Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Sciences in 30 Days Part 4 First and Last Verses Revealed
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hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala Murthy, Ramadan
mula Alameen wa ala, the wasafi overlocker was seldom at the
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Call Allahu Tabarka with the IRA with an owner Dr. Anil rule. Od ro
Hillman Emery Rob be one who the two men align me, Colleen. To
continue with our discussion today regarding the reason for why the
Quran came down over 23 years and not all together. We discussed one
reason in depth yesterday, which was that the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa salam it was for strengthening the heart of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that he gave an opportunity
over the course of 23 years to constantly reassure the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam support him, comfort him and give him a
give him a lot of strength in that way that was much better than had
it all come down at one time. And then he would have to actually go
back to the Quran each time. So this way, it was actually a fresh
revelation each time. So we discussed that already. And then
there's a few other points here that we need to discuss. The
second one was the reason for it coming down over 23 years was
because of the challenges that were posed, the objections, the
criticisms, the questions, and so on. So that's what we were
discussing. And we discussed in regards to that we discussed the
final verses of Surah, Yaseen, our mural in Santa Ana, hollow Connor,
who may not fit in, which is towards the end of sort of the
scene, which was a response response to Hello, Omar obey
ignore Aleph who
had a contention about resurrection. So that came down
specifically for that. Now, there were also other cases. For
example, we know about situations where the coloration of Makkah,
they went to the Jews of Madina, Munawwara and they asked them that
give us some questions that we can ask because, you know, they were
people of a book, The the Jews were people of a book, they said,
give us some questions that we can ask the Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and, you know, test him with this. So
that was the test, right? So it's really interesting. So the rabbi's
of the Jews, they said, Ask him about three things. If he tells
you if he responds to these three and gives you an answer, then that
means He is a messenger. Right? So these three questions were asked,
and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam responded to them. The
first question or the one question was about us herbal calf who are
the US herbal calf these are the sleepers of the cave. The other
question was about the little codename tell us the story of a
little codename? That is mentioned in sorbitol camp as well, right.
So the skeletal calf was revealed to answer these questions as well.
These verses were their intuitive gaff for us hobble calf and goolka
name is mentioned in the third question they asked was, What is
the rule? What is the spirit? What is this thing called the Spirit so
that the response of that is not inserted to calf? Even though it
was asked in with the other two questions? It was in? Yes. Aluna
got any row inserted? So little extra? That's mentioned in
sorbitol Issara. And you can you can check it up there is Wes
Aluna. Can you rule with a rule from Emily Robbie, who the mineral
me in kalila. They asked about the Spirit say that the spirit is from
the command of my Lord and you've only been given very little
information or very little knowledge. Now, there's another
thing that happened on this on this occasion which shows you the
interactive nature of the revelation of the Quran with the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam and the people around him. So what
happened is that when these questions came to the Prophet
salallahu alayhi salam from the Meccans he said to them, or quiero
Coumadin, I'm going to tell you tomorrow I'll inform you of this
tomorrow. However, he did not say in sha Allah.
He didn't say in sha Allah. So now what happened is, for 15 days know
where he came. Now this was a crucial moment they asked him a
question. He said, I'm going to tell you tomorrow, but the
revelation did not come he could not respond to them. Of course
that was very difficult for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
to bear. And then after that, the verse came down. What are the
Poulan Alicia in in Neva?
Lika Horden Il ne Masha. Allah was good. Rebecca Eva aniseed. Wako
Eliza, a DNA orbelian Call them in Russia. Don't ever Don't ever say
regarding anything that I'm going to do it tomorrow. I'm definitely
going to do it tomorrow. Except by saying unless Allah wills so
always say Insha Allah, unless Allah wills if Allah wills if
Allah wills and
To remember ALLAH, when you forget, whenever you forget, if
you forgotten then remember Allah and say that it is possible that
my Lord will guide me.
And that's how it carries on. So that was a real interaction there
again, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam being told to say
Insha Allah, so for 15 days for him, the revelation did not come
down. Likewise, you had numerous Muslims that it was It wasn't just
objections from non Muslims, but they were they were also Muslims
who had questions the Muslim community, the Sahaba, for
example, whereas alone, yes, Aluna Canada, you female goon, goalie
Laffel. So this is they ask what should they spend? So the
responses that they should spend, they should they should forgive.
Then they asked about waste. Aluna Qian Hill, they asked about the
moon they asked about the moons. So the response Allah gave call
here our key tool in civil Hajj. It's the it's a method for time
for people and for the Hajj as well. It tells you they asked
about menstruation. Where's Aluna Qian? Ill Mahi? Who are other
ferrets? Fernandez, you don't need a feeling Mahi is inserted Bacara.
Right.
