Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Sciences in 30 Days Part 1 Introduction and Definitions
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so beloved listeners welcome to this new series for this Ramadan
for this new Ramadan whether you started Ramadan today or whether
you will be starting tomorrow may Allah subhanaw taala bless this
month for you and for all of us. May Allah drench us in the
outpourings of the absolute showers and storms of His mercy
that descend during this month that Allah subhanaw taala has
specially prepared for us all for the believers. May Allah subhanho
wa Taala make this month a blessing one and better than any
month of Ramadan before it and may Allah subhanho wa Taala connect us
and use this. May Allah subhanaw taala allow these sessions to be a
connection between us and him especially through his words which
which is the Quran. So before we get into the discussions that we
are here for Allah subhanahu wa taala
has given us this Quran and every Muslim believes in the Quran. Many
many Muslims know how to read the Quran. And there's
a great number that also have memorized the Quran. And in
Ramadan especially, there's lots and lots of Muslims who actually
recite the Quran, and who listened to that series of the Quran. And
probably most masajid in the world we will assume in the month of
Ramadan, we'll have the entire Quran recited during taraweeh
prayer as well. So the Quran has a lot of attention. And a lot of
attention has been actually paid to the Quran.
If you look in history, there's probably no other book which has
had so much attention that's been paid to it. So much service that's
provided to it. There's probably no other book that
has got so much attention. So much work done on it, so much
discussion about it. And so much has been produced about it as as
the Quran
for so many generations people have been producing have been
doing the seals have been explaining different aspects of
the Quran have been tracing, its historicity, tracing, the way it
was written, the way it's pronounced all of these things
about the Quran, I don't think there's a single other book out
there with this much attention paid to it. I mean, if we're just
to try to see how many books there are written on the Tafseer of the
Quran, I don't think we could probably count it in the various
different languages around the world that Muslims speak. For
example, if you look at translations of the Quran, I mean,
some of the first earliest English translations were there from the
15th century, or probably actually even earlier, in that's just in
English, and in many, many other many, many other languages, the
translations of the Quran that's a science on its own to discuss how
translation is good and what's so good about a translation and so
on.
Likewise, the tuxedos themselves I mean, there are so many different
types of Tafseer and there are numerous books that have
categorized the different commentaries of the Quran, that
these are spiritual commentaries, these are juridical commentaries,
these are commentaries based on explaining trying to explain the
Quran with the Quran, there are those which are Tafseer Bill Thor,
as they call them, which is a tafseer that tries to provide the
explanation through Hadith like for example, the FC Ibaka theme,
there is the shorter ones, there's the longer ones. There's those
that talk about a lot of the additional philosophical aspects,
the metaphysical aspects, the theological aspects, and there's
just no end to mashallah Tafseer and we've got so much in front of
us that we can benefit from
if we then move on to something even more specific, that that read
of the Quran I mean, just see how many books there are on the
Tajweed of the Quran. Tajweed means how to correctly recite the
Quran there are numerous books on that subject and that's something
which is taught as a separate topic. You know, when it comes to
something related to the Quran is the dream of the Quran. Likewise,
there are infinite number of recitals of the Quran Subhanallah
online
In recordings even before there were any kind of online facilities
like that you had the cassettes and the records and the mini discs
and the CDs and all of these other things where there had been
recitations going on throughout from the time of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam, from OB ImmunoCAP, or the Allahu Anhu.
