Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Sciences in 30 Days Part 21 Unique Script of the Qur’an
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Salam alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatu Hamdulillah we are back
together for the 22nd part in the series on their own Quran. Days
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Today the discussion is regarding the Rosman Quran Al Karim Rossmo
Quran will carry meaning the specific unique script from Athena
the Allahu Anhu is time that the Quran has been written for over
1400 years and it hasn't changed. We want to discuss that what's so
special about it and
what what are the rules regarding it and a few additional points on
historical aspects. And you know, I particularly
found researching this quite interesting today. Firstly,
when we say Rossum, Rossum, it means script. So it's the way the
letters and the wording has been written. And I've checked quite a
few of the early Kufic writings and it's really interesting the
way the LF is written and the way it's written without dots or
anything. And I think one of the wisdoms of why the original
currents were written without dots, even, you know, forget the
Fatah Castra. And the vowel Ling, but even without dots is because
according to one opinion, it is to force people to make sure that you
studied with a teacher, so that you just don't take it yourself
and start reading and start reading it all wrong. So the it
was it was to accommodate all of those various readings plus to
force people to study with a teacher, and then you could master
it that that way. So that's a really interesting idea. But
anyway,
this is what earthmen the Allahu Anhu had the for the committee of
four main people that were there, to inscribe all the Quran 's and
put them together. That's what he did. And then he had those 678
copies go out. So that particular copy, and then he encouraged
people to copy it. From there, he encouraged people to make
additional copies private copies of their own, you know, from these
master copies, because none of these master copies were the ones
that included exactly what they wanted to do. And all the Sahaba
at that time had agreed with it as well. That is what you call Rosman
was half or marsupial hut or Russ mille must have enough money. So
this is the automatic script, you call it right? This is the
automatic script. Not the Ottoman script isn't that's a different
idea. The Ottomans are different. But this is the original
manuscripts that it's been written on.
Now, this particular way of writing, there's a long history of
Arabic writing, and paleography and all of these other sciences
that are related to that which we are not going to go into today.
But they say that this particular style of writing must have been
taken from and must have been the same as those scribes who were
called by the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to write the
Quran when it was being revealed. So this particular these 678
master copies that were made to center different cities by
automatically Allahu Anhu. While obviously taken from there, some
of the same scribes we use, like the diviner thermometer, the
Allahu Anhu. So that's why it's a very, very important one and that
was
A very significant way of writing the Quran at that time, it was
probably the common way of writing the Quran in time for the most
part, except that there were some specifics that were included in
here are some of the Allahu Anhu. To express certain ideas, we're
going to go into that a bit more, we're going to look at that in sha
Allah today.
That is why the agreed upon the majority, the majority have said
that you can not change the scripture there. And I've been
saying that to you in some of the previous lessons as well that if
you want to write a new Quran, that is how you're going to have
to write it is it is going to be in the same way. So for example, a
simple example is if you open the Quran, you look at the word hula
Iike. Right? Do you know how the word hula is written into the
wall? Right? But that was silent. And there's a reason why that was
included. And there's lots of discussion. There's actually books
written on this subject as to why the Quranic script includes
certain letters like that, that are not recited, you know, what's
the purpose of it? Is it to accommodate another camera? Is it
to lay emphasis to a certain word, is it to, you can say elongate the
word like, in some cases, you've actually got the word behaving but
written with two years, for example, right? Why two years,
even though one is silent. So some say it's to actually magnify the
idea. It's to emphasize the idea. It's to delay the reading as not
to delay the reading of the word but to you can say stretch the
reading of the world that in tone, you stretch it here, and there's
lots of stuff like that that's mentioned, which is a subject
matter refer to resume and Assad of the Rossum? Meaning the secrets
of the Rossum? That's another topic on its own. I'm just going
to allude to it today. And I'll give you maybe a few examples,
right? For example, Bismillahirrahmanirrahim in
Arabic, according to modern writing standards, the PRC way or
the logical way of writing that would have been with a BA, and
then an LF, because the word is ism, and then the BA is with or
in. So with the name of Allah should have been beat ismi. But
they've taken out the Elif, and generally most people say is
because this is so commonly and frequently read and read together,
always read together, nobody else No, nobody ever says B is me, Rob
B is me Rahmani Raheem. Right. Nobody reads that right. B.
Esmeralda is a Bismillah Bismillah R Rahman Rahim nobody says B is
Mila Rahmani Raheem. Because that's not the proper way of
reading it. However, the proper way of writing it is with an Elif,
because the original word is supposed to have an editor. So, or
Hamza or whatever, you know, however, you want to call that
that line. Now, they've connected it together. So most of these will
just say many times, you will just say oh, because of Catarratto
statement or frequency of usage, or whatever. But then there's
other reasons also that I've provided, which you can read up
in, in the more deeper books on this subject. So just to give you
an idea of what the scholars of the early,
early times thought about whether you can script the Quran, in
another style or not. So, as I said, the majority overwhelming
majority say that you cannot use any kind of modern alteration or
modern adaptation or a change, it must be in the same way. And the
reason is that
many actually claimed that the writing style is from those who
wrote the war he though wrote the Revelation, the scribes, which was
originally governed and dictated by the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam and approved by him, which makes it dopey, though he
means which makes it contingent on revelation in the sense that this
is something which is you can say divinely inspired almost right.