They ask about menstruation say that it's filth. And you should
have you should avoid women. When they're in that state. That means
intimacy. So
numerous times at different times different questions were coming
up. And this allowed. For example, if you look in the Quran, there
are you'll see verses regarding the Battle of budder. You'll see
them regarding the spoils of war how to you know you've got a whole
Surah Surah Al Anfal, which refers to the spoils of war booty, right
how to how to distribute that. So that, again, that was came down
for that those particular instances, then you've got, for
example, on during the Battle of Ord, you had that setback after
the initial when you had the setback, right. So there was
there's a whole set of verses regarding that, to comfort the
Muslims and to tell them and to give them some, some solace, and,
and so on. Likewise, there's so many other things that provide lot
of
on the at the moment, you know, on the time, comfort to the
muslimeen. At that time, after that you've got the slow and
systematic prohibition of Xena, then there's VR, which is the
concept they used to say in those days, if they wanted to kind of
distance their wife, they used to say that you're like the back of
my mother, and things like that that's discussed rules of the
Edit, and rules. Ada, which is the waiting period for women, there's
huge discussion about the incidental Bacara. Then there's
the laws of swearing, oaths, UCC, that at the beginning of the seven
stages, as well, and also in Surah, Al Baqarah. Right, so all
of this comes down slowly, slowly, it wasn't just done altogether.
Likewise, there's, there's the last word to better or heard 100,
taboo, Conan all of these I mentioned separately, they took
part they took place at different times, and the verses then came
down regarding those instances, it was just so perfect. Some people
could say that this was like the Master picture, a master tapestry,
a master building that was going to be constructed or composed, or
painted, or whatever. So what happened is that these were small
bits that were added over time to make it look beautiful. There's
various ways that people have explained this, but the reality on
the ground is this, that they were just different needs at different
times. So that's one, that's another big reason for this.
That's where Allah subhanaw taala says, well, we'll help you and
Zillow who will help you in as it is with the absolute truth that we
have revealed this Quran, and it is with the truth that it it has
come down. So that's the second one, the third one. The third
reason, the third reason is a really interesting one,
that the whole purpose of this Quran is to
is to nurture the people is to give them therapy is to make them
a certain way. Right, is to make them a certain way, and to nurture
them and take them away from the from what they had been upon
before, the harsh attitudes, the wrong attitudes, the shift that
they were in, that they were involved in before. Now if a book
had just come down straightaway and said, Stop doing this, and
don't do that, and this is wrong. And that's right, that would have
been very difficult for them to have digested altogether. So
that's why in order to give them the right mold and nurture them in
the right way, both in terms of their beliefs in terms of their
actions, in terms of their sentiments, in terms of their
emotions, and everything like that, in terms of the HELOC and
character to develop that it's not easy to take away jealousy from
somebody and then immediately put, you know, love and effect
Shouldn't it's not easy to take miserliness away. It's not easy to
take hatred away. I mean, these things take time. So this is what
the Quran did slowly, slowly. And that's why Allah subhanho wa Taala
says, which I've read before what Khurana Farah Karna, who Anita
Cora who Island, the other book, this is the Quran that we have
brought separately we have made separately we brought in bits in
different parts, so that you can also recite it and read it and
relate it to the people slowly, slowly. You don't have to have
haste in it, you bring it down slowly, slowly.
Another aspect of this right also, which helps in this particular
point is that most of the people at that time were Amis which means
unlettered, they did not know how to read and write. Now imagine if
a whole written corpus right was sent, it would have been difficult
for them, right? It would have been difficult for them to have
understood this. That's why it was bit by bit so that they could
actually memorize it. They had an oral tradition, where they would
memorize things, if there was 800 pages that had to be revealed at
once and they had to memorize it, it would have been very, very
difficult, right? Because remember, it was a very oral
tradition in that time. So that's why it made it very easy for them
to take it bit by bit and that's why mashallah, they there's a
number of statements that have really been related to them about,
you know, the people who had studied this surah and this surah
because that's what had been revealed until then, and so on, is
the Imam McKee ignobly. Talib says that the fact that the Quran was
revealed slowly, slowly, it was much more conducive for them to
have accepted it. Had it all been revealed in one go, than they
would have thought it's too much, then they would have said, No, we
can't do this. This is just human beings you got you give them you
nurture them slowly, slowly, you tell them to do something slowly,
they overcome that. And then after that they do something else. It's
just much more easy. There's too many, there's a lot of alchemy in
the Quran. There's a lot of rules and laws in the Quran. Now, if
they were all to be put together, that everything stopped overnight,
and do all of these things, you know, in the next day, Salat,
prayer, fasting and so on, that would have been very, very
difficult. So that's another reason as well. So there was a
tarbiyah at tarbiyah. That was
because they had to it had to take them from one ruling to another
from one state to the next from one type of character to the next
one. And that obviously takes takes time. It had to remove all
of their bad opinions before the bad beliefs, the corrupt ideas,
their shake and everything like that all of that had to be
corrected. That's why there's a hadith that Imam Bukhari Rahim
Allah has related from Aisha to the Allahu anhu, which depicts
this whole scenario. She says that in nama Nasrallah, a willow man
isn't, I mean, who Surah two men and Mufasa in the man as a man as
a man who sought out a minimum of hustle. The first of the sewers to
be revealed, were one of the more facile sewers in which one of the
more detailed sewers in which there's mention of paradise and
*, so the these are sort of in which there's more discussion of
paradise and * because the whole concept of belief had to be
first ingrained and established there was no point in telling them
to do this or to do that before that you got them onto the right
belief. So that's the first kind of verses that came down then she
says, had that either Thurber Nasser al Islam, then when people
became more conducive for Islam and they they became more
comfortable with it, Nestle Halal haram after that halal and haram
was, was revealed. Well, oh Nasrallah a when a che la terrible
Hummer. If the first thing that was revealed was don't drink wine,
the car hula Nadal Hummer Aveda they will say hey, we're never
going to stop drinking so remember in the Quran will may discuss it
later that he actually came down slowly slowly. Likewise, if well
owners that Allah says no if it just said you cannot have extra
America, you cannot have extramarital relationships, right?
