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...but something like Unitarians ...

What does this means?? What is your definition of a believer?

Btw you didn't answer my questions. Each to their own.

["Our Lord, we believe,]

Are you saying that believers can marry today's Jews and Christians even if they are not believing in the Qur'an?

Why 'people of the book' not mentioned in other marriage verses like 24:32, 4:25, 2:221 etc.?

What do you think about this?

5:82
You will find the people with the greatest animosity towards those who believe are the Jews and those who are polytheists; and you will find the closest in affection to those who believe are those who said: "We are Nazarenes/Christians;" that is because among them are Priests and Monks, and they are not arrogant.

5:83
And if they hear what was sent down to the messenger you see their eyes flooding with tears, for what they have known as the truth, they say: "Our Lord, we believe, so record us with the witnesses."

So as they believed in the Qur'an, they will have Swalat, Fasting in Ramadan, Hajj etc. right? i.e. they are no more Nazarenes/Christians.

5:84
"And why should we not believe in God and what has come to us of the truth? And we yearn that our Lord admits us with the righteous people."

And your last part(quote) is off here. Am talking about marriage

in the evening twilight.

Correction

I agree that night starts when the sun disc is completely below horizon.

I don't know when night starts but it's night when the sun disc is completely below horizon.

[and who disbelieves with God's signs/verses]

3:19
That truly the dheen at God, (is) the islam/submission/surrender, and those who were given The Book did not differ/disagree/dispute, except from after what (that) the knowledge came to them, out of jealousy/oppression between them, and who disbelieves with God's signs/verses, so that God (is) swift in reckoning.

48:28
He is who sent His messenger with the guidance and the truths' dheen to make it apparent/visible/overcome on/over the dheen all of it, and enough/sufficient with God (as) a witness.

3:85
And whoever seeks other than the islam/submission/surrender (as) a dheen, so (it) will not be accepted from him, and he (is) in the end from the losers.

peace

[they will be encircled/surrounded/burdened (with) what they were stingy/miser with it]

peace Wakas,

Compared to the other two (2:249,286) occurrences, occurrence in 3:180 is more similar to that in 2:184.

3:180
"And let not those who are stingy/miserly with what God gave them from His grace/blessing think/suppose it is good/better for them, but it is bad/evil for them, they will be encircled/surrounded/burdened (with) what they were stingy/miser with it (on) the Resurrection Day..."

Therefore I consider the meaning for yuteeqoona as 'to be able to do but find extremely hard and difficult to bear' i.e. a kind of burden.

In addition,
Your translation says feeding a poor person
But from 5:89, 3 sawm is equivalent to feeding 10 poor persons.

[#11]

Feeding the poor (fidya) may be another option in such cases?(See reply #11)
And from 5:89, 3 sawm is equivalent to feeding 10 poor persons.

[after understanding]

And regarding modern man/technology,

We already know about many medicines which are banned after understanding its adverse effects (i.e. after years of consumption by patients)

See another example,

Qur'an's method to determine pregnancy is waiting for a few Full-moons/months (e.g. when finalising divorce).

And modern-world/doctors suggest ultrasound.

but now people understanding the problems..
"Although ultrasound imaging is generally considered safe when used prudently by appropriately trained health care providers, ultrasound energy has the potential to produce biological effects on the body. Ultrasound waves can heat the tissues slightly. In some cases, it can also produce small pockets of gas in body fluids or tissues (cavitation)."
https://www.fda.gov/radiation-emitting-products/medical-imaging/ultrasound-imaging

"When modern sophisticated equipment is used at maximum operating settings for Doppler examinations, the acoustic outputs are sufficient to produce obvious biological effects, e.g. significant temperature increase in tissue or visible motion of particles due to radiation pressure streaming effects. The risk of inducing thermal effects is greater in the second and third trimesters, when fetal bone is intercepted by the ultrasound beam and significant temperature increase can occur in the fetal brain."
https://chriskresser.com/natural-childbirth-iib-ultrasound-not-as-safe-as-commonly-thought/

[if God willing]

There may be a case for stunning when it comes to large animals such as sheep /cows etc because they can be difficult to hold down especially because the abattoirs are just a huge assembly lines and animals get very distressed watching their fellow kind being slaughtered.

Did you watch the video? Large animals can also be prepared without stunning (if God willing)

But why the concept of SLAUGHTER HOUSE? Why this much greed for food(of consumer) and money(of business people)?
When processes come to large scale, it would be difficult to maintain MORALS & PROFIT. So more technology... More money... More and more greed...endless. Who knows that the animals are not suffering while stunning? Why Qur'an does not mentions prior stunning? If it's reducing suffering why God(The Merciful) didn't let the former generations/prophets know that?(there was no electricity is not a reason, it doesn't matter for God, He would have shown/taught them an alternative, for their time). If the processes are in natural way, I believe there would be much reduction in meat consumption.

peace dear believing brothers and sisters,

When God let us to do slaughter for food, i.e. when we are doing it with His permission(The Merciful/the Creator of the animal), why to worry about suffering, if we do it as prophets did?
I have witnessed both, natural death and slaughter of birds, in both cases they had almost same kind of expressions/movements/signs.
We can't believe the scientists always(if they say stunning reduces suffering) because sometime they will find it wrong in the future.

See preparing animal for slaughter without harm,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quhVxLUwiBw
[For anyone who sees this video : in this video the person says Allahuakbar, meaning Allah is greater -may be he wouldn't have thought about it. Because how can Allah be greater than Himself? Allah calls Himself as Al-Kabeer (the Great). Akbar = greater]

peace Hamzeh,

I already corrected it.

Yes, both(2:187 & 19:26) are about sawm, but the problem is that the sawm of Maryam(19:26) does not mentions anything which is in 2:187 ( i.e. drinking, eating & sexual acts), then how it can be the same? Likewise, sawm in 2:187 does not mentions anything which is in Maryam's sawm. Therefore I do not think about a connection between them.

peace,

I think it(#12) is incorrect.

peace Wakas,

I agree that night starts when the sun disc is completely below horizon.

another reasonable thought,

"The only two examples of fasting that I have discerned are the fast of Mariam, the mother of Isa and the fast of Zakharia, both which consisted of  NOT talking! As has been mentioned in the Qur'an, fasting has been prescribed for us as it was prescribed for those before us, then it only makes sense to observe the fast as described in the Qur'an by those before us!"
https://free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9610670.msg425212#new

[after]

2 read the context, 9:81 is happening in one of the four sacred months.

How did you confirm that?


When there is no compulsion in religion(2:256), WHY God commands to kill/fight the polytheists after the sacred full moons/months have passed?

9:5
"So when the sacred full moons/months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them, and take them, and surround them, and stand against them at every point..."