Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Courses Tafsir Program 2018 19 Whitethread Institute

Now we'll move on to speaking about the tafsir course, which

we're launching next year. So let's start talking about the

tafsir course that we have proposed, this one is going to be

over two days, it's going to be a Thursday, Friday program, right

Thursday, Friday program, about eight to nine hours, over those

two days. So one day will be three and three to four hours, the other

day is going to be three hours. And

what we're going to cover in this, I have not seen another tafsir

course out there, and it's actually something that is a lot

in demand. Because

that's theory is something that is just so mainstream, it's something

that everybody can have access to.

And it's something that everybody should have access to, when we say

Tafseer, because I don't want to reduce this to just talking about

the first seed, it's actually a Quran, Quran Tafseer course, it's

related to everything about the Quran, both understanding the

meaning of the Quran, and that have said that Tafseer is

essentially just a utility and a tool to understand the Quran. So

there's numerous other subjects related to the Quran that we're

going to try to deal with. So again, the proposal here is to

spend about two hours a week out of those two days, dealing with

probably between, I would say, maybe 20, to 30 of CEOs were able

to cover during the year. So we're going to start from the earliest

of Sears, first study, the Manage, there's numerous books that have

been written on the methodologies.

And the style and

their focus of the various different offices in all the way

starting from if you start even ibis, or go down to the first

compiled one is probably the one that's published everybody has is

poverty. And you go down and even know cathedra. And you have Lucy

and you have call to B, and you have tough sell cars in and you

have numerous ones, and then you've got the modern ones. So the

whole idea is to first study, what's the unique features and the

style of this MUFA sim. And then after that, to take selected

passages of that FC, because you're not going to be to do the

whole FC, but to take a Surah or a cluster of verses, and then

actually read that the FC and then look at his style. So for example,

if it's the Cyril Razi, then we're probably going to take a selection

on Aqeedah on theology, because that's what he's really good at.

Right? Cool to Be mashallah, he, you know, we'll have to see what a

representative sample of that is because he sometimes under just

one, one or two verses, he'll have about 20, different birth on

various different subjects, and then Lucia, and so on. So that's

going to be kind of very interesting, because you will get

a good coverage and a scope and a review of at least the main top

series and some of the more obscure type series, so that in

the future when you want to study a verse, or you want to teach a

lesson on tafsir, or give a dose of Quran in the masjid, you know,

exactly which tafsir to go to, because you would have dealt with

them, you'd never think that, hey, these tough seas, man, you know,

they're beyond me. It's just trying to equip

us to get into reading various different facets.

The second,

another hour will be a critical assessment of modern democracy.

Because to be honest, there's been what people would say, Inhofe fit

the first year, in contemporary times, in the most recent times,

there's been a lot of inherit of Intersil. So a lot of the modern

def seers, they're not based on they're not placed based on the

classical literature. These were a lot of more tetherball dobro Quran

just contemporary understanding, in fact, what One assessment shows

is that a number of the series that have been written recently,

there, they were not necessarily even written by scholars, people

who had a background in Hadith and, and Aqeedah. And these were

people who are good thinkers, good Arabist right, a debes maybe, you

know, literature scholars, right? thinkers, philosophers, even and

then they because the Quran is open to all they, they they

produce the Tafseer some have done some have probably produced some

really, you know, some good points in there. But then this is also

because the it's not necessarily backed by full Aqeedah

understanding or re academic understanding of Aqeedah and, and

Hadith and so on. Sometimes, you know, they they could fall into

what you would call deviation from the manage that has been

understood. So, critical assessment of modern deficits.

Then the next another topic that's going to be covered in there is

the whole concept of Bulava and agile Quran

and Farmall Quran so Jazel Quran the style language and structure

of the Quran. That's an amazing I mean, I remember when I did that,

so as to progress Abdel Halim that was just amazing. Just gives you

this new dimension

To look at the Quran from it's quite, quite amazing.

Then there's the Western criticism of the Quran, you know, from over

100 200 years ago until contemporary times, you know,

numerous Orientalist have have criticized the Quran on various

different themes in the Quran, various different ways. So it's

trying to understand what they've written, and how do we respond to

that? Because if you're a scholar, you're going to you're going to

receive questions about various different criticism because these

criticisms when they come out, then they proliferate. And people

pick them up. And even if you think that they've all been dealt

with, like, an earth somewhere and they'll come back to haunt you. So

fam will Quran Western criticism of the Quran responses to that

language style and structure, ages Bulava critical assessment of

modern tafazzin and tafsir selections itself and Rulu Quran

so Illumina Quran will be studied from various different books. And

again, we're not going to study just one book idea is that Manas

Isha, and he will be providing various different

I'm going to let him speak a bit more about that anyway. Right. So

the only thing that's left is

Quran

just a brief point before because some people were calling this

course not, we didn't say but the secret the hustles

fit of zero, meaning the hustle requires the student to actually

have studied the topic at a reasonable level of digital

hustle. So we're going to be starting right from the beginning

and going quite deep because it mother's most mothers as if

there'll be exemptions, I'm sure they are in some of this, but the

level that's to be studied that is in a liberal Quran. If you're

lucky, you may get a closer look a bit

in terms of the FSI. If anything, you have Quran translation, and

then you have jelly, jelly is, you know, it's like an Arabic

translation in Arabic. So you want to have much in terms of

difficile. So beyond that, to say, moving on to the hostels, it

wouldn't really make sense, right. So that's an important

clarification.

But that being said, that being said, a local Quran,

the idea is we're still it's still developing the course as it goes

on. So we'll see how this course goes. And then we will make

amendments depending on

what's not been done before. So we don't have a blueprint that we're

following. So the idea of Quran is to have one base text which is

quite inclusive, it covers the main topics and then in certain

chapters to deviate from the text and to go into the more classical

work so for example, the base text that we have right now we're

looking at is Chef Abdullah dates Abu Kadima to associate your

normal Quran which is a large books but five to 20 pages, but

it's quite basic in terms of his Arabic structure. And the way he

discusses things is quite, quite simplistic. Wait, so the idea will

be read as base texts, but then as chapters come so you didn't ask

Matsuev are you doing for example, you discussing a roof? You can

move into the discussion of co2 because it constantly has multiple

views. But then when you're doing it on a co2, let's say on the

issue of there's so much written in there, it's difficult to try to

even work out what's correct what is it because he literally does

juggle everything. So then the idea is that the teacher is

teaching the book and the students is workers the idea of how I

structure my lessons here, because it was it's not be seen as a

teacher coming here and telling you what's right or wrong or

dictated to you is because everyone's qualified is for us to

sit together and then go through text together. So everyone has an

import an idea and I have my views idea. And then we try to develop

our views together rather than me being an expert and coming in

telling you what's what so that's the basic idea we're looking for.

And then from there, certain topics are gonna be

taken out. So one of the most of it was response to the Mustachio.

Now, one of the major

critiques or of the Quran by the orientalist is on origins, right

so much submission before on

the idea of sidebars. So people are questioning Buhari not not

talking about question your book writing process. The question is

of us to Imam Bukhari, right and where does this question it comes

from is the idea of old transmission and manuscripts plus

courts, right, having a managed on sources and health knowledge is

transmitted is such an important part of our knowledge and such an

important aspect of knowledge it is, which we don't have a separate

lesson for, right that we learn this so is this the whole idea is

to pick out those topics which are not covered, and then we try our

best here to try to cover that and provide sources for students to

read and to take on for later. So that's the basic idea. So if we

move over