The Qur’an

How the Qur’an Was Revealed and Compiled

Bis­mi­ka Allahu­ma Team -
The fol­low­ing is a video lec­ture made by Hamza Yusof on July 14th, 1997 and in coöper­a­tion with Alham­bra Pro­duc­tions. The top­ic of the his­to­ry of the Qur’an and its com­pi­la­tion, and forms as part of a ​“Foun­da­tions of Islam” series of lec­tures. Hamza Yusof gave a good his­tor­i­cal back­ground of the Qur’an, its his­to­ry and how it was Revealed in stages to the Prophet Muham­mad (P), its com­pi­la­tion after the pass­ing of the Prophet (P) as well as demon­strat­ing the tex­tu­al integri­ty of the Qur’an, as opposed to the tex­tu­al frailty of the Judeo-Chris­t­ian text which stands on shaky ground. Also of inter­est is the Ques­tion & Answer ses­sion towards the end of this lec­ture which we hope our read­ers will find beneficial.
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Have They No Under­stand­ing Of Ara­bic Grammar ?

They cer­tain­ly have no inkling about the devel­op­ment of a lan­guage, whether it is Ara­bic or oth­er­wise ; gram­mar was not the machine that pro­duced the Ara­bic lan­guage, rather it is sim­ply a log­i­cal expla­na­tion to ways of Ara­bic speech. Due to their inher­ent stu­pid­i­ty, the Chris­tians do not rec­og­nize the cor­rect his­toric­i­ty of its chrono­log­i­cal order : Arabs speak the lan­guage first, then explana­to­ry rules are for­mu­lat­ed lat­er (after the advent of Islam). Con­se­quent­ly, gram­mar should agree with Ara­bic speech, not vice versa.

How Tafsir is Performed ?

If you ask what is the best method of tafsir, the answer is that the best way is to explain the Qur’an through the Qur’an. For, what the Qur’an alludes to at one place is explained at the oth­er, and what it says in brief on one occa­sion is elab­o­rat­ed upon at the oth­er. But if this does not help you, you should turn to the Sun­nah, because the Sun­nah explains and elu­ci­dates the Qur’an. Imam Abu ​‘Abd Allah Muham­mad ibn Idris al-Shafi‘i has said : ​“All that the Prophet, peace be upon him, has said is what he has derived from the Qur’an.”

The Qur’an Can­not Be A Text of Divine Origin

The Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ar­ies tend to make the gen­er­al con­clu­sion that the Qur’an can­not be a text of divine ori­gin because of the unac­cept­able mean­ings includ­ed in it.Perhaps they are cor­rect in this con­clu­sion and we may be inclined to agree with them due to the fol­low­ing reasons.

Surah al-Anbiyaa:30 and the Mis­sion­ary Felix Culpa

Recent­ly the world’s most mal­adroit mis­sion­ar­ies have allowed an impromp­tu piece to be pub­lished in response to Shab­bir Ally’s views on Surah al-Anbiyaa : 30. Per­son­al­ly I do believe that Shab­bir’s inter­pre­ta­tion is wrong, albeit he was not the first Mus­lim to prof­fer such a cos­mo­log­i­cal hypoth­e­sis on this par­tic­u­lar Holy Ayaah. How­ev­er I feel that a two-fold response is requisite.

Cos­mol­o­gy and the Holy Qur’an : A Response to Richard Carrier

This paper is intend­ed to respond to athe­is­tic crit­i­cism as pro­posed by Richard Car­ri­er, in a rather large piece that is in my per­son­al opin­ion and under­stand­ing, replete with errors and mis­un­der­stand­ings with regards to basic cos­mo­log­i­cal con­cepts, the Islam­ic view­point, as well as his­to­ry. I also address a few polemics that were put for­ward by Freethought Mec­ca. Their arti­cle con­tains the par­tic­u­lar objec­tions that I shall address Insha’Allah, along with a spu­ri­ous argu­ment for Isa­iah and then a few links to some oth­er polem­i­cal sites ; need­less to say at least for now these few objec­tions are the only ones that are rel­e­vant to this par­tic­u­lar paper.