down the ages, the main Quran, there were many, many people ran,
to congregate to listen to the Quran, there were various
different styles of Quranic recitation, there were different
modes of recitation, but then just in terms of the intonation, in
terms of the tunes in terms of the styles with which people read
mashallah, this has been something that has amazed, amazed people and
inspired people throughout the ages. Can you imagine how many
copies that have been of the Quran? If you move on, then you
speak about copies editions of the Quran calligraphies. I mean, I've
got several books that produce that have reproduced that have
featured rather, some of the most amazing calligraphy that has been
produced throughout our history. I mean, there's been lots of
wonderful calligraphers. I mean, that's an art of its own
Subhanallah Can you believe it, that there is an art on its own
that, you know, is like an offshoot of a service to the
Quran, which is the calligraphy and the beautiful way that it is
written and inscribed. And, you know, again, again, for the sake
of being more welcoming for the Quran, some of the best
calligraphies for example,
those that have been produced for the rulers of the past, the Kings
the Sultan's and so on, they've been some of the best because
that's where a huge amount of money would be spent gold, inlaid,
illuminated calligraphy of the entire Quran Subhanallah I've got
a number of specimens, you know, featured in different books that
you can be amazed by the amount of hikma there is of the Quran, I
mean, there's just no doubt regarding the Quran, based on all
of this one is the director of seer of the Quran. But then the
second thing, which many of you may have been concerned about, or
were curious about is that why have we considered a call the
series that alone will Quran, right 30 days of Illumina Quran,
so Illumina Quran just to break that down quickly, and to explain
that to you the way the Illumina Quran refers to the sciences of
the Quran. So the word loom is the plural of L. Right? L means
knowledge. But in this particular context, it means it's a title. So
it refers to science. And the science of the Quran just means a
collection of ideas, right, a collection of ideas of a specific
topic. So there are many, many, many topics related to the Quran,
and the collection of each of these ideas and principles and
rules and so on each of these topics that each of them make in
the realm of the Quran, and thus, when you have a number of them,
and we're going to go through between 25 to 30 of them,
depending on how long it will take for us to do this in the time that
has been allotted for us. So there will be certain topics which we'll
be able to cover in one session. And there'll be certain topics we
may which we may have to take two sessions in because they are more
profound topic or more detailed topic. And there will be some that
will be able to cover two or three topics in in one session as well.
So you will be amazed by the discussion there. But the point is
not to be amazed the point of this lwml Quran session the sciences of
the Quran session, right? And in the introduction we have already
provided what this means we're going to be discussing, for
example, how the Quran was revealed,
right, the various different ways that the prophets Allah would
actually receive the revelation. That's amazing. It was almost like
a download from Allah subhanho wa Taala that probably Salah lorrison
would receive right bit by bit over 23 years. How exactly did
that used to come what used to happen to the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, then we will discuss what is the reason for the
way the sewers and the verses, in fact have been listed in the
particular way in the Quran that they have? Why do we have to stick
to that? Why do we have to adhere to that routine? And so on and so
forth. These are just some ideas. So the purpose of this is not to
just be amazed by this, but actually, it's an honor, right?
That we also put our name into those who have studied the Quran
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said hi Eurocom manda alum
Al Quran Allah Allah, really simple Hadith, but it is so easy
to practice on this hadith if we make a bit of an effort. The
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said the best of you is the
one who studies the Quran and who teaches it? You have to do study
first before you can teach something, but who studies the
Quran and who teaches the Quran? So now this is all part of that
we're hoping that inshallah this month of Ramadan we spend also
trying to qualify in being the best of people. Because for the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he said the best of you is
the one who studies the Quran teaches it. So while we're reading
the Quran during this month as a lot of people continue to read the
Quran, but we
I'm also going to study the Quran, we're going to study the issues
related to the Quran, everything that serves the Quran the various
different sciences and bits of knowledge and topics and, and
other subjects that relate to the Quran that would be of benefit in
sha Allah so then one of the main things is that we want to
inshallah qualify in the sight of Allah subhanaw taala as some of
the best of people, this will be our little effort to try to
inshallah do more during this Ramadan. Also, after our 30 Day
tipsy last year in the last Ramadan, which is still available
for those who did not get to listen to it, it's available. It's
available online through the zum zum Academy channel. But mashallah
many of you. Right, have been asking, we've received so many
messages throughout the asking for something more asking for
something more. And as we were drawing closer to Ramadan, people
are saying what this year what kind of Tafseer will it be this
year, so we decided to take it a notch up and to try to do Arun
will Quran because mashallah many people covered a series of the
Quran, but this will provide parts of Tafseer as well of course, but
it will also provide inshallah some additional information that
generally is not there, which leads to a lot of confusion if
people do not know about this. So that's the second and a really big
objective of these classes is that we hope that we will try to cover
some of the most important things that relate to the Quran that are
beneficial for us to know, not just beneficial, but I think
important for us to know, significant for us to know and the
benefit of this will be Inshallah, that we will be able to love the
Quran more, appreciate the Quran more, right and understand and be
able to acknowledge and recognize the the efforts that have been
that have been undertaken for the Quran to come to us, right? And
why we need to be closer to the Quran, all of this inshallah will
be discussed will try to insha Allah through this, we're trying
to become better connected to the Quran, better relate to the Quran,
and become more aware of the various different things that the
different subjects that relate to the Quran. Why is this important?
