October 30, 2011

tabarraa, tabarraoo, tabarroo, tabarrana, tabarrajna, tabarruja, tabarroohum.



[Quran, 2:166]
Transliteration:
Ith tabarraa allatheena ittubiAAoo mina allatheena ittabaAAoo waraawoo alAAathaba wataqattaAAat bihimu alasbabu

Abdullah Yusuf Ali's translation:
Then would those who are followed clear themselves of those who follow (them) : They would see the penalty, and all relations between them would be cut off.

The Quranic Arabic Corpus:
(2:166:2)
tabarra-a
will disown


[Quran, 2:167]
Transliteration:
Waqala allatheena ittabaAAoo law anna lana karratan fanatabarraa minhum kama tabarraoo minna kathalika yureehimu Allahu aAAmalahum hasaratin AAalayhim wama hum bikharijeena mina alnnari


Abdullah Yusuf Ali's translation:
And those who followed would say: "If only We had one more chance, We would clear ourselves of them, as they have cleared themselves of us." Thus will Allah show them (The fruits of) their deeds as (nothing but) regrets. Nor will there be a way for them out of the Fire.

The Quranic Arabic Corpus:
(2:167:8)
fanatabarra-a
then we will disown


[Quran, 2:224]
Transliteration:
Wala tajAAaloo Allaha AAurdatan liaymanikum an tabarroo watattaqoo watuslihoo bayna alnnasi waAllahu sameeAAun AAaleemun

Abdullah Yusuf Ali's translation:
And make not Allah's (name) an excuse in your oaths against doing good, or acting rightly, or making peace between persons; for Allah is One Who heareth and knoweth all things.

The Quranic Arabic Corpus:
(2:224:7)
tabarrū
you do good


[Quran, 9:114]
Transliteration: 
Wama kana istighfaru ibraheema liabeehi illa AAan mawAAidatin waAAadaha iyyahu falamma tabayyana lahu annahu AAaduwwun lillahi tabarraa minhu inna ibraheema laawwahun haleemun

Abdullah Yusuf Ali's translation:
And Abraham prayed for his father's forgiveness only because of a promise he had made to him. But when it became clear to him that he was an enemy to Allah, he dissociated himself from him: for Abraham was most tender-hearted, forbearing.

The Quranic Arabic Corpus:
(9:114:12)
tabayyana
it became clear


[Quran, 24:60]
Transliteration:
WaalqawaAAidu mina alnnisai allatee la yarjoona nikahan falaysa AAalayhinna junahun an yadaAAna thiyabahunna ghayra mutabarrijatin bizeenatin waan yastaAAfifna khayrun lahunna waAllahu sameeAAun AAaleemun

Abdullah Yusuf Ali's translation:
Such elderly women* as are past the prospect of marriage,- there is no blame on them if they lay aside their (outer) garments, provided they make not a wanton display of their beauty: but it is best for them to be modest: and Allah is One Who sees and knows all things.

The Quranic Arabic Corpus:
(24:60:15)
mutabarrijātin
displaying



[Quran, 28:63]
Transliteration:
Qala allatheena haqqa AAalayhimu alqawlu rabbana haolai allatheena aghwayna aghwaynahum kama ghawayna tabarrana ilayka ma kanoo iyyana yaAAbudoona


Abdullah Yusuf Ali's translation:
Those against whom the charge will be proved, will say: "Our Lord! These are the ones whom we led astray: we led them astray, as we were astray ourselves: we free ourselves (from them) in Thy presence: it was not us they worshipped*."

The Quranic Arabic Corpus:
(28:63:13)
tabarranā
We declare our innocence


[Quran, 33:33]
Transliteration  Waqarna fee buyootikunna wala tabarrajna tabarruja aljahiliyyati aloola waaqimna alssalata waateena alzzakata waatiAAna Allaha warasoolahu innama yureedu Allahu liyuthhiba AAankumu alrrijsa ahla albayti wayutahhirakum tatheeran

Abdullah Yusuf Ali's translation:
And stay quietly in your houses, and make not a dazzling display, like that of the former Times of Ignorance; and establish regular Prayer*, and give regular Charity*; and obey Allah and His Messenger. And Allah only wishes to remove all abomination from you, ye members of the Family, and to make you pure and spotless.

