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Imam Ibn Kathir brings the explanation of Ruh ul Allah (Spirt of Allaah) and ‘Word’:
(***And His Word, which He bestowed on Maryam and a spirit from [created by ] Him ***means, He said,
(***and His Word, which He bestowed on Maryam and a spirit from [created by ] Him ***Isa was not the word. Rather,Isa came to existence because of the word.’’ Al-Bukhari recorded that `Ubadah bin As-Samit said that the Prophet said,
He also says…
I did search the books best i can, i am a poor reader. Could not find a reference of what you claim.
This is a different claim than what Martha claimed, unless you are also claiming to be an Arab. If you mean the indigenous languages of Australia, there are indeed many (though less and less everyday, unfortunately; Australian languages are among the least documented, too), and it is highly unlikely that the Bible or any other non-indigenous book would be available in every language, to say nothing of the irrelevance of this idea as most of the languages remain unwritten. For many languages, including Australian indigenous languages, portions of the Bible have been translated, even if the whole thing has not. I don’t know a whole lot about Bible translation issues, but out of curiosity I went looking for some information and found this page that lists Bible translations for the entire world. I would take their information with a grain of salt, however; though it is interesting to look at, I question what they mean by “The Bible” when they say, for instance, that the Bible was first published in Arabic 1671. This is demonstrably false, as that is the first Arabic Bible published in Rome, while the Mt. Sinai Arabic codex (151), the first Arabic New Testament, is dated 867. I personally don’t know of any earlier than this, but that matters little, as most the Christians of the Near East had yet to switch from their native Syriac or other languages to Arabic until well after that (for the Maronites in particular, as late as the 13th to 16th centuries, depending on who you believe), so Arabic Bible translations would not have been as easily available or useful during the earliest days of Islam (remember, for example, the pact of Umar, wherein Christians were not allowed to adopt the Arab ways or convert anyone to Christianity?).
Oh what a long quote! ya your answer was good.
I didn’t give a new meaning. I wrote the real meaning.
You are typing like children. What are these things? I didn’t kill any one before and I’ll don’t kill some one after it. you are just mudslingerung and say many lies about me and other muslims. Islam never let us to kill non-sin people, But catholics killed muslim children, women and men in 1099 in Jurasli, and your books such as Epopee des croisades; Rene Grousset, confessed it.
Hold on everyon!!!.This is supposed to be a thread to enlighten ourselves about the other persons religion. Not a shoot out at the OK corral! The past sins of our ancestors was VERY wrong. We should try to remember that those who worship other religions are not all murderers. There are bad people in every walk of life. From every religion. Religions aren’t evil. People who choose to go against God’s teachings of tolerance and love are the bad ones here. Fanatics who pervert the meaning of religions are to blame for the Crusades against the Muslim and the people with the wrong mindset toward Islam who pervert it also are to blame for the Crusades. Not our present day friends in God. God may have many names, but to each person who worships him/her that is the God that will lead them to everlasting life and happiness . It doesn’t mean that that person’s view or name for God is incorrect, it just means that they have a different name for God.
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Of course, this is all true, so I am not sure what you mean. There were many, many Arab Christians before Islam, like the powerful Ghassanids and Lakhmids. They conceivably would have had Arabic translations of the Bible, but we can only be certain about the earliest copy that survived. I only made the comment that you quoted above to remind Steven John that many of the Christians that the Muslim Arabs would have encountered in their conquests were speakers of Syriac (or Coptic, or Meroe, or some other language), who didn’t speak Arabic as a daily language until many years after Islam came to their lands (this was the case with the Maronites). So this can help to explain why early Arabic translations of the Bible are hard to find, because most Christians would have spoken another language at first. Nothing in my post said anything about Arab Christians, only about Arabic-language Bible translations. You are new here, but if you read through my old posts you will see that I always defend Christians’ right to the word “Allah” because many Muslims want to say that we can’t use it, like the courts in Malaysia are saying now. Of course “Allah” predates Islam. Muslims always like to tell us about how Muhammad’s father’s name was Abdullah, and certainly we know that he did not follow the religion of Islam (because it didn’t exist before Muhammad).
I’m not sure what you are saying here.