Why I Am a Salafi. Michael Muhammad Knight
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Using the tafs
With its mention of a star, 53:1 at least offers the illusion of a universal, because there are such things as stars within my frame of reference. I can register the verse as though it’s speaking to me in my present, calling my attention to what I can directly observe. Of course, whatever meaning the word star conveys is a social construct and thus historically unstable. I live in an age that produces a particular knowledge about stars: When I look at a star, I cannot perceive it through the science and culture of seventh-century Mecca. Nonetheless, it’s easy enough to suspend this awareness and read star as signifying a self-evident, natural reality, as though every person throughout history who has ever looked up at the night sky has experienced these celestial phenomena in basically the same way. I have the luxury of pretending that to read the Qur’
With 53:2, however, the illusion collapses, and my reading hits the wall:
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(“Your companion has not strayed, nor has he erred.”)
Who is this person that the Qur’
Something gets lost in the translated your, because English has only one your, regardless of number or gender. When the Qur’