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[quote]Salaam to everyone,since this forum is also a place to share knowledge and learning through discussion as MR.TARIQ HASHMI told us that we should keep discussing and sharing knowledge and experience in the courses we have enrolled even after we have given the exams ,I HAVE SOMETHING TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS FORUM SOME THINGS REGARDING WHAT I'VE LEARNT about THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE QURAN.IN HIS BOOK 'ISLAM IN FOCUS' DR HAMMUDAH ABDALATI RELATING TO THE AUTHENTICITY AND THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE QURAN STATES "THE QURAN WAS REVEALED IN PORTIONS AND PIECEMEAL, BUT IT WAS NEVER WITHOUT SOME FORM OF ORDER OR ARRANGEMENT .THE NAME OF THE QURAN INDICATES IT WAS A BOOK FROM THE VERY BEGINNING (QURAN:2:2,41:41-42).THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE QURAN AND THE GRADUAL REVEALATION OF ITS PASSAGES WERE PLANS AND WILL OF GOD, A WILL BY WHICH MUHAMMED (PEACE BE UPON HIM) AND HIS COMPANOINS ABIDED". WILL THIS SOLVE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS REGARDING THE QURANIC NAZM OR WHO FINALIZED THE LATTER FORMAT OF THE QURAN? and as to what I think ,the meaning of nazm must be as our first module of this course suggests , NAZM may mean THE ORDER AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE QURAN TO STATE IT CLEARLY IS'NT IT MR TARIQ HASHMI?.TO FURTHUR QUOTE FROM A WELL KNOWN SCHOLAR , REGARDING THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE QURAN,SYED ABUL A'LA MAUDUDI FROM HIS BOOK ,"INTODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE QURAN" ASKS THE READERS TO PONDER OVER, (PG.5),"WHAT KIND OF BOOK ,THEN IS THE QURAN ?IN WHAT MANNER WAS IT REVEALED ?WHAT UNDERLIES ITS ARRANGEMENT ?WHAT IS ITS SUBJECT ?WHAT IS ITS TRUE PURPOSE ?WHAT IS THE CENTRAL THEME TO WHICH ITS MULTIFARIOUS TOPICS ARE INTRINSICALLY RELATED ?WHAT KIND OF REASONING AND STYLE DOES IT ADOPT IN ELUCIDATING ITS CENTRAL THEME?IF WE COULD OBTAIN CLEAR LUCID ANSWERS TO THESE AND OTHER RELATED QUESTIONS WE MIGHT AVOID SOME DANGEROUS PITFALLS,YHUS MAKING IT EASIER TO REFLECT UPON AND TO GRASP THE MEANING AND PURPOSE OF THE QURANIC VERSES .IF WE BEGIN THE STUDYING OF THE QURAN IN THE EXPECTATION OF READING A BOOK ON RELIGION WESHALL FIND IT HARD,SINCE OUR NOTIONS OF RELIGION AND OF A BOOK NATRURALLY CIRCUMSCRIBED BY OUR RANGE OF EXPERIENCE .WE NEED THEREFORE TO BE TOLD IN ADVANCE THAT THIS BOOK IS UNIQUE IN THE MANNER OF ITS CONTENTS AND ARRANGEMENT.WE SHOULD BE FOREWARNED THAT THE CONCEPT OF "A BOOK" WHICH WE HAVE FORMED FROM OUR PREVIOUS READINGS IS LIKELY TO BE HINDRANCE,RATHER THAN A HELP,TOWARDS A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF THE QURAN.WE SHOULD REALIZE THAT AS A FIRST STEP TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING IT WE MUST DISABUSE OUR MINDS OF ALL PRECONCIEVED NOTIONS".JAZAKALLAH KHAYRAN![/quote]

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