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'''Free Minds:''' ''it comes out from between the spine and the testicles.''}} | '''Free Minds:''' ''it comes out from between the spine and the testicles.''}} | ||
===A note on the English word 'loins'=== | |||
Islamic websites sometimes will show you the word loins in certain English translations and want you to understand it in the modern euphemistic sense as the sexual areas of a man. But this meaning is secondary to its primary meaning which is the lumbar portion of the back, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary: | |||
{{Quote||Loin, n. | |||
1. a. In the living body. Chiefly pl. The parts of a human being or quadruped, situated on both sides of the vertebral column, between the false ribs and the hip bone.}} | |||
It's secondary meaning in the O.E.D. is defined as follows: | |||
{{Quote||Loin, n. | |||
2. Chiefly Biblical and poet. This part of the body, regarded: | |||
a. as the part of the body that should be covered with clothing and about which the clothes are bound; so, to gird (up) the loins (lit. and fig.), to prepare for strenuous exertion.}} | |||
In Lane's Lexicon entry for sulb includes the following:<ref>sulb - [http://www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume4/00000436.pdf Lane's Lexicon Book I page 1712]</ref> | |||
{{Quote||and any portion of the back containing vertebrae: (S, MSB, TA:) [and particularly the lumbar portion; the loins:] and the back [absolutely]}} | |||
He goes on to quote a phrase of the Arabs that features sulb, translating it and explaining as follows: | |||
{{Quote||''These are the sons of their loins:'' Because the sperma of the man is held to proceed from the sulb of the man}} | |||
===Apologetic Claims=== | ===Apologetic Claims=== | ||