format_quote Originally Posted by
MustafaMc
The meaning given by your quote is consistent with most translations of 2:138 into English. What is the source? Although I don't speak Arabic, it is also consistent with what I quoted from the dictionary.
I deliberately didn't quoted the source because its only from reflections from a Muslim Brother,you can find it here
format_quote Originally Posted by
loveofgod
Similarly when God baptizes people He washes away their sins and who can better wash away sins better than God?
Islam is based on the concept that all humans are born sinless and they attain sins during their lives, and that all sins can be forgiven except giving worship to other gods but Allah or with Allah/God.
Just for the Interest of Br Mustafa
The root of the word "Sibghah" actually means "Colour, dye, or a colour which is adopted on to something" So when it says in the translation that Sibghah means Religion, it takes on the meaning of the 'religion that when we take it on, it literally changes us as taking on another colour would'. That when people are given or adopt the religion of Islam they are cloaked in that which Allah (Subahanna wa tallah) has given them so that they will appear different and reflect it on others. And just like dye, it won't come off-- When we accept Islam completely it won't come off. Islam becomes our identity and we cannot remove ourselves from it.
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The oceans dried up
Not one but two,
But the words of my Lord written were few,
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Each drop of divine ink
Each letter, each word
Their unchartered depths few have explored
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“Sibghtullah”
The Colors of Allah
Dye yourself in them and attain falah.
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The hues of humility
The perfect tints of gratitude
The gait, the speech, the right attitude
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In the style
Of the Nabi (saws) and the blessed few
They strive but they smile as if Jannah they view
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Intense in their devotion
Their obedience glows
In the darkest of nights spent bowed low
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Not like chameleons
They change their colors, or discard
When the going gets tough, or the opposition hard
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Their deen dyed deep
Not washed away
By the changing tides of culture, or fashion’s sway
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Awash in divine recitation
They persist and depend
On none
But the One
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At peace in the knowledge
That blessed they are
To be drenched in
‘Sibghatullah’
The Colors of Allah
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