Surat al-Kawthar:2 and more disasters

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), May 9, 2021 at 12:04

I do not have the time to provide you with more details today. However, I will provide you with reading material which I suspect that you will find it at any university library near you. The reading material will help you to decipher this strange Sura

> "Inna shaani'aka huwal abtar"

This can be rendered as: Truly Shan'ak is the one who is al-abtar (I'm not adding short vowels I'm only following the rasm)

The word Shan'ak has no clear meaning in Arabic ( "your hater" may be?) and al-Abtar means the one who is "cut" as in "no penis or testicles" and this is why al-mufasereen read the word al-kawthar as: River of "white water"! "Semen" may be? This is why some of al-mufasereen were horrified about the meaning of this chapter

So read the following:

1. Claude Gilliot: "On The Origin of the Informants of the Prophet" You will find an English translation in "The Hidden Origins of Islam" by Karl Ohling and Gred Puin pages 160-163

3. Christoph Luxenberg: Surat al-Kawthar pages pages 412-417 You will find it in Ibn Warraq's "Christmas in the Qur'an"

4. Read First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 5 Verses 8-9. You must read the Syriac text which you will find with an interlinear translation and English translation if you google it in "Peshitta Dukhrana" The Peshitta (Basita in Arabic) is the Aramaic/Syriac NT

Hint: This strange Sura is really an Arabized Syriac text of the Epistle

Knowledge of Arabic and Aramaic/Syriac would help so good luck

PS: Are you aware that Q 108:2 is another example of Iltifat that we discussed?

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