Research by Eng. Zakir Ibn Ahmed
Before going to the essence of the topic, there's an awfully necessary purpose that should be considered: the legitimacy of the Quranic text.
It is acknowledged that the text of the Qur’an was each recited from memory, throughout the time it had been unconcealed, by the Prophet and therefore the believers WHO enclosed him and written down by selected scribes among his followers. This method lasted for roughly twenty-three years throughout that several unofficial copies were created. an officer copy was created among one year when the Prophet’s death at the instruction of kalif Abu Bakr.
Here we have a tendency to should note an extremely necessary purpose. the current text of the Qur’an benefited in its original preparation from the advantage of getting its legitimacy cross-checked by the text recited from memory yet because of the unofficial written texts. The memorized text was of preponderating importance at a time once not everybody might scan and write, however, everyone might study. Moreover, the necessity for a record was enclosed within the text of the Qur’an itself. the primary 5 verses of chapter al-‘Alaq, that happen to represent the primary revelation created to the Prophet (S), specific this quite clearly:
“Read: within the name of your Lord WHO created. WHO created man from a clinging entity. Read! Your Lord is that the most Noble, WHO schooled by the pen. WHO schooled man what he didn't grasp.” Qur’an, 96:1-5
These square measure certainly words in “praise of the pen as a method of human knowledge”, to use prof Hamidullah’s expression.
Then came the Caliphate of ‘Uthman (which lasted from the twelfth to the 24th year following Muhammad’s death). among the primary 2 years of kalif ‘Uthman’s rule, seven official copies were reproduced from the official text and distributed throughout an oversized space of the planet that had already come back below monotheism rule. All unofficial copies existing at that point were destroyed and every one future copies were made of the official seven copies.
In my book, The Bible, the Qur’an, and Science, I actually have quoted passages from the Qur’an that came from the amount before the Hijrah (the Prophet’s migration from Makkah to Madeenah within the year 622) and that suggest to the writing of the Qur’an before the Prophet’s departure from Makkah.
There were, moreover, several witnesses to the immediate transcription of the Quranic revelation.
Professor Jacques Berque has told Pine Tree State of the nice importance he attaches thereto compared with the long gap separating the writing down of the faith revelation from the facts and events that it relates. allow us to not forget that nowadays we have a tendency to even have a variety of manuscripts of the primary written versions of the Qur’an that were from a fundamental quantity terribly on the point of the time of revelation.
I shall conjointly mention another reality of nice importance. we have a tendency to shall examine statements within the Qur’an that nowadays seem to just record scientific truth, however of those men in former times were solely ready to grasp the apparent that means. In some cases, these statements were entirely incomprehensible. it's not possible to imagine that, if there have been any alterations to the texts, these obscure passages scattered throughout the text of the Qur’an, were all ready to escape human manipulation. The slightest alteration to the text would have mechanically destroyed the exceptional coherence that is characteristic to them. amendment in any text would have prevented the US from establishing their total conformity with fashionable data. The presence of those statements unfolds throughout the Qur’an appearance (to the impartial observer ) like a comprehensible hallmark of its legitimacy.
The Qur’an could be a revelation created acknowledged to humans within the course of twenty-three years. It spanned 2 periods of virtually equal length on either facet of the Hijrah. visible of this, it had been natural for reflections having a scientific side to be scattered throughout the Book. In a study, like the one we've got created, we have a tendency to had to regroup the verses in line with a material, assembling them chapter by chapter.
How ought to they be classified? I couldn't realize any indications within the Qur’an suggesting any specific classification, therefore I made a decision gift them in line with my very own personal one.
It would appear to Pine Tree State, that the primary subject to modify is Creation. Here it's potential to match the verses concerning this subject with the final concepts prevailing nowadays on the formation of the Universe. Next, I shared verses below the subsequent general headings: physical science, the Earth, the Animal, and Vegetable Kingdoms, Humans, and Human replica above all. what is more, I assumed it helpful to form a comparison between Quranic and Biblical narrations on a similar topic from the purpose of reading of contemporary data. This has been tired the cases of Creation, the Flood and therefore the Exodus. the explanation that these topics were chosen is that data noninheritable nowadays is employed in the interpretation of the texts.
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