For our dear M&M and slam dunk! Really?

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Feb 24, 2007 at 11:34

Well our dear M&M you cannot read Arabic and Q14:4 says

wa ma arsalana min rasul ila bilisani qawmuhu

So your Allah is saying:

"We do not send a messenger unless he comes (speak) in the language of his people."

This is a very easy aya and it can be read as based on the old saying: "al-tafseer lel sahaba wa al-ta'weel lel 3Ulama/jamii3":

Muhammad was sent to the Hijazi Arabs (the qawm of Muhammad only) and do you know why? Because he speaks their language and their is nothing about Muhammad being sent for stupid tablighees and stupid converts in this aya.

Then you wrote:

>This ayat

No my dear M&M who knows no Arabic ayat is the plural of an aya.

>says that Muhammad was sent to the Arabs (sic) to teach them Islam in their language

Bogus. Where does it say in the aya: wa arsalnaa Muhammad li yu3alim qawmuhu al-3Arab deen al-Islam?

Let me help you: It does not.

>it deos not say that muslims have to be Arabs

Very true. But what is your point?

Let me repeat again what the aya and not ayat says: wa ma arsalna min rasulan ila bilisani qawmuhu.

Your point here is no point.

>many prophets were sent to their people many of whom were not Arabs

Bogus argument. We are talking about Q14:4 only which tells us about the poor theology of Allah and his rasul and it says:

wa ma arsalna min rasulan ila bilisani qawmuhu

If you were correct the aya would have been:

ini ab3ath al-rusul le qawmuhum wa ba3duhum lam yakunu 3Arab

But this is not what is says in Q14:4

Your argument here is bogus

>their people is merely a phrase used to distinguish a group in a certain time and area of history in this case the Arabs of the time

Well let us see:

qawmuhum ma3naha majmo3atin min al-nass fi waqt wa mantiqa muhadadda wa fi hadhihi al-hala inhaum al-3Arab.

But this is not what it says in the aya (and not ayat).

Stay tuned for more.

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