The Quranic Arabic Corpus:
(33:33:5)
tabarrajna
display yourselves

(33:33:6)
tabarruja
(as was the) display


[Quran, 60:8]
Transliteration: 
La yanhakumu Allahu AAani allatheena lam yuqatilookum fee alddeeni walam yukhrijookum min diyarikum an tabarroohum watuqsitoo ilayhim inna Allaha yuhibbu almuqsiteena

Abdullah Yusuf Ali's translation:
Allah forbids you not, with regard to those who fight you not for (your) Faith nor drive you out of your homes, from dealing kindly and justly with them: for Allah loveth those who are just.

The Quranic Arabic Corpus:
(60:8:15)
tabarrūhum
you deal kindly

*disagreement in translation of the word.


The words have the following meanings below:

tabarraa -  clear themselves/ourselves, will disown.
tabarrana - we free ourselves, we declare our innocence
tabarrajna tabarruja - dazzling display, display yourselves display
tabarraoo - cleared themselves
tabarroo - doing good, you do good
tabarroohum - dealing kindly, you deal kindly
tabayyana - it became clear
mutabarrijatin - displaying

To narrow it down, the main meanings of the words are:

-clear ourselves/disown/free/declare innocence
-display
-do good/deal kindly, justly.


Conclusion:
I do not believe that the meaning of tabarraa is display or to deal kindly or justly at all (there are plenty of other words used for that in Quran), but to clear ourselves, disown and free ourselves (from whatever evil/is bad for us). The fundamentalists have once again tried to change God's Verses to speak about woman and their translation is only one of their tools used to excuse and support their suppression of women in the name of Faith.

August 02, 2011

The Hadiths Corruption Of The Word SIAM

What The Sectarians Claim:
The "Siyam" is intended to teach Muslims patience and self-control, and to remind them of the less fortunate in the world. The fast is also seen as a debt owed by the Muslim to God. Faithful observance of the "Siyam" is believed to atone for personal faults and misdeeds, at least in part, and to help earn a place in paradise. It is also believed to be beneficial for personal conduct, that is, to help control impulses, passions and temper. The fast is also meant to provide time for meditation and to strengthen one's faith.
While fasting in the month of Ramadan is considered "Fard "(obligatory), Islam also prescribes certain days for non-obligatory, voluntary fasting, such as:
  • The 13th, 14th, and 15th of every lunar month
  • Each Monday and Thursday of a week
  • Six days in the month of Shawwal (the month following Ramadan)
  • Every other day, also known as the fast of the prophet David
Fasting is forbidden on these days:
  • Eid Fitr (1st Shawwal) and Eid Adha (10th Dhulhijjah) - According to all Muslims.
  • Tashriq (11th, 12th, 13th Dhulhijjah) - According to the Sunnis only.
  • The Day of Arafat (9th of Dhu al-Hijjah in the Hijri(Islamic calendar)). (Again, according to Sunnis only - Only pilgrims to Mecca are forbidden to fast.)
  • The Day of Ashura, which is the tenth day of Muharram (first month in Islamic Calendar.)) (Haraam for South Asian Shia only, Makruh for most other Shia).
Although fasting at Ramadan is fard (obligatory), exceptions are made for persons in particular circumstances:
  • Prepubescent children; though some parents will encourage their children to fast earlier for shorter periods, so the children get used to fasting.
  • Unconditional vomiting because the food leaves through an unintentional part of the gut.
  • Serious illness; the days lost to illness will have to be made up after recovery.
  • If one is traveling but one must make up any days missed upon arriving at one's destination.
  • A woman during her menstrual period; although she must count the days she missed and make them up later but before arrival of the next Ramadan.
  • A woman till forty days after giving birth to child or miscarriage. But she must count the day she missed in Ramadan and make up later but before the arrival of the next Ramadan.
  • An ill person or old person who is not physically able to fast. They should donate the amount of a normal person's diet for each day missed if they are financially capable.
  • A mentally ill person.
  • For elders who will not be able to fast, a lunch meal (or an equivalent amount of money) is to be donated to the poor or needy for each day of missed fasting.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting#Islam

If you claim to not follow hadith, why do you follow hadith claiming that SIAM means refrain from food, drink and relation with ones wife.. exactly like the hadiths are claiming? you make that type of fasting obligatory on yourself, just like the hadith-followers! SIAM صوم means refrain/abstine from something, indeed, but not from food, drink and relation with ones wife.. how could it be so? refraining from these things for an extended time puts one and others in serious health risks, SIAM is a punishment not a blessing! why forbid the good things which God has made lawful to you? 

