Recurrence: (1)2:78(2)
signifies the relation which subsists between the part and whole, a
subset of the Set, one group different from the other group of
constituent body. The masculine plural pronoun refers back to the
community under discussion, i.e. Jews-
is the large body of people of the community who collect themselves together to
rely upon the other segment. The information about other segment, a minority
group, is that they distort the Message of Allah the Exalted, write books with
their own thoughts and hands and tell this general body of people that it were
from Allah, the Exalted. This fact is unambiguously
made evident by disclosure of their adjectival trait in the immediately
following clause:
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Relative adjective Adjectives can also be made by adding iy(un) ـِيٌ (masculine) iyat(un) ـِيَةٌ after a noun. This is called the relative adjective ‘Ismu-a-nasbiyati اِسْمُ الْنِسْبَةِ.
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The Association of People distinguished for having not been given the Book of Allah prior to Grand Qur'aan.
The Grand Qur'aan was revealed
And,
you
the Messenger
[Sal'lallaa'hoalaih'wa'salam]
pose this question; for those people
who were given the Book, and also for those
people who were earlier not given the
Book, designated/associated as-
the Messenger who earlier to his appointment/declaration as the
Universal Messenger is
Be informed that, group of common people of them-Bani Iesraa'eel retains the peculiar trait of persistently not knowing/ascertaining and acquiring knowledge of the contents of the Revealed Book. They are, however, aware with regard to the Revealed Book only such wishful/hopeful fascinating hearsay/conjectural myths made popular and widespread in society. As such, they the common people, keep doing/knowing nothing except conjecturing/supposing/assuming the widespread/popular material as being from the Revealed Book. [2:78] ......................
This is an inverted nominal
sentence. The normal style is that Subject
[مبتدأ A prepositional or adverbial phrase can never be the subject of a nominal sentence. When these two entities appear in the beginning, a place reserved for the subject, they are in fact related to the predicate [comment-خبر]. Why this sentence is in the inverted order? The normal structuring of a nominal sentence may be inverted to achieve rhetorical benefit. There are a few situations in which inverting the structure is prohibited, and there are others in which inverting the structure actually becomes mandatory. One such mandatory situation is when the subject/topic to be talked about is purely indefinite and the predicate is a prepositional or adverbial phrase.
The aforementioned act cannot,
and is not done by the ordinary literate masses who constitute the major
part of the society. Would a rational and
intelligent reader construe this indefinite subject
The Root of this word is " ء م م". Lane's Lexicon, compiling many quotes from Classical Arabic Lexicons, states about it: [Quote] "It signifies the source, origin, foundation, or basis of a thing, or of anything; its stay, support, or efficient cause of subsistence. Anything to which other things are collected, or adjoined. The main or chief part of a thing; the main body thereof; and that which is a compriser, or comprehender of [other] things; the place of collection, or comprisal, or comprehension, of a thing, the place of combination thereof....And hence the head, or Chief, of a people, or company of men; because others collect themselves together to him." [unquote] A little attention to the context of discourse and the meanings of this Relative Adjective noun [الإسم المنسوب] quoted from Lane's Lexicon will quite vividly enable us to discard the unsubstantiated opinion of all those translators who give it the meanings of "illiterate, unlettered, uneducated, not capable of reading or writing any book".
The peculiar trait of
these
The
Relative Adjective indefinite Subject noun of preceding inverted nominal
sentence
This verbal sentence leaves no
room for any rational person, if he is not
slave to conjectural gossips, to let a
thought come to his mind that this is being talked about those persons
who cannot read or write a book It is not said that they
do not know a book
which could give leverage to someone to construe or guess that they are
illiterate people. "They do not know The
Book". If I say to you, "The majority of
Israelites do not know the contents of At-Toraat", would you presume
that I am suggesting or alleging that "the majority of Israelites
are illiterate, unlettered, uneducated, not knowing reading and writing
books". If not, and surely you will not
presume like this to expose yourself as thoughtless unintelligent, then
why should you accept translation of word
They are, however, aware with regard to the Revealed Book only such wishful/hopeful fascinating hearsay/conjectural myths made popular and widespread in society. This is restrictive-confining clause relating to the verbal sentence.
The lack of knowledge of the Revealed Book and their knowledge about it restricted to widespread conjectural fascinating hopeful and alluring statements perceived as the words of Allah the Exalted renders the general body of people in this state.
As such, they the common people, keep doing/knowing nothing except conjecturing/supposing/assuming the widespread/popular material as being from the Revealed Book.
And,
you
the Messenger
[Sal'lallaa'hoalaih'wa'salam]
pose this question; for those people
who were given the Book, and also for those
people who were earlier not given the
Book, designated/associated as-
Noun; Singular, definite; masculine; accusative. It is object of Passive Verb. It signifies, "The Book", the Book known both to speaker and the addresses.
This conduct of theirs is for reason that they said, "Some sort of censure-reproach-plea to allege is not incumbent upon us in the matter of dealings with Uemee'yien-the Gentiles, those who did not have the Book".
[The permanent Book has been sent] Lest you people might take the plea, saying; "The Book had been sent only upon two groups before us and the fact is that we were certainly unaware/ignorant of the act of their study therein". [6:156]
or lest you people take the plea claiming; "had it been so that the Book was sent upon us, we would have certainly been guided people better than those two groups [Jews and Christians]".
And We had not given them
[Bani
Iesma'eile- [Read with
28:46;32:03;34:44;36:06;62:02] and nor We had sent towards them before you [Muhamad Sal'lallaa'hoalaih'wa'salam] any revivalist/admonisher/awakener. [34:44]
Or had We given them a book for which reason they are on the manifest course given in that? [35:40]
He
the Exalted is the One
Who appointed within
the Community/Nation identified as
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quite picturesquely explains the concept and perception of it.
Relative Pronoun; Plural; masculine,
indeclinable, in
genitive state by reason of prefixed preposition.
This is a verbal sentence, in nominative state as the Predicate of
Verb-Like
Particle.
It is Perfect Verb Third person plural
masculine; [و]
Subject Pronoun; nominative state; مصدر قولٌ
Verbal Noun.
Deficient Verb: Perfect; third person; singular; masculine;
Prepositional Phrase: Separable Preposition +
Suffixed object pronoun: First person; plural. This phrase relates to
the fronted elided predicate of deficient verb
Prepositional
Phrase, relating to circumstantial state of the delayed subject noun. Separable Preposition,
denoting regarding the object
Noun:
Indefinite; Masculine; singular; nominative. This is noun of deficient
verb
