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لا تقربوا الصلاه

English translation: Not prayers/No prayers

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Arabic term or phrase:	لا تقربوا الصلاه
English translation:	Not prayers/No prayers
Entered by:	Heba Abed

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16:08 Jul 27, 2011

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Arabic term or phrase: لا تقربوا الصلاه

اتبع المدعى عليهما منطق لا تقربوا الصلاه فقط دون تكملة أن ابتسار

Bahrain

Alan Gardiner KudoZ activity Questions: 12 (none open) Answers: 73
Local time: 01:19

Not prayers/No prayers

Explanation:
no prayers
not prayers

"You who believe! Approach not prayers with a mind befogged"
ياأيها الذين أمنوا لا تقربوا الصلاة وأنتم سُكارى

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Note added at 21 mins (2011-07-27 16:30:12 GMT)
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http://tanzil.net/#4:43
do not approach prayers = لا تقربوا الصلاة

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Heba Abed
Egypt
Local time: 02:19

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Thanks Heba
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +2

truncating a phrase to misrepresent an idea

HassanLotfy

4 +1

thou shall not stand for prayer

Mohsin Alabdali

4 +1

Not prayers/No prayers

Heba Abed

Discussion entries: 1

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16 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Not prayers/No prayers

Heba Abed
Egypt
Local time: 02:19
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Arabic
PRO pts in category: 36

Grading comment

Thanks Heba

40 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

truncating a phrase to misrepresent an idea

Explanation:
an idiom extracted from Quran

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Note added at 53 mins (2011-07-27 17:02:34 GMT)
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The Quranic phrase in full ~ Never pray while drunk.
the idiom draws on the fact that truncating it to merely 'Never pray'
is obviously misleading.

HassanLotfy
Egypt
Local time: 02:19
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

English
PRO pts in category: 4

2 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

thou shall not stand for prayer

Explanation:
The whole quoranic verse says "thou shall not stand for prayer if you were drunk".

Mohsin Alabdali
Saudi Arabia
Local time: 03:19
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Arabic
PRO pts in category: 61

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Aug 1, 2011 - Changes made by Heba Abed:
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