Let start with you in Western language: Why is vocabulary important in language learning?
Many people don't realize that working on vocabulary is just as important as learning grammar, if not more important when it comes to being successful in learning a foreign language, In short, vocabulary is important because it is the foundation of every language. It is the building blocks we can use to express our ideas, share information, understand others, and develop personal relationships.
A larger vocabulary helps develop other language skills
When you have a broader vocabulary in your target language, it also helps support all four language skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. As Paul Nation (2015) notes in his research paper on vocabulary learning: “Vocabulary is not an end in itself. A rich vocabulary makes listening, speaking, reading, and writing easier to perform.
Now: Do you know how many words are in the Holy Quran?
The Holy Quran consists of 6236 verses, of which 4647 are Meccan and 1589 are Medinan. The number of words in the Holy Quran is 77880 words, of which 48049 are Meccan and 29831 are Medinan.
Don't talk to me about dyslexia- the learning difficulties that many children in the East and West fall into, far from reading and memorizing the Qur'an at an early age.
How was the Mushaf of Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) compiled?
(The first collective attempt to collect the Qur’an)
which is what most scholars agree on
The priority of Abu Bakr, may God be pleased with him, in collecting the Qur’an was a special priority, as the companions had copies of the Qur’an in which they wrote the Qur’an or some of it, before Abu Bakr collected it. However, those efforts were individual works that did not achieve what the Mushaf of Abu Bakr achieved in terms of precision of research and investigation, and in limiting it to what was not abrogated in recitation, and in reaching the level of mutawatir, and consensus on it from the companions, and other advantages that the Mushaf of Abu Bakr, may God be pleased with him, had. As for why Abu Bakr chose Zaid bin Thabit to collect the Holy Qur’an over others from the companions
This was for the following reasons:
1 - He was not accused of being religious, as he was known for his extreme piety, honesty, perfect character, and uprightness in religion
2- He had memorized the Holy Quran by full heart
3- His memorization during the time of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, was according to the final presentation. It was narrated that he witnessed the final presentation of the Qur’an. Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Salami said: Zayd ibn Thabit recited to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, twice in the year in which God took him. This recitation was called the recitation of Zayd ibn Thabit because he wrote it for the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and recited it to him and witnessed the final presentation.
4 - He used to teach people it until he died. Therefore, Abu Bakr and Omar relied on him to collect the Qur’an, and Othman appointed him to write the Qur’ans.
How did Zaid bin Thabit collect the Qur’an?
Zaid began collecting the Qur’an from scraps of paper, light white stones, bones, skins, and the chests of men. Abu Bakr, Umar, and the senior companions supervised and assisted him in this.
Urwah bin al-Zubayr narrated that
when the killing of the Qur’an readers intensified that day, Abu Bakr was very afraid that the Qur’an would be lost. So he said to Umar bin al-Khattab and Zaid bin Thabit: Sit at the door of the mosque, and whoever brings you two witnesses to something from the Book of Allah, write it down. Ibn Hajar said: Its men are trustworthy despite its interruption.
How the last recitation of the Qur’an took place?
What is meant by it
Gabriel’s recitation of the Qur’an to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, every year in Ramadan, and in the last year before the death of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, the recitation was twice.
On the authority of Aisha
“Fatima, may God be pleased with them both, said: In the narration of Al-Bukhari (3624)
(Gabriel used to review the Qur’an with me once a year, but this year he has reviewed it with me twice, and I do not think that my time has come, and you will be the first of my family to join me (meaning Lady Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet) cried, and he said: (Are you not satisfied to be the lady of the women of the people of Paradise, or the women of the believers?) So she laughed at that.
Who witnessed this parade from the companions?
Abdullah bin Masoud
Zaid bin Thabit
Ibn Kathir said: “What is meant by his opposing it to him with the Qur’an every year is his opposing it to what was revealed to him from God Almighty, so that what remained would remain and what was abrogated would go away, as confirmation, or as confirmation and preservation. For this reason, in the last year of his life, peace be upon him, he presented it to Gabriel twice, and Gabriel also opposed it to him. For this reason, peace be upon him, he understood that his end was near.”
