A3ozo bellah !! dont put words in my mouth, If me, the fluent Arabic speaker and a poet cant understand sometimes some verses in the Quran, how about you flores ?????
Don't worry about me, I'm more fluent than you in arabic. I had highschool Nahwe, (grammer), and an avid lover of arabic soap operas and arabic poetry.
Proud_Muslim said:
For example, the first surah in the quran, Al fatiha, if you read it, you might not understand this:
1-6. Guide us to the Straight Way, now, if you dont have tafsir, you might think straight way could mean many things, but in fact, it means, the way between hell and paradise, this sharp thin way in which people walk on in the day of judgment.....you see flores, you need tafsir to understand what this verse means..
No I don't, but you obviously need some Mullah to take your hand as you blindly go through the Quran.
I have a different interpretation to the straight way. And I think your tafsir is quite wrong. First, what is the properties of straight.
Straight is the shortest path:
Straight is the steepest path
Straight could be defined by two points, all it take to define a line.
Straight is uniform, clear, one way, ect.
First, let me refute your rediculous interpretation. Why would god want to guide us to a narrow line that separate hell and heaven? If anything, god should be guiding us to heaven, not a rope skimpy line. How do we obtain guidance. In our lives. So the way to heaven is in our lives, and the straight path is the sequencial decisions that we take in our lives to reach our destined end. Life is marked by birth and death, two points on line. It's a one way street. We need guidance in our life, the right decisions are always hard, steep, ect...So do you see how you have no clue what straight means?
Prophet Muhammed never offered a formal Tafseer, or we would have two books, the Quran, and what the Quran means....Very nice..huh?