Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Sciences in 30 Days Part 20 Master Copies of Uthman (R)
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Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh Welcome back to number
20 In our series on the sciences of the Quran. Let's start off with
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Hamdulillah. Yesterday we started the discussion of the preservation
of the Quran and the various different measures that were taken
for that. And just to recap, it was both by through memorization,
and there was an oral tradition at that time with a lot of people
memorizing, and so we had numerous files and then there were measures
taken to preserve the fourth and those who had memorized the Quran.
They were very important people in Muslim community and they were
called the Quran or the corries. The second way that the Quran has
been
preserved, which is very important is through writing. So as we
discussed, as soon as the Prophet sallallahu Ellefson would receive
a revelation, he had a group of writers, scribes, and he would
invite them over and then they would write it and then these
these bits were written on various different parchment and
leaves and other things. So now what happens is that we read
yesterday regarding Amara, the Allahu Anhu coming and insisting
to Abu Bakr, Siddiq, Radi Allahu anhu, that the Quran should now be
taken from all of these different places, all of these different
writers, they had the different fragments and, and pieces,
different parts of sewers and everything, and then they should
be put together in one place. Because if these comedies would be
killed, if the those who had memorized them and 70 were killed
in one place, and then there were some others that were killed, so
and generally the Quran would also be at the forefront in the battles
as well. So they decided that we will put it all together so
Zeytinburnu authority, the Allahu anhu, who was one of the very
talented youngest scholar of the Quran, who had also been part of
the writers of the ye. So he was, he was asked to, to do this, to
lead the team rather. And then there was a community that was
formed. So now we have another Hadith we move on to that was that
discussion and then we move on, from Imam Buhari. He's got a
transmission from Ignacia. He says that hydrogen immunoassay
hypnotherapists
has related to me that he heard Zaid hypnotherapist of the Allahu
Anhu saying that when he was in the process of this and it was
took a few months to several months to actually do this
compilation process. He said, I was missing a verse from sortal
ASVAB. When you know we were we were writing the master when we
were copying the master copy that initial gathering. There was one
verse that we just couldn't find with anybody. We knew it's a verse
obviously because people had memorized it. And they may have
had non official copies around but we are looking for the official
copy for that.
So I used to hear the Prophet sallallahu some reciting it so I
went and searched for it and search for it. Eventually we found
it with Hoceima immunother beetle unsightly Radi Allahu Anhu and
that was the first minute mini in a deja vu saw the home. doula, how
are they? So then we added it to the most half.
Now it's transmitted through a number of different chains that
Zaid are the Allahu Anhu and Omar Abdullah photography Allahu Anhu.
They both are very persistent about this job and Ahmed are the
Alliance's that he's the one who came and gave the initial idea and
recommendation for this to Abu Bakr Siddiq, Radi Allahu, and he
took a big he played a big role in this as well. And he was really,
really behind this whole project as well. And it says in there very
clearly, it's related from the to what can Allah Yakubu mean I had
in che and Hector Yeshe had a Shahida
or Shahidan rather, they were they would not accept any written piece
from anyone until they could provide the two witnesses.
Now this could be understood in two different ways. What exactly
were they witnessing to said that it could be that this is a witness
to the fact that
This particular piece was written in front of the purpose of the
lesson because of course, we didn't necessarily do this in
private, you'd probably call them into the masjid and say, Okay,
write this down, and there were probably other people there as
well. So that's one way of understanding this. And this is
the way Abu Sharma al McAleese and El Medina Zahawi have explained
this. And that's why he said about this last verse of soul to Toba
that we just spoke about that I could not find it with anybody,
meaning I could not find it according to the criteria through
which we were judging this. So they had it written in different
places, but I could not find it with the criteria that I wanted.
And finally, it was found with
Jose Mara, the Allahu Anhu.