Ramadan was singled out for this purpose among the months because the revelation began in it. For this reason, it is recommended to study the Qur’an and repeat it in it, and then for the imams to strive in its recitation.
Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar, may God have mercy on him, said: “In the hadith, the Qur’an is applied to some of it and to most of it, because the first Ramadan after the mission, only some of the Qur’an was revealed, and likewise every Ramadan after it until the last Ramadan, so all of it was revealed except for what was delayed in its revelation after the aforementioned Ramadan.”
From the year 10: 11 AH
It was in the year ten until the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, died in Rabi` al-Awwal in the year eleven. Among what was revealed during that period was the Almighty’s saying: Today I have perfected your religion for you. It was revealed on the Day of Arafah, and the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, was in it by consensus...
Dividing the Qur’an into thirty parts to fit only the number of days in the month of Ramadan
The orientalists claimed that the Holy Qur’an was divided into thirty parts to make it easier to recite, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Blachere said that its division was for scientific reasons only and to make it easier to recite during religious celebrations.
The answer to that
is that dividing the Qur’an into thirty parts was a late procedure when the Qur’an was revealed.
As for the obligation of Ramadan and the voluntary Tarawih prayers, this was during the era of the Noble Messenger, and there is no doubt that Muslims used to memorize the Qur’an and did not find any difficulty or hardship in that before the Qur’an was divided into parts, and they used to pray Tarawih before the division.
As for dividing the Qur’an into parts, sections, quarters, chapters, and verses, there are many benefits to this, including: 1- Dividing the Qur’an into sections indicates the amount of interest and care given to the Qur’an, which is a characteristic that distinguishes this nation. 2- The Muslim learns the beginning and end of each section in order to facilitate its memorization.
What you call miracles of science and knowledge contained in the Qur’an are nothing but traces of the talents of some brilliant people. These talents and their traces exist and can exist in every nation
The answer
What is genius?
The power of literary, artistic or scientific creativity
From this linguistic definition, we understand that a person excels in a specific scientific, artistic or literary direction. We have not heard of anyone winning the Nobel Prize in physics and literature together. In one branch of science, a person excels, and another excels in another field. Only a few, even rare, people excel in several fields to the same degree and with the same skill. This is what some of the early scholars of the three golden ages of Islam were like, such as Al-Basri, Ibn Sina and others. But why did they reach encyclopedic status? Because they drank from the Qur’an and their Arabic instinct was strong. The Qur’an is not distinguished by one type of science at all, but rather speaks about:
History of nations (Saba - Egypt - Thamud - Aad ... etc.)
Scientific facts proven after a thousand years or more
(Iron descends from the sky and is not extracted from the earth like other minerals)
(The Dead Sea in Jordan, the water is lower than the surface of the earth, in all the planet Earth and this is mentioned in Surah Al-Rum (in the lowest part of the earth)
Unparalleled eloquence and fluency. Some words are even difficult for my native Arabic speaker to pronounce, such as the word “anzamkomuha.”
Multilingual
(It reads to at 7 letters - it has some foreign words such as: the word Hour, which has always been interpreted to mean a wide-eyed virgin (who will serve the believers in heaven) and names such as Israel, Abraham, Lot and Solomon, all of which were not original Arabic names) and you are an expert that multilingualism broadens your horizons and makes you cultured, of course this was in the early historical period, and now, many Westerners enter Islam and have to study the Arabic language to understand the meanings of the Holy Quran, in fact many of their skin are Arabs and do not master the Arabic language, and learning the Quran for them is learning the Arabic language, which is one of the few living languages that did not become extinct because of the Holy Quran, as the hieroglyphic language became extinct, and Syriac and others, except for those who are trying to revive it today such as the Latin language, which is the most important scientific source in the Western world.
