Old Quranic disasters revisited

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Nov 14, 2012 at 14:28

It seems that our dear Amin cannot read al-Tabari for himself and if he would have taken the time from running his imaginary business "Brand Agency" what ever that is he would have found that al-Tabari is indeed telling us that the word al-raheem as in fa3eel in this case is a strange construct and he believes it should be الرِّاحِم and not the very strange الرحيم. It is not me who is saying that it is al-Tabari that is saying that

But you know what? This word must be from Syriac ܪܚܝܡܐ

And you know what? Muslims did not even get the meaning of this rahman wa raheem (and he ain't either one and you will find it in the Qur'an in 5:54 where Allah is supposed to be the loving and the beloved

What a disaster

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