That would be the idea that this would be divinely inspired. So you
cannot change this. It is fixed forever. Even if language
conventions completely change that would still still be allowed.
Anyway, let's read the difference. I mean, before I explore any other
ideas, let us understand who's saying this Imam Muhammad he said
this he said that room Omaha love a Ducati must have fear of man via
a Whoa. And if Oh, Haley dyadic. It is haram. It is in it is
unlawful to oppose the writing script or style of the most half
of man in even a year or a wow, or Elif, or anything else can't even
change, you know, a small letter, right? I mean, we're not obviously
It's haram to change it in terms of
where do you quit changing its Meaning because that's obviously
everybody would agree to that everybody would agree to that.
This is you can't even you know, say the same thing but just
updated to a modern way of writing or a new way of writing now. Imam
Malik Rahim Allah was asked, Can the Messiah HIF now be written
according to the new conventions of how people write? He said law
in law will get vetted. Rula No, it has to be read, written
according to the original script, original style
Imam Abu Amara Danny, what are Maha development? Allah Illuma. He
says that there's, well, that's what his observation was that
there's nobody to oppose this idea from the OMA at least, maybe for
his time. And initially that was the case. That was the case, there
has been some who have another opinion afterwards. They've all
sides have got their views and so on. I've given you some of the
evidences as well. Right. I'll just mention to you, the people
who are on the other side, those who consider that it's okay to
change some of those view. This is a mainly Abu Bakr Al YBNL, back in
learning who is a great scholar of the Quran, and we've heard his
name before in regards to some other aspects of the Quran as well
as the Sebata, Hooroo, Sebata, Ashraf, and so on. So his opinion
and likewise IGNOU hull dunes opinion is also that this is not
something that was divinely inspired. It was just the
convention of the time that everybody agreed upon. And yes,
the Sahaba all agreeing to automatically Allah one writing
that was just the fact that they agreed that he did a wonderful
job. And it was written according to the convention of the time, but
language writing changes according to conventions of time. And that's
why it doesn't have to rigidly remain in that way. And it can
change that was their opinion, they've got a number of evidence
is that as I said, it's not the strongest opinion. But that is
what they say. Then actually, there's even a third and a fourth
opinion, right? Now, the third opinion is very interesting.
Remember, these are all minority opinion, the first one is the
strongest opinion that is what has been practiced all the way
through, right, for the most part, that's why today you will hardly
ever come across I've not come across any must have with the
script different to that which was in a towel or thrown at the Allah
one, there is a view by
Imam, he didn't even know Abdus Salam, right, which is really
interesting. I mean, he's such a great scholar, he's such a great
scholar, he had a very interesting take on it, he says, You should
not write it in that original style, you should actually write
it in the modern style. And that would be and he's got a reason for
that. He's saying big, because
if you're writing the original style, now remember the original
style, when you say, the real site, we only have maintained the
skeletal style of that, which means the outline of the letters
without the vowels and without the dots, because that style did not
have dots, and vowels in it. We've obviously added that, but onto the
same skeletal style, the same wording that Uthman or the Alolan
had written, right. And I compared some of that today, right, you
know, with some of the pictures I have of the Quran, from Tashkent
and other places, right. But he was saying that no, you can
actually change the way that, for example, Zakat and Salah is
written and you should change it, you should not keep it according
to him, he seems to be quite forthcoming in that. And his
reasoning is that if you keep it in that original way, people are
going to make mistakes, because they may not read it correctly.
That's why you may as well give it to them in a way that they can
read it correctly. Right. Now, the fourth opinion is kind of a
hybrid, they say that look,
it's better to keep it that way. In the original style,
they're saying that those who understand the original style, who
are specific people who can understand and so on, then it's
better for them to continue to read. So they give emphasis to the
original automatic script. However, they say that those who
don't understand the ways of reading and so on, then those they
can use a modern style. So they've got a bit of a hybrid approach.
But essentially, these are just a few people, these are a small
group of people, they are not the majority. There are some more
recent scholars as well, who's saying it should be okay. Some
have, like, for example, Sheikh Notre Dame later, he has said that
you should maintain the original style, but if it's for training,
like children or something like that, for just teaching them how
to initially get to reading, then maybe you can change the style. So
there is that minority view that does exist down there. However,
the majority are saying that you should not change it at all. And
that's why what's really interesting is that it's a
miracle, right? It's a miracle that despite all of these Quran is
being copied. And there were so many, I mean, these were the six,
seven or eight official copies and bear with me under the Allahu
Anhu. Then there were others, Hajaj and a number of other
Sultan's and beliefs of the past, right, they had
new copies made and sent to different parts, you know, because
it was a matter of honor to do it. I mean, it cost a lot of money to
do this, you know, rod, a lot of effort to do this. And they sent
it to the different towns and cities and so on. And it's a
miracle that until today, we've got the same kind of skeleton
script, and that has not gone through a change. Yes, we've added
dots and we've added all of these other things and, and so on, but
it has not gone through a chain. That's a miracle of the Quran that
Allah subhanaw taala has even preserved the very script from
over 1400 years ago.
