Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Sciences in 30 Days Part 24 The Literal Miracle (I’jaz)
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Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh Welcome back to you
all. Allah bless you all. Today we start the 24th in the series on
renewable Quran the sciences of the Quran and today is the third
lesson regarding the miracle nature of the Quran the
inevitability of the Quran.
Let us start off with some Quranic recitation to inspire our hearts
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seldom at the Sleeman Cathedral on Isla yo Medina, Amma bird. So for
the last day or so we've been discussing how the Quran
put out a challenge and it was not met is not been met. And if it has
not been met of the people of the past, who are probably the most
eloquent group of people, the people that the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam was living amongst his own family members,
his own tribal members and the host community of Islam and the
original revelation of the Quran as well. If they could not do it,
then how can somebody later on do it because their knowledge of this
has stagnated? Clearly they don't have the same ability anymore. But
1400 years has shown us that it has not happened. So that is what
we were discussing now. Today, we're going to get more deeper
into the especially the literary miracle of the Quran and the
literary miracle of the Quran is probably the most important aspect
of the Quran. Reason is that it's something which spans all the
verses of the Quran. So inshallah today what we want to discuss,
just before we move on to that major discussion, I just want to
mention that this literary aspect of the Quran is unchallengeable
nature of the Quran, the incomparable inimitable nature of
the Quran, I pray pretty much the agreement across the board is that
this is because Allah subhana wa Taala is the one who has that
knowledge of being able to use the various different types of words
and all of this will become actually much more clear to you,
right clearer to us as we read the various different small instances
in which we see this at work. Right? Only Allah subhanaw taala
has that breadth of knowledge, absolute coverage of the language,
the absolute ability to take whichever word he wants, and use
go against the law when he wants but in a way that is acceptable
and so on. Only Allah subhanaw taala has the ability to do it.
That's why it's beyond human ability. Now, the fact that nobody
was able to challenge it, why not so so clearly the reason is
because only Allah subhanaw taala has the ability, they're trying to
match Allah subhanaw taala you cannot do that. There was a
minority opinion. The only reason I mentioned this is because there
are some who later than, you know, although the original person who
had this opinion, didn't have it for any, you know, critical
reasons of the Quran or something that was just his opinion this his
name was Mr. Tassili scholar of the past. His name was a boys hawk
and navan. abou is Hawk, another literary scholar, write a good
scholar of literature of Arabic literature and so on. But he's an
artist he lived in his Aqeedah and
he came up with this idea that the reason why the nobody was able to
do it is because Allah subhanaw taala prevented them from doing so
not that they didn't necessarily have the ability but they Allah
prevented them from doing so. Allah turned him away from doing
that they just couldn't do it. Their minds would not work to do
that. Now it's a bit of a kind of an arbitrary statement, I think
anyway, I mean, at the end of the day, it's it's a miracle of Allah
subhanaw taala regardless of that, but because of this statement of
his which he probably said in all innocence and so on and not to
criticize because he was a believer in the Quran, you know,
as a martyr, zeolite, heterodox believes it.
In some aspects but complete believer in you know, it's a
believer and believed in Islam and believed in the Quran didn't have
any problems with it. But then some later on, tried to use that
and have tried to use that to try to, you know, create some holes in
this whole idea but the majority never agreed with that idea. In
Arabic, it's called just for your reference. It's called surfer
surfer. This concept is called surfer that Allah just turned them
away from being able to challenge it. Maybe they could have but
Allah just turned him away from doing so. But know that, in fact,
the whole situation tells you that they tried and the if, if the what
what really repudiates this view very simply is that, you know,
forget the historical aspect that they were not able to do it. It's
the beauty of the Quran that is an unmatchable in the sense that just
the sheer beauty on the harmony and everything that's that just
falls in place, the concordance of it and everything is just that, in
itself just shows the beauty of it itself and its inimitable nature,
whether somebody tried Allah did not have to prevent them from
doing so. In fact, Allah is asking them to do so. And even the text,
they support the view that Allah subhanaw taala is telling them you
try, and they were unable to do so.
So now what we're going to be speaking about is the ways that
the Quran is a miracle. Right? We talked about the broad idea of
what it means but now we're going to specifically talk about
specific issues specific aspects of the Quran that make it the
miracle that it that it is.
Now Subhan, Allah, there are many of us, right? There are many, many
views regarding what regarding the Quran being a miracle, there are
many, many views regarding this as to how it's a miracle, right? What
makes it the miracle that it is, there are so many views about
this.
And
we're going to look at some of them. First, I'm going to just let
give you a summary of the earlier view regarding the study views
regarding this and the all in harmony, the early and later
views, they're pretty much in harmony, it's just that they've
been able to add to it, they've been able to detail it further,
speak about more of its nuances, and its subtleties and kind of
just open it up a bit more and bring other aspects as well in
there. There's some who insists that it's just the literary view,
literally idea of it, the literary aspect, the literal quality of it,
the lyrical quality of it. Some insist on that. Others say that
it's much more than that, for example, foretelling the future
for telling past events that were undiscovered, unknown to people,
right, and many, many aspects like that. So I'm not going to bore you
with any other discussion right now. Let me just get to the bottom
of it by
discussing what
Imam Abu Abdullah Mohammed Abu Ahmed Al Quran to be Al Ansari who
died in 671. We discussed his deaf seat as one of the greatest
singers of the past in one of the earlier lectures. So at the
beginning of his Tafseer called ultimately Akka Milla Quran Imam
called to be says the following. He says there are 10 ways that the
Quran is a modulator. Now that is just what he's taking from the
people who had been discussing this before him. So he takes it
and he summarizes it down into 10 points. Okay. So I'm going to
quickly just go through his just to give you an idea of what he
says the first one is, its composition, the composition of
the Quran, the way the Quran is written, the wording, choice, and
the sentence structure. That is the number one, we're very used to
the Quran right now, in fact, most of us many of us may only the only
Arabic they've probably read is the Quran. However, for the people
who were the host recipients of the run, they they obviously been
accustomed to a very specific or specific styles and genres of
Arabic language. When the Quran came down, it was totally
different to anything that they knew I discussed that already.
