Shin In the Quran

[Rationalist]

Zlatan this is bumped for you.

[Zlatan Ibrahimovic]

Zlatan this is bumped for you.

I think the brother @WhoareShia answered you. He brought the hadiths from our books which explain it.

What do you want me to comment on?

[Rationalist]

He copied and pasted two traditions which make the Rafidi Imam look inferior to Abdullah in Abbas. So first to explain this verse Jafar shows his own shin, then he says a ray of light will appear. This is your agreement with whoaretheShia? It looks like you are another blind muqalid like the average Rafidis.

[Zlatan Ibrahimovic]

He copied and pasted two traditions which make the Rafidi Imam look inferior to Abdullah in Abbas. So first to explain this verse Jafar shows his own shin, then he says a ray of light will appear. This is your agreement with whoaretheShia? It looks like you are another blind muqalid like the average Rafidis.

What is meant is he is saying it is not this shin - i.e the body part.

[muslim720]

Interestingly, someone (with an Iranian name) posted the following narration on Quora.

Imam Reza (A.S) has been reported as having said: "In the subject of tawhid (divine unity), people are of three tendencies: 'Negation (of the attributes); likening (God's attributes to physical attributes) and substantiation of the attributes without likening.  It is not permissible to deny the attributes nor is it permissible to liken them.  And what is the right path and the correct method, is the establishment of the attributes without likening." (Sheikh Saduq, al-Tawhid, researched and corrected by Hussein, Hashem, p. 101, Islamic Publications Office, Qom, first edition, 1398 A.H.)

The Arabic goes as follows:

  «للناس فی التوحید ثلاثة مذاهب: نفی، و تشبیه، و اثبات بغیر تشبیه، فمذهب النفی لا یجوز، و مذهب التشبیه لا یجوز، و السبیل فی الطریقة الثالثة، اثبات بلا تشبیه»

In other words, the correct way is to believe in these attributes in such a way that we do not end up likening them to physical attributes.

Isn't that our (Sunnis') stance?

[Rationalist]

What is meant is he is saying it is not this shin - i.e the body part.

Yah but his explanation is horrible. Firstly Imam Jafar shows his own shin, and he doesn't explain why the term shin in used. Abdullah ibn Abbas on the other hands shows a much superior explanation. In fact, a Rafidi Mufassir Agha Pooya did not even both relying on Shaykh Saduq's works. He actually took the narration from the Bakri sources.