Now, what are the differences that
At the this, what are the differences to the you can say the
kind of now more conventional way of writing write is found in the
authentic scripts? What is it? So,
just to give you a quick idea, I mean there's hundreds of examples,
but to give you a quick idea
there are it comes down to a few points, okay. It comes down to a
few points which are the following.
One of them is
certain letters becoming admitted, though they recited in the Quran,
right? For example. Yeah, demo. Yeah, demo should be written as a
yeah Elif for ya. And then Elif dal MIMO Hamza datamine for Adam.
Now what's happened instead is the year that one Elif has been taken
out and it just ya Elif or Hamza dal meme, which means you have to
put a standing Fatah on the year to read is the demo and has on it
to be composed of Adam. Similarly in some places, yeah, a Yohannes
instead of year, yeah, Elif and then a Yohannes. With another
Hamza, it's actually written with just one and there's a standing
Fatah on the year, right. So that one Elif has been omitted.
Likewise, in the word ha and to n j. Now come and J now come there's
no Elif after the noon to stretch it. You rather put a standing
Fatah on there.
Thereafter that the word or Rockman pretty much most of the
time when you see a Rahman written the Quran, you're not going to see
it written as in fact, I don't even write my name. Well, it's not
my name. It's Allah His name. Right. But my name is Abdul
Rahman. When I write it, I write it as a raw man. Right, which
essentially means
I live lamb
raw. Ha, that's raw meme noon, I should actually write a meme Elif
to stretch the me man, right? But no, I put a standing Fattah
instead on it. So there's many words like that Subhana is
generally spent without the Elif in the Quran as well as Subhana
rodby. Right.
There's many words like that, there's many words like that, then
there are where the WoW would be removed.
Subhanallah there's so many of them. But in add in should have
been by the UN, the UN where the year has been removed. Then
there's other so there's the first category where letters have been
removed, but they still read and that is, I mean, does anybody read
ramen has ramen? Right? I mean, because we have the standing for
today We accommodated for that for people who came later who couldn't
understand how to work this out from the original skeletal
wording. They figured it out and we add standing Fatah to it so
that's why we read Rockman is awesome and then after that
there's another aspect which is the add words which are silent.
They add letters rather which is like an Ola eco is added right?
Nobody reads is oh la eco right? Oh, well. It's just hola eco is
silent. Likewise in Bani Israel. They've added an Elif after the
venue.
Right? Except in certain places. Likewise, in the Humala cool rugby
him. There's an Elif added after the WoW of Mullah coup, which is
silent. Right? Some say that that could refer to it being a plural.
That's an indication that this is a plural. Wow. That's why all l BB
all l BB. That's really interesting. Because in there,
you've got an extra Wow, it's written as a leaf. Wow, lamb Wow.
Elif Oh, Lu. That's how you would say it if you didn't know. So that
what that first one is silent. So that's what an elephant science is
all about Bob.
Just a few examples. Then there's the Hunza there's lots of changes
with the Hamza. Sometimes they add it sometimes they take it out.
Then there's changes. Like for example,
where we should have been an airlifted out a while instead. The
typical example of that is solid, solid Should we read into knows
what solid lamb or Lifta instead of Elif divided Uh, wow, solid
lead lamb well, but no with that while we silent, instead we put a
standing for town, they really are solid. And likewise, we read
Zika in the same kind of way. Okay. There after that you've got
some places where that where they put a year instead, for example,
Yamaha serata. So that should have been the Elif at the end to
stretch data, but it's the ties there
but then it has a year after it, and you're probably standing for
10 instead. Likewise, another year as for either use of us, FDA
should have been an elephant the end, they have a smaller list,
which you've added later, but the skeleton style actually has a year
there which is silent.
And
right. Another one is some places two words are connected and
written in one connected style, while others they're separated.
For example, unlearn taboo, Illa, Illa, Allah and La taboo that you
do not unlike,
in many cases, it's written separately as an Elif noon, and
then law as with a space in between, right? In other cases,
it's actually written together with no space in between.
Likewise, I'm Ma am Manu who and who. So AMA, is written as an MA,
because that's the original letters. That's the original words
I known. And then separately, ma knew who and who, but no, it's
written as Amma like, um, Mayor, sir alone, you know, the sort of
check out that's written I'm Mayor desert alone. It's written written
as a as a meme
with a Fatah. Right, anma.
