Monday, January 08, 2007

3:48

Salaam all

This is 3:48
وَيُعَلِّمُهُ الْكِتَابَ وَالْحِكْمَةَ وَالتَّوْرَاةَ وَالإِنجِيلَ
WayuAAallimuhu alkitaba waalhikmata waalttawrata waalinjeela

The Aya says:
And He will teach him (Jesus) the book and the wisdom and the Torah and the Evangile.

My personal note:
The book and the wisdom are two words that often come together in the Qur’an. The book points to the knowledge in the book and within that wisdom is included. The wisdom is the arrival at the best decision and ruling and that comes, in part, from the book. Sometimes people understand the two terms as the same, but that is not true. They overlap but are not exactly the same. When they are together, then the book, in my opinion takes the understanding of the knowledge and the wisdom takes the understanding of putting the knowledge to use in the best fashion.

Many Muslims will say that the Sunna= repeated practice of the prophet is part of the wisdom since it gives us a glimpse of how the prophet used the knowledge that God gave him to reach the best decisions.

Translation of the transliterated words:
WayuAAallimuhu: and He will make him know/ and He will teach him
Note: WA means and. YuAAaLLIMUHU is derived from the root Ain-lm and it means knowledge or knowing. YuAAaLLIMU is an action that is being completed or is ongoing that is derived from the root. It means the action of making the object (HU=him pointing to Jesus) know is happening by the subject (third person singular pointing to Allah).
Alkitaba: The book
Note: the root K-T-B and it means putting things together as in grouping the herd together or closing the lips or writing (the most common use), because in writing, one puts the letters and the ideas together. ALKITABA means, the process of writing or the book or anything related to it from the ideas to the ink and paper to the place where all is put together.
Waalhikmata: And the wisdom
Note: WA means and. ALHIKMATA is derived from the root Ha-K-M and it means rule or judge or reach the best ruling using the best tools possible including knowledge, compassion and justice. One concrete word is the steer that steers the animals. The relationship is that the steer helps move the animal in the best direction that the steerer wants. ALHIKMATA is often translated as the wisdom and that would be the arrival at the best steering judgement.
Waalttawrata: and the Torah
Waalinjeela: and the Evangile

Salaam all and have a great day

Hussein

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