Nouman Ali Khan – Amazed by the Quran – Special Counsel for Prophet Isa

			Salam Alaikum everyone welcome to amaze by the Quran a series where I share with you what I find
amazing about the Quran. Today inshallah I want to share with you probably three examples along the
same lines. And this is actually a subject matter that's kind of difficult to understand at first,
but I think we can understand it pretty easily. You know, there are speech patterns in every
language, and every language has certain words that are almost interchangeable between one another
like, you know, think of happiness and joy, you know, or anger and rage these words, even though
they may have some nuances, and they mean different things. But in many cases, they are actually
		

			used almost exactly the same way interchangeably, right? Similarly, there are times sometimes words
that are the full version of something or the lesser version of something like demo, as opposed to
demonstration which you can in casual speech kind of use interchangeably. Now, bear in mind that as
I shared this example, with you, the entire Koran is an oral tradition, it was revealed, you know,
and it was memorized as it was sent down. And it wasn't documented in the way that a book is written
down. It's passed on down primarily as an oral tradition, and later on, it is put into writing. So
the Arabic language, let's start with that the Arabic language actually has two words for giving
		

			counsel. One of those words is wasa and the other word is outside. And even if you don't remember
that vocabulary, it's okay. wassa is used in Arabic When you give counsel that is of a spiritual
nature, or that when you give it over and over again, so basically, actually in Arabic, the only
nuance to wasa is counsel that is given over and over again, as opposed to that also is actually
counsel that's given one time, so I'll repeat that again. What sir, over and over again, also, one
time, remarkably, in the Quran Council is talked about several times. And if you take tally of all
those times, like bacara, and sure also to Shula, Nyssa, Merriam, all these different places where
		

			counsel is talked about using this language, every time Allah talks about spiritual counsel, counsel
to do good counsel to worship Allah counsel to pray, you know, this kind of counsel, he'll use wasa,
which is actually the word use for over and over again, and every time counsel is of a financial
matter, like you know, inheritance is also kind of the deceased left some counsel about how the
money should be distributed, you know, he uses alpha. So for financial or you know, inheritance type
matters. Alpha can leaving a will leaving council behind, leaving advice behind instruction behind
alpha and fight and spiritual matters, wasa which is beautiful, because Allah is saying, you know,
		

			think about it, well, how many times is inheritance going to be distributed one time it's a one time
thing. So outside is a better word to capture the one time nature of that kind of, you know,
distribution of will that kind of counsel. However, spiritual counsel, be mindful of Allah be
truthful, be kind pray. This is not the kind of counsel you give somebody once you have to give it
over and over and over again, that's the nature of spiritual counsel. It must be repeated so
beautifully uses every single time the word was. Now think about it. In the Arabic language, what
sign offs are interchangeable with a subtlety? One is repeated the others not. But the Quran is very
		

			precise about we're using each one with one amazing exception.
		

			Lisa, Lisa lamb Jesus is born. The Quran has a unique narrative about Jesus that the Bible doesn't
have that he spoke the day he was born. And his part of his speech is what asani beside it was a
karate model.
		

			He counseled me to pray, and to charity, so long as I'm alive, meaning a lot of counsel Jesus, Jesus
says, He says Anisa Nam, Allah counseled me to pray and to give charity, except the word he used for
counsel this time is the word that you typically find in the Koran for financial matters.
		

			Why though, this is a spiritual counsel, to pray, to give charity. Some argue that perhaps this word
is used here because charity was mentioned, which is financial. But there's something more going on
here. Remember, in the beginning of this elaborate explanation, I told you that olsa is for one
time, and wasa is over and over again. These are the Salamis how old one day. He couldn't possibly
have been given counsel over and over and over again. He's only been given counsel to pray and give
charity one time. So he says, oh, Sonny, this celerity was Kathy 23 years of an oral revelation. And
the only time the pattern is broken is when the one time advice is given. It's what you have to call
		

			amazing. Another two examples I want to quickly give you along the same lines because they're so
short, that if I made a video by themselves, they'd be like a minute long. So I'll throw them in
here in Sharla is two words, we'll compare two words. There's this word Aryan, and there's the word
rune is a little more vocabulary for you. Are you and is actually
		

			It means two things. Each one of those words means two things. Anyone could mean eyes. And Aryan
could also mean springs of water. It could mean eyes and it could mean springs of water. On a side
note, the Arabs have the same word for these because anything that pleased their eye, they use the
word eye for it. So waterfalls are called AI two because it pleases their eye. But regardless, you
could mean eyes. And it could also mean springs of water. Another word or loon could also mean
either one of these things, it could mean eyes, and it could also mean springs of water. But the
Koran has a particular signature. So for 23 years of this oral tradition, every time Yun was used,
		

			it was about the eyes. And every time a loon was used, it was about the springs of water. Even
though in Arabic, both of those could carry both meanings. The Koran decided that it's going to have
a signature, we're arguing consistently, we'll be talking about eyes, and loon consistently is going
to be talking about springs of water. That kind of consistency in oral speech is impossible to keep
up with, it's just impossible to keep up with. And finally, just along the same lines, is the
distinction between two kinds of rain. The Arabs use the word Mater for rain. They also use the word
faith, faith for rain. And interestingly enough in the Quran, Mater. Every time a rain is kind of
		

			like a flood kind of a rain or a punishment is raining from the sky. And everything every time rain
has something good in it, something that produces life and give us vegetation life. So it actually
distinguished between the two kinds of rain that the Arabs themselves would not distinguish. They
would use Matata and haze interchangeably. Rain is just rain, but two different words for two
different scenarios of rain. Good rain, life, terrible rain muttered over and over again again for
23 years. The point of this short session was to illustrate to you how they'll hold on when it picks
a word. And it sticks with it and it gives creates a pattern using that word, it actually creates a
		

			literary signature for that word. And these are the kinds of things in sha Allah over the course of
this series that I hope to elaborate before you more and more and more May Allah give us a genuine
appreciation of his beautiful word barakallahu li walakum wa salaamu Alaikum wa rahmatullah wa
barakato. See you next time