So now, this is the way that you understand the painstaking way to
make sure that the master copy that they were going to preserve
is going to be,
you know, really, really accurate and no doubts in it and
corroborated in different ways, even though they could have just
written it from memory, right? And corroborated that, but no, they
made sure that they also got the written pieces. Well, this took
nearly a year. Right, this took about a year, maybe a year to
about a year. And this took place because you know that this took
place after the Battle of Yamama. Right where those Quran were
killed. Right, and this took place between that time and before the
Abu Bakr, Siddiq or the Alon passed away. So that was just
around a year. Right? That's how you work this out. And this, this,
this particular copy that they had produced this master copied, copy
this autographed copy, you could call it, it was kept by the
Khalifa overcome Siddiq or the Allahu Anhu and it was called the
Imam copy all right. And so now no longer was it that you had to rely
on fragments are just on the memory of different people. Now
finally, it all been put into one place that's a very important
point. Now the way we see a some of this that's been written by a
boy Abdullah Al Hadith, you know, so there has to be a great scholar
of the past. He says in his book called farmos Sunon. Right,
understanding and comprehension of this the Sooners, he says kita but
Al Quran related data, you know, this particular event were
overcrowded, the already gathered together and written together in
one place. This was not necessarily a new innovation for
them. Yes, putting it together, like that wasn't was probably the
innovation but writing not because the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam used to tell people to write it. But the problem is that
it was all disparate on different pieces of leather and pieces of
leaf and, and other things. So Abu Bakr Siddiq, or the Allah and all
he did was he just told me to put it together and gather it all from
the different places and put it in one place. And he said that was
similar to some pages and some photos that were actually found in
the house of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam. The Quran was
just scattered in different places in the parchments were not all put
together. What he did was that he had the somebody came in, compiled
all of them together, and then they actually had it also bound
with a rope as well so that none of it could be could be lost. I
mean, that was the rudimentary way that they would do it in those
days, and that's exactly what they did. Now, this collection of Athan
where the Abubakar Siddique or the Allah this was something that was
appreciated by all the OMA afterwards and it became an Iijima
that this is exactly what he did and what he did was correct. And
after that, they've actually written quite a bit in the praise
Abubakar Siddique or the Allahu Anhu. For this and see this as one
of his major achievements during his time that he has got the
master copy together. And they've they've really really praised him
for that. They've called him the first of the compilers of the
Quran. He's the award of German, Lil Quran, our German Al Quran,
the first of the compilers of the Quran, he has that title, right,
because of the diligence with which it was done in his committee
that he had formed to such a degree. I mean, I think we just
have to look at what earlier are the Allahu Anhu even though be
tidy, but the Allahu Anhu says about him he says the art of
thermo Nursey phenol Messiah he urged Iran Abu Bakar the person
with the greatest reward regarding the preservation of those have
regarding the work on the most half is Abu Bakr Siddiq, Radi
Allahu Anhu may Allah have mercy Allah subhanaw taala had mercy on
over the Allahu Anhu because He's the first person to compile the
book of Allah subhanaw taala together, right now.
Fast forward now, that was fine during the time of Amara, the
Allahu Anhu and nothing more happened to it. It was kept there
in the house of Omar the Allahu Anhu. But now comes Omar the
Allahu Anhu passes away and Earth manner the Allahu Anhu becomes the
next Khalif and he sends there's a force that goes to Azerbaijan
Armenia, to deal with those areas for for jihad. And there's a
number of people in the army from the different tribes now this is
you could say I mean generally in Makkah Mecca or Medina menorah,
etc, that people would stay
in their own tribes, so there would be interaction but there
would not be maybe that close of an interaction. Whereas now when
you've got a contingent made up of different people from different
tribes, Muslims from different tribes, right now remember each of
these could read in their different dialects.
And who they differ even on Yemen or the Allahu Anhu. He's with
their with that army. And he brings back a report and he says
that, look, there's problems because these people have they've
started arguing with one another, because each tribe thinks they
don't know that it could be read in another way of a different
tribe. So they think they're reading wrong. Those people think
these guys are reading wrong. We've had that discussion before.
I've explained that already. So he says, I have a fear. Yeah. Ameerul
Momineen de Ricardian OMA cobbler. Teddy fufill Akita we did a video
Who do you want masala? He says.
