Bruce Lawrence - Language of the Qur'an 

Rahman is a mercy that encompasses all things, Raheem is a mercy that is everlasting. Very beauitful.

I’m a translator and native in both Arabic and English In order to translate the names of Allah you need to learn Tawheed and practice it while translating ; because the names of Allah are absolute attributes . When you say full of compassion you don’t apply tawheed rules; absolutism of Allah requires for each attribute to be the greatest. Full of… can still be subjective (a kid full of joy; a mother full of mercy etc…) But when you say The most merciful, the most compassionate it becomes an absolute attribute above all comparison

Im a convert from Denmark who studies arabic, and it is pretty neat seeing another white man being able to speak arabic like that and he isnt even a muslim. This professor is just so cool what a nice man. May Allah guide him to Islam.

I'd like to suggest for everyone to read an article that was published very recently by Sapience Institute titled "Produce One Chapter Like It”: The Miraculous Inimitability of the Qur’ān’s Shortest Chapter", it's one of the best I've read on this topic, structure and support are very well put.

I was blessed by this as a student of Arabic--and now reading the Quran in Arabic and English. Just finished The Cow.

Very nice and informative, as an Arabic speaker, I learned something new today

Mashaa Allah very explicitly done thanks for sharing this video

this is so deep....no such casual flippancy in translating the Divine Word. Dr Lawrence is an impressive polyglot. May he receive tauhid

Mashaa Allah very interesting, even though I am not good in understanding the Arabic linguistic but I amazed with the video 💕💕👍👍

Beautifully explained

Respected Prof. Bruce Lawrence, Duke University. Hope your good self would be practicing Islam side by side with teaching the same at your Almameter. That way it would be pleasing Rehman and Rahim, the Allah. May Allah bless the whole human kind. With regards.

So so beautiful, it really struck me! Thank you for sharing it with us

He missed the whole point.. Rehman and Raheem are two Divin attributes related to the human nourishment and sustenance but with different time scales. Rehm root means just like the womb of a mother the system put fwd by the Quran if acted will meet all the needs of human beings i.e. both physical and of the self.. needs of the psyche. Read the book What is Islam? By G A Parwez..

The depth and the scope of Quranic use of arabic words is so wide that no other language can portray all the meanings. Beside the literal root of the word it's diverse( other meanings) obtained form contextual position in full or partial sentences widens the depth and scope Quran uses for a single word.

Beautiful and very well thought. Thank you!

Thank you for sharing a beautiful anecdote & bringing focus on God's attribute of compassion - it's sufficient for meditation! Peace

بارك الله

جزاك الله خيرا

I liked bruce lawrence's one. 'Full of compassion and ever compassionate' it's better :)

Ar-Rahman: The Most Merciful Allamal qur-aan: Taught the Quran, Khalaqal insaan: Created man, Allamahul bayaan: Taught him eloquence,

Compassionate is better translated as "الرؤوف" Ar-Ra'uf which is another name of Allah mentioned multiple times in the Quran. Rahman and Rahum must have some relation to mercy, because that's the original meaning.

Great scholar 🙏

Well done i have enjoyed watching it

Wow I’m blown away

we love i brother nice explanation May Allah bless u and keep teaching

It complets the number 114. It is in Surat Alnaml انه من.سليمان وانه بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم . Therefore the number is complete. 114 ÷ 19 = 6 بسم الله الرحمن الرحي has 19 letters.