Right. So in the sound louder in the Arabic language, there was
nothing similar to it, right? It's a total separate category on its
own, and it's never been able to be matched, right since then, as
well. So, number one, it's not poetry, what they knew was there
was the genre poetry genre, there was not poetry. So for example,
you know, I mentioned the story of own a stepbrother or Buddha or the
Alon, who made it very clear that this is, you know, people were
saying that it's poetry or it's magic, and he says, Well, I am a
poet, and I know that this has got nothing to do with poetry. So that
was the story I already mentioned to you then wrote by Abner Robbie,
I mentioned history as well, especially when he the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam read surah to foresee that Han Amin, Al Kitab
will mobian to him Subhanallah you know, that they he totally got
changed because he realized that this is not poetry as of number
two
The style of the Quran, the style of the way it's composed, and also
the way of its arguments, etc is just totally different to any of
the Arabic styles, right? They just did not know, the
methodology, the style of the Quran, it's just different, right?
Number three, the boldness and confidence is the most amazing
thing, the boldness and the confidence of Allah subhanaw taala
in the Quran in the way he declares things in the way he
challenges things in the way he mentions things in the way he
asserts things in the way he argues different points, that jazz
Allah in Arabic, you know, it's the concept of jazz Allah, that
boldness, and that confidence is just not found in any other
language. Sorry, not in any other language in anybody else's
writing, in which you can, it can be backed up by what is being
said, you can have a false boldness and it's just empty. But
here it's talking about for example, I mean, just look at
these. You can you'd have to do this yourself. Take the surah
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right? And then the caffeine is and how they're shaped when IG
either MIT now Hakuna Turabian vertical Roger unburied cut the
alumina Martin Kosal or domino Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar just
takes her took off and take a translation. Right and maybe take
arbery is translation. Right or any translation any good
translation take arborist translate he has tried to match
the rhythmic sound of the Arabic in the English as well. Right? And
and just just see the meaning. But if you don't understand or you may
not those who understand Arabic recall call for example.
Allah subhanho wa Taala says for example, there's another verse.
Well, well, or do Jimmy and kabwata who Yom Okayama was
summoned? To Matsuya to be me Subhana wa Taala and I usually
could read those verses to the end. Likewise, read famous verse a
famous section while this is the end of the 13th fudges, right,
it's the end of the 13th I think it's the end of sort of Ibrahim I
think it's one attack seven Allah ha ha feelin and muddle variety
moon in Nemo, your hero meow meow Natasha, Sophie Hill ever saw
Martina Makani Rosie him Lai Alta de la him thoughtful whom? To whom
her read that. And to the end. These are just a few points I'm
putting out for you. Just so you can appreciate both the lyrical
quality, the style, the boldness, I mean, all of this is about
boldness. Right. Another thing I would suggest you do, and we did
this actually, I was in a retreat in the San Bernardino Mountains
that's just east of LA, Los Angeles and we had a retreat there
and mashallah, in the darkness right. I was actually I was
leading a group that and I had I taught cough when Quran Majeed
right. Cough will Quran multiball Ajiboye and gentlemen, zero
minimum Allahu Akbar what a profound experience that was in
the darkness reading that you know just just read that with just
maybe an iPad or something you know, just with you know, on the
phone or something like that just with a light just with that much
and just brood over that and well I got Harlequin Dell Inspiron when
that alone will matter to us which will be enough so it's so
personal. It's so personal is so touching. It's so profound. do
this do this I mean, don't just listen to my lectures go and
go and do that mashallah, somebody told me yesterday they actually
did that with Surah two facilite and it made them cry. So the do
this and you'll see you'll see Inshallah, you will see this for
yourself. And if you understand Arabic, mashallah, mashallah and
even if you don't, Inshallah, it will still help. That's why YBNL
Hisar. Or even al Hassan says, these three first points that go
to be has mentioned, right, which is the composition, the style, and
number three, the confidence and boldness of it, is in every Surah,
right, it's in every Surah In fact, you'll find it in every
verse, right? And
this, these are the primary three things according to him, that
would set apart the Quran from any other form of writing. Right? And
that is actually what Allah subhanaw taala is used to provide
the challenge with that same kind of language that Allah subhanaw
taala is providing this, just get let's give. Let's give another
short example of this right? How it's like this. For example, let's
just take these shortest verses a shorter Surah of the Quran in our
Athena calculator for Salah lira because when her inertia Annika
who will avatar right. So, let me translate it for inner outer inner
Kelco author, we have given you the co author co author refers to
Al Hiral Kathy, I mean of course he can refer to that reservoir in
particular the watering pool in the Hereafter, but he can also
refers to abundant goodness, abundant merits abundant virtues,
abundant.
