And your Arabic is wrong again and again

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Jun 29, 2008 at 13:08

Our dear Khaled wrote

>while in case of a few others the matter would be decided by Ijteha'd (consensus).

Really? Here is your lesson in Arabic for today:

1. The word consensus in Arabic means: Ijma3 (as in one of the four usul of the islamic law) (ref: root GM3 and for the word Ijma3 see page 136A in Hans Wehr dictionary) How come you did not know that?

2. The word Ijtihad (and what is this Ijteha'd of yours? You need to learn how to transliterate) means strive and it has nothing to do with the word ijma3 as you shall see below (ref: root JHD and see page 142B and 143A in Hans Wehr dictionary)

And here is your bonus for today (see hans Wehr pages 143-144):

1. The word Jihad means holy war and mujahid means holy fighter, and yujahid means he fights a holy war.

2. The word juhd means over exerting and majhud means he who over exerts himself, yijhad or he over exerts himself

3. the word ijtihad means striving to (also independent judgment of legal and theological question based on the 4 usul of islamic law), mujtahid means he who strives to improve, yajtahid means he strives to excell

You need to learn that in this blog we know our Arabic and any nonsense will be exposed and will not be appreciated. Also, it seems that you need to stick to Urdu our dear Khaled

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