The Language of Quran: Easier than English

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Modern critics of Islam say the Quran promotes terrorism. Although written during a period of commonplace inter-trial violence and vengeance, the Quran actively promotes justice, peace, and restraint. It explicitly admonishes believers to refrain from falling into sectarian violence—violence against one's brothers. xxviii] ‘Uḍayma, Dirāsāt li-Uslūb al-Qur’ān (11 vols.) provides a more systematic layout of examples. It is helpful at this point to introduce the topics covered in these translated chapters, along with some hints to extract maximum benefit and pursue the topics further. Chapter 36 concerns Gharīb al-Qur’ān, a term which denotes what is ‘strange, uncommon, unfamiliar’, but has come to designate the study of Quranic vocabulary more broadly. [xix] Of course, unfamiliarity is a relative and subjective matter, as can be seen in narrations which indicate that some of the Companions knew a certain word of which some others were unaware. The lexical gap naturally increases over time, as it did from the outset of Islamic expansion into non-Arab lands. The Quran is often vivid in its depiction of what will happen at the end time. Watt describes the Quranic view of End Time: [40]

Esoteric or Sufi interpretation attempts to unveil the inner meanings of the Quran. Sufism moves beyond the apparent ( zahir) point of the verses and instead relates Quranic verses to the inner or esoteric ( batin) and metaphysical dimensions of consciousness and existence. [131] According to Sands, esoteric interpretations are more suggestive than declarative, they are allusions ( isharat) rather than explanations ( tafsir). They indicate possibilities as much as they demonstrate the insights of each writer. [132] The clearest evidence for al-Suyūṭī’s adherence to the broad-based traditional approach to Qur’an interpretation, with language and grammar as key hermeneutical tools, is this work itself; particularly the chapters selected for this volume (which constitute the second quarter of the work). This encyclopaedic collection of eighty chapters (designated ‘types’, anwā‘) was to serve as the introduction to another planned exegesis , Majma‘ al-Baḥrayn wa-Maṭla‘ al-Badrayn, in which al-Suyūṭī aimed to combine narration ( riwāya) and analysis ( dirāya). [vi] The Holy Quran was revealed by God Almighty in the Classical Arabic language to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).

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Traditionally great emphasis was put on children memorizing the 6,200+ verses of the Quran, those succeeding being honored with the title Hafiz. "Millions and millions" of Muslims "refer to the Koran daily to explain their actions and to justify their aspirations," [xiii] and in recent years many consider it the source of scientific knowledge. [81] [82] The variant readings of the Quran are one type of textual variant. [160] [161] According to Melchert (2008), the majority of disagreements have to do with vowels to supply, most of them in turn not conceivably reflecting dialectal differences and about one in eight disagreements has to do with whether to place dots above or below the line. [162]

Because the Quran is spoken in classical Arabic, many of the later converts to Islam (mostly non-Arabs) did not always understand the Quranic Arabic, they did not catch allusions that were clear to early Muslims fluent in Arabic and they were concerned with reconciling apparent conflict of themes in the Quran. Commentators erudite in Arabic explained the allusions, and perhaps most importantly, explained which Quranic verses had been revealed early in Muhammad's prophetic career, as being appropriate to the very earliest Muslim community, and which had been revealed later, canceling out or " abrogating" ( nāsikh) the earlier text ( mansūkh). [128] [129] Other scholars, however, maintain that no abrogation has taken place in the Quran. [130] How can the Qur’an guide me and how can I ponder over it and implement the Guidance of the Qur’an in my daily life if I do not understand the Language of the Qur’an! The people alive during the time of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) spoke the native language of Arabic, and thus, the Holy Quran was revealed in Classical Arabic, which made it easy for the people to comprehend and contemplate on it. The Quran presents itself with a number of names and descriptions which are worth reflecting on. Here are just a few:

xxx] I discuss it in this imagery in an online post, along with a literal approach (from Muḥammad al-Amīn al-Shinqīṭī, d. 1972) with which I disagree: http://quranreflect.com/posts/9745. Seeking the deeper meanings of grammatical choices is an approach well represented in recent decades by Fāḍil al-Sāmarrā’ī (b. 1933), author of numerous works including Ma‘ānī al-Naḥw and ‘Alā Ṭarīq al-Tafsīr al-Bayānī. Whilst the majority of Islamic scribes were men, some women also worked as scholars and copyists; one such woman who made a copy of this text was the Moroccan jurist, Amina, bint al-Hajj ʿAbd al-Latif. [170] Translations of the Qur'an exist in over 40 languages but Muslims are still taught to learn and recite it in Arabic, even if this is not their native language and they cannot converse in it.

In Islam, most intellectual disciplines, including Islamic theology, philosophy, mysticism and jurisprudence, have been concerned with the Quran or have their foundation in its teachings. [11] Muslims believe that the preaching or reading of the Quran is rewarded with divine rewards variously called ajr, thawab, or hasanat. [95] In Islamic art

While the Qur'an is recited aloud, Muslims should behave with reverence and refrain from speaking, eating or drinking, or making distracting noise. Sunnah and Hadith Arabic is a Semitic language, and is spoken by around 250 million people worldwide. There are many dialects of Arabic, like Modern Standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Gulf Arabic, Maghrebi Arabic, Levantine Arabic, and various others.

Historical: material and living evidence points to the fact that the Quran has been transmitted both orally and in writing from the time of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, who announced at the age of forty (around 610 CE) that he was receiving revelation of these words from an angel sent by the One God. The content of this message together with the Prophet’s impeccable character, integrity and credibility created a believing community, at first in Arabia, which carried the Quran to all parts of the world. All the chapters except one begin with the sentence Bismillahir rahmanir raheem, 'In the name of Allah the most merciful and the most kind'. This is the thought with which Muslims should start every action. xxiii] Cf. the radical novelty theory concerning Quranic language advanced by Bassam Saeh ( The Miraculous Language of the Qur’an, tr. Nancy Roberts, London: International Institute of Islamic Thought, 2015): he argues that its miracle actually consists in the fact that the Qur’an can be understood despite nearly every phrase being unprecedented in Arabic. This theory has its own problems which I will not elaborate here.

The Muqattaʿat ( Arabic: حروف مقطعات ḥurūf muqaṭṭaʿāt, 'disjoined letters, disconnected letters'; [99] also 'mysterious letters') [100] are combinations of between one and five Arabic letters figuring at the beginning of 29 out of the 114 chapters of the Quran just after the basmala. [100] The letters are also known as fawātih ( فواتح), or 'openers', as they form the opening verse of their respective suras. Four surahs are named for their muqatta'at: Ṭāʾ-Hāʾ, Yāʾ-Sīn, Ṣād, and Qāf. The original significance of the letters is unknown. Tafsir ( exegesis) has interpreted them as abbreviations for either names or qualities of God or for the names or content of the respective surahs. According to Rashad Khalifa, those letters are Quranic initials for a hypothetical mathematical code in the Quran, namely the Quran code or known as Code 19. [101] xix] A good overview of this subject and genre is in the Introduction to Badawi and Haleem, Arabic-English Dictionary of Qur’anic Usage (Brill, 2008), followed by discussion of the gap for their English dictionary “based upon the interpretations by classical Qur’anic commentators of the contextualized occurrences of the finite vocabulary items used in the Qur’anic text” (p. xvi). All upcoming public events are going ahead as planned and you can find more information on our events blog



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