Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Sciences in 30 Days Part 17 The Seven Ahruf
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As Salam alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh Alhamdulillah Allah
subhanaw taala has graced us and has been has allowed us to get to
day 17 In this series and Alhamdulillah May Allah subhanho
wa Taala bless us for the rest of Ramadan as well. Let's start off
in the name of Allah subhana wa Tada
with a bit of Quran are all below him in a shaytani R rajim
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Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala Murthy Ramadan
Lila meanwhile, early he or Safi or barbacoa seldom at the Sleeman
coffee on Eli Oh Medina, Amma bad. So today we we start with a
discussion which will take today and tomorrow about the seven roof
of the Quran and the seven clear art of the Quran. Now while many
of you may have come across variant readings of the Quran,
where for example, when they recite Surah Fatiha, they read it
like this are all the Wilhemina shaytan al rajim Bismillah Al
Rahman Al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen Rahmani Raheem e
Maliki only been then you'll hear a Rahmani Raheem e medica to meet
the bean or Rahmani Raheem Mehdi Kiyomi, Dean, he cannot boudoir
any kind of staring in a car autonomous therapy or in a car
autonomous therapy. Or a dino zero tolerance. takim Serrato Latina
and I'm dialing him Sirata leadin zero Tala Dena Ananda adding him,
Ananda la hemo or Ananda Allah home laden metal Dooby it whom are
they him? And him what a
lien. Now, those are the seven karats. So many of you must have
come across that. There's many, many recordings you will find on
the different online places where you can download and listen to
Quran from so you would have heard that. But then there's the
discussion of the seven of us seven roof and the seven Clara,
the same thing? Are they totally two different things? This is one
of the most complicated discussions, one of the most
controversial discussions, and it has so many different opinions
that according to some orlimar, there are actually about 35
different opinions in this regard to try to understand what the
seven of our Where do these opinions come from? They come
from, why do these opinions differ so much? And what's the basis of
this? So we're going to look at that today, in a short while that
we have this, you know, doesn't claim to be an exhaustive,
exhaustive coverage, because that would actually probably take
about, I would say, you know, five hours to be able to discuss this
in detail with all the different evidences and responses of the
different views. And that will take a very long time. So we're
just going to summarize it I'm going to give you like a really
super summary quickly first before I go into a bit more depth in sha
Allah over the last two days. So firstly, I'm going to give you a
bit of a summary number one, what we find in the Hadith and I'll
quote these Hadith a bit later, is that Allah subhanaw taala, the
prophets Allah Some said that Allah subhanho wa Taala revealed
this Quran, this Quran in seven hours, I'll just use the word
Accra for now, is the plural of hearth. And hearth generally
refers to a letter literally means a corner, an edge, a limit of some
sort, but here obviously refers to a letter. So what's going on now
is the Allah subhanaw taala revealed this Quran according to
seven Achraf. Now to determine what the seven out of our that is,
what the what all the difference of opinion is about is that what
are those seven Achraf and there's nothing absolutely clear from the
prophets that allows them to determine exactly what that is you
have the Hadith which generally say the Quran has been it has been
allowed in seven different ways. And there are some Hadees which,
for example, Amara, the alone found somebody reciting in a
different way to what he had himself learned and he took him to
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam northern southern said, you
read and he read and then on Monday, the alarm read, and he
said, Oh, both of you are correct. And this is exactly how Allah
subhanaw taala allowed it to be read instead.
When different out of So to determine what these rules are,
are they a difference of different dialects? And different? Yeah,
different dialects of the different Arab tribes of the time?
Right? So they would use different wording for the same idea. So they
were allowed to use those different wordings for those same
idea in the Quran. Was that the reason? Was that what it meant?
Some say yes, that's exactly what it was. There's others who say
that no, that is not what it is, it's actually referring to, it
could refer to some part of that, that it could be different wording
in some cases. And otherwise, it could be just different. It could
be that some words are placed before others, while in other
karate, it's allowed to flip them around, the meaning is the same. I
think pretty much everybody does agree on one thing, that the
Sebata if there's one thing is that a meaning is absolutely all
the same. Right? So the meaning does not change the objective, the
message of the Quran does not change in any of this, right? It's
just various different ways of reading, but to determine those
ways of reading are very difficult. Could it be that one,
you have the sentence diverse in the passive sense, and like why oh
my your shadow that Allah, right, so the day when the enemies of
Islam will be
gathered together, so that in the passive they will be made together
Together, they will be made to congregate together. Another way
to read is whale and natural act, that, that we will gather them
together means the same thing, because when you say they will be
made together together, obviously, the one who's doing that is Allah
subhanaw taala and causing getting the angels to do that. But then
the other one is clear that we are doing this. So again, the general
message does not change at all. It's just different ways of saying
it. So we will, that's what we're going to look at. Now. The idea of
this,
is that in the in the beginning of Islam, which was in Mocha, mocha
Rama, the Quran was revealed, according to just one half, which
was the way of the kurush now that's agreed upon, that the Quran
that we have is according the Quran we see today, right, the
most half that we see today is definitely according to the
original, which is according to the primary, you can say language
of the time of the primary dialect of the time, we can call it which
is that of the Quraysh. Okay, because there's clear Hadith
regarding that, that even when orthovanadate Allahu Anhu was
compiling it together and having it written in this very specific
way to include what needed to be included in the in the correct way
and have it complete. He said, If you ever differ as to the wording
and so on, then you're going to use the dialect of the Kurdish. So
the Prophet sallallahu sallam was a Qureshi. Many of the Sahaba were
Christians, but not all of them. So now, what happened is that they
say that some say that these sub Sebata are have
started off in Makkah Mercado Rama, while others say that
actually this was in Madina, Munawwara and if you understand
the background, you will get a better understanding that many of
the Hadith, they seem to indicate that actually, this is something