Instead of an MA Yoda, sir alone about what are they asking a
question? So these were all likewise, the word coup lemma.
kendama is written all together in some places. And in one place,
it's written separately. So there's only one place in a one
way street and separately, scholars have gone through all of
this, you can check this in the it kind of see you at Mana Hill,
Irrfan, reserach, she is gone through pretty much all of them,
of exactly where it's supposed to be what? Now those who say that
this is this was just a convention of the time, whatever, then if one
of the evidence, this is actually one of the evidence is used by
those who say that it's divinely inspired, because if it was not
divinely inspired, then it would be uniform throughout. Whereas
AMA, in some cases is written together, whereas in other cases
written separately. So why is it written together in some basis?
And separate Knowledgebase? Likewise, all the other examples,
then the, you know, while they are written mostly like that, but in
some cases, they're written separately. So what's the reason
for that? Not in all of them, but in some of them? So they're saying
that it's divinely inspired? That's why it's written like that,
because there's certain other secret in there a certain other
significance in there. The other group will say, No, it's
conventional. It's okay. They saying that, Oh, that actually
proves they're using that same evidence to say they actually
prove that this was not divinely inspired. This was just because
there were different scribes who wrote these, right, the different
parts, so they just wrote him differently. That's what they say.
The meaning is the same though, right? The meaning is the same. It
doesn't change the meaning it's just the way it's written.
Now, in English, I would I would give you a few examples of this. I
think, in English while you've got the word.
A wry, right? I don't know how most people would probably
pronounce that wrong, that things have gone aw ry, right. It's
actually pronounced array. Now, if you go to Malaysia, right. In this
country, we write post code as P O S T and C O D E post code if
you're going to Malaysia I'm not joking official spelling's
postcode, P O S. Cod, you got any Malaysians this thing they'll be
able to clarify this. postcode postcode. Right? Now if you go to
Barbados, they don't say speed boat, they say speed boat, speed
boat, but they still write it as speed boat like Bo, B O A T.
Right? Otherwise, it should have probably been written as B O WT
right? You can see what's going on here. This is the kind of issues
we're having that why did they specify a specific slide? Can we
change that? No. Let's say today people in English are saying you
know there's a lot of words here where we have these silent letters
like come on man. There's those
knife. Why do you have to write a K at the beginning of it? Why
can't you just write it as and? Knife and I why F knife? Right?
And why can't that be read as Naef right? You can see it's in English
as well. There's this and you know things have changed.
Shop used to be spelt as s h o p p before Sharpie and that's why when
we it was the old Sharpie there was one in rams bottom right up in
Lancashire and we used to say Sharpie you know is that because
that's how you spell
out, but it's just the old way of and the new way of spelling things
that change was, you know, obviously normal can normal Arabic
is not written the way the Quran is written, you know, today
you have some of the examples.
ni se all of these ones with a cane that between me, you know,
why does the K have to be continued to write data center?
Netta. So don't think this is particular to Arabic, right? But
anyway, what the first group is saying that all of this is
divinely inspired and needs to be like that, because there's a
certain benefit in that. A certain reason in that I've not looked
into it is spelt a y knife is spelled with a K in the beginning.
I'm not sure was it? Can I before was it Kenny before? Right, you
know from another subject language. And that's why it became
like that it's just morphed and evolved into what is right now, I
don't know. But in Arabic, the words have been straightforward
like that the way it is. Arabic is a very exacting science, it's
script is very exacting, actually. And it's one of the shortest
languages to write. Right? Because the vowels are just letter, the
vowels are just signs. Whereas in English, a vowel A e, i, o, u
takes a whole letter. To write cat, you have to write a C, a big
A, and then a T, right? So that's cat, the A takes as much space as
a C and a T. Whereas in Arabic, that pit don't just two words,
don't cough tall, and you just have the cursor there. Right? It's
just takes less space. So Arabic, you can get a lot more Arabic in a
shorter amount of space, then you can, for example, English, or
francais or German, or whatever the case is, right?
So now that gives you a better idea of what's going on. So now
some other interesting points. If the original writing of Uthman
Radi Allahu Anhu was a skeletal form of writing. Okay, which I
tried to demonstrate to you today. Let me I don't know if it came out
properly. But let me see if we can show you a better picture today of
it. Where I tried to read some of this today. And it's mashallah
it's a bit of a challenge to read. So this is the original Kufic
script. I don't know. Is that appearing? Let's go a bit close.
Yes. Can you see it? Are you?
Can you see how the lifts and so on are written on there? Alright.
It's, you know, it's very difficult to read. I mean, I can't
read that unless I eventually find a word. That makes sense. For
example, there was one here that I figured out, because I figured out
he says Holocaust somewhere it will. And it's really interesting
the way it's written. But anyway, that was the way it was written,
who started adding these dots and so on, who started adding the dots
and the vowels and so on, there was obviously a need, because, you
know, it was difficult for everybody to go and learn it by a
teacher. And that just, you could say, just caused issues sometimes,
and the scholars later thought that it was fine to add the dots.