conjugal extramarital relationships, local Lana, that
was in Abuja, we would never stop promiscuity. Right? So it came
down sorry, likewise.
It just took time for the obligations to come down and for
the haram to be established so that they could, for example, the
jihad laws, the laws of spending on others, like the wife, the
children, family members, the rights of women, the rights of
inheritance, and so on all of this is
this Quran came down to make the OMA Hierro own Metin, brokerage,
ugliness, the best of the nations that have ever appeared for the
people. And the only way to do that, or the best way to do that
was slowly slowly. The fourth reason which I've already spoken
about before, so I'm just going to mention it in as a separate point,
but I've already discussed it. It is that aside from the fact that
it was there to give comfort to the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam
and everything else. Now imagine something coming up coming after
23 years. You'd expect that after 23 years it's been coming
For different reasons, different occasions, when you put all of
that together, it's not going to have a cohesive style to it a
cohesive whole and a harmony between it, we still see that the
Quran is perfect in that sense. So that shows that the concept of
ages and the inevitability and the beauty of the Quran, right, which
just amazes everybody, right is even greater because it is, it has
been revealed over 23 years bit by bit piecemeal. But still mashallah
when you put it together, it is perfect as though it has been
revealed at once as well. So that was the other reason. So, Allah
subhanho wa Taala says,
Call Zilla hula de la Musa Rafi summer where it will all be in who
can offer Rahim? Allah says to the Prophet Sal awesome tell him that
the one who revealed this Quran is the one who knows the secrets of
the heavens and the earth and He is the most forgiving and the
merciful one. So this was done under a grand plan by Allah
subhanaw taala and it was not done just randomly.
Alhamdulillah that helps us to complete our session on why the
Quran or how the Quran was revealed altogether. over 23
years. We have mentioned the various different wisdoms
regarding that. Now we move on to our topic for today, which is what
are the first verses to be revealed? And what are the last
verses to be revealed of the Quran? This is an interesting
discussion. You might say that, Oh, this is just like a bit of
general knowledge. Right? That to know, hey, that's the first part.
And that's the last part, right? There's just a bit of general
knowledge. What's the benefit of this actually, there's a huge
benefit in this for the scholars for us in general. Because in the
Quran, there are abrogated verses, meaning the laws of it have been
now canceled, there was another verse that came down but that
particular verse was left it I will, I will mention some of them
to you a bit later on today, hopefully, Inshallah, right. So
it's to know which sort of came down later also, it tells us how
the Quran tarbiyah system is, if we know what came down first, what
came down later, you know, that how we act, how it implemented
certain things to start in a particular way and and and do it
in that way. So it gives us an understanding of the organization
as well.
So for example, let us start with the first verse to be revealed,
there's pretty much not much doubt at all that it is a corrupt
Bismillah because of the HELOC HELOC all insert I mean either a
workbook Al Quran, Allah the island mobile column, or limit
insane amount me Adam, that is pretty much majority opinion is
agreed upon, that. It's agreed upon that that is what it is, this
has been established from shall at the Allahu anha as has been
related in the body and transmitted in the body and the
Muslim. However, there is another Hadith which seems to put a bit of
doubt in this. And there are two or three opinions of scholars
there are other scholars who have different opinion for example, the
Imam actually, who's the great, what do you call it, scholar of
the Arabic rhetoric and so on, right who has a mortality as well
he says he thinks it was sort of Fatiha. Then after that there is
the other opinion which is that certain with death it was the
first verse was the first verse to be revealed. Now the reason why
certain with deficit is mentioned is because there's a hadith which
is mentioned by Imam Bukhari and Imam Muslim, that the Prophet
salallahu Alaihe Salam said Jawa to be Hara Sharon, I stayed in the
hero in the cave of Herat for one month. And then when I'd finished
further Makabe to God, when I'd finished my stay there, my retreat
there, I came down, I came back down to the community. And when I
was in the middle of the valley, right when I reached the middle of
the valley, I suddenly was, I suddenly was called out, like my
name was announced. And there's lots of narrations here showing
that I look right left, etc. Anyway, suddenly it was Gibreel he
says, I saw Jabril Allison and that's the time when he saw Jabril
Ali Salaam. And again
this this you can say this fear overcame me. And I quickly went to
Hadith Allah the Allahu anha. And I asked them to cover me in fact,
in other Hadith, it says that they also they covered me, then it also
says that they actually poured cold water over me as well. And
then Allah subhanaw taala revealed, yeah, you helmet death,
fear, comfort, the world back Africa. So the first two verses
there were revealed, yeah, even with death, comfort and they're.
