Mustafa Khattab – Repetition In The Quran
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The speaker discusses the multiple stories of Allah's intervention that have been revealed throughout history, including Assyrian time, Surah Alayhi thousand years ago, Surah Sharah thousand years ago, Surah Nissan thousand years ago, Surah Hayden thousand years ago, Surah Nissan thousand years ago, and Surah Nissan thousand years ago. They emphasize the importance of repetition in emphasizing the details of the story and emphasize the need for emphasis in the Quran. The focus of the story is always different and repetition is used for emphasis. The speaker gives an illustration of a woman who wants to be a doctor.
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So,
today's shawl I'm gonna,
now in 5 minutes I'll try to answer
this,
important question about
repetition in the Quran, tikr. Right?
Because those of you who memorize the Quran,
read the Quran, they see stories repeated all
over the place.
Surah the story of Musa alayhi salaam, for
example,
is mentioned
in Surah Baqarah. You see the story,
the cow, and so on and so forth.
Then Surah
Araf,
Surah Sharah,
Surah Kasas,
Surah Nam.
It's mentioned in many different places. I know.
Even Surah An Hazah Hadith of Musa. Surah
Taha is dedicated mostly to Musa alayhi salaam.
Right? I know why that. Yeah. But I'll
ask at the end inshallah.
So why are some stories repeated in the
Quran? Right?
There are several ways to answer this.
The first one I'll give two reasons why
the stories are repeated in the Quran. So
next time when someone asks you,
why the stories are repeated, you'll be you'll
be able to answer.
I know it. Number 1.
We know that the Prophet
couldn't read or write.
He was knowledgeable,
but it was a that he didn't read
or write. And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala speaks
about this in the Quran.
He says,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling the Prophet
salallahu wa ta'ala is telling the Prophet salallahu
wa sallam, if you are able to read
and write,
the skeptics,
the people who are suspicious,
they're going to start talking because they will
say, oh, he copied it. He plagiarized it
from somewhere else, that he couldn't read or
write.
Now,
there was an experiment that a professor did
a long time ago. He was talking to
his students. It was a psychology class.
Before the class,
he spoke to 2 people and he told
them, When I'm giving the talk in the
class, I want you to come running through
my class and leave from the back door.
And one of them was chasing the other
with a baseball club.
Okay.
It took about,
I would say, 20, 30 seconds
from the second they stepped in from the
front door
to the second they left from the back
door.
Of course, there was some confusion, everything, then
the the professor resumed his class.
Next day,
the professor told him, I
want each and every one of you, there
were
about 50 students in the class, he said,
I want every one of you
to write
exactly what happened yesterday in the class when
the two guys came and they were chasing
each other with the baseball club. Tell me
what happened.
He got about 15
different
accounts of what happened.
Some of them said, Oh, he was chasing
the guy with a
sword. Someone said, no, it was a chair.
Someone said it was a gun.
And he asked them to describe,
the way they were dressed up. So someone
said it was a jacket. Someone said it's
a shirt. Someone said it's a chi t
shirt. Someone said shorts.
He got different
accounts from different people. Why am I telling
you this?
We're talking about something that happened yesterday.
Something that happened the day before.
Now the Qur'an was revealed to the prophet
over a period of 23 years. We're talking
about
over 8000 days of revelation.
Exactly 8,000
165 days of revelation.
Now when the stories were revealed say for
example the story of Musa Alaihi Salam was
revealed over a period of 8,165
days. Not the day before,
8,165
days. The story of Surah Baqarah,
the story of Surah Sharah, in Araf, in
Taha, in Qasas, in Nam, you will not
find a single contradiction.
Isn't that something?
So it was revealed to someone who didn't
read or write, he didn't take notes.
8,165
days of revelation, the story is repeated all
over the place, not a single contradiction.
So this is one of the reasons that
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed the stories in
many different places
as a proof
that it came from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
not from Muhammad salaam.