There was obviously a difference of opinion at the beginning about
that, but now, it's become accepted by all to add dots. I
don't know if anybody's there today, who still claims that no,
there should be no dots in the Quran. Right? It should be still,
according to that. Who was the first person to add the dots. They
said that this actually happened quite early.
In my mobile era, it says in my mobile that is one of the very
famous grammarians here he his report says that the first person
to do it was none other than a famous student of Ali ignitability
by the Allahu anhu, who was actually also considered to be one
of those who devise the grammar laws right the grammar laws of
Arabic was name was above us with a dually above us well, Dali is an
amazing individual right he's a tabby and he was actually a mohawk
Rami right meaning that he was as far as I remember he was actually
supposed to be a Muslim already during the prophesy blossoms life
but he never met him so anyway he's a famous should have added to
the hola Juan are big scholar, major scholar, and that's his
title above us with a dually or DD from that tribe. However, his real
name his actual name was a violin abnormal violin ignore Hammer was
actually his name, which is a really interesting name for those
who understand meaning of volume design ignore Hammer was his name,
but his his title goes by Apple, I swear to God.
Others mentioned that actually not the first person to start adding
the dots was the famous Tabby able to sit in the dream interpreter.
Right? He were not that he did it for the public, but he had a must
have, which was probably, you know, inherited and seen by
everybody else later a person must have in which it actually added
the dots himself. Okay.
And he, the dots were actually added for him by Yahia blue Jamar,
not himself. He got somebody else to do it. Jah has another great
literature, Scott Scott of Arabic of the early times. He says in his
skateable I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. The book of cities that
Nasir ignore Asim was the first person to do this. Now it looks
like maybe people did this in different eras because I mean, it
was difficult to read. So they thought, let me make it easy maybe
for my children, or for my family or for my students. So they
decided to add the dots are here. This is a TA and not a third. This
is a bar. This is a GMAT not a ha. Right. So don't read them all like
hearts, because today we probably think they're all Ha, are they
all? Well, the Bata and 30 is no letter like a batter and you know,
that goes like that without a.in it without dots in it. But yeah,
that's how it was. So it looks like numerous people probably did
it. And then eventually it became the convention. That's why it's
very difficult to trace who did it first. Now, a bit of other history
on this right is
her judge had a real interest in the Quran. Now you may have read
about her judge and his tirades and how many Sahaba the 1000s of
individuals he killed, among which a huge group of Sahaba as well
that he killed, I mean, he was a tyrant, anybody who went against
him, he was actually working on as a governor of the Romanians
Abdullah Medicube number one, and he he caused a lot of problem at
that time, but he had a very special interest in the Quran. So
let me tell you a few things that he did just so you understand,
right? How they did things.
Hydrogen the use of while he had this iron * rule and you know
people have considered to him him to be one of the greatest
oppressors of our history and so on. I mean, you guys have heard
his history right? He
ironically right also has a major role to play in serving the Quran
right
now, firstly,
of man, just like a thunder the Alon had Quran has produced those
main Quran 's and sent to the different cities had judge also
distributed copies of the Quran to various cities not a different one
the same one right. But with his like, you know, the I've done this
right so his copies that's why Obaidullah ignore Abdullah ignore
Earth but states that the most half of Medina the one the
official copy in Madina, Munawwara was originally kept in the
prophet's mosque and read from it every morning. That was the
original copy of Madina, Munawwara but in the civil so in the civil
strife surrounding of Monroe, the hola horns assassination, someone
absconded with it, somebody took off with it. Right. Mahara
xenophobic reports from his father, who was among her judges
gods that had judge commissioned several mishaps and sent one of
them to Madina. Munawwara now Earthman read the alarms family
remember they had a personal copy, right of authenticity and that he
was actually martyred while he was reading and there's a blood stain
on there, right? There's supposed to be a blood stain on the
apparently with man with the allowance found family actually
found this distasteful the head judge was actually sending a copy
there later. This was much later obviously, right. But when they
were asked to bring forth the original, that it may be then
recited from so they could replace the Medina and one and they could
give the personal copy. They obviously didn't agree to do that.
And in fact, some of them said that he had been destroyed on the
day of or thunder the assassination. Allah knows best,
right? That's what the report says. More Harris was informed
that oath commands are the alarms master copies still survived in
the possession of his grandson, Heidi Dibner armory, Ben Earthman.
However, we can assume that the most half that had judged sent was
adopted for public recitation in the Prophet salallahu Masjid in
lieu of the original right. That's why it knows about Allah says
Elijah had sent the Quran to major cities including a larger into
Medina and was the first to dispatch the moose have two towns.