Ṣawm is derived from Syriac: ṣawmā. Literally, it means "to abstain", cognates to Hebrew tsom. Wikipedia

The words "food" and "drink" have been added to the meaning of SAIM. The Arab scholars have a long history in changing the meanings of Arabic words (among altering their months.). Words like "haram" which means forbidden suddenly becomes "sacred" while mentioned with Mecca or "Ramadan",  "hijab" becomes head cover for women (also covering a woman's entire body accept face, hands and feet), "hajj" becomes pilgrimage to Mecca, "qibla" becomes prayer direction towards Mecca, "Bakka" becomes "Mecca", God's "Sunna" becomes Mohammad's "sunna", etc. have been altered!

August 01, 2011

Siam

Most of the time the Quran uses "siam" as a punishment [2:183-187], but while mentioned with "Ramadan" it all of a sudden becomes a blessing? I wonder why God would prescribe a punishment upon us if we have done nothing wrong? Perhaps the word "siam" means something else than refraining from food, drink and relation with ones wife? After all, food, drink and relation with wife are good for you, and why make something unlawful which God has made lawful to you?

Have you ever become "Mutaqi" by your fasting? No, you have only become hungry, thirsty and weak have you not? Some also becomes irritated and dizzy. No wonder since you refrain from food and drink. You would really dislike to fast in the desert would you not? no water in the desert during the hottest days of the month must really be dangerous for one's health! Why would God put us into danger? make us miserable, put hardship on His sincere followers?

O you who believe! SIAM are prescribed to you, as they were prescribed to those before you, so that you become MUTAQI. [Quran, 2:183]

Siam is mentioned in [2:183-187].

Siam basically means to stop, cease or discontinue.

To stop whatever someone is doing.

Arabic dictionary define "al-siam" as to stop speech or action.

The hadiths claim "siam" means to stop eating, drinking and intimate relation with wife.

Fasting (refraining from food and drink) makes you "muttaqi" (rightous/god-fearing)? really?

Quran about who are "mutaqi":
(Abdullah Yusuf Ali translation:)
It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces Towards east or West; but it is righteousness- to believe in Allah and the Last Day, and the Angels, and the Book, and the Messengers; to spend of your substance, out of love for Him, for your kin, for orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the ransom of slaves; to be steadfast in salat, and practice zakat; to fulfil the contracts which ye have made; and to be firm and patient, in pain (or suffering) and adversity, and throughout all periods of panic. Such are the people of truth, the Allah.fearing.

Only those who posses the qualities mentioned above can be called mutaqi.

So you really think that God wants to put hardship on His believers? If you have to stop doing something to be righteous, then what by common sense should you  stop doing? something which is bad or can become bad if you keep doing it, right? is it really food and drink and relation with ones wife? the good things which God has provided for us? No, I do not think so, it must be something else

We should take a closer look at the previous verses to understand "siam".

Like [2:182]
It speaks about that if someone fears that injustice has happened, then correct it, and then make peace with it. Siam, stop doing wrong, stop doing injustice.

Peace.

July 24, 2011

Salat and Zakat

Many people says "salat" means prayer, and some says "salat" means contact prayer. I will say that it is all the hadith saying that "salat" means any type of prayer. Most people think of "salat" as a "namaz" prayer, but does really Quran speak of any type of "namaz" prayer, or how to perform "namaz" at all then? no, It does not at all. People follow blindly what their religious leaders have told them, also some are looking into Quran to find anything that can even hit of the well established "namaz" which they were so used to perform in the past. Sincere believers, which means it well, but still are too fixed on this "namaz"-method that they are looking for verses from different chapters of the Quran, putting them together and calling what they have found, their "obligatory daily prayers from God". Some have found five timings a day for their "namaz" prayers, some have found three and others have found two. Since they tend to disagree so much between themselves, how can any of them be so sure that they got it right? And where do they get it from, that there is a obligatory "namaz"-method at all in Quran?

