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 Post subject: Verses 18:1-5
PostPosted: 05 Jun 2009, 18:36 
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 Post subject: Re: Verses 18:1-5
PostPosted: 20 Jun 2009, 00:09 
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{18:1} [All] praise is [due] to God, who has sent down upon His Servant the Book and has not made therein any deviance.

The original doesn't say "made therein," it says "made thereto." The difference is that the former means there are no faults in it (which is also true) while the latter means there are no alterations to it. Indeed the Quran has been preserved intact just like God promised He will do in


I therefore suggest,
{18:1} Praise is to God, who sent down upon His worshiper the Book and has not subjected it to deviance.

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 Post subject: Re: Verses 18:1-5
PostPosted: 29 Jun 2009, 08:35 
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{18:1} Praise is to God, who sent down upon His worshiper the Book and has not subjected it to deviance.

Nice! Let me also note that you used "worshiper" instead of "servant" (which I believe had been chosen as a 'lighter' substitute for "slave" which is a valid translation of the Arabic word "abd"). The word abd has two separate meanings in Arabic (slave and worshiper). I maintain that only the "worshiper" meaning is intended when the Quran uses abd to describe the relation between man and God.

My reasoning is that the verb version of abd (which is abada and its conjugations) means "to worship" and is not used in Arabic to describe what a slave does towards his human master. The verb is used repeatedly in the Quran (describing what man does towards God which is worship), so I take this as evidence that when abd is used in the Quran to describe the relation between man and God, the intended meaning is "worshiper."

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