This is in addition to the cosmic sciences in the Qur’an, such as (the expansion of the universe: “And the heaven We constructed with power, and indeed, We are expanding it” – the end of the universe with the loss of mass “And the mountains will become like carded wool” – the death of a star “And the star when it falls” and many, many, many other verses)
Tell me about a genius you have met in your life, heard about, or talked about on social media or otherwise, who has in his mind: all these sciences combined and others that cannot be mentioned in the mind of one man? Impossible, but I hear you say yes there is a robot hybrid with a human and thousands of encyclopedic books in various sciences stored in his mind, you are right in that, but when did he learns that? After the information revolution on the Internet or before it? Has his mind contained all these sciences in 1446 years? Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, the final Messenger of God, God Almighty was not ashamed - during this current information revolution, and He knows, glory be to Him, that His final book will reach this stage of humanity and beyond, He was not ashamed to make His final Prophet illiterate, who neither reads nor writes. If He had wanted, He would have made Waraqa bin Nawfal, for example, or Abu Bakr al-Siddiq - may God be pleased with him - or any of the few educated people in the Arabian Peninsula to be His final Messenger. But you are an expert that the Arabian Peninsula was surrounded by civilizations such as the Egyptian civilization, the Yemeni civilization in Saba, the Babylonian civilization in Iraq, and others in China and India. If Muhammad had been well-informed, traveled, and educated, he would have drawn from these civilizations the best of what they had and written the Qur’an. But the entire Qur’an did not talk about the Indian, Chinese, or Egyptian civilizations, but rather talked about scientific facts, the history of nations, and others...
If revelation were possible, God would have revealed it to all human beings, and not to a small group of people, making them intermediaries between Him and His creation
Allah says
( وما أرسلنا من قبلك إلا رجالا نوحي إليهم فاسألوا أهل الذكر إن كنتم لا تعلمون ( 43 ))
(And We did not send before you, [O Muhammad], except men to whom We revealed. So ask the people of knowledge if you do not know. (43))
The noble verse tells us the following:
1 - And We did not send before you: That is, if you search into the matter, you will not find a messenger from God Almighty except from the human race, not from the jinn, nor from the angels, nor from women.
2 - We revealed to them: meaning that they were not deceiving their people, or assuming a quality that was not theirs, but rather God Himself revealed to them.
3 - Ask the people of knowledge if you do not know: Who are the people of knowledge? Are they religious scholars? No, rather scholars of every field. So if you feel sick to your stomach, who are the people of knowledge then? The doctors, and here are the historians of history and scholars of the knowledge of nations, and perhaps the people of the heavenly books because they have knowledge transmitted from God Almighty.
Now why does Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, choose ordinary people and inspire them and expose them to the risk of people accusing them of madness at times, and of lying at other times, and of being hostile to them and harming them and those who follow them? The truth is that it is Allah’s law in His kingdom. We cannot discuss Allah and understand only a little about that, and among that little: If Allah sent down angels with His message, we would say that they do not eat or drink and have no desires and do not have children, Therefore, worshiping God is easy for them and His commands are facilitated. as for us, we are shackled by desires, needs, and the demands of our children, so we cannot carry out God’s commands. As for if the messenger is from the righteous jinn, we say that these people penetrate walls, hide from sight, and take on the form of other creatures (it is known that the jinn take the form of cats, horses, or other animals). Therefore, they have supernatural powers that qualify them to do what God wants from them. As for us, we are shackled by desires and needs, so we refuse to worship God, the Blessed and Exalted. This is in one hand.
As for the other, he must be from the same human race, with weakness and need like us, so that he does not act superior to us, nor do we elevate him to the point of making him a god. He is like us, he eats, drinks, and marries, except that he is infallible from major sins. As for minor sins, such as (frowning at a blind person or the usual human mistakes), there is no blame on him for that as long as he seeks forgiveness and repents to God, like our master Jonah, peace be upon him, when the whale swallowed him.
As for the idea that God Almighty exposes his messengers to the accusation of madness, etc.
Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, spoke about miraculous things in His heavenly books at the time of the revelation of the Holy Book or the Holy Scriptures, such as the staff of the Scythe or the ring of Solomon or the like, and they were not only written in the books but their contemporaries saw them as a tangible miracle on the ground in order to support this human being whom Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, chose from among all humans to be His Messenger, glory be to Him, the Most High, and especially at this time in history, even in the history of Islam, everything miraculous that the Messenger brought, such as the incident of the splitting of the moon or the description of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in a disciplined manner in the incident of the Night Journey and Ascension and other tangible miracles are a type of divine support.
Finally, you, you: If you owned a multinational company and had employees from all over the world, and you wanted to put one of them in charge of your public treasury, not from outside, who would you choose for this job? I hear you say the most trustworthy and skilled among them, and how did you know his trustworthiness? Sometimes by testing and sometimes by asking the employees about him without his knowing, and perhaps by broader methods than that. Now: You chose the best among them from your point of view, can anyone comment on your judgment? He would say to you, why didn't you choose me and chose him? And if someone did that: Would you answer his request, i.e. remove this trustee from his position and put him... I will not tell you the answer, but whatever your answer is: Why do you ask Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, not to choose a specific one to be a messenger based on Allah's standards, the Blessed and Exalted? And you ask Him that we are all chosen by Him and that He inspires us all at the same time.
How do we prove that the Qur’an was transmitted to us by continuous transmission, and that no modification was added to it?
First, the Qur’an cannot be proven to be the Qur’an at all until its transmission is connected by definitive and widespread transmission from generation to generation until the era of prophecy. The transmission of the Noble Qur’an is distinguished from other types of transmission in that it is not transmission of wording only, but rather of wording, writing, and the manner of performance, and the pronunciation of the word and letter in the manner narrated.
Secondly, the Qur’an was written during the era of the Messenger of God - may God bless him and grant him peace - and was collected into one copy during the era of his Rightly-Guided Caliph Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, then during the era of the Rightly-Guided Caliph Uthman ibn Affan, and Muslims passed it down from generation to generation: reciting and writing, so it was preserved in the hearts before it was preserved in the lines.
Third, There are ancient manuscripts of the Qur’an dating back to the first centuries of the Hijri calendar, perhaps even to the first century in particular.
Then the manuscripts that came after that, with their different times and multiple countries, and even reaching the age of printing, all these copies, the numbers of which are countless, there is no difference between them, increase or decrease.
You can see them for yourself in the Cambridge University Library
Some verses of the Qur’an contradict the proven scientific facts
Allah says
حَتَّىٰ إِذَا بَلَغَ مَغْرِبَ الشَّمْسِ وَجَدَهَا تَغْرُبُ فِي عَيْنٍ حَمِئَةٍ
Until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it setting in a spring of black stale mud.
They said: How can the sun set inside a hot spring on the earth, even though we know from modern science that it is larger than the earth, that it is very far from it, and that it has a path that does not meet the earth, let alone enter it?
The response to them is from one aspect:
Firstly, God did not say that the sun sets in a murky spring, but rather God described Dhul-Qarnayn’s vision of it, saying: “He found it setting”; that is, in his vision and sight. Many of the imams of the ancient commentators, before the advent of modern satellites and telescopes, have explained that what is meant by the verse is what appears to the observer and not what is in reality.
Secondly, Ibn Kathir
saw the sun setting in the ocean. This is the case for everyone who reaches its shore. He sees it as if it is setting in it, and it does not leave the fourth sphere in which it is fixed and does not leave it.
Al-Qurtubi quoted
in his interpretation the following from some scholars: (Al-Qaffal said: Some scholars said: What is meant is not that it reached the sun in the west and the east, and reached its mass and touched it, because it revolves with the sky around the earth without sticking to the earth.
It is too large to enter into any spring of the earth, rather it is many times larger than the earth. Rather, what is meant is that it reached the end of the building from the direction of the west and from the direction of the east, and he found it in the vision of the eye setting in a muddy spring, just as we see it in the smooth earth as if it enters the earth.
Al-Baydawi said
in his interpretation of this verse: “Perhaps he reached the shore of the ocean and saw it like that, since there was nothing in his sight but water. That is why he said: ‘He found it setting’ and did not say: ‘It was setting.’”