He wanted to get the Quran out there for people to read. ignatia
says when the Abbas Rula al MADI became Khalif, he sent another
must have to Madina Munawwara which it is being read from even
now. So this is an Abu Shabazz time that the one in Madina
Munawwara was the one sent by Maddie not the original which one
which disappeared somewhere, right? The most of her hijab was
removed in place. So Maddie was an ambassador, right? Which, who
basically took over from the Romanians. Now remember, hijab is
with the Romanians. So what they did when the Abbasids came in MADI
he put his most half there and and hijab is one that was removed and
kept in a box next to the pulpit at least. So lots of this kind of
changes and things like that took part in history now there's
another thing I want to mention this you guys will find this
interesting
I'll head hedges role as regard to the Quran was just not confined to
commissioning further mishaps. He didn't just get some additional
mishaps created Abu Mohammed Hey Manny reports that had judge once
called for a gathering of the whole five. And for those who
recited the book professionally, that a proper carries, and for
those who are Hafeez of the Quran, he also took a seat among them
because he was from the former group which is he was a half east
of the Quran. Okay, there's a harvest of the Quran. And then he
he started this whole committee to you know do to do what? He then
asked them to count the number of the characters in the Quran. Every
single letter of the Quran counted, I want to know how many
letters are in the Quran. Once finished, they unanimously agreed
on the round figure of 340,750 characters. There are 340,750
characters in the Quran.
I'm assuming character here probably means words.
Or letters. I'm not sure if you're in 40,750 characters characters
supposed to be letters right? His curiosity became far from expended
after that, he then sought to discover at which character lay
half the Quran. Now I want you to take that number and divide 347 50
by two and wherever that comes, that's going to be the middle word
of the Quran. And you know what that middle word of the Quran is
most of you will know this, what is it?
Exactly the it is in Surah 18 verse 19, at the character far in
well, yet a lot of that sort of will gaff while yet the locked
off, that's actually where it is. Then he asked where each 1/7 was
in the Quran, so that it will facilitate for those people who
wanted to finish the Quran in seven days, so count for me,
according to not how many pages it's written on, but the exact
letters telling me exactly where each seventh ends. Now I could
read all of this for you. But you can find this in in the book. I'm
not going to mention all of this. So his next aim was to uncover the
location of each third in the Quran and fourth in the Quran. I
don't know if he did it or not. But that was his intention. He man
he mentioned that her judge would follow the progress of the
committee every night. He used to check what's going on every night,
the entire undertaking required for months.
Now, the author of this book, Sheikh Mustafa allows me he says
that he tried to verify this counting of these characters. So
he said that he used a plain text copy of the Quran, digital plain
text copy of the Quran, without diagrammatic diacritical marks,
and there was a small software that he used. And the count that
he received was 332,795 332,795. Not really too far from 340,750.
That is just what about seven?
About seven
740. And that's 330 to 330 to 30,000, about 7000 words,
different 7000 characters different rather. Now, you might
think that's a big difference. Actually, it's insignificant
difference. The reason is, he says number one, you have to have a
methodology of what you're going to count as a letter, right? Are
you going to count wherever a word has a shredder like
sub
in the corner is written as solid and above the bar the shredder on
top which represent which represents idea that this has two
letters there? Are you going to count as two letters or that word
is two letters? Or are you going to count as three letters because
originally it's three letters sub is sub, and then both side Barbra.
So what was her judges methodology? What about the
initial lf that is read but not written or written but not read?
Did he count those? What was his procedure? What was his
methodology? So there's going to be a difference in that, right?
That's why it's very, very similar given that we don't know exactly
whether he counted the ellipse or not, or whether he counted the
double letters or not as two letters, a one letter, it's
actually very, very close. Now. There's nothing that we're going
to how the Quran spread further into the public. I mean, you know,
we've spoken about these official copies, right that were inscribed,
you know, that were commissioned by the rulers and the governors
and things like that starting with one of the Allah one. Now, what
happened is that if you or I wanted a Quran to be written for
myself, right, how would you do it? There was no printing press.
There were no shops selling the Quran. In fact, it was prohibited
in the beginning to take any payment to have any kind of money
transfer with regards to the Quran. So
the way they would do it is you would bring the parchment, right,
you would bring the paper, right, you would bring the paper to the
member of the masjid right in front of the machine, maybe after
some
A lot of something you say Is there anyone who's a scribe here
who can write because I don't know how many people knew how to write
eventually we must have increased but is there somebody who can
write because I mean, writing the Quran is something, even if you
can write today, I mean writing the Quran, you know, you want to
write in this, you want it to be written nicely so that you can
keep it forever, right. So, you know, I may be able to write
English, but my writing handwriting isn't that great. So
I'll probably get somebody else to do it. So the idea is that you
would stand in the front with some papers, and you'd say that can you
help. So then somebody like signing would come and say that
here, you know, I'll write it for you. And then this would be done
over the course of many, many days, different scribes would
volunteer, this was all voluntary in the beginning, right? So over
several days or weeks or whatever, different, you know, based on
their time, the different people would come and they would inscribe
it for you and you thank them, right. You may maybe even give
them a gift or something. However, as Islam spread, the demand grew,
okay. And that's when they became professional copyists. Right
became professional copyists, which means scribes,
calligraphers, you can call them maybe, or people who just copied
them right calligraphers. So, however, there was a big
difference of opinion. It looks like maybe the majority in the
beginning didn't agree to this, right. However, slowly, slowly,
they started agreeing. If no Masuda deal on the sahabi I'll
come masuk should I know Hi, Abdul Musa. All of these are targeting
they were dead against it that you cannot charge for this. Yes, have
copies do that as a job but you're not you can't charge your How can
you charge for the Quran?