Wealth, whatever we've given you in our Dinah calcofluor, for
Salini are a bigger one. So now pray for your Lord. Right, pray to
your Lord, pray for your Lord, establish prayer for your loved
100 and sacrifice give a sacrifice. And in the shiny occur,
who will absorb and the one who criticizes you, the one who has
objections to you, who has been reviving you and so on. He's the
one who's going to be left without anything, he's going to be left
without
children without resources, without a progeny and so on and so
forth. So now Allah subhanaw taala. Look what he says in here
in this shortest verse number one, Allah is telling us that He has
given the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam abundance. Now
that is, we know that through other Hadith, because in the
Hadith, it says that the watering pool will be such that just the
cups and the vessels, the glasses that will be used to serve people
that are to take from the will be more than you know, the stars in
the sky. That just gives you an understanding of just the culture
and how that relates in that meaning. Number two, there's also
a foretelling in this regarding al Walid ignorable, Kira, we talked
about him yesterday had been with his father, that now he had a lot
of children. He had a lot of wealth as well, right? Because if
you if you look at the verses in Surah, total Madatha Allah says
that only woman Hala Otto Haider Wajir al Tula Humala, ma'am do the
Albany in a show who the Tula who term he the So, all of these
verses, they indicate that he was a man of abundance, right? And we
know that anyway, then Allah subhanaw taala destroyed him and
his children, and so on. I mean, it's hardly been really there's a
separate idea, right, Khalid bin Walid is a separate, you know,
from this, but all the others, he just got destroyed. And he was not
happy that his son, you know, he's obviously not going to be happy
that his son would be a Muslim anyway. And number three?
Well, yeah, so that those are the two points that you find just in
spiritual growth in such a short Surah gives you so much
understanding. Number four, are now going back to Imam core to his
list of 10 things we talked about the first three, the composition,
and the style, and boldness and confidence. Number four, is,
again, this confidence of changing the Arabic language to suit what
it wants to say. Now, you might say, well, people could do that in
English, I can, you know, take a sentence and mess up the grammar
and do it my way. Yeah, but people aren't going to appreciate it.
Anybody can do that. But they won't appreciate it the way the
Quran does it. Right? Everybody can see that this was needed. And
this was clever. This was smart. This was an amazing, you know,
extension of the law of the rule. That kind of administration
administration in the Arabic language is very, it's impossible
for somebody to do at that level, as the level that Quran does. So
even the enemies have to say, Wow, yes, it's maybe not going
according to the way we normally say this, but that's amazing.
That's the thing. You know, it's like when people are used to doing
something in a certain way, and somebody comes and does it
differently, they're gonna have to be really, really, really good to
get people used to that different way and different style of doing
things. Otherwise, there's protests, and most people fail,
but then somebody who's really good at something, they may be
able to change the system in some way. The Quran did that. Every
verse with every verse SubhanAllah. Okay, number five,
the some of these will be familiar to you. Number five is Mr. Anil
Omar, and Lolita Goddamnit, you know, to inform of matters that
have passed right from the beginning of the world, you know,
to the time of the revelation of the Quran and that, okay, what's
the big deal is his history history historical aspects. Yeah,
but this is the, on the tongue of someone who's on me who's
unlettered they know who he has set with. They know, they know,
they knew they he had not studied with historians,
you know,
bar he had not set with historians of people who told stories and new
events of the past. It never set with those kinds of people. But
yeah, he's coming up with things. And then the very people who ask,
you know, know this history or know parts of this history, maybe
through other religious scriptures or whatever, they're stunned by
the knowledge that he has, that it corroborates what they know, but
gives more detail and it can't be denied. Because it matches up.
It's kind of like the missing blocks of the parts that they knew
from, you know, the other traditions and it gives it in a
very pristine way. Right? That in itself is amazing. Right? That in
itself is amazing. But as you know that this is not something you're
gonna find in every verse of the Quran, this particular aspect, but
it is one of the miracle aspects of the Quran, but it's not going
to be fine every verse because not every verse tells you about past
events.
That's why I call the book by
It says that we know for sure that the Prophet salallahu Salam had no
way of studying these particular aspects. Right? Because he was not
known to have studied them he was never have known and as I said
there was no phones in those days that you could go and secretly do
it in your, in your house or so on. So that was even more greater.
Number six, the sixth one that Imam quoted we mentioned is Al
wertha. Or Bill worthy,
Al Mudra, Bill hasty, Phil iron,
promising things that were very soon fulfilled, making promises
and then filling fulfilling them very soon, very perceptible way as
well.
Now,
for example, Allah subhanaw taala promised that we will help you
right, we will assist you Nasir right, we will help you and assist
you.
We will take you back to where you came from, to make karma, karma,
and all of that happen. And then more than that, that you can that
you if you have tried this and if you try this, this is science,
Allah subhanaw taala will do this for you. Allah says, well me at
our kill Allah, Allah He for whom hustle, whoever relies on Allah,
Allah will suffice him I've, I mean, I don't have much Tawakkol
but the bit that No, I can say that I can definitely experience
this and feel this. I've felt this before numerous occasions, right?
Well, me, me me. Here the caliber whoever believes truly wants to
believe in Allah subhanaw taala Allah will guide his heart.
That's why there was somebody I just dealt with before Ramadan
who's having quite a shaky ideas about the faith. And I said, Look,
number one, you need to stop reading antagonistic literature.