on Madina Munawwara while in Makkah mahkamah, there was just
one half of one style on which this was being read. However,
after that, when many, many other tribes entered into Islam, in
order to facilitate for them to be able to read the Quran, they
couldn't all you can't you couldn't force all of them now
this was just a common people, you know, who had to take the guidance
from the Quran, who had to learn the Quran, this was not written
right in those days. I mean, the Quran was written for record, but
people did not write in those days. So you didn't have copies of
the Quran been published. So the Quran was initially in the in the
beginning period was transmitted orally. So it would be quite a
difficulty to tell the various different tribes, the various
different tribes that existed there, that and to force them to
read according to and use the same wording according to the Qureshi
tribe, right? Because the main message of the Quran was Darwin
was to propagate and was to give them the message and teach them
and guide them and nurture them. And that could be that could be
done with its message. So initially, Allah subhanaw taala
the Prophet saw some aloud them and taught them that you could
actually read in your way, you know, in with words that you use
in place of other words, so if somebody uses one word for three,
and another tribe uses another word for three, so they could use
that word, but the prophets of Allah some specifically taught
them what could be as and what could not be, it wasn't left free
for all the Hey, you can just change it however you wish. So
that was there was for facilitation. Now, slowly, slowly,
what happened is that
as it continued, and as it continued,
what then happened is
that
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
used to.
Whenever the revelation would come down. He would number one he would
call the various different scribes there were several different that
were named Xavier and Tabitha, the Allah one, oh my God, Allah, Juana
and the for call upon others, and you would tell them to write it
down. So they would write it on pieces of bone or leather or wood
or whatever it is right? However, the promised person would do
something else, he would also teach some of the different Thai
people that would come to him. To facilitate for them he would also
teach them the Quran in according to their language, according to
their dialect, you could say, right? Now, obviously, what
happened is that he is teaching a whole group of people according to
the Qureshi tribe, and that's the way it was written. But there were
also other people that he's teaching to read according to
their style. So now what happened is that some of those people may
have actually written it down according to their dialect as
well. Now they have conveyed it to others because it's something they
heard from the Prophet salallahu Salam, and the Prophet sallallahu
Sallam the main Qureshi one, they they will transmit that as well.
So now what happened is that
coming through Amara, the alarm Stein there wasn't that much of an
issue but then when it came to Earth man or the Allah Who and
whose time they were
to her they thought of the hola Juan was there in the conquest of
Azerbaijan and Armenia in the area and then he saw this big issue
erupt between people saying that hey, you've done wrong you've done
wrong because now remember what each of these people had heard
from their different teachers or different people they you know,
that went all the way back to the prophets of the Lord he said there
was a different sound so he came in Taurus man with the Allah one,
and with one of them decided to put it all together according to
one way now with only the alarm then said that anybody who's got
it written according to those other ways, the other dialects
that prophets Allah, some had allowed in the beginning, they
should get rid of it, they should, they should burn it they should
get rid of and he had all of that, essentially, taken care of and
dispose, but he did not prevent them from continuing to read it if
they wanted. But in terms of a written corpus, he had it written
in this one Qureshi style, right in the Qureshi dialect Qureshi
were reading that was agreed upon with the Sahaba, right that this
was there anyway, because nobody disagreed. I mean, once you
understood that the rest of us had also taught them and had taught
them, then everybody agreed on on that, but just to remove the
confusion for the future, right? This was all put down, according
to one Qureshi style. So while the others were allowed to continue
reading in their own way, and teaching that if they wanted to,
but in terms of it being written, or 3d alone insisted that it be
written this way. So eventually, what happened is that all of those
other ways they just phased out, right, they expired there was they
did not remain beyond that. That's why today, you can according to
this view, you will not be able to find any of the other of except
this one, even though if you could, then you could you would be
able to read it in that way. Right. So that that is the idea of
the seven out of that eventually, they all phased out because
mashallah the teachers would go, you know, from authority, and when
he would, when he would send the several copies that he made of the
master Moussaieff. Right, which they claim today, that one is in
Tashkent, and the other one is in Turkey, ALLAH SubhanA, Allah knows
best I've seen both of them. Right? Allah knows best if they
are the original copies or not. But if they are, whatever the
prophets are semana de along that actually send teachers with it as
well. Now, these teachers, obviously, they taught that became
more prolific, that became more popular that way, main ways to the
other way, was left behind. Now, this was not something that they
could just choose for themselves. I mean, this was, as I said, this
had to be something that was revealed, and it was not something
that they could choose to change themselves, Oh, my tribe reads
this this way. And let me read it that way. Only if the products are
awesome, I told them to do that. So that there are some there are
some extreme, you know, views in this regard, or some modernist or
liberal views in this regard that it should be allowed on some
Orientalist have suggested this as well. Right and oriented is, I
mean, this is one of the big issues that they've jumped onto
the bandwagon or because they could not find any way to
criticize the Quran. I mean, they tried in many different ways. But
then they thought that this might be something to cause confusion to
people with at least. I mean, there's, there's satisfactory
explanations of this among, you know, by the Muslim scholars, but
those who don't know, the deep understanding of the history of
this and how to reconcile generations, it can cause
confusion for people and people can cause confusion to others
regarding this. So, for example, today, the Egyptians and, you
know, Yemenis and others, I mean, the when they read Arabic, they
change certain letters just by default, for example, they they
change Jeem to go, right, they send CIM to God, so Jazak Allah
would become gesac Allah, right, for example, that they would say,
Yeah, the other in Syria. I mean, they change all the costs to a
Hamza, right. So Huck becomes
missed. Masjid in in Egypt is Miss good. Right Miskin. Can you change
that?