There is a clear contradiction between some verses of the Qur’an that are similar in wording and contradictory in meaning
In the following two verses
Allah says
﴿وَإِن تُصِبْهُمْ حَسَنَةٌ يَقُولُوا هَٰذِهِ مِنْ عِندِ اللَّهِ ۖ وَإِن تُصِبْهُمْ سَيِّئَةٌ يَقُولُوا هَٰذِهِ مِنْ عِندِكَ ۚ قُلْ كُلٌّ مِّنْ عِندِ اللَّهِ﴾
And if good befalls them, they say, “This is from Allah,” but if evil befalls them, they say, “This is from you.” Say, “All is from Allah.”
It contradicts the following verse
مَّا أَصَابَكَ مِنْ حَسَنَةٍ فَمِنَ اللَّهِ ۖ وَمَا أَصَابَكَ مِن سَيِّئَةٍ فَمِن نَّفْسِكَ
{Whatever good befalls you is from Allah, but whatever evil befalls you is from yourself.} So how can good and evil be from Allah in one verse, and then evil be from ourselves in another verse? The critics see this as a clear contradiction.
The response to this doubt
1 - It is naive and superficial to make this claim, and glory be to Him who said in the same surah, and even after two verses of these verses: “Do they not then consider the Qur’an carefully? Had it been from other than Allah, they would surely have found therein much discrepancy.” So it is as if Allah - with this verse - is teaching the ignorant person who thought that the two verses contradict each other; so He says to him: There is no discrepancy in this book and no contradiction.
2 What is meant by the first verse: The polytheists used to have bad omens and take the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, as a bad omen. Whenever they were afflicted with drought or famine - which is what is meant by bad in the verse - they would attribute it to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and that it was due to his bad luck. So God said to them: The decree of drought and famine, as well as fertility and prosperity, is all from God.
The meaning of the second verse is
Whatever good befalls people is a favor and kindness from God, and whatever evil befalls them is because of their actions, even if it is all from the decree of God Almighty. Therefore, the commentators say: This verse addresses all Muslims and is not specific to the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, the verse is like Allah’s saying: “Whatever disaster befalls you is because of what your hands have earned; but He pardons much.” So there is no contradiction between the two verses! Everything is from Allah in terms of decree and predestination, and at the same time, one of the causes of disasters and calamities is the evil that our hands earn.
Orientalists claimed that the purpose of dividing the Qur’an into two styles, Meccan and Medinan, is that the Qur’an is subject to different environments. In Mecca, it has a poetic style that is consistent with the people and their culture, so its verses are short and have a strong style. As for the Medinan, its surahs were influenced by the people of Medina and their culture, so they were long and had a complex style.
The answer to that
is that the Meccan Qur’an came to deal primarily with the subject of faith and the virtuous morals related to it, so everything was made subservient to that, even the Qur’anic stories. As for the Medinan surahs, their focus was on creating a comprehensive system for all the requirements of life, and the difference in subject matter results in diversity in style from a certain perspective, but it maintains quality.
The Meccan Qur’an was revealed at the beginning of the call, when people needed generalities and not details. This is the case with the Meccan Qur’an, which talks about the faith and the basics of religion (the pillars of Islam), then the branches and details come after announcing the general framework.
They claimed that the simple Meccan environment influenced the style of the Meccan Qur’an, which increased the swearing by inanimate creatures in a manner that naive the simple, later environments
The answer to that
The orientalists always try to describe the people of Mecca as naive and backward in order to portray civil society as an advanced society. This is due to their mixing with the Jews who describe themselves as advanced, intelligent, cunning and chosen by God. Their description of the people of Mecca as naive is contrary to reality, as they were more intelligent and sensitive. The Qur’an has explained many of their rational discussions, and from them emerged the leader of armies, the ruler of peoples and the master of all arts.
