Reply to Infidel

Thursday, February 22, 2007
Reply to Infidel
Qur’an mentions Allah is the Lord of two Easts and two Wests
The verse of the Qur’an which refers to Allah being the Lord of two easts and two wests is the following verse from Surah Ar-Rahman:
"(He is) Lord of the two Easts and Lord of the two Wests:"[Al-Qur’an 55:17]
In the original Arabic script, the words east and west have been used in the dual form. It implies that Allah is the Lord of two easts and two wests.
The science of geography tells us that the sun rises from the east, but the point of sunrise keeps shifting throughout the year. Only on two days of the year known as ‘equinox’, does the sun rise exactly from due east. On the remaining days, it rises either from a little north or a little south of due east. During summer solstice the sun rises from one extreme of the east and during winter solstice it rises from the other extreme. Similarly, the sun sets in one extreme of the west in summer solstice. It sets in the other extreme of the west in winter solstice. This phenomenon can be easily seen in Bombay or any other city, by people living in certain areas, or in tall skyscraper buildings, from where the rising or setting of sun can be seen. They are able to notice that during the summer solstice the sun rises from one extreme of east and during winter solstice it rises from the other extreme of east. In short, through out the year, the sun keeps rising from different points of the east and sets on different points of the west. Thus when the Qur’an refers to Allah as the Lord of two easts and two wests, it means that Allah is the Lord of both the extremes of east and both the extremes of west.
Arabic language has two types of plurals. One is the dual plural i.e. the plural that implies the existence of two. The other is the plural for more than two, i.e. three and above. In Surah Rahman verse 17 the Arabic words used are mashriqaini and magribaini which are in dual plural and therefore imply two easts and two wests.
Consider the following verse of the Qur’an:"Now I do call to witness the Lord of all points in the East and the West."[Al-Qur’an 70:40]
The Arabic words for east and west used in this verse are mashaariqi and magharibi’ which are plurals that imply the existence of more than two.
We can thus conclude that the Qur’an refers to Allah being the Lord of all the points in the east and all the points of the west, as well as the Lord of both the extreme points of east and both the extreme points of west.
Islam is a strictly monotheistic religion. It believes in and adheres to uncompromising monotheism. It believes that God is one, and unique in His attributes. In the Qur’an, God often refers to Himself using the word ‘We’. But this does not mean that Islam believes in the existence of more than one God.
Two types of plural
In several languages, there are two types of plurals, one is a plural of numbers to refer to something that occurs in a quantity of more than one. The other plural is a plural of respect.
a. In the English language, the Queen of England refers to herself as ‘We’ instead of ‘I’. This is known as the ‘royal plural’.b. Rajiv Gandhi, the ex-Prime Minister of India used to say in Hindi "Hum dekhna chahte hain". "We want to see." ‘Hum’ means ‘We’ which is again a royal plural in Hindi.c. Similarly in Arabic, when Allah refers to Himself in the Qur’an, He often uses Arabic word 'Nahnu' meaning ‘We’. It does not indicate plural of number but plural of respect.
Tawheed or monotheism is one of the pillars of Islam. The existence and uniqueness of one and only one God is mentioned several times in the Qur’an. For instance in Surah Ikhlas, it says :
"Say He is Allah the One and Only."[Al-Qur’an 112: 1]
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WRONG Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:07:52 PM
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Infidel Thursday, February 22, 2007 8:29:06 PM
Dear TT,Again you copy-pasted from Dr Naik's site.On our earth, EAST and WEST are directions and not locations. When you say east, it is one direction, not two directions. Same with west, north and south.Moreover, when we refer to mid point of east and north we say, NORTH-EAST and similarly SOUTH-EAST. Certainly, quran is not saying north-east and south-east because the words used are plural of east and west and not for north-east and south-east.Do you see two easts and two wests?Also, how did you (rather Dr Naik) derive that two easts (directions) are two locations?Putting words in allah's mouth!!
Infidel Thursday, February 22, 2007 8:45:40 PM
Are Queen and Rajiv gods? NO. So they can do mistakes. But god cannot do mistakes, if he does he is not god. When we are talking about god, why you have to compare him with we human beings, sorry, it didn't work.The word WE or HUM is actually for more than one person (two or more, first person plural) and the word "I" is for first person singular. Whoever uses the word WE for a single person is voilating the grammer rules. Also, going by your analogy, Queen and Rajiv never used "I" fro themselves. Atleast they were consistent in thier grammer (though wrong) but allah is totally inconsistent, he says "I" in one place and "WE" in another place.Moreover, Writer of quran refers allah by many words such as "I", "WE", "HE", "ALLAH", and so on.Even if I have to consider that god is arrogant so he uses "WE" for himself, what about HE and ALLAH.DO you address yourself as HE or TT? You can address yourself as "I" (right one) or even WE (if you are so arrogant) but never "HE" or "TT".