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Jan 22, 2011
Jan 18, 2011
The linguistic excellence of Ayat Al Kursi Part 3
لاَ تَأْخُذُهُ سِنَةٌ وَلاَ 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...
Jan 17, 2011
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...
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