Saturday, February 03, 2007

3:60

Salaam all,

This is 3:60
الْحَقُّ مِن رَّبِّكَ فَلاَ تَكُن مِّن الْمُمْتَرِينَ
Alhaqqu min rabbika fala takun mina almumtareena

The Aya says:
(This is) the binding truth from your nurturing Lord. Therefore, (do) not happen to be of the ones in trepidation.

My personal note:
This note continues the theme of reassuring the prophet that the example of Jesus as described in the Qur’an is the truth, and that his example is the same as Adam’s example without divinity.

Translation of the transliterated words:
Alhaqqu: The binding truth/ the binding right
Note: the root is H-Qaf-Qaf and it means binding truth. ALHAQQU is the binding right. This means that it is true and that it is binding as well.
Min: from
Rabbika: your nurturing Lord
Note: the root is R-B-B and it means lord or king who is also nurturing and sustaining. The word is used for the head of the household and for the teacher because both are leaders over us and they nurture us in many ways. RABBI means: nurturing lord of. KA means you (singular). The nurturing lord is God, for he is our lord and nurturer/sustainer at the same time.

Fala: therefore, not
Takun: you be/ you happen to be
Note: the root is K-W-N and it means being. TAKUN is an action that is being completed or will be completed that is derived from the root. It means: the action of being is happening or will be happening by the subject (second person singular).
Mina: of/ from
Almumtareena: the doubters/ the resisters/ the ones in trepidation
Note: the root is M-R-W and it means in concrete a flint stone that if rubbed will produce fire or a breast of an animal that if rubbed will produce milk. In abstract it gives the meaning of rubbing or investigating something to see what it hides, or that an entity will not respond until it received lots of nudging to bring about the appropriate response. This is used for suspicion or doubt or resistance and trepidation. ALMUMTAREEN are the people that do that and they are the doubters or the ones that need lots of nudging and persuading of what is apparent.

salaam all and have a great day

Hussein

1 comment:

Carmenisacat said...

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You know...I may need your help sometime in the next eight weeks for my class.

Um Ali, Meg et.al.