Dhul-Qarnayn and the Sun Setting in a Muddy Spring - Part Two: Difference between revisions

Here wajada is used in direct contrast to perceiving a mere visual illusion. Again, we have the hatta itha … yajidhu [a form of wajada] … wawajada structure. If Naik is correct, wajada would also have been used instead of yahsabuhu (he thinks/reckons) as the verb to describe the man’s initial mistaken perception. Similarly, yahsabaha could have been used instead of wajadaha in 18:86 if Naik is correct. The truth is that wajada was used to describe what was actually found because that is what it means. The thirsty man in reality finds nothing where he had falsely perceived water and finds Allah judging his deeds instead (in the latter case, this is the ditransitive usage mentioned above meaning to gain knowledge of what something is doing by direct experience).