Now some scholars, some scholars, they've actually said that that is
the first verse. However, the stronger opinion is that that is
not the first verse. That is though the first verse that was
revealed after the war he stopped. So after the initial revelation
that he stopped for quite a long time. And then after that, is when
this
Surah two Mudassir was revealed. So they thought from that what the
Hadith mentions that this was the first, you know, coming down from
the cave. Now he'd already had an experience in the cave. And in
this discussion, what is mentioned is that
he was in the cave and he came down again. Now he's already
experienced that in the cave already. So that was the first
revelation. Now this is the other revelation. But then the story
seems to be a different on a different occasion, because he's
already frightened in the case where he received the first
revelation of a crop Bismillah. Because of the HELOC here, it says
that he received a yawn with death and he became frightened. So this
is actually talking about a sub separate occasion. And that's
fine. The province Hello, awesome used to go to the cave of Hira, he
had that first experience, he came back home, they went to work,
which I explained the other day, and then the war he stopped. And
then on the second occasion, he would still go to the cave of Hira
and he would still go and stay there for time. In fact, they said
that he would actually go and stay there, generally a month a year,
which was generally in Ramadan. So he went again to stay there. And
on returning from there, he had the second experience, which was
much later than Acropolis. Mirrabooka, the holiday and people
maybe, from this day understood that maybe this is the first
revelation, but this is actually not the strongest opinion.
Reason is that it actually mentions in one of the versions of
this of this hadith, right, or one of the versions of the same Hadith
regarding seeing God lightsome again, it says for evil Malak
Allah Deja and EB Hara Oh, I suddenly saw the angel again that
I that had come to me in Hara, which pretty much makes it very
clear that this was a separate incident. He already had the
incident in the hara, right? So that is the first verse. As I
said, there are other views that may be sorted. Fatiha is the first
one. There's the verse. Yeah, even with the fifth and so on. There's
even some who said, yeah, you have wisdom mill, however you want
wisdom. And although it's very similar to iron with death,
because moslem mill and Mudassar, right, they are next to one
another, and probably most of them will come after McDuffie. But
there has to be the first one because it's there to tell him to
start warning, because this has come for under stand up and start
warning the people. Whereas in my invisible, the inclusion in there
is of different contents, which shows that it's later. Right. So
in fact, if you look at many of our subcontinent Korans, that it
at the beginning of the sewers, it has the number of sewers, it has
been the number of the surah in the Quran, right as to what number
it is, you know, 5657, and it also has another number, which actually
denotes its revelation number as to what number it was revealed at.
So if you look in Surah, two, if you go and check this out later,
certain with death here and certain wisdom, and charisma,
you'll see that it'll say, one, two, and three, kind of
interesting information.
That was the first verse to be revealed, the last verse to be
revealed. Now. Now you see with the first verse, there's going to
be Hadith about it, and so on, right? Because it's kind of a
milestone, first verse to be revealed. There's not going to be
that, oh, this was the last verse to be revealed, because it was
something that was just happening. So that's why there is not going
to be probably any Hadith about what is the last verse. But what
is the last verse again, this a few opinions, I don't want to bore
you with all of them. And there's lots of discussions in the books
of aluminum Quran as to which opinion is stronger and why it's
stronger and why the other ones are weak and so on. We we don't
have the time for that because this is just an introductory
course and series on this. The strongest opinion and probably the
most preferred opinion is that the last verse to be revealed of the
Quran is in Surah Al Baqarah it's inserted Bacara it is what the WHO
young woman to Ruggero NFE in Allah thumb atworth coluna from
cassava to a Hula, hula hula Moon
SubhanAllah. This is the last verse to be revealed. Imagine it
this was the last verse to be revealed this had to happen after
the Hajj, the farewell Hajj, after the Hajj, the prophets Allah Some
stayed alive for a few months, right? Less than 100 days and then
after that he passed away in a while. Right so in total hija is
when he passed away. Now some people actually believe that the
last verse to be revealed was Alia OMA XML to Lacombe in a coma atman
to Allah equanimity what are the Tula como Islam Medina
today alone today is the day when a committed to Aloma Kamal to look
on, Deena calm, today's the day when I complete your religion for
you. Right, and I complete my bounties upon you as well. And I'm
satisfied with the religion of Islam for you. Kind of sounds like
the last verse, right? So some people think it's that but
actually no, that was revealed in Arafa. That was revealed in Arafa.