It's not helpful, right? Because you don't know your Islam property
yet and studied Islam properly, right at depth, but he's doing all
of these really complicated antagonism and arguments against I
said, well, that's just unfair. That's why you're having issues.
And number three, you need to sincerely ask Allah subhanaw taala
because anybody who has the verse says, Whoever wants whoever
believes in Allah, Allah is going to guide his heart. Number three,
why many people hire Jala Huma Harada, in Surah Talaaq if you
want to see it in 20, just 28 Whoever fears Allah, Allah will
find a way out for him. I've numerous stories just I'm rushing
this because we don't have time. And number four, we're in War II
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Allah said and I mentioned this before to you that if there's
if there were 20 of you that was steadfast they would be able to
overcome 200 That kind of equation did happen then Allah subhanaw
taala lighten the burden them and said, Okay, it's going to be one
to two now. Right in terms of in battle and so on. Number seven,
sorry, if I'm rushing this a bit, I want to get to some of the other
more recent
What do you call it? Discussions on this, this is a number seven is
informing of future unknown events, and then they come up,
right, which only Allah subhanaw taala could have known. Allah
subhanaw taala says who Allah Dr. Salah Rasulullah, who Bill Houda
within. Now one of the simplest examples I've not seen anybody
else write about but that has occurred to me, very simply
simple, is that Allah subhanaw taala said about the Pharaoh,
which was a historical idea that way alumina energy could be with
Anika Lita, Kona, demon Hanukkah, we're not going to let your body
drown today, since we're going to give you respect with your body so
that you can be assigned for the people after you now that was a
verse in the Quran has been read for 1300 years, but nobody knew
the body of Pharaoh existed anywhere. And then about 100 250
years ago, this Howard Carter goes and finds the mummies. And now
they you know, all of these mummies that they found
Subhanallah that verse becomes even more life, right? That
literally that Ramses the second whoever it was, he is there in his
Allah has allowed him to endure until today to be assigned. Now
what is that? If that's not a prophecy of the Quran of the
future? There's so many of those. This is just one that occurred to
me. There's so many that others people, other people, other
scholars have actually listed as well.
So, there's so many verses about this as well. That happened during
the time the prophets of the Lord Islam itself. Allah subhanaw taala
says, Where are the hola hola Dena Manu mu Kumar I'm you know Saudi
hottie LA is definitely Fun Home Phil all the kind of stuff level
levena mean covering him. Why don't you McKinnon at home Deena
Holman, Lydia Tada Allah home. Now in this verse, Allah subhana wa
Tada promises that promises the believers among you and those who
are good deeds that he will make you inheritors of the earth. Just
like He did that for the people before you miss exactly what
happened to the Sahaba and the tabby in it happened for several
Jante we got messed up again. Right? Likewise, there's another.
There's another prophecy in the verse Lakota sada called
la hora sola Hora ER bill hacky letter, the Holan letter, the
Holan al Masjid Al haram. Insha, Allah Who and I mean, Allah Azza.
See the prophets Allah has had a dream, right that about this then
Allah mentions that Allah has confirmed for His Messenger, the
dream, the truth will dream that you will soon certainly enter into
the Mercy of Allah if Allah subhanaw taala wills in absolute
safety and security. And that's exactly what happened to Congress,
the massacre took place afterwards. Likewise, Allah
subhanaw taala another verse says, we're in a Docomo, Allah who had
utter if at AMI and lecom, Allah subhanaw taala promised you one of
the groups one of those armies that you are going to overcome
them. And then a really, really prominent example that you can
actually read and read in Gibbons history and other places is about
the Roman defeat first in the time of the Prophet sallallahu sallam,
and then just several years later, their their success and their
victory over the Persians. So Allah subhanaw taala says, and
this was the verse that was revealed at the beginning of
Surah, two room, right, the Romans, when the Romans were
actually defeated by the Persians, so just after that defeat, and
I've mentioned this in my Tafseer, you can go and check last year's
series, the 21st Jews, and it will be discussed in the insha. Allah,
Allah says, early for
me, worry about the rule movie, out of the womb in the hollaby him
say ugly bone. Yes, the Romans have been defeated, right? But
very soon, they're going to be successful, they're going to be
victorious. Nobody could believe that. The Persian seem to be a
mightier force. Nobody could believe that. And the non Muslims
of the time, were actually taunting the Muslims, that your
brothers, you know, they are Christians, because they also
believed in God obviously, right? That they've been defeated. But
when Allah subhanaw taala said, they made this a joke, but within
a few years, they had to bow their heads in shame, and in remorse,
because it's exactly what happened. The Romans had victory,
right? There's numerous examples of this. These are just quick,
quick, quick examples and providing so that we can cover and
you can go and search for this for yourself. Number eight.
The other amount of knowledge, the profound amounts of knowledge that
the Quran includes that are relevant moral knowledge, legal
knowledge, right, halal haram ways of life, what's beneficial and so
on? You know, that's another miracle of the Quran, right, that
people have been able to find that useful for, you know, so many
centuries. And number nine, other wisdoms So, that's beyond just the
knowledge, the wisdoms you know, the profound wisdoms very similar,
right, that are beneficial for humans to live their life by that
which is found in the Quran. And number 10. Is the harmony in what
the Quran says. And no discrepancy between what the Quran says within
each other, even though it was revealed over 23 years, in bit by
bit when you put it together? I mean, there should be some
contradiction. But no, there's no contradiction to show that it was
actually all prepared beforehand. It's Allah subhanaw taala scholem.