Because if you ask me personally about something
I did last week, did you ask me
after a month? Maybe I'll give different details
because it's from me. But the Qur'an is
from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. There is no
contradiction
in the Qur'an. And not only in Surah
Musa, the story of Ibrahim is mentioned in
many places.
Shoaib alaihis salam,
Salih, and so on and so forth. Hud.
The stories are repeated, not a single contradiction
in the stories. This is one reason.
The second
reason,
every time you read the story of Musa
alayhi salaam in the Quran,
there is always a different focus of the
story.
So for example, in the story of Musa
alaihi salaam in Surah Al Kahf,
what is the focus?
The story with
who, when he met
the man of knowledge?
Exactly.
But the story is not mentioned somewhere else.
Then he goes to Surah Khasas
and talks about how Musa alaihi salaam was
raised in the palace of pharaoh,
how he killed an Egyptian by mistake,
he ran to Madhya, and he got married.
This information is not mentioned anywhere else.
When you read the story,
for example in Surah Al, the focus is,
how
the people of Musa were abused by pharaoh.
You read the story somewhere else, the focus
is different all the time.
In Surah
Taha, for example, the focus, for example, is
on,
the challenge,
between Musa alayhi salaam and pharaoh and the
magicians and so on and so forth. Yeah.
Some of the details are shared, but the
focus is always different.
The focus is always different, and so on
and so forth. In Surah Qatala for example,
the focus is on the story of the
cow and some other details from Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. So the focus is
always different.
We know that,
when you speak,
repetition is a form of emphasis.
This is a way of emphasizing
what you are saying.
Like if you have seen the,
inaugural,
speech by Donald Trump,
he said he repeated something a few times.
He said, America first.
America first. He said it several times. Right?
This is for emphasis.
Now people use this all the time. For
example, if you heard of,
Martin Luther King back in 1963. I I
know most of you were young
back then.
Yeah. He said,
I have a dream.
I have a dream. He said it about
2 10, 12 times. Let freedom ring. Let
freedom ring. So always think of
31 times.
This is used for emphasis.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling the
stories and he is repeating them to the
prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam for emphasis.
Now I am going to get one of
you to do
a quick illustration then we'll let you go
inshallah. Khaz, we have a volunteer.
If someone says for example
can you can you face him? Turn this
way. If someone says for example,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala could have just repeated
the story of Musa Alaihi Salam. He could
have mentioned the story only once. Just like
the story of Yusuf, it's mentioned only once
in the whole Quran.
So the alamas say Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
did this for a reason.
The people of Mecca couldn't duplicate
the stories are that are mentioned in many
places, and they couldn't duplicate the story of
Yusuf, which is mentioned once. They couldn't do
it.
But now if you say that
there's no reason for the story to be
repeated,
I tell you one thing. If this if
what you are saying is true, then think
of,
your name again? Hamuri. Hamuri. Okay.
So if we say that
the Quran is a living being,
okay,
and everything needs to be repeated only once,
Then what happens if
we remove one of your 2 eyes?
Technically, you can survive with 1. Right?
And we take out one of your ears.
You can survive with 1. You don't need
2 arms. You're already bleeding right here.
So we will take out one arm, one
leg. And actually you don't need 10 fingers
in both. You just need one finger to
type on your smartphone. Right? You don't need
10 fingers.
But okay. It's already fried. Thank you. Go.
I think you got the point now.
If you think of the Qur'an as a
living being,
so a human being for example has 10
fingers,
listen to this.
If I have 10 fingers,
the repetition of the fingers is not something
bad. If I have 2 arms, this is
not bad. If I have 2 feet, 2
eyes, 2 ears, this is not bad.
You need all of this to survive and
to function.
And again, this is good in the case
of the Quran because it's used for emphasis
and the reminder is always good.
The reminder is beneficial to the believers. Maybe
we'll continue tomorrow inshallah. I hope,
You got the point.
May Allah
bless you and your families.
Take care.