Please, explain this Quran verse to me?

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Always bring your best game

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When you don't know the answer, do not ask the question

Be a good sport when it becomes clear that the opponents just kicked your a**

Never ever play out of your league

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You guys are getting more creative each day by turning the verses around to mean what you want it to mean, then saying "so it basically means this". That wasnt even the full verse...

Nowhere does it say anything about owning women slaves, it says "And those whom thy right hand possesses out of the captives of war whom Allah has assigned thee" but you didnt include this part. At his time many men were dying in war and left women as widows and unable to support themselves for survival. The reason why Muhammad saws had so many wives (Allah gave him the exception of more than 4) was because he married these widowed women to support and provide for them. Plus those women who were held as captives (as in prisoners during war, not his personal slaves!). It also mentions that he could only marry Muslim women and his female cousins that performed the Hijrat with him, unlike for what applies to other men who can marry any female cousin and even non-Muslim women (People of the book - Jew, Christian, or Muslim). Obviously if a woman was to marry the Prophet and teach the holy message she needs to be a Muslim.

The spirituality of the verse is believing that Allah provides a path for us in marraige that is made easy to follow with His guidance. Everything is about obeying Allah and His intellegence with trust. Marraige isnt just an important relationship for our physical life, but our moral and spiritual life as well. Linguistic miracle - like we always say, each word is from Allah. And He is indeed the Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful...if that is not holy enough then i dont know what is.

Hope that helped~

Tell me what you think of this explanation:

http://alislam.org/quran/tafseer/?page=860%C2%AEio...

Also, the connotation in the verse is of marriage so Allah tells Muhammad (saw) that slaves are allowed for marriage. Note that it first says wives to whom dues or dowries are paid; w/ slaves it is not mentioned b/c their freedom is their dowry as is their increase in status in society. If you do read the above link commentary on the verse, you'll have read about Maria (ra) who was a slave given to Muhammad (saw); he didn't keep her as a sex slave though but as per this verse, he married her.

It was a strong blow to slavery b/c he was the head of a religion and head of a state which in secular society means he has high status and should only marry people of high status but that does not matter in Islam and him marrying a slave makes a brilliant example to follow contrary to the previous tradition of sexual slavery. Having just wrote this, I also just realized that considering his status, him marrying the women he did was illogical from a secular point of view and in that lies the spirituality of the verse.

The verse basically tells him to marry humbly and w/o prejudice and of course morally too so that is why after the two types of people mentioned for marriage, the people allowed for marriage are also listed. It describes the duties of our founder and the examples he set.

I hope this addresses your question.

1. Linguistic miracles are to be sought in the language of the source, not by resorting to a translation.

2. It is not targetted specifically at the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his posterity), but it is communicating societal norms of marriage through him.

3. It outlines the basic theme of Islam: there are so many things permissible for your convenience, so why go outside the limits and chase after those forbidden.

4. It establishes grounds for permissible and forbidden and then reminds us of the duties and rights.

I'm not a Muslim, but check out Matthew 15:26 and Mark 7:27 where Jesus does the same. Just for fun, look up Matthew 7:1

Yes surah 33 Al Ahzab verse 50 is the talking of Allah swt to Muhammad pbuh as soecial authorities regarding women and marriage and who are mahrams and no mahrams who can be married.This verse talk about halal and haram women to be married by the rasool. and the obligation to give dowry.

Allah informs us that this authorities are given only to the rasool and it is not given to his followers.

Rasool will free the slaves by marrying them.

Muslim understands better with faith than those who read it without a faith. That is how you can't feel some holiness. It will always begin with faith to understand. When you use malicious intend to interpret a sentence you can only get what you want it to be meant.

Do we have to explain this over and over again? Every words could be translated according to your needs. So now you are asking a question about the difference view point.

Take some psychological classes and you will not waste your time asking stupid question. I am preaching you about how to approach an issue with an open mind. Open mind see wider view instead from your one single angle of view. We do not owe you any explanation, do you understands this? And you have no authority to question our. See the stupidity?

Well you will only really appreciate the linguistic technique of the Curran in it's Arabic form as a translation doesn't capture the literary Essenes of it. It's a work of art in the Arabic language.

EDIT: do you understand Arabic thoroughly?

Like lets take shakespear for example, his work is seen in the English world to be a work of literary art. Now translate those poems into Spanish, you'llll get a loosely translated poem...not as appreciated as in it's original language.