Reli­gious Scrip­ture and Sci­ence, Con­flict or Con­cil­i­a­tion ? A Mus­lim Perspective

Tran­script of speech at Inter­faith Dia­logue 4, organ­ised by MMU Mela­ka PART 1 Bis­mil­lahir Rohmanir Rohim. In the name of Almighty God, Most Gra­cious, Most Merciful.…

Ahad(un) and the Mis­sion­ary’s Folly

Recent­ly we were intro­duced to a new, amus­ing polemic by the mis­sion­ar­ies, name­ly with regard to the word ​“ahad(un)”. To achieve this end, the mis­sion­ar­ies cite an online text from a Chris­t­ian Arab polemi­cist who claims that the word does not mean ​“one”, but ​“one of”. Is it true what they claim ? We seek to answer this alle­ga­tion in the fol­low­ing, insha’allah.

What Does Musiʿūn Mean in Qur’an 51:47 ? A Lin­guis­tic Rebuttal

wa-l-samāʾa banaynāhā bi-aydin wa-innā la-mūsiʿūn (Qur’an 51:47)And the heav­en — We built it with pow­er, and indeed We are capa­ble of expand­ing. It has come to our…

Christoph Heger’s Prob­lem­at­ic​“Recon­struc­tion” Of The Qur’an­ic Sura 96

In an arti­cle of his, Christoph Heger has ven­tured to uncov­er what he insin­u­at­ed as the pre-Islam­ic ground lay­er of an orig­i­nal­ly Chris­t­ian text…

Sources of the Qur’an : Ques­tion for the Critics

It is known that the ene­mies of Islam, most espe­cial­ly the Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ar­ies, are unable to accept the real­i­ty of the Qur’an and its divine exis­tence. Hence, they try to make excus­es and their fre­quent clar­i­on of despair is that the Qur’an was ​“pla­gia­rised” from Judeo-Chris­t­ian sources. This claim was repeat­ed by Ori­en­tal­ists in the likes of Sale, Bell and Rodin­son. Need­less to men­tion, these rab­ble did not pro­vide any proof for these accu­sa­tions. Their claims, how­ev­er, are hap­pi­ly picked up by the Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ar­ies who are still liv­ing in the past.

The­mat­ic Struc­ture of Sura 2

A list of the the­mat­ic struc­ture of the Qur’an, arranged accord­ing to the main themes con­tained with­in Sura al-Baqarah.

The Mir­a­cle of Isra’ and Mi’raj

The verse of Isra’ in the Qur’an is clear not liable to hes­i­ta­tion or reluc­tance in say­ing that Allah had caused His ser­vant to trav­el by night from Al-Masjid Al-Haram to Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa like you say ; I trav­eled by night from such and such place to such and such place. So, there is no room for hes­i­ta­tion and ask­ing whether this was with body or spir­it, or awake or dur­ing sleep. Also, it is inap­pro­pri­ate to dis­agree regard­ing the mean­ing of this night jour­ney or regard­ing the word ​‘Abd, i.e., ser­vant, and whether it refers to the spir­it, to the body or to both, as it has hap­pened between those claim­ing bod­i­ly Isra and oth­ers claim­ing spir­i­tu­al Isra.

Can There Be A Son With­out A Moth­er Or Father ? Respond­ing To Banal Mis­sion­ary​“Log­ic”

Unfor­tu­nate­ly for the mis­sion­ary, an under­stand­ing can be reached if a lit­tle more thought can be put into their argu­ment. The mis­sion­ary has tak­en the under­stand­ing of these vers­es out of its intend­ed con­text and is con­fus­ing Mary’s nature (since she is only human, and hence pro­cre­ates) as a cre­ation of the Almighty, with God Him­self who is the Uncre­at­ed. Cer­tain­ly, God Almighty could have tak­en a ​“wife” and have ​“chil­dren” or have ​“chil­dren” with­out any con­sort what­so­ev­er (nau’zu­bil­lahi min zaa­lik).

Furqaan : Com­men­tary on the Zaman-Heger Debate

Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi When Dr. Christoph Heger, an Ori­en­tal­ist schol­ar with unknown qual­i­fi­ca­tions and dis­put­ed cre­den­tials, wrote his com­men­tary on the open­ing verse of…

Is The Qur’an Real­ly The Work of Mul­ti­ple Hands ?

We were recent­ly con­front­ed with the claims of Denis Giron in his arti­cle that the com­po­si­tion of the Qur’an is sim­ply the work…

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