Details of interpreting verses from the Qur'an and obvious blunders

psyah · August 12, 2012, 8:29am

Re: Details of interpreting verses from the Qur’an and obvious blunders

Peace psyah,
Sorry but you need education in Quran. You are making this mistake over and over. You do not see the interpretation that you make is going against the fundamentals of Quran, Islam and Shariyah.

If ‘Qad Khalat’ was the term you want to argue then I have given you 2 verses in which this term is used, and its used for people/nations** that have passed away**. There is no metaphorical meaning to it. Qad khalat does mean death/passing away in all of the verses of Quran. Show me any verse in which it is taken as metaphorically? Qad khalat term is used in both of the verses in which I’m arguing. 5:75 as well as 3:145. Are you taking passing away/death as metaphorically? if so, may I ask how ? any other verse you can provide in which it is meant metaphorically?** Also, how can you use death/passing away as metaphorically anyway ?**

Peace Mr.Popat

First of all … I think you do not know the difference between literal and metaphor … Secondly inshaAllah I will show you once again that “Qad Khalat” means what I said … “passing away” …

Now you use a metaphor for death all the time - it the phrase “passing away” - this phrase is itself metaphoric … !!! Literally “passing away” is “coming and the going” … The literal meaning of passing away if NOT death - that is the metaphoric meaning of “passing away” …

Now this is an English-to-English metaphor/literal exchange … but for some reason you are treating the phrase “passing away” as a literal synonym of “death” … it is not. Please get this right first.

Here is the reference from thesaurus.com

Main Entry: pass away [pas, pahs] Show IPA
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: die
Synonyms: bite the dust, buy the farm, cash in one’s chips,cease living, croak, decease, demise, depart, die,drop, expire, kick the bucket, meet one’s maker,pass on, perish, succumb
Antonyms: be born, live

Main Entry: disappear
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: vanish; cease
Synonyms: abandon, abscond, be done for, be gone, belost, be no more, be swallowed up, cease toexist, clear, come to naught, decamp,dematerialize, depart, die, die out, disperse,dissipate, dissolve, drop out of sight, ebb, end,end gradually, escape, evanesce, evanish,evaporate, exit, expire, fade, fade away, flee,fly, go, go south, leave, leave no trace, melt,melt away, pass, pass away , perish, recede,retire, retreat, sink, take flight, vacate,vamoose, wane, withdraw
Antonyms: appear, arrive, come in

Main Entry: elapse
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: go by; slip away
Synonyms: expire, flow, glide by, lapse, pass, pass away ,pass by, roll by, roll on, run out, transpire,vanish

Now let’s analyse the Qur’an to see how it uses the term “Qad Khalat” in the sense where it cannot mean death

Qad Khalat min qablikum sunanun - 3:137 … ways of life that have passed away

wa ..Qad Khalat min qablihimul muthalaat - 13:6 … yet have come to pass, before them, many exemplary punishments

SunnatAllahillati qad khalat fee 'abdihi - 40:85 … The Sunnat of Allah has been that with His Servants

Now in each of these verses the things that are doing the “passing away” are … A way of life, punishments, and a pattern of events

None of these thing can die … literally …