Muslims, answer me this.

[Kitsune633]

Who is Ar-Rahman? I found him while reading a online Quran and of found him in these verses.

Qur’an 67:28 “Say: ‘He is Ar-Rahman; in Him we believed, and in Him we have placed our trust: Soon will you know which one of us is in manifest error.’”

Qur’an 67:20 “Who is he that will send an army to assist you besides Ar-Rahman? The unbelievers are lost in delusion.”

Qur’an 55:1 “Ar-Rahman bestowed the Qur’an. He created man. He has taught man eloquent speech (and intelligence). The sun and moon are made punctual, following courses, they revolve to a computation.”

Qur’an 55:6 “Ar-Rahman created the herbs (or stars) and the trees all of which prostrate themselves.”

Qur’an 55:14 “He created man of fermented clay dried tinkling hard like earthen ware, and created jinn from the white-hot flame of fire. How many favors of your Lord will you both (men and jinn) deny?”

Qur’an 55:31 “Soon We [Ar-Rahman] will dispose of you by applying Our two armies. How many favors of your Lord will you both deny?” Qur’an 55:35 “There will be let loose on you white-hot flames of fire and smoke that chokes so that you will not be able to defend yourselves. How many favors of your Lord will you both deny?” [Ar-Rahman makes jinn out of the same material he will use to torture men. He intends to send his demons after us, and he considers torture a favor.]

Qur’an 55:41 “The sinners will be seized by their forelock and feet. This is the Hell the sinners called a lie. They will go round and round between its fierce fires and boiling water. Which of the favors of your Lord will you then deny?” Qur’an 55:46 “For him who lives in terror of his Lord [Ar-Rahman] are two Gardens.”

Qur’an 13:30 “They do not believe in Ar-Rahman. Tell them, ‘He is my Lord. There is no other Ilah (God) but He. In Him I have placed my trust.’”

Qur’an 13:38 “It was not for any Apostle to come up with a miracle or sign unless it was granted by Our permission. For every age there is a Book revealed. Ar-Rahman abrogates, blots out, or confirms (whatever He wants).”

Qur’an 20:90 “'O my people, you are being misled with this. Surely your Lord is Ar-Rahman. So follow me and obey my command.”

Qur’an 20:108 “Their voices will be hushed before Ar-Rahman. You will not hear a sound but faint shuffling. That day no intercession will matter other than his whom Ar-Rahman grants permission.”

Qur’an 21:25 “Not a messenger did We send before you but We revealed to him: La ilaha illa Ana (No gods but I), so worship Me.” [Incredibly, this assertion of a singular divinity is followed by:] Qur’an 21:26 “And yet they say: ‘Ar-Rahman has begotten a son.’ Too exalted his He.” [Most translations, trying to hide their god’s duplicity, mistranslate the passage:] “(Allah) Most Gracious has begotten offspring.” [Muslims have to deceive us to keep their god together.]

Qur’an 21:29 “If any of them should say, ‘I am an ilah (god) besides Him,’ such a one We should reward with Hell.”

Qur’an 21:36 “When the disbelievers see you (Muhammad), they treat you with ridicule, choosing you out for mockery: 'Is this he who mentions your gods? Yet they disbelieve at the mention of Ar-Rahman.”

Qur’an 21:41 “Mocked were messengers before you, but their scoffers were hemmed in by what they mocked. Say: ‘Who can protect you from (the wrath of) Ar-Rahman?’ Yet they turn away from the mention of their Lord. Have they alihah (gods) who can defend them against Our Torment?”

Ishaq:302
Tabari VII:60 “Umayyah [a merchant] was a friend of mine in Mecca. My name was Abd Amr, but when I became a Muslim I was called Abd al-Rahman. Umayyah used to meet me when we were in Mecca and would say, ‘Abd Amr, do you dislike the name your father gave you?’ I would reply, ‘Yes.’ Umayyah would then say, ‘I do not recognize Ar-Rahman [as a god], so adopt a name that I can call you by when we meet… Well then, you are Abd al-Ilah [Slave-to-the-God].’ I agreed.”

 

[famdigy]

Rahman is the transliteration of Arabic رحمن raḥmān. It is the elative of raḥim, based on the triconsonantal root ‘’. In Islam, the name الرحمن ar-Raḥmān’’, meaning “The Beneficent, The Most Merciful in Essence, The Compassionate, The Most Gracious” is considered most special of the 99 Names of God.

Rahman is the Arabic word for merciful. In Islamic context, Ar-Rahman has been interpreted as meaning most merciful, all-merciful, merciful by his very nature, beneficient, mercy giving and refers to Allah.

Source: Wikipedia

 

[Kitsune633]

Rahman is the transliteration of Arabic رحمن raḥmān. It is the elative of raḥim, based on the triconsonantal root ‘’. In Islam, the name الرحمن ar-Raḥmān’’, meaning “The Beneficent, The Most Merciful in Essence, The Compassionate, The Most Gracious” is considered most special of the 99 Names of God.

