Servant Of The Light

This calamity resulted in not easily understanding the guidance of the Qur’an, so began the desire for comprehension, a profuse amount of literature explaining historical events written centuries after they occurred, as well as proliferation of the books claiming to be the words of the Rasul (Messenger), which a reasoned mind knows comprises of pure unmitigated conjecture, poured forth.

This subtle alteration of grammatical rules would only impact upon translations, as it leaves the text itself unaltered, being established at the very infancy of the founding of the translations, it would also accelerate the mutation of the classical Arabic language, as outside pressures would increase with religious piety.

With the translations holding only the shadow of the message of the Qur’an it was no longer a crystal clear guide, people looked for clarity.

The birth of Hadith, polluted the world.

The first ever book compiled over a century after the Rasul’s life, had no more than about 150 of such defamations.

However, their number increased to hundreds of thousands, by the time another book of defamations was compiled, more than two centuries after Muhammad’s death.

These often dubious historical events and the defamations compiled later, subsequently became the main source of misunderstanding the verses of the Qur'an, naturally with a significant difference in confusions among the scholars.

Allah guarantees the text of the Qur'an, and even the grammatical signs, including Gezm, fetha, kessra, dumma and multiple other signs used with the script which were put in painstakingly by the companions of the Rasul to preserve the words and the meanings to the best of their capabilities, remain unchanged.

In addition to this, these rules of grammar, used by the script writers, and the original meanings of the words as understood by the companions and the Rasul were all preserved in the form of grammar books and lexicons by the scholars in that era.

These books were revisited by some scholars, but the most detailed work of translation of these preserved books was done by the western scholars, of which Edward William Lane was one of the greatest linguist of the Arabic language, who spent his lifetime translating these lexicons, with permission from the authorities who have the custody to the original work of the Muslim world.

With the explosion of the electronic media, and the advent of the internet, these books have now become available to all who wish to use them, to better understand the Qur'an and make an attempt to remove, not only the discrepancies in the established understandings, but also to make the Qur'an understandable purely on the basis of the language, without the help of Hadith or history books compiled much later, centuries after the death of the Rasul Muhammad.

With this background, if we pay attention to the meanings rendered here, we see it to be a prelude and an introduction to a book of guidance and principles, which serves as a foundation to mankind, in the form of clear guidance, from our Creator.

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