Another reason is that we've seen in the last few years, maybe more
so actually, in the last few years, and not just in the last
few years. I mean, we've had this issue throughout our history, but
more so in the last few years, we've had people even coming from
within the Muslim community who are raising questions about
various different aspects of the Quran, write different things
related to the Quran. Now, for the most part, the majority of people
would not know the sciences and when they don't know the sciences,
and a person provides a bit of a question on something, for
example, the seven readings of the Quran, there was a question about
that, that was raised some several months ago, it caused a huge
confusion. We got so many questions, we received so many
questions about it. So if a person is not aware of the various
different dimensions of the Quran and the various sciences related
to Quran, a small question out there somewhere small doubt that's
created somewhere, we'll sweep you off your feet and will cause you a
lot of aggravation. So Inshallah, by becoming aware of this, the
benefit of it is that inshallah then you will spread this point
these points to others Inshallah, you will be able to calm people
down, you will be able to
also calm people down as well when these kinds of things happen. So
and of course, be confident yourself and that's the most
important thing. That's why insha Allah will be able to understand
better the purposes of the Quran, the realities of the Quran, and
this, dispel any doubts regarding his authenticity as well in sha
Allah. So with that, we say Bismillah and we are about to
Insha Allah, delve into this May Allah subhanho wa Taala make it
easy, and we hope to take you along in sha Allah. Allah bless
you all. And Allah give us blessing and Baraka in our time,
right? Because
in sha Allah and we hope that this is a time well spent are all the
biller him in a shape on you're watching me Bismillah al Rahman al
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Allah subhanho wa Taala says that if humanity and the jinn kind all
came together to try to produce something similar the light of
this Quran, they would not be able to produce the like of it, even if
they assisted even if they became assistance of one another even if
they started to help one another and they collectively tried to
make this effort, they would not be able to do so.
So, that is the inimitable nature of the Quran. Now as I said
earlier, the scholars have been discussing the various different
sciences relating to the Quran
for centuries, right for centuries they've been discussed
in different aspects about the Quran, and there are numerous
books that were produced regarding it. So I've already already
already discussed what alumina Quran refers to it's just a pillar
of elemental Quran which essentially means the various
different subjects and sciences related to the Quran. And all of
these books are different. Initially, parts of the FSI for
example, Imam Tabari, I would say he he Imam topper is tafsir is
probably one of the one of the earliest of seers and commentaries
of the Quran that we have published today. And it's probably
one of the most authentic because everything that he transmits, he
transmits through a chain from him up to the earliest professors,
like for example, ignore Abbas or the Allahu Anhu and
abdulai blomus ruder the Allahu Anhu then some of the tabby in now
obviously something that is related through a direct chain
that he relates from his teacher him from his teacher him from his
teacher, up to Adelaide, not Ibis at the Allahu Anhu that a certain
verse means something, right? That's going to be you know, as
long as the people in between are authentic, that's going to be a
very authentic tafsir. Now, however, before he starts his
stuff, see, he has a number of topics that he deals with. So not
all FCS. Do that if you look at the original books of Tafseer, the
commentaries of the Quran, you'll find that a number of them
actually cover before they actually start with Surah Fatiha
or describing or detailing what Bismillahi Rahmani Raheem is what
they do is they actually discuss several different sciences related
to the Quran but not all of us do that. Imam tombery did that. For
example, right. And likewise, Imam Kuta to be in his al Jamelia,
Camila Quran, which is an amazing Tafseer another amazing to see,
right Imam Ko to be used from Cordoba in Spain, in southern
Spain and de Lucia. You know, history of Syria is an amazing
deficit. It's one of the most populated cities as well, although
he came quite a few centuries after Eman W. He also starts off
with some different subjects regarding aluminum but I said they
do not all do this right. Now that's so some of them are first
seen as some of the commentators of the Quran, the exegesis of the
Quran, they will actually incorporate different sciences
related to the Quran. Within that FCS in the beginning of the
autopsy. There were others who would add it into the Hadith books
in the Hadith commentaries and so on. However, one of the first
people to actually write a more comprehensive, like somewhat
comprehensive collection on the Illumina Quran was actually none
other than one of my famous one of my favorite scholars who died in
about 597 Hijiri. So that's quite a few centuries in right 597
Hijiri his name was a will forage Abdul Rahman Abdul Josie the great
humbly scholar of Baghdad, right Abdul Rahman Abdul Josie, you can
read more about him in the saviors of Assam experience as a wonderful
coverage in the shakable Hassan Ali nadwi. He wrote phenomenal
Ferdinand fee or unit or lwml Quran phenomenal afternoon for you
are you in your room in Quran essentially saying that these are
the various different subjects and topics relating to the main
aspects of of, you know, the sciences of the Quran, that is
considered by many as one of the earliest books, right, one of the
earliest books in a comprehensive kind of manner. Not to say people
didn't discuss this before.