With him from eternity, that's where Allah subhanaw taala says,
what oh, can I mean, the whole year Allah He Allah, Jeju V de la,
Cathy, or had been from other than Allah, they would have found so
much discrepancy therein, but they don't find the discrepancy. Right.
You can see from this, that Allah ma have discussed from past times
that, you know, there are many ways that the Quran is a miracle
with all of these things, they makes it the miracle, right, and,
and so on. And it's not just the wording and the composition, but
it's actually its meanings as well. Another aspect to this, if
we're to look at what the contemporary scholars have said,
meaning more recent events, more recently, what people have said, I
would say that they've probably talked about the following 12
things, okay, and we're going to talk about them in a bit more
detail. But I'll just list that the facets of ages, the facets of
inevitability of the Quran can be listed in about 12 things. Number
one,
the point that it cannot be challenged, so the unique
composition that nobody's been able to match number two, the
literary miracle of the Quran in the sense that when you look at
it, and I'm going to open up some of this for you in sha Allah,
right, that forget that nobody has been able to challenge it, but the
absolute sheer beauty and balance right, that the Quran has in his
language. I just talked about some of this aspect. Number three, the
preservation of the Quran is a miracle, right that it's not been
changed, even though it's gone over 1400 years, whereas other
books and things, they change number.
What else have we got here? The preservation Yeah, predictions
about the future. I just talked about some of that lost knowledge
of the past and then that being corroborated with people who had
parts of that and
Knowledge that yes, it's completely conducive to that
knowledge about the natural world, so much phenomena about the
natural world. And I discussed a lot of this in my series on the
field, you know, in the 30 Jews, right, where so many places that
Allah subhanaw taala talks about, for example, people riding on
different means of conveyances. And then he says, and other things
that Allah will create me could not be talking about rockets, you
know, 1400 years ago, but he alludes to it,
the motor vehicle, the automobile,
the automobile, and all of these other things which Allah subhanaw
taala gives room for that in the Quran.
elucidations about the origins of life. That's another aspect,
right? Which completely conforms to an understanding. Then we've
got the existence of God, His names and his attributes, just the
way that is discussed. Universal Laws objective, more morality, and
guidance. That is another aspect of all of this needs. This I'm not
going to discuss all of this, by the way, okay. And the ease by
which the Quran is memorized is another aspect.
How easy it is to memorize and guarantee you it's easy,
right? hamdulillah having done it, it's very easy and you will know
that those of you memorized it. And number, the number 10 I think
is that number 11 is lack of errors and contradictions, so no
discrepancy. And then people's personal experiences related to
the Quran when you indulge in the Quran when you engross yourself in
the Quran. Now mashallah many, many scholars have been amazed and
even more recently, I would say more recently, people have
discussed this a lot more in detail. I would say some of the
more famous names of the last 100 years right if you want to look
into this, most of this stuff would be in Arabic, but it's been
taken and put into English.
Some of their stuff has been taken some of the more famous one is the
Allama Mustafa sodic Rafi he's got a book called Jazz will Quran so
what they've done is they've developed a lot more on the ideas
of the people of the past in terms of the edges of the Quran. So he
kind of you can say is one of the early ones of this last century.
Then after that somebody who comes after him and I've mentioned him
before is from Egypt. Dr. Mohammed Abdullah daraz is phenomenal when
it comes to the Quran, Quranic sciences and one of his most
famous books on this subject is called another will Alvine the
great account the great information right the the noble
the noble news, right and yeah, he's got a number of ideas in
there then after that he had a I think it was this contemporary
who's really famous in again Quranic works mana who the author
of mana he really Irfan. I love Mohammed Abdullah Alvim. Zurich,
Connie. Right as your Connie. And he's done a number of issues. And
then after that, there's been some others more recent times, Dr.
Hassan Lea Odine editor, in his core, in his book called more
Jesus, Al holida. And then there's a number of others, you know,
there's a number of others I can't, and even now, you know,
there's lots of scholars out there, and there's on YouTube,
there's lots of lectures in Arabic on this subject by some very
famous scholars, and, and so on.
So the, what they say is, you know, I'm gonna give you the main
points from them, right as to what they say is the edges of the
Quran.
So the first one, I would say, they all pretty much seem to agree
that the first one is that Oslo will Quran will carry which means
the manner, the style, the technique, the special pattern,
the special technique of the Quran, right? What is exactly that
mean? Why is this one of the biggest features of the Quran?
Well, sorry, one of the biggest, inimitable marches are features of
the Quran, why do they all restricted to this one? The reason
is that this is actually what the Quran is. The Quran is an Arabic
language, it's a piece of writing, it's a composition. And this
particular point relates to the very composition of it. Right and
what Allah subhanaw taala says about it. That's why this is
probably the most important aspect, the composition of it.
I'll manhandled by Jani. It's its methodology of expression, the way
Allah expresses ideas, that methodology of expression, which
is inimitable of the Quran, and this is something found in every
single verse of the Quran, not just in some verses. For example,
you know, the ones about telling you about the past events or
future events or prophecies or promises, they're going to be
found in some verses not in all verses, but this particular aspect
is found in every single verse.
