Yes, those of us familiar with Islam did. ;o) (Not being snarky.)
Posted on 09/15/2008 6:58:43 AM PDT by Melpomene
The Buraq (Arabic: البُراق al-buraaq, meaning lightning, also means the element boron; Turkish: Burak), is according to Islamic tradition a creature from the heavens that carried Muhammad from earth to heaven and back during the Isra and Miraj (Night Journey). An excerpt from a Sahih Muslim hadith describes a buraq:
“I was brought by the Buraq, which is an animal white and long, larger than a donkey but smaller than a mule, who would place its hoof at a distance equal to the range of vision.”
Did anyone else know this? I just heard it this morning.
Buraq Obama. (There, I said it first !)
isn’t he the democrat nominee for president? Buraq Osama
damn beat me by seconds...
I have also heard Baraq is the shortened form of Mubaraq.
Barak, barak, fobarak bananafana bobarak fee fi mobarak barack.
There is no way that "Barack" can be construed to mean "Buraq" - it's like saying that the word "cot" and the word "cat" have the same meaning in English.
"Barack" is a variant of "baraq" meaning "blessed."
Obama's first name is closer in sound to the Hebrew word for lightning than it is to the Arabic word for lightning.
Yes, those of us familiar with Islam did. ;o) (Not being snarky.)
The lack of proper vowels is the reason why countless spellings exist for semitic words in different regional dialects. Mohammed, muhammad, mahomet, mehmet etc.
A flying horse?
Is the democrat candidate riding a buraq to power? Or a buraq whipping the white donkey into office?
(It sure ain’t no white *ss riding the dnc’s donkey into office.)
I thought it was a horse, not a chimera, interesting, but I’ll go with Baraq means Mohammed’s Jackass (donkey) for the political season.
Barack Hussein Obama - Verily, the jackass who will bring an obamanation.
Barack is just Baraq anglicized.
Mo was smokin' some pretty righteous schtuff back then, wasn't he?
Hussein = “little beauty boy”
Barack Hussein = Beautiful little donkey
Buraq - a flying horse
Barack - an airborne jackass
That is completely wrong.
Arabic does indeed have vowels - it simply doesn't write them as letters, but as signs around the consonants.
The vowels are the source of inflection in Arabic as in all Semitic languages.
"Buraq" and "baraq" can never mean the same thing in a Semitic language any more than "want" and "won't" can mean the same thing in English.
Vowels are far more distinct in Semitic languages than in Indo-European languages - homonyms are far rarer.
Mo had to “high” on something and it was not a flying horse at the time.
Palin compared her self to a bulldog, Barry is named after a magical flying horse. Which is goofier?
LUCIFER is described as “light bearer” in Hebrew. Barack in Hebrew is “lightening.” Hussein means Handsome. Lucifer is good looking. Obama in Luo means “crooked” or “not in a straight line” or “zig-zag.” Enter ye in at the strait gate, says the Lord, for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it (Matt. 7:13-14).
Which leads me to the educated conclusion that Revelation 13:18 speaks of Barack Hussein Obama (the Jr or II meaning not the original but in his likeness): Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number [is] Six hundred threescore [and] six.
The Number of the Beast:”six hundred threescore six.”
Barack Hussein Obama can translate: “Lucifer.”
All Scripture is from KJV.
As you said yourself in the previous post, baraq is the arabic word for “lighting”. Correct. Buraq ALSO means nothing else than “lighting”. Mohammed’s horse was named “lighting”. There are countless regional and local variations of all words throughout the Arabic and Islamic word, mostly through different pronounciation of the vowels, furter complicated through different transliterations into latin script. Usama = Osama, Muhammad = Mohammed, Al-Qods = Al-Quds, Hussayn = Hossein, buraq = baraq.
"Buraq" and "baraq" can never mean the same thing
In Hebrew the two words are, respectively, "barak" and "beracha."
I said no such thing.
This thread is trying to spread the mistaken notion that "Barack", Obama's Arabic first name, is synonymous with "buraq", the Arabic word for "lightning."
They are not synonymous at all. Obama's first name means "blessing" or "blessed", not "lightning."
If Obama's first name were Hebrew, it could mean "lightning" but his name isn't a Hebrew name, it's an Arabic name.
Looking into it, I think you are correct. I am not overly familiar with Arabic, only with Farsi, where “barq” (borrowed from Arabic) means lightning, so I assumed that the vowel variation “baraq”, “barq” and “buraq” were the same. In Farsi there is also the blessing “mobarak”... you are right.
Thanks for the clarification. I know nothing about Semetic languages, and just heard this on the radio this morning. I knew someone on FR would be able to explain it.
I have two Master's degrees and extensive Ph.D. work in this stuff.
Good point - this stuff is transliterated into English under so many schemes that it is easy to lose sight of the very real distinction between kaf and qof.
Oddly enough, “Barack” is equivalent to the Latin “Benedict.”
Yes. I’ve posted regularly that the fixation on the “Hussein” in his name is misplaced, that having him named after the winged horse who conveyed Mohammed to Paradise is much more poetically potent.
Winged horse with tail of a peacock and breasts of a woman... dunno about the tail, but have you seen those shirtless beach-shots in People Mag? Guy’s got bodacious man-boobs.
LOL. Nice try, Infidel.
So a Buraq is a magical islamic jacka$$? Brilliant!
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