In the hedge, the Prophet saw some stayed away, stayed alive after
that, and there is no there is no proof that the ye and the
revelation apps
already stopped. You know, immediately after that. No, the
revelation continued. Yes, that was a kind of a completion
completing verse, no doubt it has a special place. And it came down
on a very special time as well in Hajj in Arafa. Obviously, that's a
very special time. But this verse came down later. And what this
verse means what Taku Yeoman towards your own Fe is Allah, it's
verse 281. For those who want to check it out, verse 281, assorted
Bacara is just before the end, it's like I don't know
quite a few verses just before the end of Surah Baqarah Allah says in
the fear the day when you will all be returned to Allah subhana wa
Tada to Allah. And every person will then be every knifes every
soul will then be fully given and fully receive what it had earned,
and they will not be oppressed in the least. And what's interesting
is that this is referred to as I have to Reba. Some say that the
last verse to be revealed is the verse of Riba. Now, what's
interesting is that this actually comes immediately at the back of
this whole discussion about the prohibition of riba of usury of
interest. So that is why they probably thought it's that verse,
but actually, this is the verse because it comes right at the end
of that, to warn people that you have to be concerned about the day
when you're all going to go back to Allah. If you do not give up
your interest, and your users, your usury and your dealings with
that, then you're going to have something to fear. So this is the
last verse. And this has been established in a number of ways
number of transmissions from Abdullah Hypno Ibis or the Allahu
Anhu. Likewise, Abu salah, either the Allahu Anhu has also mentioned
the same thing. And it says that after this verse was revealed,
verse 281, assorted Baqarah the Prophet sallallahu Sallam stayed
alive for nine more nights. And then after that, he passed away
nine more nights and then after that, he passed away before that,
which ends kind of the discussion on Riba is for a lambda for Hulu,
then all we have to be mean Allah He was really, if you don't mean
if you do not desist from Riba and stop doing this, then
accept the announcement of a war from Allah and His messenger to
very severe verse regarding interest, may Allah allow
everybody to avoid it. Now, why this verse what Taku Yeoman told
Jonah Fie, Allah, Allah and the verses of riba just before it, why
that verse? Is the last verse of the Quran? Well, because all of
that is to do with wealth. And wealth is a major asset of the
human beings. It's a lifeline for people to live their life by. So
Allah subhanaw taala is telling us that, look, be careful of wealth,
be careful of your money, make sure that you don't earn the money
in the wrong ways, especially through usury, which is a very
abusive way and an abusive system. And the world is suffering because
of that today, right? The world is suffering the inflation's and all
of these downturns and all of the recessions and everything comes
because of this, Why can't things just be the same price throughout?
You know, why does it have to be inflated every year? So anyway,
that's another economic discussion, which we don't want to
have today. Now, let us move on to the next next discussion regarding
this, which is, there's a number of other firsts in the Quran,
meaning the first verse regarding a certain subject or certain
topic, there's that discussion. And again, this is important
because it's nice to know what came down first and how it then
came down. So the OMA have come there's numerous discussions about
this in the books of lumen Quran about the first verses regarding
different aspects of the Quran. So for example, let's give you a few
of them at least.
These are a few general knowledge.
There are some general information about the Quran that we should
know. Right? So
the first complete Surah to be revealed in the Quran. Right? Does
anybody know is that when is the first complete surah? Remember, it
cannot be something only the first few verses Yeah, and with that
said, only the few verses came down, not the whole sort of the
surah came down later. Right. So the first Surah to be revealed in
its entirety, was so little Fatiha. There's also opinions that
certain fattier was actually was actually revealed twice, right for
different occasions. But regardless of that, it was not the
first Surah to be revealed completely, but it was definitely
the first entire sorter to be revealed in one go, meaning it was
not the first of the Quran to be revealed, but it is the first
complete Surah to be revealed. Then, in terms of jihad, the first
verses there's numerous verses in the Quran the first verses were
within any leadin and your path Illumina be an whom loony mu,
we're in Allah Allah Nasri him la kadhi. It has now been permitted.
For those who have been fought against it is now permitted for
them to now now the permission has been given to them to respond
because they have been up
pressed and Allah subhanho wa Taala is absolute capability to
assist and defend them. This is in sorted to hedge verse 39 to 41 is
the first verse regarding Surratt.
Regarding jihad, right, and this actually was revealed in the
second year, the second year of hydro, the first verse Then
regarding intoxication wine is inserted Bacara yes Aluna coronial
humbly while Mesa Wolfie Hema is more cabbie woman fear all in,
they asked you about intoxicants and gambling, right, say that in
it is a huge sin, though there's some benefit in there. So that's
why things like brandy and so on, there's certain medicinal benefits
that they use it for. So there may be some specific benefits in
there. But the sin of it is too huge. So, you know, you can't
argue with these things. You can't argue saying that there's some
benefit in that. That's why we do it. That's the only reason we're
doing it for it's still a sin. So that was what was initially
revealed. And many Sahaba they stopped drinking. You know,
initially people used to drink it, Radi Allahu Anhu used to drink.