You can say save this Omar I would say you know symbolically that's
what he said. He says Save this OMA right catch this OMA before
they differ with regard to the book of Allah subhanho wa Taala
just the way that you who then NESARA have differed in the past
and then after that, you know, things there were discrepancies
that were created. So he said to Earth manatee, Allah Allah. So now
with manna, the Allahu Anhu the cut the long story short, he
agreed that yes, this needs to happen. And they what he did was
he sent to the house of half Saudi Allahu anha.
To request her to send that master copy which after Omar the Allah
Nick passed away, it was left with half Saturday alone, so send it to
us so that we can actually make copies from this. So with Amanda
the Allahu Anhu was sent the copies by half side of the Allahu
anha. And again with Amanda the Allahu Anhu took the same persons
even with obita The Allahu Anhu. to head this committee, along with
Abdullah Abu Zubaydah, the Allahu anhu, right and say they've known
us and Abdul Rahman, Dibner Hadith. So these four people,
Abdullah Abdullah, high heritability Sham, they were told
to come together and to make copies of this Quran. So that's
what they did. They made several copies of this. Now with mana the
Allahu Anhu said to the three of them, who were Akashi, I think,
yeah, they were Koshi, that if you differ with regards to how it
needs to be written in terms of which dialect, you know, if you
can't agree, where there's an issue where there's a different
dialect that reads it, otherwise, then you need to.
If you disagree, if you differ with the diviner Thabeet or the
Allahu anhu, in any way, then you need to the Trump will be in the
lesson of the Quraysh, which means that you will have to go according
to the, to the dialect of the Quraysh, because it was primarily
originally and primarily revealed in the Qureshi dialect. So that's
exactly what they do.
Once he copied the Quran, from the master copy that was mana the half
side of the Allahu Ahad he said that copy back to her that okay,
you preserve that. And what he then did in June, which I'm going
to explain in a bit more detail is that he then the several copies
that he made, he then sent them to the main areas of the Muslim
world. And then to cut a long story short again, he said all the
other versions that people had written in their own dialects and
so on, had to be cut. So for example, had to had to be disposed
of. So either they will be disposed of by tearing it up,
disposal in that like that may be buried or burned. And we also have
some reports were most, most likely some of them. What they did
was they compared with the master copy that was mine, or the Allahu
Anhu had sent, and they probably just amended this, right, so
didn't have to throw them away. They didn't have to get rid of
them. They just amended their copies, because it looks like some
people would just would just could just do that.
So this tells us the thing to point out here, right, which is
quite clear. Now I think the main difference between what with
Amanda the Allahu Anhu did and what Abu Bakr Siddiq or the Allahu
Anhu did was essentially that Abu Bakr and just had it all gathered
together in one place, with a lot of scrutiny to make sure that it's
exactly what was written in the time of the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wa sallam that was matched up with what was recited and what
was memorized by people and eventually that was put together
it corroborated what they had memorized anyway, and then
earthmen with the alarm, what he did was, he just had it written in
a very special way. Now, there is another opinion here through some
other transmissions and reports that we have, which shows that
with Monroe, the Allah did something very similar to obey the
law again, just as a second, just as a second corroboration. So what
he did was, he had it gathered again, because by now, you know,
what are the Allah Han was time they were, you know, now, more
people had come in to Madina, Munawwara and so on and so forth.
So he again had this and he made a public announcement about this,
whatever you have, bring it together and
They got it all together had it written that was then corroborated
with the one with the worker the Allahu Anhu had compiled together
that was in the house of half Saturday Allahu Allah, and they
found it to be exactly the same. So that was a second corroboration
as well. But the other view is that no he did not do that at all.
He just had it all written into several copies and then sent to
the Muslim world and all the other editions a small parchments that
people had the different fragments lying in different places he had
all of those he read, he recommend you said that I have got those to
be disposed of. You need to dispose of yours now and that is
probably what that is what everybody agreed to finally do.
