“THE WORDS OF GOD”
To
pronounce words we use our mouth, tongue and vocal cords to make sound. God is
above all these human organs. God does not speak through words or scripts. God’s
language is through signs, frequencies and vibrations which cannot be heard
through external ears but felt, experienced and revealed upon the sensing heart.
To
confine the every-living message of God in words, books, stone tablets, leafs
or in pages is an act of blasphemy. The message of God or the presence of God
is everywhere (2:115); we just need to have conscious vision to grasp
its essence (6:103-104).
There
are no favorite or sacred languages of God. Aramaic, Classical Arabic, Biblical
Hebrew, Sanskrit, Classical Chinese are local languages of the people of those
times. God’s language is universal. God is above genders and languages. We
laymen use genders and various languages to describe God; a phenomenal Energy
which cannot be inferred only by our five senses.
We
fight over linguistics, grammar, pronunciations to understand the message of
God, but sadly God cannot be found by mere five senses. We ignore heart, mind
and other cognitive abilities.
In
Quranic terms the communication of God is always through an inspiration (wahi) revealed
(nazil) upon thinking individuals in their own mother tongue or
universally understood language without linguistic skills (arbiyan). Man
chooses language just as medium to convey the message he received from his own
conscience and consciousness. In Quranic term such knowledge or guidance is
called ilmi laduni in Islamic terminology (18:65) (20:99). Readers
can also refer verses 3:8, 3:38, and 27:7. This guidance / knowledge is
not dependent on references from books but direct without any intermediaries.
God
does not have any specific sacred language. Books are not written by God. The
message is directly inspired by God; written, read and studied by men.
The
emergences of all languages are result of human necessity to communicate with
other human beings. To understand the inspired message it must be written by
scribes. And moreover we must also have thorough understanding of those old
languages and their style of constructing a narrative.
We
cannot understand old Arabic vocabularies with the help of Modern Standard Arabic
Dictionaries.
God's
words are not language based, they are signs (ayaats) revealed
to chosen ones who makes an effort to think out of box. These inspired signs
are later written by those who know how to write.
Having
said that, only knowing the roots of the language is not sufficient we need to
understand the position / sequence of the context too. Context is the King
while deciding the root of the word during the translation of any old
scripture.
Silence
is the language of God, inspired men convert it in the speech of their
community. If we need to understand God's word we need to understand the
written script of those times. God does not speak in words.
QURANIC ARABIC IS A ROOT WORD LANGUAGE.
Roots
are important part of etymology to infer the depth of meaning of the words.
The
Quranic language is in old Arabic therefore it is not easy to find roots of
some words, but once the root is found it becomes more easy to deduce and reach
the essence of the meaning and the message.
Necessity
to communicate in a better way facilitates the process to articulate the
language in a refine manner. Very often context also helps to infer the content
if our deduction of words are proper.
The
evolution of all the language is a continuous process, those languages that do
not evolve die.
To
understand an old scripture we need to go to it's original narrative format of
that time. All the old scriptures are written in figurative depiction
personified in symbolic language, such written format in religion is
called theophany.
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