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The linguistic excellence of Ayat Al Kursi Part 4

لاَ تَأْخُذُهُ سِنَةٌ وَلاَ نَوْمٌ  Neither drowsiness overtaken Him nor sleep The complete negation of drowsiness and sleep reflect the perfection of his attributes: الْحَيُّ الْقَيُّومُ   the ever-living, and the sustainer of the universe   Sleep is a form of death and if it exists then it would be a deficiency for Allah (swt) with regards to his attribute of the ever-living.  Sleep makes one heedless and unaware of what goes around them. If Allah (swt) slept, A’uthubillah, then who would be there to take care of all the affairs of the universe. There is verse in the bible which states But then the Lord awoke from his sleep ; he was like a warrior in a drunken rage [Psalms 78:65, The Bible] For Christians this becomes even more problematic because they say the God died for 3 days! Allah (swt) is far far dissociated from such attributes which the People of former Scriptures have invented against him.  لَّهُ مَا فِي السَّمَ...

The linguistic excellence of Ayat Al Kursi Part 3

لاَ تَأْخُذُهُ سِنَةٌ وَ لاَ نَوْمٌ Neither drowsiness overtaken Him nor sleep Both of the states of سِنَةٌ drowsiness and نَوْمٌ sleep are negated. The negation is made with the repetition of لاَ . It was possible to say it without the second لاَ i.e. لاَ تَأْخُذُهُ سِنَةٌ وَ نَوْمٌ so why was لاَ repeated. Let us take an example to illustrate the point further. If one was to say using one لاَ : مُحَمَّدٌ لاَ يَدْرُسُ الاقتصاد و الكيمياء Muhammad doesn’t study economics or chemistry The meaning of this statement is that Muhammad doesn’t study economics or chemistry together. So the negation is for both of them being studied together only . However it is possible that he is studying one of these subjects alone and if so the statement above would still hold true. If Muhammad was infact not studying either one then one would add a second لاَ مُحَمَّدٌ لاَ يَدْرُسُ الاقتصاد و لاَ الكيمياء So this would negate Muhammad studying economics or chemistry together or ei...

The linguistic excellence of Ayat Al Kursi Part 2

Let us begin the Analysis: اللّهُ لاَ إِلَـهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ Allah – There is no deity except him The verse starts off by with the oneness of Allah and the negation of any partners. This is the most fundamental belief of Islamic Monotheism.  What follows are two predicates [1] for Allah (swt): (1) الْحَيُّ – The Ever-Living   If one were to use this attributes for someone other than Allah (swt), we would say for example   الرَجُل حيٌّ The man is living. In this case the predicate حيٌّ is indefinite. All the names of Allah begin with   الْ with the meaning of “ The one known possessing the attribute in the most complete and perfect way..”. So الْحَيُّ is the one known who embodies the attribute of living in the most complete and perfect manner. Allah (swt) doesn’t die nor has he been in a state on non existence. We on the other hand can die and have come into existence from nothing and in fact we are not even in control of our own life which for some...