There were some holdouts for example, Abdullah Masuda the
Allahu Anhu was known to actually teach in his who the LI direct,
he's from the who they don't know who they are. So that's why he was
actually known to teach in the holy direct, but then after that
he was prohibited from doing that, right. And eventually, he agreed
as well. And he also disposed of his copy, right of his copy in the
whose ad direct, he removed that as well. So there was a lot of
public participation in this, and whatever he whatever was
eventually done was all done using just the primary, the first hand
material. Now, if you study, manuscript research, and, you
know, tracing back and accuracy of determining what the author said,
through the various different copies that are available, and so
on, what they did in those days without that kind of a scientific
background, without that kind of an academic, you know, study or
whatever, they did a very, very accurate, a very, very solid job.
And again, that's something that you can look at, in this book, you
know, that he describes that quite well. You know, I've, I've
consulted this book about this as well. And he describes all of
that, you know, from a modern perspective as well. He's
explained all of those things as well in there. So,
the reasoning for why orthovanadate Allahu Anhu did what
he did, which I already explained to you, Imam Abu Bakr Al back
ilani Rahim Allah he says that with Amanda, the Allahu anhu, he
decided to compile the Quran together. According the one thing
that he added, this tells you what he did in his addition. Right,
which was something that was something that was really
interesting, he said he, what he did was that he managed to combine
everybody and collect everybody, and to get them to agree to write
the Quran, according to the Karachi dialect, so that there
would be no longer any differences of opinion out there. Okay. And as
was established from the Prophet, sallAllahu, alayhi, wasallam, and
to essentially dispose of all the others, and to cancel out all the
other written forms, right. So for example,
any others where the wording would have been changed, or allowed to
be changed,
in terms of the order of the words, or all the other thing is
just so that he's foresaw that this would be a problem. And
that's what he did. Now, some people may ask a question here is,
why didn't the Prophet salallahu Salam just allow it in one way?
You know, why didn't he preempt this? This is actually a question
that I did receive from someone. Why didn't he preempt this? Why
didn't you have it just in one way, make it very solid and have
no difference of opinion? The first thing is that this was done
for facilitation at the beginning, it was very difficult to get
everybody forced them to start speaking another language, another
dialect, right? It was very difficult. But the new generation,
you could tell them to do that. So based on the various different
opinions, that's exactly what eventually happened. Right? Now,
today, there's no confusion about I know, the Orient has tried to go
and hark back to that and try to cause problems with that. But
there's a lot of other things, you know, in every religion that you
just can't help. I mean, why didn't Allah subhanaw taala mean,
I would probably also say the white and Allah Subhan Allah that
just make everybody Muslim. Right? Why don't you just revealed the
Quran Allah wants 23 years instead of 23 is just that once, you know,
there's wisdoms for all of those things. Now, sometimes, you know,
there's a fitna that's created by that a potential fitna that's
created by that. But that's the way of this world, this world is
never straightforward, right? It's just we have to find the truth.
And we have to make sure we abide by the truth. So I would say
that's the short answer to that. Right. That's the short answer to
that question. If it if it comes up, you know, to anybody.
So now to move on.
We also find that you know, while only those four Sahaba were
mentioned at the beginning of the liveness debate, or the Allahu
Anhu and Zaid immunotherapy and two friends we actually find that
Imam Abu Dawood has actually transmitted from at least four
different chains from Muhammad Hibino CD in the great Tabby that
Jamar Osman Ethany I sharara Jhulan So those four were the head
of the committee but there were more people involved in this I
mean, this job could not have been done by just four people. It says
according to this report of Mohammed bin of Syrian Earth man
with the Allah had 12 People have
kurush and unsolved among which obey vocabulary Allah was there as
well. So this committee was actually broader than that, and
the four people with probably the main ones.
In fact, we have more than that we can also find names of more than
12 people, such that those people have actually researched this.
Well. They find that yeah, there's about 12 people actually. And the
four people were, yeah, the four people who are the head of it, and
the others, were assisting them as well.
