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Author: | Index [ 05 Jun 2009, 18:35 ] | ||||||
Post subject: | Verses 18:6-8 | ||||||
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Author: | Linguistic [ 11 Oct 2010, 06:49 ] |
Post subject: | Re: Verses 18:6-8 |
Quote: {18:6} Then perhaps you would kill yourself through grief over them, [O Muhammad], if they do not believe in this message, [and] out of sorrow. I only want to translate the present participle as is, {18:6} Then perhaps you [, O Muhammad,] are killing yourself over them, that they do not believe in this message, out of sorrow. Quote: {18:8} And indeed, We will make that which is upon it [into] a barren ground. Again, I want to translate the present participle as is, {18:8} And, verily, We are making what is on it [into] a barren mound. Technically speaking, a present participle in English indicates an incomplete action, but in Arabic it indicates an upcoming action which may or may not have started. |
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