Amazed by the Quran - A Chance to Change
Nouman Ali Khan
Muslim Central
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🗓️ 27 September 2015
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This audio is brought to you by Muslimcentral.com. I'm going to come. |
| 0:16.0 | Sala, al-Icom. |
| 0:17.0 | What's a la Barakato, welcome back to Amazed by the Quran, a series in which I try to share with you what I find amazing about the Quran. |
| 0:23.0 | Today I want to start this conversation briefly with a description of the difference between |
| 0:27.2 | nouns and verbs. |
| 0:28.2 | That will help you appreciate the Ayat that I want to talk about. |
| 0:31.6 | So by definition, nouns like apple, tree, happiness, etc. Nouns don't have a tense. They're not |
| 0:37.8 | past or present or future. They're timeless in that sense. So rhetorically speaking, |
| 0:41.6 | a noun is considered timeless. |
| 0:44.4 | Verbs on the other hand have past tense or present tense or future tense, even the imperative |
| 0:48.4 | is in the present tense in the sense. |
| 0:50.5 | So tenses or verbs are temporary because they're not they are caged in time. |
| 0:56.1 | Okay, so nouns are timeless and verbs are caged in time. Now what happens in the Arabic language |
| 1:02.0 | interestingly is sometimes when you're saying talking about an act |
| 1:06.4 | You can actually use a noun or a verb and when you translate that into the English language when you translate it in the |
| 1:13.0 | Quran for example at an average translation we don't have that luxury in English so |
| 1:17.6 | we always translated as a verb right so you don't get to see that sometimes what we're |
| 1:22.2 | thinking is a verb was actually used as a noun in the Quran. |
| 1:27.0 | Because they're just exactly the same way that would be translated. |
| 1:30.0 | So for instance, not in the Quran but in regular Arabic |
| 1:32.8 | Ajliss I'm sitting. |
| 1:34.7 | Anajales I'm sitting. |
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