What exactly how what did they what was the criteria that was
used to write this new, this fresh edition, this master edition, this
you can say source edition of the text and the copies that were
made. So there were a few criteria that was used number one, it had
to be according to the Qureshi dialect. That's why in a hadith,
it says that with manna, the Allah one who said to these three, which
I've already explained to you, that if you differ about any of
the dialects or anything, then you need to write it according to the
quality that he was that the dialect in which it was revealed.
Now, the other thing here is that
the while they wanted all the other written pieces to have been
canceled out, this particular action does not demonstrate that
it was to destroy those other reading and variants forever.
Because remember, we mentioned before, that according to one very
strong view, they were allowed to continue to read it in their own
way, if they wanted to, but you just didn't want to now teach
anybody that way, necessarily. And you did not want to write it that
way. So there was only one written copy and that would be the master
copy that anybody had an issue with, they would be able to figure
it out from that. So
and this is, this is, this is becomes very clear to us from the
way the Quran is written today. You know, the example I gave you
the other day, and I showed you, and hopefully you check this out,
that the way Maliki Yomi deen is written is actually written as
Maliki only the meme lamb calf, without the vote, if you didn't
have the volume, you would actually read as many Kiyomi been.
So that is what they call the key reading. Right? So the quarter
sheet directly would include that as the key reading. However, to
allow any other of the permitted ways and modes of reading, you
could change that by just adding some vowels. So that the the
written form still accommodates that. Because remember,
automatically, Alonzo writing was written without any dots. Without
any any dots, we could not even tell the difference between Berta
and third they could, we could not tell the difference between Jim
Ha, ha, but they could they that is how they wrote in those days.
All of these dots came in later. And this was facilitated later
because people couldn't, no longer read like that. So that's why
Maliki could be used could be read in the same way. Likewise, the
word Kitab, the word Kitab, in many muscles is written as just
cough da ba, so that you could read kutub, the plural of Kitab is
good too. Whereas if you wanted read Kitab, you could you just put
a Khasra underneath the calf, and you put a standing Fattah on top
of the task, so that becomes Kitab using the same CAFTA but so it
allows for the various readings. That's why if you're ever
surprised by why a certain word is written in a particular way in the
Quran, now you'll understand what that is. So when you read many
Kiyomi deem that would be what they call the tactic reading and
we read Maliki or within that would be the Tucker D rereading,
right? That would be the additional allowed form of
reading, accommodated form a reading you can call it.
Now, that doesn't mean that they would just allow any reading of
course, it's only those that were transmitted, that were all allowed
to be incorporated in here.
Now, the other thing is that if there were
if one of the variants was difficult to accommodate, for
example, what was be her can be read as will also be her means the
same thing was saw and also means very similar things right. Now,
how are you going to add an if there. So in that case, sometimes
they would actually in some must haves, they will actually write
that separately later on, because that was an allowed reading to the
OSA and the wasa number three, number three, the third point
about this was and which continued as a trend much later as well,
right, is that you reduce half which means that don't add
anything else in the book should have only Quran nothing else. Now,
slowly, slowly, of course, that change, they started adding the
dots, they started adding the vowels, they started adding
surah you know, names and titles and, you know, elegant, you know,
motifs and, and then basically page numbers, and all of that kind
of stuff. And then recently you've had them with color coding Tajweed
rules, which I really don't like, right. So
initially, it
was none of that was allowed because it had to be codified in
this particular way. So that no confusion would come about with
anything else. They were very offended the Allah one was very,
very diligent about this. So now when he had these copies ready,
right, he, after this huge momentous task took place. They
know when exactly this happened, this happened. We would say that
this took place around 25 years after the hero after the Prophet
salallahu Alaihe Salam, the reason is, how we know is 25 years is
because that is around the time when the Muslims fought in
Armenia, and in those areas.
So anyway, with minor the alone after having these new editions
written and composed, he returned the original edition to Oman, what
many have started the Allahu anha. And
he sent a copy to each of the major towns, major cities of the
Muslim world.
