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 Post subject: Verses 8:32-35
PostPosted: 06 Jun 2009, 08:50 
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 Post subject: Re: Verses 8:32-35
PostPosted: 28 Dec 2009, 04:08 
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I'd only change "punishment" to "torment" and "al-masjid al-Haram" to "the sacrosanct mosque."

The translation of أولياءه as "guardians" is pretty good.

So, I suggest,

{8:32} And [remember] as they said, "O God, if this should be the truth from You, then rain down upon us stones from the sky or bring us a painful torment!"

{8:33} But God would not torment them while you [, O Muhammad,] are among them, and God would not be tormenting them while they seek forgiveness.

{8:34} And why should God not torment them while they shun [people] from the Sacrosanct Mosque? And they were not its curators; its curators are but the watchful [of God], but most of them do not know.

{8:35} And their prayer at the House was not but whistling and clapping. So, taste the torment for you have been disbelieving.

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