جميل، ولكن توجد مشكلة جوهرية لم أجد من يتنبه إليها عند مناقشة اسم الرحمن في الترجمة قديمًا وحديثًا، بل من يتناول اسم الرحمن يأتي بالمسألة مقلوبة كما فعل المتحدث في هذا الفيديو، بل إنه شطَّ أيضًا في اشتقاق الرحمن وعلاقته بالرحم حتى أنه قال إنهما كانا يتناقشان في كيفية إدخال معنى الرحم في الترجمة. والمشكلة هي أنه ثبت في صحيح ابن حبان تحقيق الأرناؤوطي، وفي صحيح الترمذي للألباني، قول الله تعالى في الحديث القدسي عن عبد الرحمن بن عوف: "قال اللهُ تبارَك وتعالى: أنا الرَّحمنُ خلَقْتُ الرَّحِمَ وشقَقْتُ لها اسمًا مِن اسمي"، وكذا "قالَ اللَّهُ : أَنا الرَّحمنُ وَهيَ الرَّحمُ ، شَقَقتُ لَها اسمًا منَ اسمي". والنص واضح في أن كلمة الرحمن ليست مشتقة من (رحم) بل الرحم مشتقة من الرحمن. وهذا عجيب في اللغة؛ لأن العادة أن يكون الاشتقاق من جذر أقل حروفًا. ولكن هذا الحديث يقول بمنتهى الوضوح "شقَقْتُ لها اسمًا مِن اسمي" فالرحمن سابق للرحم. وهذا معقول من باب أن الرحمن سابق للخلق من ناحية، ومقبول في اللغة إذا كان القصد وجود الجذر (ر ح م) لأن صفات الله وكلامه ليسا حادثين. أما ما يناقشه اللغويون والمترجمون -كما في هذا الفيديو- هو الاعتقاد بسبق الرحم للرحمن، ومن ثم المحاولة للعثور على كلمة تشتمل على هذا المعنى تتفق مع صفات الله وجلاله، وهذا ما لا يجدونه في غير العربية، ولذا فإنهم ينتهون إلى نبذ فكرة الرحم والعودة إلى فكرة الرحمة؛ دون أن ينتبهوا إلى سبب الفشل، فيعلقونه على عدم وجود لفظة في اللغة المترجم إليها تضم هذا المعنى، والحقيقة غير ذلك كما أوضحت في أن الرحم وفق الحديث مشتقة من الرحمن وليس العكس. ولذلك نجد جمعًا من أهل العلم يقولون إن الرحمن اسم غير مشتق، يعني حتى ليس مشتقًا من رحم، وإن كان معناه ذو الرحمة الشاملة التي تسع المؤمن والكافر، وهو المنعم بجلائل النعم. والرحيم أي ذو الرحمة الخاصة للمؤمنين فقط، وهو المنعم بدقائق النعم. ولا رحمن إلا الله، أما رحيم فيكون بين الخلق من هو رحيم، ولذلك لم يكتف بواحدة منهما عن الأخرى، ولا رحمن رحيم إلا الله. والله أعلى وأعلم.

Vry knowledgeable scholar..

Learn Arabic and read the coran . I've learned English by my self .

It seems to be impossible to accurately translate a whole book especially a religious book into another language but why not try? After all we have our roundabout ways of defining things that cannot be defined while translating. Besides this issue of translating word to word or sentence to sentence lies another complicated problem of understanding the mood or ontology of each sentence. That is probably the most puzzling one.

May Allah guid him to the right path.

In translating from Arabic is it necessary to be sensitive to social development as it might affect the vocabulary? Bible scholars translating from the Greek must often be aware of subtle shifts of meaning over the centuries. Should modern scholars of the Quran likewise consider this? Thoughts?

Rehman is who Allah is Raheem is what Allah 'does'

تفهم القرآن الكريم بقدر ادراكك وليست اللغة مهمة والله تعالى يتحدى العرب أن القرآن الكريم نزل بلغتهم فلماذا لايتعقلون ويتفكرون به

This is amazing, God bless

Which one of THE LORDS FAVOURS can you DENY?????

I salute you, sir.

Surah Fajr, Duhah, Inshirah, Saff. I like

Why don’t you translate the opening paragraph of the Quran surs’s(chapters). It might make it easy for Westerners to appreciate what you are about to explore?

Alhamdulillah... i spent sometime to understanding Arrahmaan n Arraheem... i understood the same... Mercy is tough but execution of Mercy is toughet... ultimately mercy n merciful is Allah alone... I can feel mercy for a guy struggling with hunger... but feeding his being merciful.... execution...

In the name of Allah the all merciful the exceptionally merciful

Arrahman (Ruller/Sustainer of the entire Creation) (الرحمن على العرش استوي ) Surah 20/Ayat 5 HE presides on the throne. Arraheem persistent Mercy(Full) on the believers.

The Arabic-translated Quran in any other language can never do justice.

In the end, obedience to God does not need translation. Whatever your conscience dictates to you, and whatever your heart and mind rest in is God’s way. Perhaps life is not rosy, but you can differentiate between doing good and evil in the end

MashaAllah

My assertiveness in this subject is, suppose you or someone else solved the meaning of these two words. How the solution or understanding of these terms are going to benefit the collective human society? My take is that, We will kill more, we will steal more, we will destroy our environment even more. I suggest, Instead of wasting your lives away by keep talking about God, how about having genuine respect, love and a helping hand for each other. These can be understood and implemented easily, immediately and requires no PHD nor an special wardrobe to impress others to love and be loved back. To respect and respected back. Is that too much to ask from extraordinary and just ordinary human beings to do? Just leave God alone.