And then he kept one for himself. That is the one that he was
martyred reading when he was reading it. That's the one he was
martyred and some blood has fallen onto that they say that's the one
that's in the Turkish Museum. Allah knows best, I'm not sure,
right? Whether that is the one that's there or not, but he had
the one that he kept by himself, and that was called Mustafa Al
Imam, the most half of the Imam of the main primary must have.
Now there's a difference of opinion as to how many copies he
made, and how many cities he sent it to. The well known opinion is
that he made five copies. That's what he maps to UT Rahim Allah
said, however, if were to add his own personal copy to that, that
would be six copies. There's other views that it was seven copies
plus eight plus one. So that's eight copies. And Allah knows
best, but it was definitely more than four or five copies. And he
didn't just send a copy of the Quran, the most of this new
edition, right, this new composition of it, but what he did
was he actually sent a copy with it as well. That's very, very
important. So in all of these new areas, the Scotty would go as well
to confirm any era and so on. And then what people would do is that
their own copies, they would write off this one. So there's numerous
reports that when this copy came to Kufa or Basara, or the other
towns and cities, they would take their copies and they would match
it and close it and then if they had to make a change, they would
make a change. Right? So that's where he became he became the
source copy in all of these areas, the different cities. So
mashallah, the people of Madina, Munawwara they got Zaid
immunotherapy for the ALLAH and he became the mockery of the copy of
the Messiah in Madina Munawwara the one in Macau, in Macau.
Bokhara was Abdullah if Noosa if he became the mockery in in Macau
Macau Rama Mahira Ibushi hub he was for Sham which is Syria, the
Levant abou Abdul Rahman a salami was sent to Kufa and Ahmed ignore
Abdullah case was sent to buzzer so we know that these cities
definitely had this discussion about whether the one was sent to
Bahrain and these other areas which is the Western the eastern
border of Arabia.
Then after that, once all of this work was done, right in more
detail one once this
once these were sent to the different areas with the different
parties and so on, now with minor the Allahu Anhu gave an edict that
all the other variants need to be now disposed of. So inshallah all
the Sahaba they agreed, and they responded, so they got rid of
their copies obey Him no calibre, the on Abdullah Masuda, the Allah
one day, and they actually eventually praised what he was
doing, because they could see that that was the prudent approach for
the future. So that, you know, there's no problems that are left
Abdullah and also that the Allah when I said he did was reluctant
in the beginning, but then after that he was completely fine with
it, he understood the important importance of this. And this has
been established through many, many chains, that there was nearly
an there was probably an edge marked on this, which means a
consensus that this was one of the Alon had done absolutely
correctly, and gotten rid of all of these other parchments. And
what proves the HMR is that today, you don't have any variants.
Right? You don't mean you don't have any that are not allowed
variants of the 710 Carrot, there is no Mussaf. With any change in
there, pretty much it's all according to the most of Earthman
or the Allah one. And in this book, they've given quite a few,
quite a few different types and copies, right, which you can see
from different places they've been, they've been judged they've
been, what do you call it?
investigated, and compared with one another? And essentially,
that's what it is. I mean, there's numerous version you can find
different versions, these are not of those original copies
necessarily. These are of later copies that were written right in
the old in the old style and if you can see this, right, with no
dots, nothing
Right. Just very simple writing you can see it's just like a goofy
calligraphy they call them, right. So there's no differences between
them. There is no differences between them. This one is a later
copy. Now you can see in here, I think this is even about Bob's
copy this is you can now see in here that okay, yeah, it's shiny
pages. So I guess it's difficult. But yeah, in this one, it's
actually this is the famous most of IGNOU BB D 391. Inside the
large golden circular device. Yeah.
