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Subject: do you believe Jesus died on a cross
trunking 9.04.21 - 11:50am
Still know the Arabic by heart lol * +
trunking 9.04.21 - 11:50am
So what exactly does ''Alif, Lam, Mim'' mean? * +
trunking 9.04.21 - 11:51am
I know ''Bismillah ar-Rahman al-Rahim''
In the Name of Allah, Most gracious, Most Merciful
I can say the 'ghhh' sound as it's used in the few languages here. * +
miaiad 11.04.21 - 01:24pm
This is really a good questions, even many Muslims have no/minimal idea about it.
Some Chapters in Quran stats with those isolated alphabetical letters, for example
(1) Alif, Laam, Meem.
(2) Alif, Laam, Raa.
(3) Kaaf, Haa, Yaa Aiin, Saad.
(4) Taa, Haa
(5) Haa, Meem.
etc..............................................
To save you time, looking at Tafsir books, many scholars have been researching the meaning of those letters since old ages.
Most agreed among scholars since old times are two possible interpretations
(1) Unknown meaning to us, that is only known to Almighty Allah.
(2) It is a way to present challenge to unbelievers. This opinion really makes sense. It is like following: Almighty Allah presents the building blocks of language (which is letters). Those building blocks are constructing this amazing Quran. Hence, the Quran challenge to all mankind is to bring some Chapters like those in Quran by giving them the tools/blocks they should use. Even most powerful poets in those ages till nowadays were using powerful language but still cannot even produce similar one verse like the Quran. This opinion makes sense because very often after such beginning of isolated letters, the next verse often talk about this Book/Quran being perfect or it is verily the words from Almighty Allah, that mankind will never produce a similar thing.
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There are some modern ways in Tafsir trying to make some meanings of the counts of letters in that Chapter, and they claim to be at multiples that have some meanings (numerical methods). Well,I don't feel such thing is trustworthy because they often put the result/conclusion beforehand of the reason and work hard to get things working. *
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