Can you change that in the Quran? Absolutely not, you know just to
facilitate for for Egyptians or for Syrians or whatever, they'll
be changing all the bulbs to a kill to an old, they'll say lb lb
lb ry o lube, you know, Uber nurse, that's completely wrong.
That the only dialects that what allowed were those specifically
taught by the province and loathsome. And as I said, they've
been canceled out because there's no need for that facilitation.
Because as it grew, it's the main Qureshi dialect that became more
prolific, everybody could relate to it. Everybody could read
according to that. And that's how they finally started learning the
Quran. So there was no need to keep it. You know, once all the
tribes had entered into Islam, and they'd all been assimilated and
everything, there was no need for them to continue reading in their
own way. They could actually now learn it afresh this way. Right.
So that's essentially the idea. Now,
it says seven are off. There's some other discussions about this
that is this restricted to seven were they only seven because there
were many, many more tribes. That's why they some people, they
have the view, for example, called the AR, then a number of others,
including Shaohua EULA have more recent times last few 100 years,
their belief is that the word seven is just used for abundance,
because in Arabic, and in the Hadith, we see that that they
mentioned seven for like quite a few, right? Like it doesn't really
say right seven for quite a few it doesn't have to restricted to
seven because there are many tribes who could have been more
than seven as well.
Just like we have 70 the process and Mister make a stick for 70
times in you know, or 100 times it says another Hadith, we use the
concept of 10s Oh, there's 10s of them, hundreds of them. 1000s of
them. The Arabs they used to use, I don't know if they still use
they say 770 or 700. That's kind of their frame of reference point.
So they said that actually refers to more than seven as well. Others
say no, that's not true. The majority actually disagree with
that they say that know the process and very specifically said
seven, so it must mean seven and there. They give a lot of reasons
for that. So there's a difference of opinion in that regard as well.
Okay. Now, the other thing to clarify here is that when you say
that there were seven ways they would read this, this does not
mean that every single verse and every single word they would read
in seven different ways, or they were allowed to read it, or they
were even ways of reading in seven. Right? So Al hamdu,
lillahi, rabbil, Alameen, they were not necessarily seven
different ways of reading that. What it means is that there were
certain words, certain verses that could be reread in different ways,
depending on what the need of that dialect was at that time. Right?
It does not mean that there were absolutely always seven, but it
was the maximum would be seven. That's the other clear
understanding here. But otherwise, in many words, there would just be
one other options, it would just be two options, or maybe three
options maximum. Right? Well, not maximum, but generally speaking,
are very few places would it be like seven. So that's why now
remember, we don't have this necessarily in front of us,
according to that view that it's not the case. Now. We do have
seven Gorod. In fact, we've got more than seven Pirot. Right,
seven carrot, seven ways of recitation. All right, we
definitely have that. That's something I'm going to talk about
more tomorrow. We definitely have seven carrot archery in fact, we
have more than seven carrot. So there's some orlimar who actually
say that the seven rules are the seven modes, the seven key rods,
the seven recitations, okay. But others they say no, they are not
the seven recitations the seven these are actually seven dialects
so those are the two big views about this. Okay, now those are
the seven Kira those who say that it's something different to the
seven out of then why are they you know why is this confusion of
seven then said well, there's actually more than seven Kira
there's at least 10 carat and there's even probably more than
that the reason why that became confusing is that in the third
century or something one of the scholars diploma Jay he compiled
the seven Kira together right in one place which were all according
to the quarter sheet style right all according to the quarter sheet
style now because this book became very well known and his collection
became very well known people started confusing the seven out
roof with the seven carat but according to the majority view
that is they're not the seven guard they're separate. However,
there is another view which says that they are both the same thing.
There are just so many different views regarding this
now, as I said this did not happen in Makkah there are there are some
who say actually happened in Macau Macau Rama there's some who insist
on that, that it started right from the beginning that seven were
allowed up to seven were allowed or more than seven are allowed
what are the various different opinions? However, the majority
say that no, this is something from all the Hadith we see about
it. It happened in Madina Munawwara because there's specific
places that are mentioned where this these incidents took place
that we know about from the Hadith. So this actually happened
Medina and that's where it was more than need because these
tribes have now entered into Islam and it became a need that there
was not really much of a need in Mocha mocha Rama, okay.