This one has the fat has and the dots and everything. And this is
much more developed. But this is now a few 100 years later, sorry,
we can put a picture up of this later on when you need to. So that
gives you an idea that this became pretty much a consensus that this
is how it had to be written. And this was not just among the oldest
Sunova Gemma, the Sunnis, the Shias. The mortar Zilla, everybody
agreed to this, that this is the Quran, there was no disagreement
about this. So that's why it'd be absurd for any Orientalist or any
anybody else for that matter to go back and say that they would,
there were these critical differences and so on. Yes, they
were different variant readings, but they are complementary, and
they're available today. You can find them in the books written on
this subject. You can find them in the different mishaps that you
will see in the different countries that represent the
different kettle at and that's not a problem. But this was an
agreement according to all the federal Islamia, all the even the
heretic groups of the Muslims, you know, that
Muslim, right there are still Muslim. That's why now people have
really, really praised of manner the Allahu Anhu his work and
they've given him the title of the Jamia Al Quran. So, you know, we
gave that title the worker Siddiq or the Allah on earlier when he
also has the title of jami al Quran. Now, when you say Jeremy Al
Quran in this case, right, the compiler of the Quran, well what
it means in this case, because he according to that first opinion,
he didn't actually bring it all together that was already done by
Abu Bakr Siddiq, or the Allah one, according to the other opinion
that he actually did this a second time around for additional
corroboration, then that will give him the justification in that
sense of being a compiler of the Quran already. Okay. However, the
other way in which he is the compiler of the Quran, he still
deserves this title, right is because he had it written in a way
that accommodated all the variant readings. And everybody agreed to
that. And it was such a job that, you know, he made sure that this
was done in public. And people had, he would grill people about
this, he would investigate what they were saying, to make sure
that it was absolutely correct what they were saying. And
it was these additions. I mean, there's a lot more detail here
that you can read in these books about this. But the idea is that
when he had this, when he had the final copy produced, it was then
read out to the main Sahaba and the main public. And so they went
through quite a few proof readings, right? I mean, this is
just normal, how you do this, it wasn't done in any kind of
haphazard way, they had to be very careful. So after it was proofread
and everything, then after that it was actually sent out. That's why
it's mentioned that when Earth manner, the Allahu Anhu had the
divine enablement to undertake this, the Dolphy to take this,
because of that, so much of the difference of opinion, mashallah
was uprooted. That's why he plays a major role in this, he managed
to unite everybody together. And he managed to, you can, you can
say give a lot of comfort to the Ummah, that no longer they had to
differ with regarding the various readings and eventually the other
readings just just probably died out. That's why let's take it to
the Allahu Anhu he defends with one of the Allahu Anhu because I
remember towards the end of this morning Allah and saying there
were some detractors of his right people who are causing fitna
causing problems and eventually, you know, he was martyred not for
this reason, obviously, but but for you know, for other reasons,
or what they did, but part of the eyelid or the Allahu Anhu defended
him and he said, Yeah, I'm not sure a nurse. Oh, people it
Aquila, be fearful of Allah wa iya Coleman who Luffy Earth man, you
need to be careful regarding your exaggeration and your extremism
regarding osmena The Allahu Anhu were co LUCAM her rock, her
Rockall Messiah have a hierarchal Messiah HIV and you're calling him
the one who burned to Allah Quran because that's what some of them
would say to him that he burnt all the other Quran That's right, for
wala he Marfan Allah the Fila filled Messiah in and mother in
Mina, because by Allah he did not do what he did except by according
to a group decision of all of us. Right so this was agreed upon by
the by oldest Sahaba and earlier the by that time obviously they
had other people that they weren't just Sahaba the Sahaba didn't have
a problem with this idea the Allah one also says that low will lead
to if I was made in charge of what with murder the Allahu Anhu was
made in charge for at the time that I made it to build Masai
Mara. I mean, I would have done the same thing with these Messiah
that he did. It was the right thing to do.
knew that was the only way to unite everybody together. Now,
you're always gonna get differences of opinion, right?
You're always gonna get somebody who has room for criticism. You
know, sometimes we've done a lecture online, and it's like
straightforward. There's no controversy about it, it's just
straightforward lecture. And, you know, we've got all of these
different likes on it, like getting hundreds of likes, there's
going to be one or two dislikes.
You know, I think, I don't know if there's any lecture that anybody
would do, that doesn't have a dislike, even if the 99.9% like
it, there's going to be somebody, some guy out there who's gonna
come up with something. It's just people, that's human beings,
right? Now, of course, we can't make decisions based on that, oh,
somebody might do it, then you'd never do any work. So that's the
way I would take this.
