Peace Jkhan,
My goal is to share my understanding, I have no power to convince anyone.
Only God can enlighten us.
We must take the time to meditate each verse in order to see clearly later.
Meditation can help to see things clearly in different aspects of our life
I meditated on Nawat's article several days before I decided to share it with you and discuss it.
No worries if we agree on our disagreement.
May God increases our knowledge
God bless
Peace Sister..
Convince doesn't mean that I or you or anyone should make other believe in what is debated and make them guide... No.. No... God will guide.. What I always mean by convince is.. We debate and if we all involved in debate then it is with the willingness we participate.. So what is debated should have meaning with the Quran.... And the questions of other debators should be precisely answered... If one remains on his or her own conviction... So we can deduce that the conviction of her or his is within the context of Quran... We are not here to debate uselessly or to pass time.. While someone exposing and at that time withdraw and say "my understanding is for me and your understanding is for you".. Then no point of arguing... At some point we should stop the same topic of argument with conclusion... Coz God says He clarifies His verses.. And it seems 2:183-187 are simple manifest verses... How come I am on one side and you are on another side and others may be in some other side.. Who is right? What is actually God revealed and what Mohamed practiced and what his people practiced calling siyam.. Let's approach that one truth... Escaping saying I am doing what I'm doing is meaningless...
Further... I missed to state below...
God prescribed Siyam and not Sawm...
2:183 " O you who have believed, prescibed upon you is fasting (SIYAM) as it was prescribed upon those before you that you may become righteous."
God prescribed Siyam... If you confuse it as Sawm... Then better explore... That's why I brought order of revelation. .after prescribing Siyam in verse 2:183 all Siyam verses revealed... And not before 2:183...
But the word Sawm in chapter 19 is revealed even well before the verse 2:183 revealed.... Coz chapter 19 was revealed as 44th sura and chapter 2 in which fasting was prescribed is revealed as 87th Sura....(2:196, 4:92, 5:89, 5:95, 58:04, 33:35 all these Siyam verses revealed after 2:183 but)That's order of revelation.... (Sawm in 19:26 was revealed well before all above verses and all verses are siyam but 19:26 is not siyam but Sawm) In my assumptions order of revelation is precise...
Sawm in 19:26 has no connection with Siyam in rest of the quran... Siyam is not Sawm...
Further Maryam didn't say Siyam... We don't vowe a Siyam for God... But we fast (Siyam) for ourselves for our own benefit and to become muttaqun and to get status which we don't know but God promises...
But Maryam vowed a Sawm for Arrahman.. That's the difference... When we vowe there is a commitment between us and God... Fasting is not a vowe at all...