Now,
how did the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam
I know how to teach them. Right? The different because the Prophet
SAW was Qureshi, he was not like a master of different languages by,
you know, academically speaking. So they say that oh, this is
probably through a miracle of Allah subhanaw taala that he knew
the different ways of the dialects of the different tribes so that he
could teach them this was something from miracle. There's no
other way to explain it because the Prophet sallallahu Sallam
taught different because it's clear when the person came along,
or the Allahu anhu, that had a different way of reading the verse
and said, Yes, that's exactly how I taught. And he said, Yeah,
that's exactly how I taught so the prophesy Lawson was the only one
who is actually teaching the different dialects or teaching the
Quran according to the different dialects. He wasn't teaching the
dialect he was teaching the Quran acquainted different dialects.
Where did you get that knowledge from? They say that the only thing
we can
understand is that this must be miraculous that Allah subhanaw
taala taught them that, but as I said, to clarify, again, he would
only have it written, physically written according to the Qureshi
way.
So
I think I've explained the kind of master summary of I kind of
explained all of that. I'll just give you one more thing.
There's very few words as I said that, you know, you could say in
several, several different ways that were that were mentioned, but
to give you an idea, there is they've given example that Allah
subhanaw taala in in the Quran, if he was to say, Come, right come
Halima, right? So there are seven words for this that the Arabs have
used. One is Halima means comm another one is dial dial you hear
this quite? You know, in fact, I don't see I don't really see
people using Luma today, but you do see them see the dial dial
Yeah, he dial right. A Kabil right, come along, like embark on
this acapella that's another one. Another one is a layup. Like to me
to me, right. Now we in my direction, right? Custody, I
again, intend me Corby come close to me or my closeness. So all of
these could be used for the same idea have come to me or come on,
hurry up, like let's go. Right? Like in English you have come
Hurry up. Let's go. Walk Ron, come with me. You know, there's various
different words.
Why were the seven last? Well, I explained that there was actually
no need for them anymore. So slowly, slowly, they just withered
away. There was just nobody to teach them. And that's why they
were lost. And it wasn't wajib to preserve them. There's no Hadith
to indicate that they must have been preserved. This is of course,
according to the view that the seventh Kira and not that however,
there are scholars who actually insist that no the seventh were
preserved and are preserved and they are part of the seventh. The
seventh Kira the seventh recitation, that is what it is. So
that's the whole other group, which say that the seven Kira same
thing as a seven out of that means they're all preserved. Right.
So for example, one of the Proponents of this view is the
great Imam Al Bukhari learning, Imam, Bucky Lani, he insists that
the seven are preserved, they had to be preserved otherwise, you
know, to say that they could not be preserved, or whatever that
would be a major mistake. So that's one view there.
There's a another view as well, which I'll just mention to you,
which is that the seven roof were just there for the initial period
of Islam, you know, just to facilitate, and then after that,
they were actually cancelled out by the Prophet salallahu Alaihe
Salam, this is not the majority view, but this is the view of
quite a few that they actually cancelled out by the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam see what used to happen. And I would, I was gonna
explain this in another session in more detail, the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam every Ramadan, right? Like during this
time, he would recite whatever of the Quran had been revealed until
then, remember over 23 years or whatever had been revealed in that
seventh year, he would he would get together with Gibreel Ali
Salam, and they would, he will review review it with him. So he
would read the entire that portion that had been revealed until then.
So now in the last year, in the final year, the Prophet sallallahu
Sallam read the entire Quran or, you know, the majority absolute
majority of the Quran, I'm not sure if there were maybe a few
verses that were left outside of that. So that was the final
reading with liberalism. It's like a final review, right, a final
revision with Julian Assange confirming everything and
after that, it was disallowed to read in any other way. So, some
even go as far as saying that it was actually from the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam that initially this was allowed. Then after that,
it became prohibited to read by the other Pirot right, sorry, the
other of the other modes of reading. This is a view that is
taken by Imam Mojave. He considers this to be the strongest opinion
so if you only been ordained I used to believe have this and
ignore him and also ignore Abdul Rahim Allah. They consider this
view as well.
So now that gives you an understanding of the scope in this
regard, right of the various different views and what they are
and hope that clarifies everything that I'm just mentioning very
simply, again, seven roof as mentioned in the Hadith, according
to one group of scholars are the seven Kira art, or seven Kira are
seven ways of karate that we know of even today. The other say that
know the seven out of actually seven different dialects of the
various different Arab tribes, and they're gone now. Right? Most of
them are gone. Now maybe some aspects of that maybe, you know,
you might be able to find some of those in the seventh period, but
otherwise they're gone. Right. And the seventh Kira that totally
something else, broadly speaking, that would be the two opinions.
But there's, again, so many other combinations of opinions, because
then to determine what those seven if it's not seven, if it's a seven
tribe, tribal?
What do you call it?
dialects? That's a simple opinion. They're gone. We don't know them
anymore. We only know one the Qureshi one that's simple that
clarifies everything. But if you take the other view, which is held
by many, many, many, many scholars, that it's actually the
seven ways of reading as opposed to seven dialects, the seven ways
of reading the Wu Zhu as they call them, the widow seven ways of
reading and then the discussion is what are those seven would you
have reading? Right? And are they what we read as Kira today?