And this number two, that's the first point about this. Number
two, what makes this the most mightiest point is this is
something what the Arabs of the time the host community that the
Quran was first diary
reveal to they got this. This is what bowled them off their feet
more than the other aspects I would say, like just a mate
because they were literally people, meaning they loved good
composition. And this is what took them off. Yes, they were the other
aspects which complemented it about the past and future, and
warnings and all the other and the advices and everything. But it's
literally aspect, we just tugged at their hearts, right? And just
beautified their mind, and they understood it when they saw it.
And they were unable to challenge it. So how can you expect somebody
who comes later to be able to challenge it even with the
supercomputers of the world? Now, in this regard? What exactly is
this particular first point, right? This is the middle. So I'm
going to split this up into two, right, two major points. This is
the literary regard. Now remember, somebody who's going to be able to
appreciate this properly, are going to be people who know
Arabic, right? So they're the ones who are going to really appreciate
this, their host community was like that. And that's what that's
the Quran did its job. And that's how we have Islam today. Right?
That's how Omar of the island became Muslim. And that's why we
have Islam today, because of these people. The second aspect, which
I'll talk about, most likely tomorrow now, right is the things
which has got, which is not necessarily to do with the Arabic
aspect of it, but it's something that anybody can see of it. Right.
And I've alluded alluded to some of them already. But just today
just to pursue some of the Arabic aspects of it. The first way of
that is, and this is on multiple levels. Okay. And you might be
wondering, like, What are you talking about, but you'll see what
I mean, and I get really excited about this. I was actually
introduced to this in 2009 right in 2009. I had no idea about this
to be honest. I mean, I'd studied the Quran and everything but I've
not studied this particular aspect these particular aspects of it,
and Masha Allah may Allah bless Professor Abdul Halim, you know,
in so as that I took a class with him called the language style and
structure of the Quran. And I was like, wow, you know, this is a
whole dimension of the ground, I had no idea and since that day,
I've just been amazed by that you read the Quran, when you explain
the Quran and you just see that it's, you need to understand this
idea of it. We actually teach this when we teach in our detailed
postgraduate Tafseer program, right, we teach this this is for
anybody who knows Arabic, generally it is for older MA and
early math, but anybody who understands Arabic can join this
where we cover the various different series. And when there's
a there's a lesson on the language style and structure of it, right?
Which we may actually offer separately in the coming year. But
anyway, this particular aspect of it is the composition, right? In
both
its sound, and its choice of words. So it's not just choice of
words that are beautiful, but the way they sound the way they match
the meaning.
You see, when somebody hears the Quran for the first time, what
they're going to hear is the composition. Okay? Now what
they're going to see in that is the way where there's pauses,
where there's
intermittent pauses, where there's movement, there's a Hanukkah,
there's going to be Hoonah, right? In levena Moreno. Now you don't
have to read you don't read like that, when you speak Arabic or
when you read another book. If you if you were to read
the kalila Demna or some other classic of the Arabic language you
don't have to read, it was
in the Shamsa called zealot. Right. You don't have to say in
shims called desert you don't have to say that you have to do that in
the Quran, though. Okay. So when somebody is reading the Quran,
there's a specific Tajweed and a specific way to read the Quran
that beautifies it. And what it does is just not that why is that
read necessary? Well, number one is to give that right effect to
carry its meaning effectively. Have you ever thought about why
that read is necessary in the Quran? Because that's what makes
the Quran the Quran is part of that which complements the Dawa of
the Quran the effect of the Quran. So, you're going to find wholeness
in there. You're going to find colors in the men raw, woven and
no holes fear or welder for this COVID is
you're going to find these elongations What do ha Well Layli
either sajer ma Dhaka book kala Farah sadaqa WADA wala can you get
by what are some other herba Isla li moto? Then you're going to have
these other abrupt endings like awkward scene will be here will
mean
whether or quasi will be enough civil. I accept will, sir no Ellen
Nedjma Ivana then you're gonna have things like
Yo man, I feel roll more Omen he was me he will be Warsaw. Hey
buddy. He were Bernie
equilibrium in home Yoma eeveelution Louis yo, honey, you
know you're gonna have these various different sequences of
very specific harmonious
What do you call it rhapsodies? Sounds tones that help to carry
the meaning and it changes accordingly. And this is the most
amazing aspects. So when you hit, then you're going to some in a lot
of places is going to be stretches.
What are all really mean? Aloha, Koto, malha
ka other
stretches. So, it's amazing stopping, pausing, stretching,
nasal sounds, right, the whole nut and so on. It is unique. It is
amazing. And that helps to carry the message if you understand the
meaning is music. So it's not musical like poetry where you're
going if you if you look at poet poems, generally the Arabic
poetry, it all ends in a certain word, rah rah, rah now Quran in
some sort of sutras, they do and in certain ways, like for example,
if you look at the beautiful I love to read all the time, I'm
going to be reading it tonight in Tel Aviv as well. Surah two
Mohamed Soto Kitaen right in 26 Jews living in a Cafaro Assad
sebelah he Armada home, while Latina M and while I'm inside the
head, man will be manos de la isla Mohamed Anwar who will have Camira
be him Catherine Hamza, yet the masala hubba the home, the whole
surah is home come home, home, home, home home, the whole surah
is not poetry, is he the poetry you're going to expect that it's
going to be all like that. So there's a certain expect that
there's a certain expectation in poetry, that it's going to be
exactly aligned in, according to a certain meter. The Quran is not
according to any meter. That's why it is less rigid. That's why it
has more flexibility. That's why it's got more ability and vastness
and expensiveness to be able to do what it wants. Likewise,
it's
it's not such poetry that you know, you got long lines of that
policy that eventually it just gets boring because it's the same
old meter that's been repeated over and over and over again, but
no, in the Quran, just do me a favor and check sorta Akiyama. And
you've got about five or six clusters, right, which each
cluster seems to rhyme, but not in meter and not in meter. He just
the ending seem to rhyme they seem to end in a similar way. And it
just keeps changing with the themes of it. It doesn't let you
be bored. So when the theme changes to the arcade, or there's
another side when it's when it's more guilt. What do you call it
creating taking your guilt, right? It's different. Okay? So you don't
get bored with the Quran. You can't get bored with the Quran.
