telling Muhammad to utter the above to his people the HIjazi Arabs. It does not adress any other people and this is based on Q14:4 where Allah proclaims that he sends a rasul to a "people" and not to al-bashar or mankind and the rasul must speak the language of his people. In other wrods Allah did send a prophet for our dear Mo and his people the Bangledeshes but it was not Muhammad.

As for the translation of the word nas being mankind: this is bogus! Now when you examine any literature you must examine the source behind the source or the author of the literary source: 1. Picktall was an Englishman who was converted by ignorant Tablighees while in India and his tarnslation is not really good. However it is better than most. 2. As for Ali and Shakir: these are poor translations that are tendentious and just plain poor. I understand that there is a project going on to correct the many mistakes in Ali's translation. Both Shakir and Ali were Indian Muslims that never lived in an Arabic speaking country but both had the audacity to translate a book in a language that they did not know (they were not native speakers of Arabic) to English which was not their mother tongue. And the end result is really poor.

I like Rashad Khalifa and Dawood's translations. Both of them were native Arabic speakers and their command of Arabic grammar and syntax is just great. I avoid any translation by Pakistanis and there are many of them and they are poor translations. What is also most amazing is that the Qur'an does not tell us that muhammad was the favorite prophet of Allah. It was Jesus and not Muhammad.

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