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In their doubts and fears, help and put heart
In them in moments of trial, and ordain
For them laws by which they could live
In society lives of purity, goodness and peace.
C.41 –
These messages came as inspiration
To Muhammad as the need arose,
On different occasions and in different places:
He recited them and they were recorded
By the Pen: they were imprinted on his heart
And mind, and on the memory
Of his loving disciples: as the body
Of sacred scripture grew, it was arranged
For purposes of public prayer and reading:
This is the Book, or the Reading, or the Quran.
THE MESSAGE:
The Message of the Most High was received by Muhammad Mustafa (Sal) for a
period of 23 years as the need arose on different occasions and in different
places. (17:106, 87:6). The first revelation was the word “Iqra” (96:1-5). The
second revelation was Surah 68, the third – Surah 73, the fourth – Surah 74, the
fifth – Surah 96:6-19 and the last Surah was 5:3.
The whole text of the Quran is divided into 30 equal parts or seven equal parts. The 30 th part is called Juz-un in
Arabic, and Sipara or simply Para in Persian and Urdu. If you read a Sipara everyday, you complete the whole
reading in a month of thirty days. The aseventh part is called a Manzil. If one is read everyday, the whole is
completed in a week. Usually the arithmetical quarters of a Sipara (one-fourth, one- half, three-quarters) are
also marked in the Arabic copies as Ar-rub, An-nisf, and Ath-thalatha. According to subject matter, the division
is different. The whole of the Quran is arranged in 114 Surahs of very unequal size. The Surahs are numbered
and the consecutive number is shown just before the title of the Surah. There are 6666 Verses in the Qauran.
There are 86 Makki Surahs and 28 Madani Surahs. There are 15 Sajadas in the Quran where prostration has to
be done by the person reciting or hearing. The names of 25 prophets have been mentioned in the Quran.
Quran means – that is recited, to be recited, and should be recited for all the people of the world. Allah Who
revealed the Quran made arrangements for its safety and security for ever. No sooner was a passage of the
Quran revealed than it was recorded on leaves of date-palms, barks of trees, bones etc., at the dictation of the
Holy Prophet. They were preserved safely and at the sametime the Muslims committed these passages to
memory. Immediately after the death of the Holy Prophet, at a war, many Companions who had committed the
whole of the Quran to memory were killed. Hence, Hadrat Umar wanted the whole of it in the form of a book
and this task was entrusted to Hadrat Zaid bin Thabit and he compiled one correct and authenticated complete
copy. This was kept in the house of Hadrat Hafsah and it was proclaimed that anyone who desire may make a
copy of it or compare with which copy he already possessed. Traditions say that the Holy Prophet used to recite
the Holy Quran before Angel Gabriel once every Ramadan, but he recited the whole of the completed Quran
twice during the Ramadan occuring in the year of his birth. Hadrat Zaid attended this second recitation.
IMAM MALIK says: “The Quranwas compiled in the way the Companions heard it from
the Holy Prophet.”
During that period there existed different dialects of different parties and tribes in Arabia. In order to avoid
tampering with the Quran, it was decided by Caliph Uthman in consultation with the other Companions, that the
authenticated copies of the Quran compiled by the order of Hadrat Abubucker should alone be used in the
whole of the Muslim world and the use of all other copies in any other dialect or idiom should be prohibited and
they were burnt to ward off any possibility of future confusion and misunderstandings. (41:42, 85:21-22 etc).
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