Now, I'm not going to bore you with a list of names of all of the
books, but I do want to mention some of the other books.
Unfortunately, a lot of these books are not in English, they're
only in Arabic, and maybe there's a translation in some other
languages, but some of the other really featured ones, which most
people will resort to when they want to study your own will Quran
right and we will indirectly or directly benefit from these as
well. There are two others that that people have to mention. And
one of them is Imam badeen Mohammed Abdullah Abdullah Azhar
Kashi, who died in 794. So now we're talking about you know,
to send centuries after ignore Josie Rahim Allah, he wrote al
Bara Han v lwml. Quran the Quran Abraham means the proof, right?
That Albert Hanafi olamine Quran that is a book that lots of people
consult right when they want to study early on in the Quran. And
then thirdly, the third book that that we have to mention is widely
available. And there is actually tore off publishing have published
a
a abridged and abridged version of this right an abridged version not
the full version and abridged version. The full version is very,
very big. It's two volumes at least I think they've published a
very small abridged edition of it is called it con fie aroma Quran
it can it can means to solidify something to perfect something so
it's it can't be original Quran and this is by none other than the
great scholar his name you must have heard gelato Dean Abdul
Rahman a SUTI. He died in 911. He died on 911 Hijiri 911 hegi a few
centuries ago. Right. He benefited also from the earlier book The
Borhan that I just spoke of Zarca he he benefits
took from that and added many many points to that as well. So there
you go. And then recently there's been a number of other great books
in the Quran I said I don't need to bore you with the names of them
but if you're interested you know some that really that really are
worth checking out. One is mana hero Irfan fie alumina Quran was
written in the early 1900s right by zoo Connie. Right. This is
considered to be an amazing book when Irrfan Mohammed Abdullah
Alvey mazurka, zoo Kearney, and that was written as in the early
1900s. And then there's a number of others that I'm not going to
necessarily mentioned. Some of those that we will be benefiting
from will be I will mention them in sha Allah as we go along. But
one of the books that we will be also benefiting from is known as
Chef nodine ATAR, who passed away recently, his book on the Illumina
Quran, we'll be dealing with that inshallah. We'll be reading that
and if you want, I know there's one aside from the abridged
version of the edcon Farooq Quran which Torah has published, there
is another one which is written by Mufti Taqi with money call Arun
will Quran or the discourses in the Quran has been translated into
English. That's quite extensive as well. So if anybody wants
something in English, there you go. It's an order as well. And the
other one I think it's, it's maybe more I'm not sure if the English
one is a full translation of the other one but the other one is
very, very extensive as well. Right having said that, the Quran
is Allah subhanho wa Taala says that the keratin Lima Yasha that
keratin Lima Yaksha then zielen me man holla colada was somehow it
Lulu, it's a reminder for those who fear the Quran is a reminder
for those who fear it's a revelation from the one who has
created the earth and who's created the high heavens. That is
what the Quran is and by saying that let us begin now with some of
the absolute basics right. Now, some of these things will seem to
for some of you may be very, very basic and other things may be
quite elaborate and complicated, right? So there will be a whole
array of different subjects that we will we'll do, and we'll take
care of insha Allah with the topic of Allah subhanaw taala firstly,
let us discuss what is this name the Quran what does the word Quran
mean? We keep using the word Quran Quran Quran Quran, what exactly it
is the word Quran mean and why has it been used? You know, for this
at the end of the day Quran is an Arabic word, and it actually comes
from Cora, which means to recite, so Cora is an Arabic word which
means something to recite. So the word Quran, similar to Ghufron,
right Quran wulfrun. Allah subhanho wa Taala says in the
Quran, he refers to the Quran as the Quran Allah says, for example,
in arlena jimang, who call
for either Cora, who felt there'll be poor earn. Now, what's
interesting here is that the word core urn that's used here is
actually not in the meaning of the title the Quran. So, Allah
subhanaw taala says that it is our responsibility to have it
consolidated and gathered together for you in Allina Gemma who are
Khurana Khurana that you either Corona who so when we recite it
for Tabea Khurana you also pursue its reading.