Because the carrot or would you there are different ways of
reading right? Are they the same thing on what they are? And
there's difference of opinion in that regard as well. Okay, so let
us now get to the discussion itself in a bit more detail once
you've I hope you guys have all understood the the general
framework of this I'm not going to talk too much about the seven Kira
except where it overlaps here. I'll talk about that more
particularly tomorrow. Insha Allah the seventh Kira at the seven ways
of reading the seven Stein like light like I demonstrated to you
in the beginning of the circle fattier, but today just about out
of So firstly, let's start with the word definition of our of the
plural of health. As I mentioned, it means a side an edge of
something. It means having, like, being on edge about something not
being part of the mainstream. Allah subhanaw taala insert will
hedge verse 11. Allah says, Well, I mean, in the me Abdullah or the
huddle Finn, there are among people some who worship Allah
subhana, WA, tada, half heartedly. So it's in the meaning of half
heartedly, they're not fully into it, they just do it. Partially.
Right. So partially, for in Asaba, who, how you run it, and maybe if
some good reaches them, they're very satisfied. So they're very
selfish in the way they do it, but they do it for just personal
motives. And if some fitna wane or cyber to fitna in Colorado, which
if some trial and test reaches them, some challenge reaches them,
then they turn on their face Costiera dunya will ask you the
losers of the dunya and akhira and this is a huge huge loss with the
Attica whole husana moving so in here the half means not fully but
partially right on edge. That's kind of the meaning that is
mentioned here. However, the technical definition what the
other man have done is a robo Saba, Saba two Oh Johanne fussy
hatin Minna la hottie Well, Kira RT on Zillow at Al Quran rotary
is a really interesting definition that incorporates both major views
or all the major views right? Allahu wa Saba to LG hin foresee
Hatem Mina lo hottie Well, Kiera RT Lindsay Lohan Khurana Karim,
the seventh out of
the seven modes, however you want to translate that I just prefer to
use the word hero so that I'm not specifying anything, the seven out
of the seven eloquent ways, right, either from the languages, the
dialects, or from the modes of reading the ways of being read the
Quran that will reveal that the Quran was revealed, according to
that was the reveal it was revealed to be able to recite
according to right, that's what the definition is. Now, let us
look at the Hadith and disregard so you know where this is all
coming from? This is coming from the Hadith and these Hadith are
very, very strong. I mean, there are some other weak generations
but we'll just look at the stronger generations. In this
regard. We'll just look at a few of the hadith is quite a few but
we look at a few of the Hadith In fact, the Allah ma have agreed
that the quran being revealed on sub i to have on seven half on the
seven modes or whatever it is, is a motor worth in narration that
it's related from. I don't know how many narrators that you can't
expect that to be a lie. Right. So that's definitely you can't just
explain away that oh, this is a weak narration. No. The it's
actually mutawatir is its continuous, contiguous widespread
narration that there's no doubt about so
has to be agreed upon that the Quran was revealed in seven
hollow. That's why there's all of this discussion as to what how to
determine the seven out of afterwards. Right. Let's look at
the first ideas from Amara YBNL Cadabra the Allahu Anhu that I
alluded to earlier which is related both by Imam Bukhari and
Muslim. He says that
Omar the alarm says that I heard he sham Abdul Hakim reciting Surah
Al Furqan.
The Baraka Lavina Zilla for corner Allah I will be here Kunal al Amin
and Avira. He said, I this was in the life of the Prophet salallahu
Alaihe Salam, this was not afterwards this was Wildfox Allah
Allah Julio Sydenham was alive. He heard him reciting somewhere. So I
was listening to him. And he was, he was reading according to Allah
whorfin cathedra. This is what Omar the owner says, Lim Ucrete,
me ha Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, he was reciting that
according to so many different modes or ways in which the
province also had not taught me
for keto savvy Hoover solids. Now, it was either he was it looks like
maybe he showed me the Hakeem was praying loudly. And Meridian was
listening or he was the Oregon was also in salad. But either way, it
doesn't mention it clearly. But he says that I was going to maybe,
you know, go and challenge him and overcome him and wrestle him down
or whatever, while in the salad, but for the sub bar to hit
Taslima. So I forced myself to be patient until he finished because
I'm going to be alone is just that get up and go do the job. So then
after I grabbed him, I pulled him to me caught his attention by his
by his sheet that he showed that he had. And I said to him, who
made you read the surah in the way that I heard you reading? He said,
The Prophet sallallahu Sallam taught it to me this way. I said,
You're a liar. Right? Because he didn't know about this, right? So
he said, You're a liar. The Pro is awesome, taught me this sword as
well. And he was totally different to this.
So I grabbed him and I dragged him to the Prophet salallahu Alaihe
Salam. And I said, that I've heard him to read reciting Surah Al
Furqan. According to a mode and a way that is not the way you taught
me. Problems and let him go let him go. Right. Okay, he sham read.
So he read in the same way that I had heard him recite earlier.
Right. So the Prophet saw some said Karateka on zealot, this is
exactly how it was revealed. Subhanallah now you can imagine,
oh my god, I'm saying.
I'm sure he taught me differently. So how can it be revealed like
that you can imagine his emotion. Then the Prophet saw some
terminology and said, Okay, now ekra Yama, you read as well.