Except that you know, you may get bored in terms of the timing that
you spend right that you just get tired of reading remark it said
but you won't get bored of listening because it's just
different. It's not the same online. Bang, bang, bang, bang,
bang, you know, then if you go beyond that even more subtle,
right? This is really and I'm spending time on this but if you
go more subtle in terms of the letters of Arabic and how you
suppose saying them, you know, you've got
some that are very soft letters. You've got some that create a
whistling sound right? The Saphir says, sheesh, right. You've got
some which have the humps sound right.
Right. You've got
the soft ha then you've got the hard sounds that hit you like the
and
the bethia The abelia have been a tough man I mean that in just that
position I mean if you look at the meaning that but yeah, I'd be
happy with tab
made the hands of Ebola perish right may they perish but yeah,
the Ebola have been what the
governor I know man who wanna Kassab sales learner that Allah
had one more to him. Little help of Fiji the her habit, no mum said
that rebounding sound. So you've got these different wording that's
used of the Arabic language with these laws of Tajweed, where you
have to create this, you know, you don't create rebounding sounds in
all letters, you only do it in certain letters, and those are the
ones that have been used. Some people if they want to create a
rebounding song in lamb that would be wrong, like some people do read
this wrong. Al Hamdulillah European army that's wrong. It
should be Al Hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah. They should not be
any rebound down there. But in a cough in a thong, in a bar, in a
gym in a diet, you have to have rebound, that creates a certain
effect on you. You're wondering now that Allah subhanaw taala, you
know, has used all of these things to create an effect but it's lost
to us if we don't
Know the how this is in harmony with its meaning.
So the, the wording that's used the letters that are used with the
word you know the words with the specific letters that are used,
right to change and effect the meaning with this musical quality,
right so the Quran has a musical quality somebody could just
literally discuss the music of the Quran, right? And that would be
the halal music as well. If you want Halal music, study the music
of the Quran really, right. And people are amazed throughout the
world with the music of the Quran, you know, your suitcases and
you're all these other people. Mashallah, right?
What is that that's a music Bates non instrumental, it's divine
music from Allah subhanho wa Taala as words. So the Quran will
change, right? The wording will change based on whether the
Prophet sallallahu Sallam is sorry, ALLAH SubhanA. Allah is
giving a message, whether he's mentioning your wisdom, whether
he's mentioning a law, right, or one of the legal aspects, whether
it's mentioning the ACA ID and the beliefs whether Allah subhanaw
taala is talking about one of the other principles, whether Allah
subhanaw taala is preaching in that case, whether he's exerting
in that case whether he is admonishing in that case, whether
his repudiating in that case, there's some Jellal that comes up
suddenly, right where Allah subhanaw taala just speaks in
majesty there's other times when Allah subhanaw taala is pleading
with people like you know, fulfill ru il Allah fulfill ru il Allah,
just think of that, even if you don't understand Arabic, for fear
rule. Illa Allah just run to Allah? How harmonious is that? How
How am I mean, you don't even understand Arabic even fulfill
rule Illa? Allah SubhanAllah? Right. I'll just mention one more
point, we have gone over time already. But I'll just mention one
more point. And then we'll have to carry on the rest tomorrow, right?
The meaning and the words, the word and the meaning being in
complete harmony, right?
What do I mean by that? What I mean by that is to use the right
amount of words to provide the right amount of message or
meaning, or whatever you want to say. So whatever you want to say
to someone, you use the shortest possible way of saying it in a way
that's effective as well. The Quran is able to do this in the
best of ways. Now, what I mean by that is, there's somebody who
wants to be very brief, but they want to obviously give a message.
The problem is that they're either going to end up being too brief.
