Mustafa Khattab – Repetition In The Quran

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.