For Karatu Allah the Quran is I read the way that the rosin has
taught me. So is that GoDaddy got on Zillow, this is how it was
revealed as well.
And then the Prophet saw some made it very clear and he declared in
how the Quran on Zillow Allah sub it, that this Quran has been
revealed, according to seven modes. So now you read whatever is
easy for you, you read whichever one of those modes are easy for
you, meaning whichever mode that you have been taught according to
your dialect, or your style, or whatever the meaning of that is,
you read according to that. Now, the other great scholar of the
Quran, among the Sahaba was obey IGNOU cabra, the Allah and there's
a hadith that's related from him again, which Mr. Muslim has
transmitted, he says, I was in the masjid.
And a man came in, and he started reciting these in worship, a man
comes in and started reading aloud. And he started reading away
that I could not recognize, man, what kind of Quran Is he reading?
Right? You know, nowadays, if there's somebody who comes in
starts making a mistake, you know, you're going to be questioning it.
That's not Quran, you know, like, what are you reading? You know,
you're making a lot of mistakes. So that's what he thought. Then
after that, while I'm listening to him, and he's making his way
there's another person who comes in and he reads, and again, he
reads in a way that I could not recognize as well.
And it looks like they were praying, Salat, somebody was
praying Salam. So he says that when we finished the salad,
finally, maybe this was he didn't want to disturb him. Then when
they finished the salad, he says we It doesn't tell you exactly
what happened in between the interchange, but he says that we
then all went to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
right?
And I said, that he has just read something that I cannot recognize
his read part of the Quran in a way that I don't recognize. And
then this person came in afterwards. And he's also done
something similar. He's also read in a way that I don't recognize
they both reading differently. So I know one way and they both
reading in two different ways that is three ways. So the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Okay, read.
So he made them both read and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said, yeah, they're both correct. Now, that's really
confusing. That's really confusing. So
when they said that obey macabre the Allahu Anhu says that there
was a some kind of a doubt, some kind of disbelief regarding this a
denial or something that could leave
denial about this that crept into my heart, but I didn't say
anything, right? I didn't say anything. Okay.
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam saw my emotion saw the
state that I overcome, that it overcome me. And he, he hit me on
the chest like he struck me on the chest, he's like, and I just
pulled out in, in sweat. Like, I just began to perspire, right? I
just, you know, started to sweat. And it was as if I am now looking
at Allah subhanaw taala in terror, like, you know, I'm, I'm really,
really, really scared that what have I done? Like, you know, I
mean, it was an emotion that, you know, I that's not how you told me
and you're saying it's okay. You know, they just didn't know this
in the beginning. So then the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam
explained, and in this one, this hadith gives a better idea of how
this had happened. Is that obey the prophets, Allah, some said,
Yeah, are they?
A messenger was sent to me, meaning the probably the angel
Jibreel Ali Salam that I recite the Quran, according to one style,
you know, which everybody knows, you know, the one that I generally
refer to. So what I decided that I sent him back to say that please
have some
Have some mercy on my own, in the sense that make it easy for my own
mom, make it easy for my own mom, maybe by then the person would
recognize that it's going to be difficult for those different Arab
tribes to start reading in that same way of the Qureshi try
because he was so ingrained to speak in those different ways. And
if you have to change, for example, it's, I mean, it's not
the same example. But if you're to get me now to speak, like somebody
from Birmingham, you know, from Birmingham, or from from
Blackburn, right? I mean, we say Blackburn here and they say
Blackburn, right? A Bolton, right? It's very difficult. Or if I had
to speak like somebody from Bradford, or if they had to speak
like somebody from London, or one of the ways of the London, it's
very, very difficult. So said, make it easy on my own. So then
the messenger came back to me and said, Okay, fine, you can read it
in two different ways. So again, I sent him back, say, No, have some
more ease, create some more ease. So then he allowed the messenger
came back and said, you can read it in three ways. Right? Actually,
no. And according to this narration, the third instance,
when the messenger came back, he says, okay, it Karatsu Allah sub
it, you can now have it recited you can recite it according to
this according to seven ways. Now remember, there's this opinion
that seven means seven another opinion means seven means multiple
ways, right? Whatever way is that you can teach them
then actually, in this video also mentioned that for the three times
that you sent the messenger back to request this, I'm going to give
you three accepted to us. Right, which is really interesting. So I
said, okay, and the promises made three do us well, two doors, he
said, Oh, Allah,
forgive my OMA, Oh ALLAH forgive me, Allah homophily Almighty Allah
mafia and twice he said that and he says, I'm going to leave this
last door
for the day in which everybody's going to approach me
including Ibrahim Ali salaam, you know, that's most likely going to
be for the initial intercession on the day of judgment where the
famous Hadith about that faces I leave it for that one.
That is related by Imam Muslim Now there's another Hadith Which Imam
Muslim again, another version that Imam Muslim is related, again,
from OB YBNL cabra, the Allah one, that the Prophet sallallahu now
this one tells you a place that they were in. Now this shows you
that this was a later development. The other thing which shows you
that this was a later development is that Almighty Allah and so on,
they did not know about this first. Right. So that's why they
were surprised. And that's why these encounters took place. Now
in this one, it says that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam
was at the swamp or the reservoir of the Blue River. Right. So it
means he mentioned about to Benny River, that's why he was not seen
Madina, Munawwara this is not This is why we understand from this,
that this did not happen in Makkah. Macatawa and he says that
GB laddy Salam came to him the Prophet sallallahu Sallam says
that Judaism came to him and says, Allah subhanaw taala commands you
commands that you recite the Quran, according to this one way.
