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It would be much better if you could ADD something positive to the line of his statement, instead of posting immediately a contrary thread, and inseminating more confusion, AGAIN!
By the way, it is not true that your Arab-speaking folk doesn't consider Aidid's work credible!
Examples:
EDIP (the guy who invented a long finger to Eurropeans) :
"Aidid asserts that SaLLY means not prayer, but commitment. There is some truth in this statement. The word SaLLY, when it is not used together with the verb IQaMa, usually means support and encouragement. For instance, I translated the verse 74:43 in my Turkish translation, Mesaj: ?They will say: ?We did not support??. Similarly I translated the verse 75:31 in Mesaj: ?He neither accepted the truth, nor he supported.? I also translated the word Salla to mean support in verses 2:157; 9:99,103; and 33:43,56. Furthermore, I agree with Aidid that in verse 5:106 the word Salla may not mean the salaat ritual."
"MH":
Again Edip's 'rebutal' text, well i think that his argument regarding salat as ritual has no SUPPORT in the Book. Can he point clearly to the detailed ritual in the Book. He mentions the ablution, can ablution as a 'way-in' to the 'ritual' salat be more important of the ritual itself and that the ritual does not desrve that detailed descreption as its ablution?
He accepts that the word has the meaning of support but whe it is has 'aqim' it becomes a ritual!? CAn he say WHY?
The word 'aqim' simply means maintain, uphold, establish..etc. What is the basis in teh Book for such a claim that if there is maintain, uphold, or establish then it is a ritual?"
(I left bad English, and orthographic errors there, as it is)
So, I am quite fed up with endless discussions on this Forum about the meanings of Arab words...
If God wanted THAT result, for Arabs to brainwash themselves, and the rest of humanity with no idea of Arabic language to get only wrong translations and bad press, than that God is a provincial backward low-class moron with self-inflated ego and a power complex! In short, an idiot...
And, by the way, did you watch the video actually?