Has Dr. Lawrence declared his personal statement of faith-the Shahada?

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If you can simplify Allah into the word god, all merciful, all compassionate is sufficiently right

cool video

Rehman and Rahim are actually 2 of the names out of 99 others.

May Allah reward you ameen.May Allah forgive and accept us ameen.

In the Name of Allah the Omnibenevolent, the most benevolent. its not that hard

Alhamdullallah

The reason why there is only 113 is because the 114 appear in Surah the Ant and this Basmallah was use by the Prophet Sulaymaan.

There is no doubt Islam will cover the whole Europe in recent time like a blaket.

Thank you for the trial . However, you can NOT translate the name of Allah into God, then you're making the same mistake done by early translators of the Bible from Aramaic to Greek. You don't translate Muhammad into The Praised One, right?

Ar Rahman Ar Roheem The All Merciful the Ever Compassionate. Noun and Adjective. InnallAAHu Ta'Ala Musta'an WaAllahil Azdheem

The classical scholars of Quranic exegesis dealt with this over 1000 years ago and trying to translate the Quran bypassing them is not only rude and bad manners but very offensive! Rahman means the generally compassionate that is compassionate to all of creation including humans Muslims and non Muslims! Raheem is the especially compassionate to the believers! To the Muslims who believe in him! This is what they mean!

Brother, you are clearly more knowledgeable than me and idk if your mispronouncing it but it is "BeecMeelLahh"

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Rahman is understood as compassion to all creatures, he created in the physical world. He provides abilities, food, means whether his creatures acknowledges Allah as the way he wants it or not. Rahim is the compassion which will be given to all true belivers after life. The non believers will not get Allah compassion anymore and will be in Hell.

Anybody know if this translation is published and by whom??

3:37 3:40 anne Khadija tranlared with her husband both are scholars each having one mother tongue. Then produced 2000 topics and 14000+ words concordance and he recorded all available in Muhammad site

Allahuakbr

Im still want to know the meaning of Ar-Rahman and Ar-Rahim. Why always mentioned in the 1st chapters except attawbah

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Not Woman like. The womb shelters, nurtures and protects.

That's interesting. I'm sure the Qur'an is very eloquent but let's not forget that a person would struggle to translate the lord of the rings or gormenghast into Arabic or another language too. If you manage to capture one aspect of the original you miss another aspect and so on. It doesn't mean any of these books are divine just because it's a challenge to translate them perfectly.

الحمدلله

To be honest, i am not even able to watch this kind of videos. You want to learn about quran, just learn arabic. Till nowadays, even arabic native speakers and linguistics are still explaining it...this being said, ill save the video for later.

Thanks ALLAH and Thank you. I mean JazakALLAH.

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With all due respect doctor the word "Al rahman" in the Basmalah followed by the word Al raheem isn't what you've mentions but your almost alluded to it thu. Al Rahman is rhymes with "Fa3lan" such as " 3atshan" and the opposite to 3atshan is "Rayyan" in other words this word Al Rahman is one of the words which could mean two things . One thing and its opposite... There are TWO verses in the "Quran" in which the " Al rahman" is the one who punishes..... " Athab al Rahman and of course there is the opposite to the punishment . So the this make the word at the very end Al Raheem is the word which confirms that God / Al Rahman is the who more merciful... Dr. Mohamed Shahroor is the only man who was able to make REAL sense out of what's in the Mushaf ..... And throw away the excess baggage of what is perceived to be of Islam/ Iman. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9MfFA3hXiAE.html Thanks

Fascinating!

Do we know if Dr Bruce Lawrence is a Muslim?

Surah al twabah without bismillah

There are is plenty of Muslim Research and Knowledge already done, should of just gotten in touch with an Arab scholar.

wow.. just awesome

If you take a tour of Mecca today (I'm from there) and talk to its inhabitants in the language of the Quran, no one will understand what you are saying. It's a completely different language , we always need translation (tafseer) books. I find that really strange.

