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Dr. Christoph Heger  
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 More options Nov 7 1998, 3:00 am
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From: Christoph.He...@t-online.de (Dr. Christoph Heger)
Date: 1998/11/07
Subject: Re: Women's liberation through Islam
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Greetings to all,

At various occasions Mr. AbdulraHman Lomax <mar...@vom.com> questioned my
scholarship in Arabic linguistics with rather impertinent words. Therefore I
wonder why he himself is so incautious to present assertions which easily are to
be recognized as wrong.

In his contribution <71uklo$6b...@bolero.rahul.net> of 6 Nov 1998 Mr. Lomax
replied to what "sol_ar" <sol...@my-dejanews.com> had written:

>>Besides the beating, which is covered in the legal books as a possible cause
>>of accidental killing, why is the blood-money for a woman half of that for a
>>man? Is her life half the value of his?

Now Mr. Lomax:

>Secondly, it is offensive to translate the term used in the Qur'an and
>the books of fiqh as "beating." The word is a word which implies a
>single blow, with some implication that the blow is light, not a
>repeated series of intense blows as is implied by "beating."

>A "slap" is darb. A "beating" looks more like an intention to
>seriously harm,...

Whom do you hope to deceive besides yourself, Mr. Lomax?

In article <71r4in$oo...@bolero.rahul.net> of 4 Nov 1998 in the thread "Re:
Allah exists without a place" Mr. Lomax had written:

>my Arabic is that of a beginner, though my Qur'anic
>Arabic is better than what one might expect from that, since I have
>focused entirely on the Qur'an and not on colloquial or even other
>aspects of classical Arabic.

In this way the matter gets circular: The commentator/interpretor hasn't to
follow the rules of a language, but he derives the rules of that language from
the sense commentators/interpretators like to force upon the Qur'anic text. The
Qur'an itself, on the contrary, maintains that it is "in clear Arabic"
("bilisaanin Arabiyyin mubin") and not in any fancyful "Qur'anic Arabic".

But now, concerning "Daraba", "to beat" things get even worse. Now Mr. Lomax'
Arabic is an even more special one, an "Arabic for the purpose of apologetics".

The Arabic word "Daraba" (infinitive "Darb"), of course, does have the meaning
of "to beat". Mr. Lomax' other assertions also are wrong:

Firstly, "Daraba" is used in the sense of a single blow as well as in the sense
of "to beat repeatedly". The latter sense of repeated beating is especially
clear in phrases like "to swim in the water", "to mix one thing with another",
"to play a musical instrument" etc., which all involve the use of "Daraba" in
Arabic.

Secondly, "Daraba" by no means usually implies that the blow is light (the
famous "beating with a tooth-brush" of Islamic apologetics). On the contrary,
"Daraba" is used in phrases like "to coin a mint", and "Daraba `unuqahu" even
has the meaning of "he beheaded him", "he had him beheaded".

To sum up: The word "Daraba", "to beat" in the famous ayah, advicing the Muslim
husband how to deal with his "rebellious" wives (and a fortiori: slave girls),
by no means excludes any harmful beating. In reality it can amount to raping or
"accidental" killing. The familiar attitude of Muslim apolegetics -- "beating
only like with a tooth-brush" -- is nothing than a blatant lie.

Kind regards,
Christoph Heger


 
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