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    Default Quranic Verbs: The dangers of Translation

    Some people learn the verb roots or verbal nouns and try to apply the meaning to all texts. This proves to be dangerous in different contexts, for example,

    1.the Arabic verb دخل <-> الدخول means to enter. This is the primary meaning of the word: eg
    أَمْ حَسِبْتُمْ أَن تَدْخُلُواْ الْجَنَّةَ وَلَمَّا يَأْتِكُم مَّثَلُ الَّذِينَ خَلَوْاْ مِن قَبْلِكُم
    2:214 Or do you think that you will enter Paradise while such [trial] has not yet come to you as came to those who passed on before you? .....


    But when this verb is used with the preposition ب , it means 'to have intercourse, to have relation' eg.
    حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمْ أُمَّهَاتُكُمْ وَبَنَاتُكُمْ وَأَخَوَاتُكُمْ وَعَمَّاتُكُمْ وَخَالاَتُكُمْ وَبَنَاتُ الأَخِ وَبَنَاتُ الأُخْتِ وَأُمَّهَاتُكُمُ اللاَّتِي أَرْضَعْنَكُمْ وَأَخَوَاتُكُم مِّنَ الرَّضَاعَةِ وَأُمَّهَاتُ نِسَآئِكُمْ وَرَبَائِبُكُمُ اللاَّتِي فِي حُجُورِكُم مِّن نِّسَآئِكُمُ اللاَّتِي دَخَلْتُم بِهِنَّ
    4:23 Prohibited for you are your mothers, your daughters, your sisters, your paternal aunts, your maternal aunts, daughters of brother, daughters of sister, your mothers who suckled you, your sisters through suckling, mothers of your wives and your step-daughters under your care who are born of your women with whom you have had intercourse, ..... (Tr. Mufti Taqi Usmani)


    Can we make a list of such verbs?
    Last edited by mfhaq77; 21-12-2010 at 03:10 PM.


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