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In this verse and verses 18:86 and 18:90 respectively, the noun is the wall / sun (via the referent “it”) and the predicate is “on the point of falling down” / “setting in a muddy spring” / “rising on a people for whom We had provided no covering protection against the sun”. | In this verse and verses 18:86 and 18:90 respectively, the noun is the wall / sun (via the referent “it”) and the predicate is “on the point of falling down” / “setting in a muddy spring” / “rising on a people for whom We had provided no covering protection against the sun”. | ||
A possible objection arises from the Arabic words used in 18:77. The word for word translation of the predicate is “(that) want(ed) to collapse”.<ref>[http://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=18&verse=77 Word-by-Word Grammar - Verse (18:77)] - The Quranic Arabic Corpus</ref> Obviously, a wall cannot “want” anything. This is a figure of speech with the meaning that the wall had a structural weakness that would cause it to collapse. This does not support Naik’s claim about the word wajada because the reality described using a figure of speech is actually found, which is what we see in 18:77 and a few other verses (4:65, | A possible objection arises from the Arabic words used in 18:77. The word for word translation of the predicate is “(that) want(ed) to collapse”.<ref>[http://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=18&verse=77 Word-by-Word Grammar - Verse (18:77)] - The Quranic Arabic Corpus</ref> Obviously, a wall cannot “want” anything. This is a figure of speech with the meaning that the wall had a structural weakness that would cause it to collapse. This does not support Naik’s claim about the word wajada because the reality described, albeit using a figure of speech, is actually found by Moses, which is what we see in 18:77 and a few other verses (4:65, 59:9, the 2<sup>nd</sup> instance in 24:39 and 73:20). The idea that the predicates describing the behavior of the sun in 18:86 and 18:90 are figures of speech rather than literal descriptions, regardless of what wajada may mean, is an alternative argument used by Dr. Naik and we examine it separately later below. | ||
The fourth important example, verse 24:39, is highly problematic for any claim that wajada can mean a false perception: | The fourth important example, verse 24:39, is highly problematic for any claim that wajada can mean a false perception: | ||