This was in the beginning of Islam. When this verse came down,
they, some of them understood it and they said, Oh, okay, there's
we need to avoid. Then after that. Another verse came down, which was
La Crosse salata. antem Sakara. Don't go too close to prayer when
you are drunk. I mean, the first part of the verse is La Crosse,
Salah don't go close to pray if you just read that. It's like,
Hey, why is it going on telling us not to pray? It says one time
Sakara while you're in the state of intox in Why do you in
intoxicated state? So again, then there was a case where earlier the
Allahu Anhu had an issue with Hamza Radi Allahu Anhu. Because
they, he was drunk, one of them was drunk. And then after that,
eventually, Allah subhanaw taala just finally revealed revealed the
absolute prohibition. So the second the second phase was that
he was not allowed to drink before prayer. You could still drink but
not before prayer. And then eventually the third stage was
completely forbidden. So this is what came down. But the first
verse was this verse of sort of Bukhara, the last verse in which
women were mentioned, right, specific ruling about them, or
women were mentioned, is in sort of earlier Imran, at the end,
first hijab Allahumma, boom and Neela OD or I'm in the middle mean
coming, they're getting old. But although come in, so the Lord
answered them and responded to them, that I'm not going to make
futile the action or the deed of any person who does anything from
Longview, whether he's male or female. And so the male and female
has been mentioned here, I can go on with a list of this. They say
that the last so the first complete sort of was revealed was
sort of Fatiha. What is the last complete sort of to be revealed?
Does anybody know this is an easy one actually, there's a famous
Hadith about this, in which Abu Bakr Siddiq Radi Allahu Anhu began
to weep when he heard this, does anybody remember? Either nostril
Allah, he will forget what I've eaten, say the whole Luna fee, the
law of wotja. That was the last surah in its entirety, small
Surah, obviously, because it is after the conquest of Makkah. Some
of the benefits I've already mentioned, of why this happens, is
obviously to understand if there's an abrogated verse, what's the
knew of us, and then of course, to also understand the methodology of
the Quran of how it helps people and how it's complete tarbiyah and
that word was of what it started with, and how it then move that on
and its evolution. Now let's move into the order of the verses of
the Quran. Why are the verses ordered in a particular way? Who
put the order in? Why isn't one verse before the other? Why can't
you change that? Firstly, let us understand what the what the verse
what AI means, and the concepts of AI and the concept of surah.
Right, so what exactly does that mean? And why has the word I have
been used? Because if you look at the word IRA, literally speaking,
linguistically speaking, right? Allah uses it in its linguistic
form in the Quran, Allah says in Tamil ki he a TIA como Bucha, this
is unsalted Baqarah verse 248, regarding
pollutes, right? So it says that the sign of His sovereignty and
kingdom is that this ark will come to you. All right. So I mean, the
sign Why have the verses been called a sign? That's why there's
some some translators they actually don't like to translate I
have the Quran is versus because verse means something different
linguistically speaking to what it means in Arabic
Rick, I don't have a problem with it because obviously we understand
what a verse is that it's, it's a sentence, right? It's a it's a
clause, it's a phrase, and that's fine. We're using it in that
meaning. So I, though is called Iron, right? So, the reason it's
called Iron is because every verse of the Quran is a proof is a sign
is a sign because that's that's what it means is a sign on the
truthfulness and the veracity of the one who has related it, which
is the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And every idea is a sign
of the inevitability of the Quran that when you put three verses
together, they become inimitable and unchallenged, so that's why
it's called Iron right rather than a Joomla which means a sentence or
a phrase or something like that. Likewise, let us look at Surah Now
the word Surah comes from the concept of sewer, right and so
means a boundary a wall, generally they refer to sue rule Ballard as
the boundary walls of a city like Olden cities used to have these,
these walls around it, right? protective walls, that is a sewer,
generally sewer, Medina, they say, right, another meaning of it, it
means high status. So refers to high status. So why are sewers in
the Quran? Why, you know, we call them chapters in English, why they
call Surah Sol? Well, because they are a boundary that that bring
together the verses inside. That's why the technical definition that
the Allama have given for a surah is or earn on yesh, TAMIU Allah in
the world, if it hatin, waha Timothy, what are called Luhan,
Salah to ayat, this is that section of the Quran which
comprises of a number of verses, which have a beginning and an end.
So it has a beginning of the surah. And it has an ending of the
surah. But the minimum of it is three verses. So a surah has to be
three verses. And as we know, the smallest surah in the Quran, which
is in our planar calculator, for solidly Arabic one has inertia and
alcohol. abtot is also three verses.
