Features of the Quranic Scripts

Question 1

What are the features of the quranic scripts

Answer 1

• comprehensiveness
• permanence of quran
• applicability of quran
• universality of quran
• quran as a miracle
• credibibility of the connotations of quran
• determinined and undetermined verses of quran
• abrogated and abrogator

Question 2

What is meant by the comprehensiveness of the Quran.

Answer 2

• Includes all the teachings that are necessary for guidance such as the essential islamic beliefs morals and rulings.
• Quran encourages the studying of teachings, as a guidance. Not as a complete source of knowledge.

Question 3

Quran can be categorised into three parts in terms of the knowledge extrapolated from it

Answer 3

• roots of belief such as oneness of allah prophethood and hereafter
• ethics and self purification
• islamic rules and regulations

Question 4

What is meant by the permanence of the Quran

Answer 4

The evidences of quran being everlasting are the claims it makes in itself such that it is forever remaining true as time goes on. It will remain a book of relevance regarldess of its surrounding environment and will outlive its surroundings.

Question 5

What have many orientalists confessed about the dominance of the quran

Answer 5

there is no more dominant book than the quran in and of itself it is everlasting in its wisdom

Question 6

What did sir william muir say concerning the permanence of the Quran

Answer 6

“There is probably in the world no other book which has remained twelve centuries with so pure a text.”

Reference:

The Life of Mahomet, Volume 1, Chapter 1, by Sir William Muir (1858).

Question 7

who said “There is probably in the (1) no other book which has remained (2) centuries with so pure a text.”.

Answer 7

world, twelve

Reference:

The Life of Mahomet, Volume 1, Chapter 1, by Sir William Muir (1858)

Question 8

What did john burton say about the permanence of the quran

Answer 8

“The Qur’an we have today is, to all intents and purposes, the exact text that was revealed to Muhammad. There is no evidence to suggest that the text has been altered in any way since the time of its revelation.”

Reference:

The Collection of the Qur'an (1977).

Question 9

who said “The Qur’an we have today is, to all intents and purposes, the exact text that was revealed to Muhammad. There is no evidence to suggest that the text has been altered in any way since the time of its revelation.”

Answer 9

John Burton
The Collection of the Qur’an (1977).

Question 10

A hadith from imam jafar sadiq concerning the permanence of the Quran

Answer 10

Abu Abdullah asws having said: ‘It is befitting for the Momin
that he does not die until he learns the Quran, or happens to be in its learning
(process)’.

Question 11

general principle implying the permance of the Quran

Answer 11

Every narration must be compared to the Quran, if it is against the meaning of the Quran it will be a fabricated one. hence implying the constant uprighteousness of the quran in any given situation.

Question 12

‘It is befitting for the Momin
that he does not die until he learns the Quran, or happens to be in its learning

Answer 12

Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 3 H 3