We should think of "salat" as something else. We should remember that God is out of needs [29:6], [47:38], also "namaz" has not made anyone a better believer. You can do your "namaz" first then after you can go out and do several crimes, you limit your serving to God only to a physical exercising and reciting something which you do not understand [56:79]. We should rather see the word "salat" together with the other words, the words in Quran, to get a more correct understanding of it, to understand what it really means.

So, "salat", what could that possible mean? if it is not a "namaz"-prayer? "Salat" is something which believers obey, believers obey something, follow something, right? So, what are we to follow, to obey? It can not be anything else than God, right? God's Commandments, God's Verses, God's Guidance, actually [11:87]. So why can not "salat" means guidance? God's Guidance, Divine Guidance? When you figure that "salat" means Divine Guidance and then you will also figure out what "zakat" means. The hadiths says that "zakat" is a type of tax which you have to pay 2,5 % off once a year, but that is all what the hadiths are claiming and not the best Hadith, the Quran. Quran does not speak about "zakat" or anything meaning that you have to pay 2,5 % of something once a year or anything like that at all. Quran does speak about charity that you should give out of what you got provided with from God [2:219]. And since there is hardship in Faith [2:256], [22:78] and some people do not have much money at all, they still have to pay this tax to be a believer? that does not make sense does it?

In God's verses the words "salat" and "zakat" are often mentioned together, and that believers, followers of God alone, and His commandments alone should obey and follow His Guidance and uphold It. This makes "zakat" mean something to be uphold, uphold the "salat". If "salat" is Guidance then it must be speaking about upholding that Guidance. When we finally understand what "salat" and "zakat" mean, other things from Quran is starting to make more sense.

All this bowing and prostration is not meant to be about any "namaz", it is always mentioned with God and with "Salat". People make it into "namaz", but what if we understand that "salat" is not "namaz" then what should the bowing and the prostration be? Why not look at the metaphorical meaning of them? Quran says that some verses are literal and some are metaphorical [3:7] . Could not this bowing and prostration be metaphorical? If we take a look at them, metaphorically, you will perhaps get another understanding. Bowing for "salat" can mean like bowing down to God's Guidance and prostrating can mean to surrender to God's Commandments. The verses get a new meaning now, do they not? You should bow and prostrate for "salat", that you should bow down and surrender to God's Guidance, and God's Guidance only. Give ourselves for God's Purpose, God's Law, God's Commandments [2:157].

Peace.

July 16, 2011

The Term Kafir

Sahih International translations:
Many of the People of the Scripture wish they could turn you back to disbelief after you have believed, out of envy from themselves after the truth has become clear to them. So pardon and overlook until Allah delivers His command. Indeed, Allah is over all things competent. [2:109]

Indeed, those who reverted back after guidance had become clear to them - Satan enticed them and prolonged hope for them. [47:25]

Conclusion:
A "kafir" is a person who have full knowledge about the message of the Quran but rejects it and actively oppose people from it as well.

July 15, 2011

If SALAT means NAMAZ or any standing bowing and prostrating then how do you explain this verse:

They said, "O Shu‘ayb, does your SALAT command you that we should leave what our fathers worship or not do with our wealth what we please? Indeed, you are the forbearing, the discerning!" [Quran, 11:87]


What happens if you insert "divine guidance" instead?

Something is commanding them to leave what their fathers worshiped and to not do with their wealth as they please? could it be anything else than God's Guidance?You should leave your hadith and follow only God's Guidance. The translators use hadith to explain the verses from Quran.

You can probably find some tasfee to explain deeper into disobedience for you.. or you can stop right now and start using your logic. Islam is not a religion full of rituals, it is an ideology filled with guidance, and if we follow such a guidance, we will be successful.

June 07, 2011

Who's Practice (Sunnah) Are We To Follow?

This is Our Practice with the messengers We sent before you and you will find no change in Our Practice. [Quran, 17:77]

[Due to] arrogance in the land and plotting of evil; but the evil plot does not encompass except its own people. Then do they await except the way of the former peoples? But you will never find in the Practice of God any change, and you will never find in the Practice of God any alteration. [Quran, 35:43]

But never did their faith benefit them once they saw Our punishment. The established Practice of God which has preceded among His servants. And the disbelievers thereupon lost. [Quran, 40:85]

Such is God's Practice throughout the past, and you will find that God's Practice is never changeable. [Quran, 48:23]


We are to follow the only practice written in The Quran which is God's Practice!