How the Quran was compiled

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Event Name: How the Quran was compiled Transcript Author: SheikhyNotes Blog Description: Source: Unknown. Found on SheikhyNotes Blog. Date Transcribed: 12/13/2007 12:00:00 AM Original URL: http://sheikhynotes.blogspot.com/search?q=How+the+Quran+was+compiled

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How the Quran was compiled

Sheikh Hamza Yusuf Source: Unknown. Found on SheikhyNotes Blog. Anything worth doing should begin with Bismillah Semitic languages have words with have a three letter root Three is the beginning of multiplicity The word Quran comes from a root word to mean city, Qaaf, Raa, Ya And also the word Qa, Ra, Ah which means to recite Every civilisation is rooted in a book The Greeks would base theirs on Homer For the Arabs, there was no book until the Quran Children are in the oral world for the first five years of their lives. They hear stories and their imagination come to live Now we have the children being brought up by the television and this link is severed Arabs are an oral people The real meaning of the word Quran is the recital It is know as a book and the word Ka, Ta Ba means to join together

Arabs used to send their children to bedions out side the city areas because they where very eloquent The Prophet (peace and blessing be upon him) was born in this culture, in a tribe called Hashim. Before his fourteenth birthday he would enjoy isolation in the cave of hira Orientalists changed their stance on Islam when oil was found in the Arab region An angel come to him (peace and blessings be upon him) during his time in the cave and the first word the angel said was, Read He said, I am not a reader After this event the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him ) went to his wife, she comforted him and then went to her uncle Warwa ibn Nawful who said this is the Namus which means angel and its Greek root means law This is the beginning of the revelation The first thirteen years is known as the Meccan period, the dominate themes of the Quran The Quran is a non-linear book, you have to surrender your desire for linarity 19 Juz revealed in Medina and 11 in Mecca The Prophet (peace and blessing be upon him) saw himself as the first sign of the end of time There are still people who are people able to memorise the Quran The Quran is being memorised and written in the Meccan stages The Meccan suras start with o humanity and the medina o you who have accepted (believers) these were the people who responded The focus is one character, building a society The entire Quran was written down in during his lifetime (peace and blessings be upon him) In 633, after the battle of Yammam, many Quran reciters had been killed and Umar asked Abu Bakr to collect the Quran During the caliphate of Uthman, he noticed that some of the Muslims had begun to differ on the recitation of the Quran as it was initially written without dots or vowels He makes a master copy from the gathered text and copies where sent to every major city in the Muslim world

It was protected by oral recitation Qurtabi narrates a story about a man who copies the old testament in beautiful calligraphy with mistakes and sends it to a Jewish Rabbi. Who after reading it, sends it back and says its a wonderful copy and he does the same with new testament and the Christian doesnt notice the mistakes and says its a wonderful copy. When he does this to the Quran. The Muslim scholar says to burn it as its got mistakes. Its a historically correct document The word we in the Quran is used for greatness. This is appropriate for Allah Subhanu wa taala but not for people. This is a plural of magnification and doesnt not indicate to plural gods as some people refer to There are seven dialectal ways recitation (another three are unconfirmed) of the Quran, it doesnt not change the meaning - See more at: http://sheikhhamza.com/transcript/How-the-Quran-wascompiled#sthash.GfJ6AJvK.dpuf