So it's here in the meaning of recitation because that's the
literal meaning of Quran that's the literal literal meaning of
Torah Jaco para tool Quran You know, I have recited Kira, and
Quran means recitation that's its real real meaning however, it then
was chosen by Allah subhanaw taala to be used for as the description
as the title and as the name for the entire set of verses 114 14
sewers. And all of the verses of the Quran, collectively is now
called the Quran that's what we refer to it as.
So there's, now the scholars have provided a technical definition of
the Quran, right? There's numerous verses with with Quran in the in
Zelner who
Quran and RRB and Quran and RRB and so there it actually is
referring to the name right as the as this book as this book. So that
is the most famous and well known and popular name of the Quran.
Right? Can you think of any other names of the Quran? Does anybody
have any ideas of any other names of the Quran that they can come up
with what Allah subhanaw taala is call it or anybody else for that
matter.
For Khan is another one, which means the criteria we'll be
dealing with we'll be looking at that. Any anything else?
Another most famous is what you start off with. Vertical keekaboo
kitab V Kitab, Al Kitab and ZIL.
Kitab right kita is another word. So let's first talk about the
Quran. Scholars have defined the Quran what is it? What is a
comprehensive and exclusive and preclusive definition of the
Quran? All right.
So this is how they've defined it. Now be patient with this right?
Well Khurana who are Cunnamulla he Al Al Quran who are Canavalia he,
Al Munna Zulu Allah Nabi
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam, Al Maktoum Bofill masala
HIF elmen ko Lupita al Motta Abbott, between our two L
mortgages will be sought out in Minho. That is an extremely
comprehensive definition of the Quran. And I think you should
probably write down it in English if you don't have it in Arabic,
because it's really comprehensive, this will actually make it very
clear and lots of people have this have this confusion, you know,
Hadith I could see the divine narration from the Prophet
sallallahu evolution, Allah subhanaw taala speaks, but Allah
is speaking in there as well. Those are Allah's words as well
how do they differ from the Quran? Why can't we recite those and get
reward? The way when we recite the Quran we receive reward, right?
And on the Hadith also general Hadith on day inspired by Allah
subhanho wa Taala to the Prophet sallallahu Sallam as well. Okay,
what is the difference between that? So that is all of that
inshallah is what we're going to discuss, but this definition or
let me translate it for you. And if you want to write it down, you
can. The Quran is the words of ALLAH, or is the word of Allah.
That so that's number one is the word of Allah, that has been
revealed upon the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi salam, so not no
other prophet, but Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to
that should be enough. Now they've added some additional parts, which
has been written in the most muscle have which has been written
in the copies, handwritten, you know, or written in, you know, in
books in volumes. That's number three, number four, which has been
transmitted from the professor loathsome to us through
continuous, widespread, continuous, uninterrupted
transmission.
There was, from the time the prophets are awesome to us, the
Quran has been transmitted through 1000s, hundreds of 1000s. And it's
only increasing millions, maybe of people in every generation, to
such a degree, that they would they could never have come
together to have agreed that let's make this part of the ground which
was not part of the Quran, something that was not part of the
Quran, it just would be impossible for that to happen because of the
sheer number of people who have been transmitting the Quran. Such
a number could never come together to make up something, right,
because there always always be somebody or the other who would
probably inform of them or something like that. So the
continuous number, the wide, expansive continuum that we have
generation after generation without any gap proves the
authenticity of grace. So that's the fourth point that's part of
the definition of the Quran. The fifth one is Al Motta Abbott be
Tilawat. Which means the speech which you would be worshiping
Allah or expressing your devotion by reciting the thing, which when
you recite you express your devotion so it's a worship to
recite it,
you actually get a reward for for reciting this and we'll actually
Inshallah, explain this in a bit more detail. And the last point
the six points so this definition is made up of six points, right,
you can see how beneficial each one of these are. The six point is
almost just wallow be salty Minho.