The others, they said we're not charging for the Quran. We're
charging for the ink. You know, somebody's gonna have to get the
ink. We're charging for the time that is spent in doing this, the
ink and so on and so forth. So that's why some of the early
adopters of that was ignorant I bursa the Allahu Anhu said, aw
Jubail, YBNL Hanafi and Muhammad Abdul Hanafi, who is actually the
other son of alira, the Allahu anhu, from from the brother of
Hassan Hussain, but from another mother, right from Hana fear. So
he was a great scholar. So all of them, they didn't find it too
distasteful. So that was for copyist, you know, to get somebody
to write it out for you. Now,
slowly, slowly what happened is that Quran per copy started
writing Quran so if you had one written for you, you might want to
sell it to someone else, because maybe you got to your gifted one
or something like that, or you just needed the money. Were you
allowed to sell it or not? So again, the same kind of difference
of opinion. In fact,
you had the people like Abdullah Nakamura, the Allah wanna his son
Salim ignore me, Abdullah. He called it a very distasteful and
dreadful trade to be able to sell the Quran, right? It says no,
you're not allowed to sell that give it for free, or whatever the
case is.
But others they said it's allowed because again, you're not selling
the Quran because the Quran doesn't belong because our
discussion was that the Quran belongs to Allah, it's Allah's
words, how can you sell those? Right? So the other said that no,
you're not selling the Quran, you can't sell the Quran and what
you're selling is the paper on which it's on the parchment, it's
on. That's what you're selling, you're saying the parchment, the
ink and the word, that's what you're selling, not the Quran
itself. That's why later it became permissible even today, we hear
from some people, you can't sell the Quran. So then eventually, the
opinion became that you can
you can't sell the Quran, but you can buy one, which was that if
somebody is selling one, he shouldn't be sending it, but you
would be allowed to buy one. But don't sell one. So to discourage
selling. Nowadays, you see, for personal copies, that's
understandable. If you got a person from me, why would you want
to sell it, you know, just give it away to someone. But the problem
is that the, you know, the bookstores, the publishers, they
need to make some money as well this needs to be a business model
so that they can earn a living through it. I mean, if they were
producing and sending to the printers and the printers were
producing, you know, Quranic copies, and you'd have to just
raise the Lord charity to do this and just not efficient. So that's
why the Anima have allowed it. Some other machinery Denethor he
suggests that don't call it setting still. When you're setting
you know anything else you can call it selling but when it comes
to you know, trans exchanging Quran for money, call it a hadiya
I'm giving this to you as a gift, you're giving the money to me as a
gift. So I just add them and just at least it sounds like better
it's other it's etiquette. That's what they said. I think that's a
that's a good opinion. That's why you will hear that when what is
the Hadiya for this? What is the give I said it's not a hottie I'm
not giving you an idea of something, you know, I'm selling
something to you, but what it's just done other than right, in
terms of etiquette, some to get around this there are some you
know, people who wanted to you know, help the community they
stablish reading libraries, so it'd be a central location where
they would put copies of the Quran there and people will come and
read them from there. Right? So this is how it is nowadays it's so
easy Subhanallah you know, there's, maybe I'll tweet this out
again. But when I visited Uzbekistan, there's one Jami,
there's this Halal bookstore, who, before the Quran is we're just not
allowed to be produced in the country, you know, for about 30
years or something. And they were just a few copies that used to be
brought in from outside it was like some kind of restriction or
something. But since that's been lifted the last four or five
years, these doddle Hill are produced Korea, they've got their
own printing press. And I witnessed the day they there's one
day of the there's one day of the month or every few months, or one
month, I think, where they actually give the Quran at a very
cost price, like a few dollars. And you have to look this on
online. And I'm not joking, the police has to be called in to
manage the crowds of that large line, a huge crowd of people that
come to just pick up a Quran because people don't have them the
way we do. Today. I can say I've got I don't know 1015 Maybe 15
copies of the Quran mass Alhamdulillah right, it's a
blessing, it's a blessing. But in those places, I saw men women and
others coming in, you know, people who don't even necessarily look
religious, but they're coming with such fervor to just copy and I was
able to hand a few to them. absolute honor for me, right?
These are still in places like that that have been deprived you
know, for a while have copies of the Quran people came you know, so
far and wide every month they do this they wouldn't do this for
another book. They might come one day there's a famous author that
comes but that's it right? But here every month they're coming
because mashallah these people are trying to help them by giving them
for a very small price.