So then, the Prophet saw some said, as a Lula more Alpha who
were MACURA were in the Umatilla to the Gudauri eyes, Allah
subhanho wa Taala for forgiveness, and pardon but my Alma is not
going to be able to say it looks like by this time the prophets
Allah Islam has realized that the different tribes and so I'm
finding it difficult to recite according to the Qureshi way.
So
the in the angel came back the second time and said, Allah then
commands that you can read in two ways. Again, the Prophet
sallallahu sallam said, I ask Allah for his forgiveness and
pardon but my OMA cannot do this. So then he came a third time and
he says, Okay, you can do it in three ways. You have three modes,
three different ways to read it. And again, I asked the same thing.
So then you
came back a fourth time and
this was now in this one it says the fourth time is when the
professor also was told that okay, you can read it up to seven ways
or multiple ways whatever that means. But whichever way you read,
they will be correct. Right so they can read it all those
different ways, and they will be correct if they did that.
Then we move on to another Hadith from Imam Bukhari, anima Muslim
from Abdullah Abbas or the Allahu Allah the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam said very clearly a Quranic Gibreel other half first
Gbit Salam, he taught it to me, according to one way this was in
Mocha mocha Rama further as well as Dizzy do but But I continue to
ask him for more ways of reading it. And he kept increasing me
until I reached seven. So this gives you the understanding as
well.
Imam Muslim has another transmission from Ibushi Hubzu
hurry in which he says it has reached me that those seven
right, those seven ways that have been described all those Hadith,
they were all regarding a single matter. A single meaning they
would not change any halal or haram. That's a very important
clarification to make, which is that these were just seven ways of
saying the same thing. They were not seven different conditions
that okay, you read it that wine is halal. And you read that wine
has become haram. No, it was nothing like that. Or you can say
Xena is don't do Zina, and you can say you can do Zina is it was not
that it was not that it was just about the ways it was written the
styles or the dialects or whatever the case was.
Abdullayev no Masuda the Allahu Anhu
there's a narration about him in the mustard rock of Imam Al Hakim
and the Muslims and others and Imam taba Tabari has read related
this as well. There's a it's a long Hadith I don't want to
mention him, but he had a difference of opinion with some of
the other Sahaba about some recitation.
Right? And
they went to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and
Ali Radi Allahu Anhu was sitting there. So it looked like earlier
they knew about this, right? So he said it or the Allah and said that
the Prophet sallallahu ala had the Messenger of Allah, Allah some
commands that you all read the way you've been taught. So you guys
have a difference of opinion, that's fine. But whatever you've
been taught you read according to that way, whatever you've been
taught, you read according to that way.
This gives you this gives you some picture, but there's still some
vagueness as to when exactly and all the rest of it. I mean, I've
interpreted it for you. But if you look at the Hadith, there is some
vagueness about when exactly all of this happened. That's why it
leaves room for an opening. Plus, it does not make clear exactly
what those seven ways were. Right? What did Abdullah Massoud read and
what did the others read? What did he sham read? And what did Omar
the alone read? What did those people who came in what exactly
did they read? There's no discussion of that. That's what
makes it confusing. That's what allows the difference of opinion
to to proliferate here.
Now, maybe you're bored of this discussion, and that's fine.
Right? You can be bored of this discussion. It's not necessary for
people to know about this in any kind of detail. Right? Because,
you know, unfortunately, there are people who when they do go to try
to understand it, this Some people get more confused about it. Some
people, I mean, Hamdulillah. There's lots of coverages about
this, if you want to read more about this, in the various
different books, for example, if you take Mufti Taqi with Chinese
or aluminum Quran book in order, he's got a really good discussion
in order to if you want to do in English, then gateway to the
Islamic science to the Quranic sciences. He's got a description
there as well. And there's other people who've written about this
as well. But anyway, in sha Allah, let me explain a bit more. All of
these Hadith if we look at them in general, there's a few points that
come from it. This is important for us what we learned from you.
So imagine that we didn't know anything about this discussion.
And we just saw these Hadith what would we distill from these
Hadith? What would we infer from these are these so the following
points, number one.
There was definitely allowance to read it in more than one way.
Right? We learned that from these Hadith, all of these ahaadeeth.
Asahi, most of them that I've quoted are sahih different Behati
Muslim or whatever. Right. In fact, as I mentioned, the if you
take all the other generations as well, there's a tomato, right,
there's a widespread agreement, that the Quran was allowed to be
recited in seven ways, right? That is quite clear. Number two,
Allah, Allah, Allah, that whoever has the seven ways, the seven ways
are specifically those that were taught to those people from the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. They're not ways that you
can make up through Oh, I think this is another way to do it. I
know this other tribe, they read this word this way. So let me try
it that way. Because Allah subhanaw taala has allowed it. No,
this is every way that is allowed was directly taught by the prophet
sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam. And what proves this is that the
wording that I have some used was really specific, he said on
Zillow, Allah Sabathia on Zillow or on Zillow, and a year, or or
Zillow Alia, it was revealed it was sent to me that it was read in
this way. And it can be read in this way, which shows that every
single one was actually taught and inspired directly. It wasn't a
general thing that you can just read it as you wish.