Which is in inimitable even by a single shorter Surah of it. What
does that inimitable mean? Meaning That's the miracle nature, that's
something which we can consider to be its miracle nature, that it
cannot be challenged. Right? Even a short the shortest surah in it
in our planar co author, for Sol linear on big one, how in Shalini,
Oka who will a better nobody can even reproduce something that can
compare with a shorter Surah of it. Now, there's a lot of
discussion there. Each of these is going to be discussed in much more
detail later on, as we as we go on, and that is the Illumina Quran
will be, you know, will will form part of this will form part of
that as well. But that's the definition. Number one, it is the
speech of Allah revealed to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam written in, in the copies and and transmitted through
continuous widespread without uninterrupted transmission. That
which is a devotion and a worship to recite and that which is
inimitable, unchallenged and not comparable. That's the definition
of the Quran. So if somebody asks you what is the Quran, that is
what you will tell them as many of those points as possible. So let
us quickly go through each one
Are these in a bit more detail for today insha Allah. Firstly, it is
the speech of Allah subhanho wa Taala which the first two point
speech of Allah subhanaw taala, revealed to the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam that shows you that this is nobody else's speech.
This is not the speech of the angel, there were some Orientalist
like Arthur Graham Bell, right in the early 1900s, or whatever. And
he did this translation of the Quran. And he kind of gave these
gave these really weird ideas that this verse was set by Mohammed,
this one doesn't make sense to be part of it, it doesn't really
flow. So this was actually maybe the words of some angels or
something. And then he says, oh, and these words, they seem like
they were just notes written on the back of the paper or the
parchment, or whatever that the Quran was written on a verse was
written on, and then it was just incorporated in it, because he
couldn't see any logical conclusion. He could not see any
logical sequence. So he just came up, tentatively saying all of
these things, of course, I mean, there's not just him, there was at
least another one or two who did the same thing. But Alhamdulillah
today, you know, the, even the orientalist have dismissed that
idea, right? Because it was just,
it was just a really futile idea. But to give you an idea that this
is what people have done, right? So the Quran, everything in the
Quran comes from Allah subhanaw taala it's not the words of any
one else otherwise it would not be called the Quran for it to be
called the Quran. It has to be
the, it has to be the direct words of Allah subhanaw taala that's why
the Hadith, actually not the direct words of Allah subhanaw
taala the inspiration the peroxisome has an idea that's
inspired and then he uses his own words to explain it. Even the
Hadith al could see the exact words are not necessarily the
inspiration that hey, st in this word, right? This is exactly how
you must say the Quran was this is exactly how you must say it.
That's what Allah Subhanallah if you read surah 2pm la oxy will be
omit the AMA the whole discussion is in there
for either Corona HuFa Tabby Quran in Natalina, Viana gullible to hit
Boondall edge and then it carries on. But there it was. The
discussion is that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam when
Gibreel Ali Salam used to come with the Quran, and he used to
read the verses the profit and loss image to try to repeat them
fast, fast, fast, right, so that he could memorize them. And the
Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam was told by Allah subhanho wa Taala to
harvick be Healy Sana Colita Jollibee, don't move your tongue
quickly so that you can rush in haste to, you know,
preserve this Quran. It is our responsibility, the verse I read
earlier, it's our responsibility to have it gathered and
consolidated and preserved in your heart for you. Right. But for us,
one of the best ways for memorizing the Quran is actually
to repeat it over and over again to say it quickly over and over
again as the Hafez will tell you, so the Quran is not the words of
any insan no human being, no jinn, no angel, only Allah subhanaw
taala upon Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam obviously means
that it's not the Torah visible or the Psalms or the evangel, or any
other book, this Quran can only be was only upon the Prophet
sallallahu somebody does not. It does not include parts of the
Bible, you know, taken from the Evangel if Allah subhanaw taala
made it part of this in the sense that he revealed it as part of the
Quran that would be different because there are many ideas that
are found in here that are profound what Katarina Eileen fie
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Well, una will only we prescribed upon them, meaning that your hood
in in their book, right, we prescribed upon them that a life
will be taken for a life and an eye for an eye and nose for a nose
and so on and so forth. So those kinds of things have been repeated
and added in here where it was necessary, but there was nothing
taken and become part of the Quran directly by the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wasallam the next point which is Al Maktoum Bofill
Messiah, that which is written in a copy so the Quran is written.
