Re: Good/Beneficient (was: More Nyenya'a)
| From: | William Annis <annis@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 21, 2001, 2:34 |
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>From: David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>
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>In a message dated 10/20/01 7:07:52 PM, annis@BIOSTAT.WISC.EDU writes:
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><< Every sura of the Qur'aan but one starts with this. >>
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> Really? Which one? Is it more important than the others?
I should have known someone would ask this. My first guess
was that it was one of the wee ones at the end. I was wrong. It's
Surat al-baraa'at, "The Immunity," Sura 9. It's not very wee at all.
It is, however, taken not to be a real "chapter" so much as a lengthy
continuation of the previous chapter, at least according to Maulana
Muhammad Ali, the translator of my dual-language copy of the Qur'aan.
He has a lengthy dicussion on the difficulties of ar-rahmaan
and ar-raHiim, though, but I'm really not up to typing that out right
now. He may be responsible for the conventional English
translation of those, though... the first edition is 1917.
--
wm
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