Things have said things have moved on what all we're going to discuss
now is a few other before we finish we just got a few add up a
few other etiquettes of the Quran it is most the hub and recommended
to kiss the Quran. I mean there's a lot of questions about this. But
because it's the revered Words of Allah subhanaw taala it is
recommended to kiss it and there's nothing wrong in doing that there
are them I've mentioned that there's also a good idea and
preferable to perfume the Quran now how do you perfume the ground
don't get like a bottle of it and like just pour it over then mess
it up. There's ways of doing that Alhamdulillah white thread and
Tara were working to wrath has worked on this beautiful elegant
copy of the translation of Mufti Turkey sub of the Quran, right
which has been published you can get it on white thread press as
well. However, white thread and tourist together are producing a
new
edition of the the Asian subcontinent style 13th and 15th
line Quran but written in the medina script. So it's a really
beautiful script or Samantha has script right which you will see in
the medina but written in the way that the Asians are generally used
to reading it. Make dua Inshallah, that it's nearly completed work
make dua that it gets completed quickly after Ramadan some time,
but inshallah we hope, we hope we hope to also produce a perfumed
copy in sha Allah, there are techniques out there to have
perfumed books so when you have them and you open them there's a
there's there's mashallah there's a fragrance that comes out of it.
We hope to be able to serve the Quran Shala like that with your do
ours as well.
It is it the Quran should be kept in a high place, it should not be
kept on the ground next to you. Sometimes there's some places in
the world where they don't, for some reason, they don't consider
it significant. Right? So you go you see this when you're going
sitting in Missy, the number we or Masjidul haram, that there's
people will just leave the most half lying on the ground next to
them, right? That's actually very, very disrespectful. This is not
just any book. In fact, I probably would not even leave an Islamic
book on the ground just like that. Right? I would always put it up,
right even though it's not necessary. I mean, never a hadith
book on the ground either. But even a general book discussing,
you know, I would not leave it on the ground. It's not respect. This
is where we walk. Right? So I wouldn't do that the Quran for
sure. Never. That's why many of the alumni mentioned this that you
should keep it up Hi, any angel who I'll kursi angel who will, you
know, put it on, put it on a platform of some sort. It would be
completely wrong to make it your pillow.
Right? Unless the thing is somebody's gonna steal it from you
at night then you sleep next to it like that, but you can't make a
pillow out of it because that's disrespect of the Quran. Right?
Likewise, Allah ma also Sheikh Nordin iter has mentioned in his
book as well that it's mcru Ryan, many of you will know this, but
it's some people they just think it's just going over the top two
acts to stretch your legs out towards the Quran.
Right we never do that in our homes and you know, we never do
that. Hamdulillah you know, to stretch the legs out to the Quran.
This is disrespectful. And the more we respect the Quran, the
better. There is
It's also nice to have. Some scholars have recommended that you
brush your teeth before you read the Quran, do a sea work, brush
your teeth before you read the Quran?
And
what about if some, if you've got an old copy a torn copy a worn out
copy or pieces that have come off. For example, some, you know,
children, they start off with the AMA, the juicer AMA, and sometimes
they really mess it up. And then it's all tatty, and, and scattered
all over the place would you do with that? So some say that the
best way to do it is to try to with some kind of water or
whatever, erase the ink. Now nowadays, the ink is not going to
erase with water, you might need some chemicals for that. But
that's one way and then to burn them. Right after you've erased
the ink and the wording, then you burn them. Okay. This is according
to some opinion, the Hanafi is they look at it differently. They
say that you should bury them somewhere. Right. And that's why
in Pakistan, in some cases, they actually put them into caves, they
stack them into caves, right? They're never going to be used.
They say that otherwise you bury them somewhere where people aren't
going to walk. That's why some cemeteries here, except Islamic
literature like that which they put into these pits in the ground.
They generally disregard discourage bear burning, because
like burning the words of ALLAH, unless you're able to remove the
lettering first, okay, if you remove the lettering, you could
probably even recycle the paper to be honest, right for use for a
good use. If you can't find any other way. Other suggestions are
that you put something heavy with it, and you drown them. But you
you're not going to do that in the River Thames here. Right? That's
going to be very disrespectful, right? Because they eventually
bring them up. Right and there were some people who've done that
and they brought out all these neurons and that and that and I
probably is probably illegal as well to do that. Yeah.
And the last point the most important point I know most people
know this but there's some people who still doubt this. The Quran
should not be touched right without wudu right without wudu
very important. And this is based on a hadith lie Mr. Su Limassol
Quran Illa Taha, which is I've we've mentioned it before it's
transmitted by Imam Malik in his motto and others that only the
pure person should touch the Quran. So, there you go, that
gives us some understanding of that inshallah.
In the next few days, we have Inshallah, the really interesting
topic of agile Quran, the inevitability of the Quran, how is
this Quran a miracle, right? So inshallah we're going to be
covering that in some of the subsequent days. Just ask Allah
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