Now the reason obviously, is because it encapsulates and
encompasses a number of verses, that's why it's called a sore,
like a boundary as such. So it's a really interesting name. And also
the other reason is that they elevate in lofty, and they're,
they're venerated. So that's why that's another reason why they
called sure as well. Why was the Quran revealed in verses and
soldiers? Why not just in one long, you know, well, obviously
people speak in verse, people speak in sentences, people break
it up, you know, you don't speak in just one long sentence of, you
know, two pages or something like that, or you know, for 10 minutes,
you obviously speak but then why ensures them like we can
understand sentences but why Suris?
Why did it have 114 chapters and then have different sizes? Why
couldn't it just be one hole beginning to the end? No
separation of chapters. Now remember, the 30 chapters of the
Quran, right? Where you see the 30 chapters and if la meme say a pool
and so on, that's a later development that was not the
intended purpose of Lauricella Okay, that was done later.
However, the sewers are there from before the sewer came down the
process and refers to sewers as well. Right refers to them as
sewers. So some of the benefits of having the Quran split up into
sewers, for example, imams, the machete, Rahim Allah he says that
one of the benefits of it is there's many benefits. One of them
is that generally you've got a sort of generally encapsulates a
certain idea. For example, if you look at solitary Hadid, right,
which is not a small Surah, it's about seven pages or so on. So on.
It's speaking about Iman, it's speaking about Iman and kufr. And
the fog, especially, is speaking about spending in the path of
Allah and speaking about the concept of light, especially on
the day of judgment, and those who don't have, you know, anything
will not have any light on that day. So it encapsulates right from
the beginning to the end, one theme, a major theme, or several
themes that are collected together. So that's one of the
reasons that you've got the separate chapters that talk about
different themes together. Another thing which is more of a you can
say a psychological benefit, which is huge. Actually, imagine if you
had the whole Quran, right? And you had to start reading, there
would be no milestones, it would just be pages, basically the renal
milestones, oh, I finished this. I've memorized this much.
nowadays. You can actually say, Hey, I've memorized two tours of
the Quran. I've memorized Bukhara. Well, actually, you start off by
saying, I've memorized Fatiha. That's what people do. They first
memorize Fatiha, or I've memorized. Certainly Plus, my
child has memorized 10 Sutras of the Quran.
Now, what would they say 10 pages maybe they would have said
otherwise, if there was nothing, so it gives this psychological
boost. It gives you a vigor that hey, I've done this much. I've got
this much to go. That's why you
Even among the Sahaba, there's a Hadith from Ernesto the Allahu
Anhu. It says that when a person in those days would have properly
read Surah Al Baqarah. And so early Imran, then he would become
really, really respected among us. If he studied Surah Al Baqarah.
And certainly Imran, now what that means is that they don't just
memorize it, but they actually understand its application, and
they bring it into practice. Like, somebody can say, sort of Bakara,
I've actually put it into practice, I've learned it, I've
understood it and everything, all the rules, the laws, the the
encouragement, everything in there, I've put into practice. So
that was one of the benefits as well. Now, where did the order of
the sewers come from? Or the of the verses and the sewers? Who
made that up? Did the Sahaba those who used to write the revelation
did they just put that together? Because as you know, we've been
mentioning that the Quran did not come down and was not revealed in
the way that we see it today. Sir, sir ekra Bismi was the first one
Modesitt those vs. vs. Circle Bacara had the last verse that was
ever revealed is inserted Bacara sutra fatti was not the first
Surah to be revealed. So then who put it like that?
So Abuja for ignorance Zubaydah says regarding this, I mean, it's
quite clear, there's a concept I'll bring terminology don't get
too confused. They say that the order of the verses in the in the
sutras is definitely dopey. dopey means that it is dependent upon
what was revealed by Allah subhanaw taala. Through God,
listen to the Prophet sallallahu sallam, this is also a divine
order. This is not something made up the verses of each surah is an
agreement that it is divine. Right? There may be other views.
But that is the strongest view that it is defined. In fact, I
think there's an agreement on here's a consensus consensus on
this, that it's agreed upon, right? There's only some views
about other things. But in this case, it looks like there's a
consensus consensus of both the early and the latest scholars that
all the ideas, the verses inside the suitors are from Allah
subhanaw taala exactly that way. And the Sahaba just continued that
the Prophet says I'm told the way to put it. Djibouti Larissa would
mention to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, and there's no
doubt about this to anybody.
That's why Abu Jaffrey Newzoo bave says that he will if he swore at
her work here on Beto TV he sallallahu alayhi wa Salam o
Emery, the
order of the verses in its Suris have occurred according to the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam stating it to be that way
and his command that way mean lady he laughing He had available to
me, there's no difference of opinion.
