The Literary Beauty of the Qur’an
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Title: The Literary Beauty of the Qur’an
Created on: Fri Sep 05 13:47:56 -0400 2008
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Abstract: ... لقوم يتفكرون (30:21) and also لقوم يفقهون (30:24) . What is the subtle beauty buried in these words? Similarly, لأولي الأبصار vs. لذي حجر vs. لأولي النهى etc that have been used across the Qur’an and many have interpreted them to mean essentially the same thing. A lack of this attention to detail justifies the interpretation of الحمد لله as الشكر لله & لا ريب as لا شك to be adequate tafsir that has done justice to these Qur’anic expressions.” According to Abdul Rahman al Kilaani (author of Mutaraadifaatul Qur’an in Urdu), he couldn’t find any work attributed to Imam Raghib that has been alluded to in his earlier work. There are some other works in this area such as ‘Fiqh AlLughah’ and ‘AlFurooq AlLughawiyyah’ by Abu Mansoor Abdul Malik Bin Muhammad AlTha’bani and Abu Hilal AlAskari respectively. Though beneficial these books are either not concentrated in Qur’anic vocabulary exclusively or deal with at most 3 near synonyms at a time which can lead to confusion when you run into additional members of the pack. In this context I think the most extensive, exhaustive and incredibly beneficial book would have to be Abdul Rahman Kilaani’s book Mutaraadifaatul Qur’an in Urdu and the articles beautifully written by Dr. Fadel Saleh Alsamerai entitled Lamasaat Bayaaniyyah. I am going to be taking bits and pieces from both, hopefully presenting at least 10 unique cases of the powerful study of near synonyms and their subtle use in the Qur’an. The first of these posts will deal with the phrase AlHamduLillah and will probably be the longest. Related Post: Quranic Incoherence: 2 Miracles Respond More from this category Ramadan Conference Call 2007 TranscriptRamadan Reflections - Juz 3Ramadan - Change We Can Believe InRamadan Reflections - Juz 2 More from this author Quranic Verbs used for Purification and ExonerationExpressions for Giving And Getting Help in the Qur’an“Alhamdulillah” - A Linguistic Miracle of the QuranThe Literary Beauty of the Qur’an Subscribe to this author Tagged as: Islam, Nouman Ali Khan, Quran, sunnah 18 Responses to “The Literary Beauty of the Qur’an”--> Comments (15) Trackbacks & Pingbacks (3) Comments ibnabeeomar (Author) said: cant wait for the rest of this series -October 19th, 2007 at 12:40 pm Omar Mumtaz said: JazakAllahu khayran brother Nouman! Looking forward to further reading, and insha’Allah another visit to Sacramento? -October 19th, 2007 at 1:06 pm Abu Bakr said: Ma Sha Allah… I hope you don’t mind my asking… but this subject is very interesting to me. I often times find myself going through a dozen tafsirs as well as books such as al-Furuq al-Lughawiyyah looking for the subtle connotations of words in the Qur’an. I have come across this work, Mutaradifat al-Qur’an, but as my Urdu reading is very poor, it is not of much use to me. It’s a shame that no similar work has been written in Arabic so that it can benefit the larger community of Muslim scholars and students of knowledge. Which brings me to the following 2 questions: Have you considered making an English version of Mutaradifat al-Qur’an? Where can I get a copy of the Urdu Mutaradifat al-Qur’an as I was have not been able to do so. May Allah bless your efforts and I look forward to more of your writing! -October 19th, 2007 at 7:23 pm MR said: Wallahi, I saw the title and I new it was Nouman Ali Khan! haha -October 19th, 2007 at 7:31 pm Faiez said: JazakAllahu khair, this amazing! I seriously cannot wait for the follow up posts. -October 19th, 2007 at 7:56 pm Abu Bakr (Author) said: Lamasat Bayaniyyah for download: http://saaid.net/book/open.php?cat=2&book=2445 -Oct... [Full Article...]