So if anybody wants to read them, what you better have something
directly from the Prophet sallallahu Sallam Who taught you
that that is the way you can so nobody can come up with something
new today.
And this is necessary, you know, this is absolutely necessary
because the way the Quran is written today is the what makes it
a miracle. Okay, and that better have been taught from the Prophet
salallahu Alaihe Salam. So if you say something else, it won't be
right. And what that will do is it will essentially encroach on to
the beautiful way with the Quran is reading if you just allowed it
to be read in any way, whereas Allah subhanaw taala said that we
are going to preserve this Quran in an afternoon as the lithic roba
in the hula haffi Hoon, were the ones who have revealed this
reminder and we will protect it. So that's why it's necessary for
those words to be the way they are.
Now,
another verse, which clarifies that is insolate unis. Allah
subhanaw taala says, we'll call Allan Levene Allah Yahweh Juna the
call to earn in ye ha. Oh, but they'll hold Maya Connolly and Oba
de la who means to call in FC in a W in your either your in knee a
half or in outside or be either the young woman alim. This proves
I'm looking at what this is saying here. Those who do Allah subhanaw
taala says that those who do not in do not hope to meet us. They
say, bring a different Quran or change it, bring a different Quran
to this or change it.
So say to them, or messenger sallallahu alayhi salam say to
them, that it is not my prerogative to change it from my
own self, I cannot change any part of this from my own self. I only
follow that. And it's, it's with emphasis I do not follow except,
specifically that which has been inspired to me, because I fear
that if I disobey my lord, I fear the punishment of a mighty an A
and a terrifying day. So this also proves that this was very
specific, you couldn't change the Quran otherwise, this was
something taught by the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And
this is exactly he kept saying, how could that one's when he
referred to those people when he heard them? He said haka on
Zillow. How can that on Zillow, this is exactly how it was
revealed. This is how exactly how it was revealed to all of those
different ways were the way it was revealed to the Prophet salAllahu
alayhi wasallam as well. Number three.
Another point that we get from this is that the difference in
those rough and readings were of the wording only.
Right? Were the wording only. Right? The ways of reading the
dialects or the wording or the expression or the order of the
words. Well, that was all it was, right? They it was just a total
flop, it was not the love feat of serial money, it was not a
difference of opinion about the meaning diff being different.
Because none of those Hadees say that it was a different meaning.
He was changing the meaning none of them say that it was all about
the wording. If you look at all of the wording, it's all of that he
read it in a word that I did not know he read in a wording that I
mean a style that I did not know all of it is about style, and mode
of reading. Nothing is about meaning to be careful about that.
This is where the big confusion comes. What the orientalist and
others do is that they start creating this doubt because it's
such a complicated and a vast area. As I said, it will take me
at least five, six hours to maybe go through all the discussion. And
I've read quite a bit about this, you know, the last few days.
That's why I deferred it. I read quite about this from different
scholars in Russia that there's some really good discussions about
that, which they've closed all the loopholes, but this is where
some have to try to say look, there's different ways of reading.
So it could be different meanings. And now they've just insisted on
this meaning whereas actually Xena should be allowed or they should
be allowed that none of that works because when you look at the
wording of the Hadith, it's very particular about what it's saying.
Now
let us look a bit more which I've already explained to you that
according to as I said, one view, the seven roof the seven ways are
the same
When Kira RT
and
this is not an agreement this is not the view that everybody has
taken right?
So
in fact some make this say that this is actually a clear blunder
and a clear wrong to say that so they you know, some are quite
animated about their opinion as well.
And the reason is that they say that there was a famous story of
mockery Akari was name was Ibnu Mujahid, he compiled a book in
which he mentioned seven different Kira the seven different
recitation forms which all come under the Karachi style, alright.
And because it was seven, people just assume that this refer to the
seven out of because by that time the seven of were, were gone. So
they thought it was that so that's why they say that the confusion
has come from that. Right. That's why Imam tombery was one of the
early officers which we dis who we described to you when we you know,
we told you about his life as well. He's got a whole
introduction about this at the beginning of his book and he makes
it also very clear that it's not that right, it's not the seven
Quran these are actually the seven different dialects and that's what
he clarifies as well.
So what we're going to do next Inshallah, which will be tomorrow
is that we will discuss the seven we can't discuss the seven
different dialects because we don't know what they are, they've
gone but in terms of the other opinion, which says that it's
seven different modes of reading, right, whether the changes in the
Arab right in the voting, the changing is actually in the word
itself. The changing is in between the Singular plural or dual right
or seeing the changes between the passive and the active, we'll
discuss Inshallah, all of that at least so you get an idea of what
that is and also tomorrow inshallah we will discuss the
seven Kira art that will be inshallah very interesting and
then inshallah hopefully you've already got the understanding of
the framework of this, the master synopsis Inshallah, but inshallah
we will carry on with the rest of the discussion tomorrow, keep us
in your doors may Allah subhanaw taala bless you, and
in sha Allah,
what I'm what I want to mention also today that if you have any
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Sciences of the Quran, we will spend the day if we have
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