So soon as I see the phrase "the language of the Qur'an", there is this thing in my mind: Classical Arabic, spoken by the Quraysh. In Indonesia, Classical Arabic is the first foreign language taught to Indonesian children, and not English. Indonesians in general study the phonetics of Classical Arabic when entering the elementary school at the age of 7. However, Indonesians focus on the Arabic speech sounds, and seldom the meaning.

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It’s untranslatable. It’sa name . Should be left untranslated. Explanation of the word in margins.

Let’s see what Jesus the son of Mary peace be upon him will say about himself in the Holy Bible? In Mark 13-32 but about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the son, but only the Father, Matthew 7-22:23 Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and your name perform many miracles. Then I will tell them plainly, I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers. In John 17:3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent In Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one In Matthew 21:11 and the multitudes said, this is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee. In Numbers 23-19 God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind, Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? In Luke 18:18:19 A certain ruler asked him, Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life, why do you call me good, Jesus answered. No one is good except God alone. In Matthew 19-:16:17 Why do you ask me about what is good. Jesus replied. There’s only one who is good and that’s God In Mark 10:18 do not call me good no one is good except God In Mark 10:18 Jesus said do not call me good no one is good except God In John 8:28 I do nothing of myself but, as the Father taught me. In John 5:30 Jesus said I can of myself do nothing. In John 8:28 Jesus said I do nothing of myself but, as the Father taught me. In Matthew 26:39 and Jesus forward a little and fell on his face and prayed saying my Father if it be possible, let this cup pass away from me In Exodus 20-4 You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

Alien Theater simmitic languages cannot be 100% translated alles weapons have a 3000 Pages. Just Theater near meaning oft it 😊

Bahasa Al-Qur'an iya bahasa arab.. cuma konteks arab Qur'an. Beda dengan konteks arab kebahasaan

trying to translate quran through empirical scientific lens has its drawbacks

Jesus replied to them, “I am the Bread of Life. The one who comes to Me will never be hungry, and the one who believes in Me [as Savior] will never be thirsty [for that one will be sustained spiritually]. John 6:35 AMP

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Raheem means compassionate and Rehman means Merciful. So it's like this. I start with the name of Allah who is the most merciful and compassionate.

Mind you the first verses revealed to the prophet pbuh were read in the name of your lord... Full of majesty and dominance embodied by the male. But what God wanted the future audience to is the all compassionate ever compassionate, characteristic of the female. Balancing the gender neutrality of our creator.

Modern Arabic language was driven from nabatians language ( mixed of Seyric, Aromic,hajaji and Kufi ) having only 14 Alphabets . Aiyats of Quran were engraved on stone's, clothes, leather pages ( palamset) in Nabatians language/ Hajaji . In 7th century new language kufi Arabic was evolved. Sanna manuscript in yeman found in 1972 ,few translated copies from hajaji ( Nabatians) language were also found. Modern Arabic language in whuch Quran is written presently was completely developed in 8th century onwards only. Not before 8th century.

I like when nonarabs experting arabic language😂

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This person has just learned it for political reasons.

Man you are so far from knowledge.....you don't know what you are talking about..... I suggest you go study .....more and seriousĺy ..... First....you need to know ..what is " QURAN ".....because it not the book you holding between your hand .....QURAN is the revelation of ALLAH to his messenger MOHAMED صلى الله عليه و سلم...it called QURAN..the root قرأ...which means "recite"...the book you holding on called "mushaf"... Second....the english language can not replace the arabic language because the lack of words in it ...arabic language contains 12 millions word in it ...infront 300.000 words in english.....so many words has no translation in english... If you use a word with close meaning it is ok... but if you are translating regular text ...but with words of ALLAH ....you becarefull....meanings are so very delicate and precise....you don't say anything and move on....for example "ALAAH " ...has no translation in english....because it has a very precise meaning ...which is " the one who is worshiped " .....GOD in arabic is " رب"...."RAB "....WHICH meanse the creator...and those two meanings are so defferent from each other...... Last.....you can not translate any word from the QURAN...only by language meanings....you need to be carefull of the tafsseer which is another science studiying the meanings of the QURAN.....and that is another story ... And you need to know that البسملة ...BASMALLAH...it is not part from the QURAN ...in the oppinion of some islamic scholars.....means it is not ayat...it just "ذكر "...thikr ...to separate the chaptres....surats... Man you lack of so many many informations of arabic , islam , and QIRAN

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You can get bugged down in translating any text as much as you want, but atrocities and crimes committed based on Koranic texts are self evident. And they happen in this day and age!