The, the OMA has really, really accepted this, and it's gone down
like this. And
now, I just showed you earlier, the different fragment pieces in
the different libraries in the world that are exactly like this,
they've investigated it. And that is exactly how they preserved it.
To such a degree that people say now that you should not write you
cannot write the most of in any way that differs to Earthman, or
the Allah one is because that includes everything. Now, where
are these 7678 copies? Where are they? Well, I've had the
opportunity to Alhamdulillah the good fortune to actually see two
of them, which purport to be that Allah knows best. I don't know if
there's absolute certainty. I don't know. I've not looked into
his absolute center, whether that is there or not. And maybe by
tomorrow, I'll try to find out a bit more detail about this, but
I've seen the one in Tashkent, right. And if you do a search
online, the Tashkent Quran, you will be able to find that, and the
other one is in the Topkapi Palace of Turkey. I've seen that as well.
So I've seen the two that were in existence now. There was one
Certified Copy, right, which was destroyed about just over 100
years ago. Right there was a certified copy. And we hear this
from IGNOU cathedral. Imam look at the the great professor who died
in 774. So he's talking about his time right several 100 years ago.
He talks about the Shammi version. Remember, one of these copies were
sent to Sharm right to Damascus. So he says that Amma Amma and
Messiah with Manial ima as far as those
source most Huff's from Athena the Allahu Anhu for Ashara Elio, he
says the most well known so it looks like you see Kufa went
through many problems, and Basara went through issues and so on. So
it and Baghdad was just the latest city but that did not you know,
Baghdad was established actually no Baghdad was established much
later, right so but that did not even exist in the time, Amara, the
Allahu anos manner the Allah one. So as Kufa and busta were the main
cities of Iraq. So he says the most well known of them today is
the one in Sharm which is in the Damascus mosque in the germ of
Damascus the Jameel OMA, we, it's by the rockin and it's szarka L
max Surah tilma Amaura. Basically Allah, right. It's to the east of
the
the, the Nish in the wall. Right. I think that's what he refers to.
And he says that this same copy was actually in another part of
Sharm in the Tiberius. It was in top area, he says, then after that
it was transferred to Sham around 500 to Damascus, actually, in 518
Hijiri. So about 250 years before him, it was transferred to
Damascus. And he says, I have seen it. It's what are called RE to who
kita been as ease and jelly Elan, LVM and docman be hot in Hassanein
mobian in Korean behavior in Mokum. Fi rockin Avila whom in
judo the level this is his description that he this is his
eyewitness account. He says I have seen it as the majestic, mighty,
glorious, large book so it's a it's a document it's quite large
right now you can imagine it's going to be large. He says it's
written in very clear lettering. Right the script is very clear,
very strong and bold with very firm ink so the ink they use
mashallah lasted all of this time, and it's written on what I would
think would be the skins of camels. Now imagine skins of Camel
right maybe beaten and made very thin but that would be quite
large, right and a very large in size.
MashAllah Damascus. They used to be very proud of this, right. They
used to be very proud of this copy. And the people of Damascus
would be very proud of this copy. And it stayed the protected in the
Jameel OMA, we'll cubby until there's a fire that raged through
the German automobile cubby in 13 110 Hijiri. Now it's
400 And what is it 442 or something? So that is 132 years
ago approximately, there was a massive fire there. And
unfortunately unfortunately but that Allah, this Quran was burnt
down, this was half was burnt down in that fire. Right? There's a
number of other accounts but I think that's enough for today we
will move on to insha Allah Now you understand that the way the
Quran was compiled, and finally the copies and then of course,
people were now producing copies from these master copies in the
different cities and then the copies just proliferated. We're
going to eventually discuss all the additions that have been added
since then in terms of the numbering and the dots and all of
that Inshallah, in one of the subsequent let you know, that is
where we will be in Sharla discussing this.
Yep, we will be in Sharla discussing that in the coming
days. Jazak Allahu Allah subhanaw taala bless you all. And Allah
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