I've dealt with this so many times, you know, I've dealt with
students, some very wordy students and other other students. They
write in notes, they don't want to write out things, they keep half
the information in their mind, and they just write out you know, when
you're teaching somebody how to rewrite, you were teaching people
how to write fatwas. So some are too wordy, including irrelevant
parts, and there's others who are including not enough knowledge,
we've got, you know, not enough of the answer. They expect that you
know it, or they kept it. Where is that point? Oh, I thought it would
be clear, it's not clear right to anybody is not clear. This is the
extreme, you know, the extremities that you're going to deal with in
language, right that people like, Now, some people try to get that
balance. Now what the Quran, the thing is that even a good writer,
when they try to make it very brief, there's sometimes going to
compromise on some of the meaning they want to say, by keeping the
word short, sometimes, you know, it's a newspaper article, or
there's only, you know, and you only allowed 500 words in an
abstract, right? Or in a proposal, you're only allowed to write 300
words, for example, you want to say a lot, but how much can you
write in 300 words, so you're gonna have to compromise on
something. So that's what happens sometimes. On other occasions,
it's the opposite where you want to say more, but then what happens
is that people get bored is becomes verbose. You do too much
is Tweel, there's just too much elongation in there. And there's
just a lot of fluff in there. The Quran is what does this in the
most balanced and perfect manner, where it needs a bit more detail,
it provides it but when it needs to be concise, it's concise, it's
concise, overall, anyway, but not too much that it doesn't provide
the relevant information. Now, you might say I've read stories in the
Quran, and they don't have all the juicy details that the Israelite
traditions are, well, that's a separate idea. The Quran has a
certain message, and is giving you the most relevant part. That's
enough, the Quran will not not date and then he came you just
mentioned, then it's like that, for example. It doesn't say when
they enter Jannah, it's just going to this just Allah subhanaw taala
just suddenly says, And the angels will welcome them into general
saying salam, Alikum, B mouseover, to infinit, aucuba DAR. So it cuts
out all of the transitions in between that are not needed. And
it just does this in a way that makes sense that people aren't
gonna say, Hey, I should have added this here. Why isn't? He
said here, right in the conversation. You know, sometimes
the conversations are just so free flowing that it doesn't even say
who's saying what, but you can understand who's saying what, you
know, the critics of poetry of Arabic poetry, they've said that
there's very
Very, very few poems, right of the celebrated poems that have set out
to be the shortest possible, but have the greatest meaning. There's
very few that I've been able to get even close to that. But the
Quran does this all the time in its in its expression. Now, when
you read the Quran, with the meaning, lotta house, Bill is
rough while we talk to you, you will have no perception, hey, this
is too wordy here didn't need to be that there's going to be a
benefit for that extra word. Or you're never going to feel like
hey, this is too short. Of course, it's too short in essence that you
want it to carry on but you know, in terms of the meaning is trying
to say it said it in the most eloquent way.
Now, I would put out a challenge that one of the scholars have put
out he's saying, too, I mean, you'll only be able to do this
obviously if you know Arabic. But for those of you who know Arabic,
what you do is take any part of the Quran write any few verses
could wala who had any short Surah of the Quran, alumna, Shakalaka,
Sadhak, whatever, and count the number of words in it. So take
Kulu Allah who had count the number of words in it.
Then take, like, let's just say it has 21 words in there.
You take 21 words from any other piece in Arabic that you think is
great, that's very amazing. There are some very good, amazing piece
now take 20 words from the 21 words, same number of words.
And then try to see all the meanings and significations that
come out from the 21 word Surah of the Quran and the 21 words of the
other piece of writing, whether it's a short poetry or whatever it
is,
and then compare the two together. Right, that's the first thing
number to
check the other piece first of the 21 words or 50 words or whatever
it be, and then see if you can switch some of the words with some
of their synonyms, alternative words and you'll probably be able
to do and still maintain the same meaning. Try to do the in the
Quran and you lose out you lose some meaning. So the specific word
that Allah has chosen and I'll give you some of these examples in
sha Allah tomorrow better examples. If you remove that word
and add another word and Arabic as I told you the other day it has
10s of words sometimes for a single idea. Right? Try to do that
and you'll lose some of the meaning. So the specific word
specific synonym that has been chosen by Allah subhanaw taala is
the most apt to provide the extra signification in their compare
this do this for yourself and see what you come up with right
in fact in the Quran, you know to maintain that same ad you wouldn't
be able to change it to any anything else that's why ignore
after a year, Rahim Allah says lo newsy. I mean who loves the tone,
so Madeira, listen will rip a huge accent will mean Harlem Yujin. If
you were to take any word of the Quran and say, Okay, let me find
another word in Arabic language that could replace this, you would
not be able to find a better word than it in terms of the way it
sounds. And I'll show you some of the beautiful examples. They will
get either Chris Smith to Liza, I'll explain that one tomorrow for
you. If you wanted to change that to another word, you would lose
the quality you would lose the music you would lose the meaning
you lose everything.
That's why Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, bravely,
boldly, Allah says Gita, or Kima 234. See, let me lead on Hakeem in
hobby. These This is a book whose Ayat whose verses have been made
firm and solid, right? And then they have been detailed from the
one who's all wise and who's all knowing. So with that, we have to
end today's session. And subhanAllah you know, there's
some, there's more to this the third way that the Quran is a
literal miracle. I'll explain the few more before we go into those
which are, which even the non Arabs were able to be able to
appreciate. Right? Directly in sha Allah. May Allah allow us to live
until tomorrow and in sha Allah give us all long lives of on Iman
and don't allow us to date a day before we have been able to enjoy
the Quran and make it ours. May Allah bless us with the Quran May
Allah inspire us with the Quran May Allah beautify as with the
Quran May Allah educate us with the Quran. May Allah embellish us
with the Quran May Allah allow us to rise with the Quran May Allah
allow us to rise in Jannah with the Quran May Allah allow us to
die with the Quran May Allah allow the Quran to defend us from the
Hellfire May Allah allow the Quran to be our intercessor into
paradise. May Allah subhanahu wa taala allow that to be the way to
get our crowns for our parents in in the Hereafter. May Allah
subhana wa Tada allow us to teach the Quran Allah
Learn the Quran know the Quran, understand the Quran understand
his various different aspects and may Allah allow us to be teachers
of the Quran so that we can be the best of the people of Muhammad
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