Among the muslimeen about this, are the Abu Bakr Al Bharti
learning one of the early scholars on this subject in his Intisar he
says that he will if Cameroon was a boon workman last name on the
order of the verses is a necessary matter to keep it that way. And it
is binding, it is a binding judgment. You can't mess around
with them. You can't change it around. You can't say oh, that was
revealed. First, let me bring that first. Right. Because Jabril Allah
He then says, because gibril artists, I'm used to actually tell
the Prophet salallahu Salam, Daro, if the Qaddafi mo the ICA that
verse put it in that place, because remember, it was over
time, the whole sort of Bukhara did not come down together. So you
had to tell them put this one there, and this one there, and
this one there. Many, many Hadees that talk about this to such a
degree that they would be you can say tomato like a contiguous,
continuous message through the Hadith that tells us that the that
this order is necessary from the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam, for example. We'll just give you a few examples about
these some of these Hadith there's a hadith Which Imam Buhari has
related from Abdullah Abu Zubaydah the Allah one right he says the
eyes set to Earth man to the Allah one later on when was one of the
alone is probably gathering the Quran I'm assuming he asked him
then. Right that well levena Yetta Well, Adina youth our phone and
mimco were their own as words and we'll see you as well as you him
Mata and Ill holy lira Raj. Now this isn't sorted to Bukhara this
one is verse 240. There's another similar verse to it before which
is well Latina youth our phone Amina.
Well, the new telephone in Cameroon as virgin yet our robust
Navy unforeseen or better actually washed out this is actually
speaking about those women whose husbands have passed away the
widows. How long is there a waiting period and they did that
for months and 10 days in that verse, but in this verse, which is
verse 240, or circle Bacara. It says that those husbands who have
passed away, right, who are passing away, they should make a
wasa they should give a bequest that their wife their widow will
be allowed to live in the house for one year. We'll see yesterday
as well as you him Mata and Ill holy Hydra Raj, they should not be
thrown out of the house. That was the original command that is what
they
used to do initially, but the other verses came down later which
abrogated this that they can only stay now, they no longer they
actually now get a part of the mirror. If they have children,
then they would get 1/8 of the estate. If they don't have
children, then they get one quarter of the estate. So that was
the cancellation factor, right for this being allowed to stay for one
for one year. Now they get the mirror off, they can do whatever
they want with that mirror off. Okay, that is from Sahil Buhari.
Then you've got another Hadith Which Imam Muslim and Imam Ahmed
has transmitted from Omar the Allahu Anhu says Mercer is going
to be a solo or someone che in axotomy muscles do annual gala is
to constantly asking him about the color colada is an inheritance
case right of somebody who dies without leaving too many people
there's a bit of difference opinion about that.
Until Hatha and Abby is very heavy, suddenly, I would
constantly ask about this when eventually the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam he poked me in in in the chest and he says yak fika
is to save a Latifi Arkadin is sufficient for you is the verse of
the safe which is at the end of Surah to Nyssa. And exactly that's
where that's where that versus the last verse of surah. Nisa is about
the inheritance of the colada, right? So the prophets also knew
what he was talking about that look, it's the last verse there.
There's another Hadith Which Imam Ahmed has transmitted from Earth
might've not be Laos. He says, Once I was sitting with the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam when he suddenly lowered his head
and he straightened it and then he said, Gibreel Allah Islam has come
to me and told me that I should put this verse in that particular
place in Allah heya Morrow, believe in Allah higher mobility
anyway. So anyway, Anita, it will CORBA until the end, he told me to
put into place this shows you that the process that I was I was
actually being told what to do. And there's numerous other Hadith
about this. And we, there's a hadith which tells us, which
actually name the name the verses by where they occur. For example,
the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, that the Hawa theme was
Surah Al Baqarah, the final verses of Surah Baqarah, they're
sufficient for you. So he actually he actually refer to them as the
last verses. Then for example, we've got the Hadith many of you
must have heard Today's Friday, right? So inshallah we can act
upon this. Whoever memorizes the first 10 verses of Surah to calf,
they'll be protected from that the jewel. In another version version,
it says, The Last 10 verses, right, Hadith by Imam Muslim, the
first 10 verses in another version, it says the last 10
verses. Now if the verses were not fixed, then what would that be?
Right? So it shows that the verses were fixed,
the verses were fixed. So we have the other the other thing was that
the Prophet salallahu alayhi. Salam was, you know, after the
Quran, is being revealed, and so on. Prophecy also was actually
reciting the sutras in his in his salad, right, the whole Surah In
fact, the Prophet saw some nearly always recited entire Surah as in
his Quran, right? Hardly ever.
I can't recall if he recited anything else, but he generally
recited whole soldiers in the Quran. And that also shows you
know, that the sutras were complete, and there's no doubt
about this. I have believed that this a bit because there's all
these doubts being created about the Quran and so on, so forth. So
now you know the order and you know the evidences. Inshallah.
Tomorrow we'll finish off with the ordering of the Sutras of the
Quran. So we've just dealt with the ordering of the verses within
the sewers tomorrow we'll finish off in sha Allah with the order of
the sewers themselves of how why certain fatty is first and Bacara
is afterwards inshallah we'll discuss that tomorrow. Jazak Allah
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