Thursday, 7 April 2011

Introduction of the, The Quran School

The Quran is the Speech of Allah in the Arabic language. It is a Divine Revelation which contains boundless knowledge. It is obligatory upon every Muslim to learn to read Quran and recite Quran as often as possible, even though non-Muslims too, can benefit from its knowledge. The Quran must be recited with the proper pronunciation. Proper pronunciation of Quranic Arabic is called Tajweed.
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Friday, 1 April 2011

About The Quran

The Quran is the religious text of Islam, also sometimes transliterated as Quran, Koran, Coran or Al-Quran. It is widely regarded as the finest piece of literature in the Arabic language. Muslims hold that the Qur’an is the verbal divine guidance and moral direction for mankind. Muslims also consider the original Arabic verbal text to be the final revelation of ALLAH (S.W.A) the Final Testament.

Muslims believe that the Quran was repeatedly revealed from ALLAH (S.W.A) to MUHAMMAD (P.B.U.H) verbally through the angel Jabril (Gabriel (A.S)) over a period of approximately twenty-three years, beginning in 610 CE, when he was forty, and concluding in 632 CE, the year of his death. Followers of Islam further believe that the Quran was memorized, recited and written down by Muhammad (P.B.U.H) companions after every revelation dictated by Muhammad (P.B.U.H). Most of Muhammad (P.B.U.H) tens of thousands of companions, called Sahabas, learned the Qur’an by heart, repeatedly recited in front of Muhammad (P.B.U.H) for his approval or the approval of other Sahabas. Muslim tradition agrees that although the Qur’an was authentically memorized completely by tens of thousands verbally, the Qur’an was still established textually into a single book form shortly after Muhammad's death by order of the first Caliph Abu Bakr (R.A) suggested by his future successor Umar. Hafsa, Muhammad (P.B.U.H) widow and Umar's daughter, was entrusted with that Quran text after the second Caliph Umar died. When Uthman, the third Caliph, started noticing slight differences in the Arabic dialect; he requested Hafsa to allow him to use the Quran text in her possession to be set as the standard dialect, the Quraish dialect aka Fus'ha (Modern Standard Arabic). Before returning that Qur'an text to Hafsa; Uthman immediately made several thousands of copies of Abu Bakar's Qur’anic compilation and ordered all other texts to be burned. This process of formalization of the orally transmitted text to Abu Bakar's(R.A) Quranic text is known as the "Uthmanic recension". The present form of the Quran text is accepted by most scholars as the original version compiled by Abu Bakr (R.A).

Muslims regard the Quran as the main miracle of Muhammad (P.B.U.H), as proof of his Prophethood, and as the culmination of a series of divine messages. These started, according to Islamic belief, with the messages revealed to Adam(A.S), regarded in Islam as the first Prophet, and continued with the Suhuf Ibrahim (Scrolls of Abraham), the Tawrat (Torah or Pentateuch) of Moses, the Zabur (Tehillim or Book of Psalms) of David, and the Injil (Gospel) of Jesus. The Quran assumes familiarity with major narratives recounted in Jewish and Christian scriptures, summarizing some, dwelling at length on others, and, in some cases, presenting alternative accounts and interpretations of events. The Quran describes itself as a book of guidance, sometimes offering detailed accounts of specific historical events, and often emphasizing the moral significance of an event over its narrative sequence.