Answering Josh on Prophet’s marriage

>>how do you paste text into the text pane of this forum?

1. left click at the point where you wish to begin copying text.

2. highlight the entire text you wish to copy by holding the left click while scrolling down

3. right click and select "copy" (on the Islamicity Quran search, you have to select "edit" in the menu at the top of the screen (assuming you're using internet explorer) and select "copy" from that menu)

4. put the cursor at the point where you wish the text to appear

5. right click and select paste

I don't believe that there is a way to prevent an individual from doing this, and even if there was, I've been on this board for years and was a moderator myself for a time, and that's just not something the moderators would do here.

Deus wrote: To Jazz: You're missing the point. The two verses have different contexts. One verse is speaking about a "day" with God being equal to 1000 human years. The other verse speaks of the Spirit (ruh) ascending in a "day" ("period" would make more sense in this verse) that is equal to 50,000 human years.

Dear Deus,

This is not about what you might prefer Quran to say or what "would make more sense", as by saying this you are conceding that Quran makes no sense in this instance.

This is the point, one ayat speaks of a "day" being 1,000 years and the other speaks of a "day" being 50,000 years.

As I have pointed out there are clear distinctions in the translations between "period", "age", "term" and "day", and this is emphasized by showing the translation of "day" and "term' within the same sentence of an ayat.

Would you kindly elaborate on how I am "missing the point"?

Your explanation makes no sense, so too the explanation in the site you referred to.

I have clearly shown this.

What difference does it make what happens in the "day", whether it is the spirit or anything else?

Here are the verses in question again, with only the relevant text from each this time.

This is clearly a contradiction in Quran.

From Muslim Students Association database translations.

A day to Allah is equal to one thousand years of man.

Quran -  As-Sadja - 032:005

Yusuf Ali: ".......a day the space whereof will be (as) a thousand years of your reckoning."

Pickthal: ".......a day, wherof the measure is a thousand years of that ye reckon."

Shakir: ".......a day the measure of which is a thousand years of what you count."

Now the contradiction.......

A day of Allah is equal to fifty-thousand years of man

Quran - Al-Maarij - 070:004

Yusuf Ali: ".............a day, the measure whereof is (as) fifty-thousand years."

Pickthal: "........a day whereof the span is fifty-thousand years."

Shakir: "........a day the measure of which is fifty-thousand years."

Now kindly explain how one could be missing something.

To Jazz,

Would it more make sense to you if you replace the word "day" in both verses (i.e. 32:05 and 70:04) with the word "period"?

Yes, muratkose, I was going to explain that too, but Jazz seems to be looking for something more straightforward logical. But it's a valid point that I myself believe in.