Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Refuting mostmerciful.com: Prayers

This is a refutation to Akbarally's article entitled at "ALLAH REVEALS
11 DIVINE TESTIMONIES THAT DO MAKE CRYSTAL CLEAR HIS COMMANDMENTS FOR
~THE DAILY ESTABLISHED PRAYERS~

at www.mostmerciful.com/message-of-quran-with-eleven-quranic-testimonies.htm. The refutation is taken from an article posted on Sangkancilnet some years ago, entitled "There are more than 3 salats in the Quran" at www.malaysia.net/lists/sangkancil/2000-11/frm00058.html
Assalamualaikum,

Maybe a lot of people are wondering why i am
saying this. The reason is due to the ARABIC UNDERSTANDING of verses
related to SALAT and NUMBER OF SALATS mentioned in the Quran.

02:238
" Guard your solats dan the solat al wusta..."
(prayers) as-solati (and prayer of) al-wusta ( the
middle).....

1)The word used in this verse is AS SOLAWATI.
This word is the PLURAL or JAMAK form of the word
SOLAT. Jama' here indicates that number of salats is
THREE and ABOVE. Therefore the TOTAL NUMBER of salats
mentioned by ALLAH SWT is THREE AND ABOVE.

2) Then, the word AS SOLATUL WUSTA is attached to
AS SOLAWATI with a WAU ATFA. Since they both are ISM
MA'RIFAH, then AS SOLATUL WUSTA is NOT part of the
AS SOLAWAT mentioned.

Therefore, the number of SOLAT mentioned in 02:238 is
MINIMUM FOUR, thus far.

3) Since AL WUSTA means THE MIDDLE, then IF the
solat is four, the SOLAT AL WUSTA will not be IN THE
MIDDLE.

Therefore to make the SOLAT AL WUSTA to be WUSTA,
the number of solat would have to be MINIMUM FIVE
times.

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