Rahman is the Arabic word for merciful. In Islamic context, Ar-Rahman has been interpreted as meaning most merciful, all-merciful, merciful by his very nature, beneficient, mercy giving and refers to Allah.

Source: Wikipedia

Thank you for the answer but another question has arisen as I read the verses. Who is this “We” mentioned in these verses? Is this “We” God/Allah?

 

[GaryTaylor]

13:30 States there are no other Gods?

I don’t get that? We already know through the History of the world, There are other Gods.

When the Pharohs of Egypt ruled they had Gods. Thoth comes to mind off the top of my head. All real.

Aside from that, the writting I don’t understand in the Quran is the story about the Prophet Muhammed. Sending two of his soldiers to kill a breadfeeding women. Ripped her limb from limb. “Asmaa Bint Marwan”

Then they report back to Muhammed and he makes reference to the Goats locking Horns.Which refers to the insignificance of this womans life?

Maybe I read this wrong, could you clarify?

 

[famdigy]

Thank you for the answer but another question has arisen as I read the verses. Who is this “We” mentioned in these verses? Is this “We” God/Allah?

Yes Allah (swt) uses the first person plural noun “we” for himself. It’s understood as a sign of greatness or magnificence, some call it the royal we. In many cultures around the world this same concept is applied to elders. For example, when speaking my native language I would never refer to my grandmother as “her” or “she”. I would always refer to her as “they” in the third person plural as a sign of respect. This is the cultural norm reflected in the language.

So in the Arabic language when Allah speaks about himself in the first person plural “we”. It’s understood as a sign of greatness.

 

[Kitsune633]

Yes Allah (swt) uses the first person plural noun “we” for himself. It’s understood as a sign of greatness or magnificence, some call it the royal we. In many cultures around the world this same concept is applied to elders. For example, when speaking my native language I would never refer to my grandmother as “her” or “she”. I would always refer to her as “they” in the third person plural as a sign of respect. This is the cultural norm reflected in the language.

So in the Arabic language when Allah speaks about himself in the first person plural “we”. It’s understood as a sign of greatness.

I see, but isn’t somehow this “We” that God is being associated with someone else. Shirk in your language, I still don’t understand how can God use “We” because it referes to more than 1 person.

 

[Sam_777]

Thank you for the answer but another question has arisen as I read the verses. Who is this “We” mentioned in these verses? Is this “We” God/Allah?

I see, but isn’t somehow this “We” that God is being associated with someone else. Shirk in your language, I still don’t understand how can God use “We” because it referes to more than 1 person.

Maybe Muslims & Jews will discover on the judgement day that “WE & US” is nothing but “GOD/GOD’s Word/GOD’s Spirit”:

(Genesis 1:26):
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

 

[GaryTaylor]

17:17 is the verse?

Would you say women have a clearly “equal” standing in society, and the world to men?

 

[Kitsune633]

Maybe Muslims & Jews will discover on the judgement day that “WE & US” is nothing but “GOD/GOD’s Word/GOD’s Spirit”:

(Genesis 1:26):
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

I see, but it’s confusing, The Quran mentions that there is one God while in some verses it uses “We”

Yes Allah (swt) uses the first person plural noun “we” for himself. It’s understood as a sign of greatness or magnificence, some call it the royal we. In many cultures around the world this same concept is applied to elders. For example, when speaking my native language I would never refer to my grandmother as “her” or “she”. I would always refer to her as “they” in the third person plural as a sign of respect. This is the cultural norm reflected in the language.

So in the Arabic language when Allah speaks about himself in the first person plural “we”. It’s understood as a sign of greatness.

So then in a sense, shirk is being said on the Quran for the use of
“We”?

 

[famdigy]

I see, but isn’t somehow this “We” that God is being associated with someone else. Shirk in your language, I still don’t understand how can God use “We” because it referes to more than 1 person.

I think it’s important to look at it in the context of the language it was revealed in and how it is understood by the people speaking that language. Some words as we understand them in English don’t necessarily mean the same thing in other languages.

“we” can mean more than 1 person, indicating quantity but it can also be used as a sign of greatness when referring to someone great.

Also, If you read the verse in isolation it may seem like is more than 1 god but Allah made it explicitly clear in many verses in the Quran that He is one “entity” He has no partners, children or wives and there is none like unto Him.

 

[famdigy]

I see, but it’s confusing, The Quran mentions that there is one God while in some verses it uses “We”

So then in a sense, shirk is being said on the Quran for the use of
“We”?

If a person believes that “we” used in the Quran when Allah speaks about himself indicates quantity i.e. more than 1, then yes that belief is considered shirk. Muslims don’t believe the “we” indicates quantity. Rather it indicates greatness.

 

[GaryTaylor]

Wow, how about this verse in the Quran…

“The adulter and the adulteress”…Flog each of them with 100 stripes. And do not let compassion for them move you.

I do not discern “any spirituallity” in this verse. Not a spec. When “any” faith manages to strip its believers of there last grain of compassion for another human being.Then it strips them of there spirituality as well.

Maybe something is lost in translation. Have a great day.

God Bless ALL PEOPLE.

GT