Now, there's some people who may have never seen a written Quran,
you know, for them, it was all memorization. I mean, today that's
kind of impossible. Right? But I'm saying they've made this part of
the definition that the Quran must is also considered the part which
is written as well, right? Because this is how the Quran has been
preserved from the time of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam until
now. In fact, in the time of the Prophet salallahu, alayhi
wasallam. At some, you know, only the Quran was allowed to be
written, right? That's why a lot of the Hadith also of some Hadith
was also written by some of the Sahaba Abubakar Siddique or the
Allah when I'm reading Abdullah bin Nasser, the Allah and others,
but nothing was allowed to be written along with the Quran
whatever was written as the Quran when the Prophet sallallahu Sallam
would receive the revelation he would quickly because he couldn't
write himself. You would memorize it right? He would have it in his
mind because Allah subhanaw taala had given it in his mind, he would
quickly call Zaid hypnotherapist or the Allahu Anhu Mojave or the
Allah one was somebody else, right, and others and others and
they would
They will basically write it down because they knew how to write
return on different kinds of pieces. We'll discuss that later.
Inshallah we'll discuss that later. Nothing was allowed. That's
why there was an idea Jerry riddle Quran, like, keep the Quran
completely away from anything else, so that nothing should be
confused as becoming part of the Quran. All right, we'll discuss
all of this in a lot more detail in sha Allah, in fact, was called
general Messiah who like keep the copies of the Quran completely
away from any other kinds of writings. So nobody mistakes it.
Right. The the the next point was that which has been transmitted
through an interrupted Chang, right. And that's quite easy to
understand. But you see, for if you hear something, a new news or
a piece of speech, a bit of speech of someone else, and one person
has told it to you, or even two people or even three people,
right? You could logically rationally assume that, if you
have any doubts about that, that these three people they got
together to make this up. It's possible, right? For people you
have for people, let's just say the moon, right? There's a certain
area, right? I'm not starting a moon debate about Severian Moon
births or anything like that. But the point is that let's just say
from a certain area, there's one person who sees the moon, and
nobody else sees it anywhere else, then we would probably say, maybe
he saw something else. Maybe he's mistaken. What about if two people
see it? What about if three people see it, we could still say that
maybe they saw it, they also the same mistake, there was maybe
something that they saw that was there that looked like the moon
and nobody else saw it that the sky was clear. Right? Now four
people, five people, six people, generally they say that when the
sky is clearer than just one person sighting is not sufficient,
you need to have what they call a gem of a field, which means such a
huge expense of people, what number, right, such an expense of
people, right, so you can't fix it on a certain number of people.
Because if you say 10 People steal 10 people, they could be, you
know, part of the same club and they could have decided as a
conspiracy that let us say that we saw the moon, that's a
possibility. So you have to see the nature of the people. And
there are people who given different numbers. But when it
comes to the Quran, we're talking about 1000s of people in every
generation, there were 1000s of Sahaba, who took the Quran from
the Prophet sallallahu sallam, from the sahaba. They were, you
know, many, many, many more 1000 or millions of data between who
and then the successes of them and so on. There's just no way that
all of these people would have gotten together, right and said,
Let us make up a verse or let us take away of us. And people would
have agreed, because there were individuals who tried this, there
are claims from certain individuals that there are verses
missing in the Quran, or there are also some who claimed that we
should take away some verses of the Quran, they're not really part
of the Quran, we've had individuals who may have done
that, but the majority has had the same Quran throughout and that's
the most amazing thing had the same Quran and that is the one
that's reflected in the writing that has been written as well. And
that's very, very important. They I don't think there's any other
book like this in existence, which was memorized in hearts, and also
written right and then So how was the Quran transmitted through this
uninterrupted chain, through hearts and through the written the
written copies, through written copies and through the hearts so
if there was ever a mistake in the written copies Subhanallah they
you know, people produce different mishaps different Quran, and they
have to get it checked and checked and checked again. Because
sometimes, you know, you can have a mistake and that people are
going to pick that mistake up. You're not a six year old kid
who's memorized the Quran, or who's still studying will be able
to pick up. Likewise, if there's somebody somebody who just
memorized the Quran, and he's reading something and he makes a
mistake, there's going to be somebody there, who will be able
to take the mistake out, and we'll be able to correct him using a
written so that's why in our tradition, both the written and
the heart memorize are both very, very, very important.
And in order to facilitate that, Allah subhanaw taala made it easy.