As for the inanimate, naive creatures that the Meccan Qur’an spoke about, here they are as countless examples:
1 - The lions... God Almighty said (fleeing from a lion)
2 - The particles of God (Higgsbozen particles): God Almighty said (And the mountains will be like carded wool)
3- Mountains have roots underground like Ice berg. God Almighty said (and the mountains are pegs)
4 - The Qur’an spoke about the closest thing to a black hole, God Almighty said (the neighborhood is the sweeping)
5 - He spoke about social justice in every aspect of life. God Almighty said (Woe to those who give less than due, who, when they take a measure from people, take in full). It is not just about tomatoes and vegetables, but it includes relationships between spouses and relationships between countries.
This is just a drop in the ocean of the Meccan Quran. I have always wondered to myself, why does Allah Almighty speak to illiterate Bedouins who do not know the basics of reading and writing, this type of highly complex scientific speech? The answer is: Allah Almighty elevates people from the clay of the earth to the heavens. Allah Almighty loves the sublime and hates the trivial, and this is what happened. The people of Mecca did not leave Mecca victorious except that they established the largest city in human history in Medina, and people entered in droves because of the sacrifices of those who you claim are naive.
(Sal) claimed that what invalidates the claim of the miraculous nature of the Qur’an is (repetition), because scholars have said that repeating a word without necessity compromises eloquence, and the Qur’an is full of that
The response to that
The reality of repetition is that the speaker uses a word and then repeats it exactly the same, whether the word has the same meaning or is different, or uses a meaning and then repeats it. This is conditional on the agreement of the first and second meanings. So the repetition that occurs should be due to necessity, and this is what is found in the Holy Qur’an. There is no repetition in the Qur’an without necessity or benefit.
They used to say: Repetition teaches the clever.
Modern science proves that repeating something three times in a conversation confirms the meaning in the person in front of you.
Read the words of modern psychology
Strengthening listening and memory skills
Good practice hones your listening skills, your ability to understand and remember information. Improves pronunciation and fluency: Repeating the same sentences ensures one masters one’s accent and also helps speech flow properly.
This is what the Lord of Muslims is trying to establish in the souls of Muslims who have memorized the Book of God. Therefore, you will find those who have memorized the Book of God Almighty – the most eloquent and fluent of people in speech.
The repetition sometimes came with the same wording but with an increase that suits the subject. I will give you an example:
Allah says
وَأَوۡحَيۡنَآ إِلَىٰٓ أُمِّ مُوسَىٰٓ أَنۡ أَرۡضِعِيهِۖ فَإِذَا خِفۡتِ عَلَيۡهِ فَأَلۡقِيهِ فِي ٱلۡيَمِّ وَلَا تَخَافِي وَلَا تَحۡزَنِيٓۖ إِنَّا رَآدُّوهُ إِلَيۡكِ وَجَاعِلُوهُ مِنَ ٱلۡمُرۡسَلِينَ (7) سورة القصص
And We inspired the mother of Moses, "Suckle him; but when you fear for him, cast him into the river and do not fear and do not grieve. Indeed, We will return him to you and make him one of the messengers." (7) Surat Al-Qasas
Allah says
﴿أَنِ اقْذِفِيهِ فِي التَّابُوتِ فَاقْذِفِيهِ فِي الْيَمِّ فَلْيُلْقِهِ الْيَمُّ بِالسَّاحِلِ يَأْخُذْهُ عَدُوٌّ لِي وَعَدُوٌّ لَهُ وَأَلْقَيْتُ عَلَيْكَ مَحَبَّةً مِنِّي وَلِتُصْنَعَ عَلَى عَيْنِي ﴾ سورة طه
{Throw him into the chest and throw him into the sea. Let the sea cast him up on the shore. An enemy of Mine and an enemy of his will seize him. And I have bestowed upon you love from Me that you may be brought up under My eye.} Surah Taha'
The first verse came with the phrase (throw him into the river) repeated in the two verses, but there is a big difference between the two meanings. In the first verse: just informing Moses' mother of what she will do, just inspiring and throwing it into her mind. As for the second verse, the events accelerated to the point of implementation, so the entire verse contains the letter fa, which indicates speed of performance without much prior thinking. This is the type of repetition in the Quran
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