Nouman Ali Khan – Amazed By The Quran – Crime and Punishment

			Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato. Welcome to amused by the Quran a series in which I try to
share with you things I find incredible about the Quran.
		

			Today inshallah, continuing the conversation about different kinds of plurals a quick recap first in
Arabic, you can, you can have a regular plural. And then you can have a powerful plural. So they
have weaker and stronger plurals. We don't have that concept and English books is just books cars is
just cars. But in Arabic, you can have one word for a few cars, and yet another word for many cars,
they can actually do that in Arabic. Okay. Now this plays out in the Koran very interestingly, the
example I want to share with you today is about the assumption of some people from the Israelites
who believed that even if they ended up in the fire, that will not they will not end up there except
		

			for limited numbers of days. A Yama mount Duda, Yama, Medusa means just a few days, but actually in
one case in Bukhara Atlas has a mama Duda counted days or limited days. And in Anambra in the same
language comes up, but it's slightly different. A Yama model that Yama Duda in Baqarah. Yama do that
in an airline and they seem almost identical. But actually, from a language perspective, they're
different. The one in Bukhara, the one in the earlier Sula is actually a stronger plural. And the
one in Allium, Ron is actually it's yamamo and asylum, which basically suggests that it's a weaker
plural. In other words, in one passage, the Israelites are saying we're gonna say a few days, they
		

			may be a little more though. And in the other passage, they're saying, we're only going to save
very, very few days. So in other words, one face they said, it's not that few maybe maybe it'll be a
long weekend or something. So they're, they're worried about extra time, okay, and then the other
they're less worried. This is the power of Korans contextualization, what Allah does is there are
certain passages where certain things are highlighted more than others. So both on Iran and Bukhara.
They both talk about the people of the book, and they both highlight crimes that they've committed.
But if you compare them, the people of the look mentioned in Bukhara can commit far more crimes. And
		

			the list of crimes mentioned in earlier Milan is much, much shorter. The passage in which the crimes
are many, many more, when it came to concern about being in the fire, they said maybe it'll be a few
extra days, I think. So they needed a few extra. And the passage in which there's a few crimes
mentioned, they're actually more relieved and say, no, it's going to be just a few days, it's not
going to be that long. So Han Allah like, like captures just the subtlety in the plural. See, this
is not going to show up in translation, but just the subtlety between the morphology being used, the
Yama Buddha being used a Yama model that's being used as captured in the Quran. So, so perfectly
		

			Subhan Allah. So this is an inshallah, in the next couple of episodes, I'll just highlight these
kinds of subtleties of how Allah captures down to the word, exactly what needs to be described, and
what sentiment people have, because this is not just a matter of language now, it's actually also a
matter of psychology, somebody who's willing to admit that they're wrong.
		

			But if you make the if you elaborate what their crimes are, then maybe they're able to, they're
they're willing to go a step further say, okay, maybe it was a big deal.
		

			And if you don't elaborate it as much as like, Oh, come on, it's not so bad. I'm alright. You know,
like this. It didn't have to be said separately. This the psychological phenomenon didn't have to be
described separately. It was just embedded in two words and how they're transition from each other.
So hon Allah. May Allah azza wa jal give us the ability to reflect and benefit from the word from
his word barakallahu li walakum wa salaamu alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
		

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