So Allah subhanho wa Taala says in the Quran, what are called as
sarnelli early victory for one month decade, we have facilitated
the Quran for its, you know, for its remembrance for its
memorization, you know, however you want to however you can, the
various ways you can read that. Is there anybody to do that? Now you
see Subhan Allah the miracle of the Quran is that you've got
people in non Arab communities who absolutely do not understand a
single word of Arabic in many cases, and yet they've memorized
the entire Quran and they have not memorized anything in their own
language if they're English speaking, Urdu speaking, or or for
example, somebody speaking they may they may not have memorized
anything in Somali or anything in Urdu, right but yet they know the
entire Quran by heart. They won't know a single point in English if
their languages
English but they know the entire Quran at heart and amazingly good
enough as an Arab as well, that's the miracle of the Quran that
Allah subhanaw taala made it made it such And number five, which was
that it is something which
we you will be rewarded by reading, right something you get
rewarded by reading. So, essentially that is what it is.
The Quran is such that if you recited for the sake of Allah
subhanaw taala, you had no intention to get reward is like
this is my this is the words of Allah subhanaw taala, I want to
read them, you're getting reward for every single letter, you're
getting 10 rewards, you don't get the same reward for Hadith, you
get reward for Hadith, if you're studying them for the sake of
learning and so on. Right, but if you say I'm just gonna read
Buhari, just because I want to get reward, every letter gives me a
certain reward, I'm not going to even understand any, I'm just
going to read it, you're not going to get that reward, you only get
that reward by reciting the Quran, any Surah of the Quran, whether
you understand it or not, if you understand it, there's going to be
a whole other experience a whole other benefit. But even if you
don't understand it, you will benefit right that you will get
the reward of it. This inshallah we'll discuss in a bit more detail
as well later in terms of
some of the other karate and some of the other recitations whether
you will be rewarded for reading some of the more you can say,
the apparent karate will we'll look at that later in sha Allah.
But the last point for today is
the inimitable nature of the Quran l mortgages. So this essentially
will be discussed in a lot more detail later as to how much of the
Quran see, I'll give you a question. Allah subhanaw taala
says in the Quran, in Surah Tomaz would differ from another.
Then he looked, right, then he saw some another from another, two
very simple words from another. Insert Rama and Allah subhanaw
taala says muda
it's a verse but it's only made up of one word muda harmattan giving
a description, right? I mean, somebody can make up a word like
that. And some another can make up a phrase like that. That's not
difficult. All right. So is that much considered to be a miracle or
inimitable in its nature? Right? So I don't want to make this too
complex right now. But when we discuss it, I'll explain this in
more detail. What is the minimum amount of the Quran that is
considered to be inimitable? Right, now, let us look at a few
of the verses in the Quran where Allah subhana wa Taala discusses
this. So in Surah, Al Israel verse 88, Allah subhana wa Taala says,
or let in Egypt and it in soil gene Nuala A to be meaningfully
higher than Anila tuna be monthly, what you can about the homely
battledome Mahira say to them, that if the humankind and the jinn
kind come, came together, and combined together to produce the
life of this Quran, they would not be able to produce the life of
even if they were to assist one another. Then Allah subhanho wa
Taala says in Surah, Al Baqarah, verses 23 and 24
We're in go to infinity arrivee meme man as I Betina to be
superato Mithali whether all shahada calm in Duni in coutume,
side up in the in lambda for ILO wala Phi Mu now letting you Mokou
Han Soo well AJA or or that little feeling. If you have any doubts
regarding that which We have revealed to our servant, then
bring us sorta like it produce a sort of like it even like in our
Tina Kolkata, and then call all of your witnesses besides Allah
subhanaw taala called whoever else that you want, if you are
truthful, if you saying that this Quran is wrong or incorrect or is
fabricated, if you cannot do this, and then Allah says, well in the
follow you will never be able to do this. If you cannot do this,
and you will never ever be able to do this, then protect yourself
protect protect from the Fire, whose fuel is the human being and
the stones which has been prepared for the disbelievers. So by this,
Allah subhanaw taala produces this challenge. So the Quran is
something that can never be reproduced, we will inshallah
discuss in more detail exactly how many verses that is or how many
words that is and all of that detail will come later. We pray to
Allah subhanaw taala to bless us with the Quran and Illuminate our
hearts with the Quran and all of these different aspects about the
Quran in sha Allah tomorrow we discuss some of the other names of
the Quran and then we will be moving into what the types of
revelation how the physically how the revelation
Shannon came down the province of Los Angeles what experience voice
also would undergo what he would have to do to be able to receive
this revelation and how it was processed by him and eventually
transferred to us. May Allah subhanaw taala bless you all. And
may Allah make this Ramadan better than any Ramadan before it, Doc
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