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Main Subject: Islamology

Lesson1: Knowing about holy Quran

Lesson 2: Miracles of the Holy Quran 1

Lesson 3: Miracles of the Holy Quran 2

Number of slides: 51

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Islamology

Lesson 2: Knowing about holy Quran

Preface

A question

Why should you get acquainted with the Qur’an?

1. 1.  The most important source of knowledge about Islam

1. 1.  The eternal miracle of the Prophet of Islam

1. 1.  The most important axis of Muslim unity

 Seasons

1. 1. God’s book

Definition of the Qur’an

God’s words, revelations, truths, manifestation on the heart of the prophet, general program for people

2. 2. Malakut and interior of the Qur’an

• • A truth in Malakut

• • All the facts of the world are in it

• • Abrupt and gradual descent

• • Supreme truth and revealed truth. Like water fountains and waterways. The faculty of sudden painting and gradual presentation. Full hard drive and gradual use of data

• • Only the purified shall touch it لا یمسه الا المطهرون

Definition of the book

 a container to show facts (physical container and metaphysical container)

3. 3. An International book

• • Addresses all people:

ان هو الا ذکر للعالمین

It is only remembrance for the worlds, Surah Qalam 52, An’am 19, Saad 87

• • All religions and even the non-religious:

Jews, Christians, Israelites, infidels and polytheists

4. 4. An eternal book

The root of the immortality of the commands of the Qur’an

The nature

Examples of eternal verses

Traits of humans

Reasons for immortality

Rational narration

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): death of Quranic verses with the death of people = nothing left of the Quran

The objective reason

The inapplicability of the Qur’an = its extinction many times until now

5. 5. The original and independent document of Islam

• • The Qur’an is self-evident

• • Hadiths are based on the appearance of the Quran (non-contradiction of the appearance of the Qur’an in the hadiths)

• • Hadiths explain, confirm, and complement the Qur’an

6. 6. Varied content and format

Content

• • Beliefs

• • Rulings

• • Morals

Format

• • Argument

• • Advice

• • Story

• • Anecdote

• • Simile and metaphor

Purpose

Excitement

Fear

Love

Motivation

Self-knowledge

God-knowledge

Learning lessons from history

7. 7.  need to think

 Definition of thinking (Tafakkur)

 Definition of Contemplation (Tadabbur)

 Levels of perception of the Qur’an

 The difference between Tafsir, Ta’wil, Tadabbur

8. 8.  Consistent and undistorted

Reasons

• • Frequency (Tawatur)

Definition of Tawatur:

In every period, hundreds of people have learned the Quran in this way and passed it onto the next generation

• • Verses: We have sent down the Remembrance, and we will keep it

• • The efforts of Muslims themselves in preserving their only religious certificate and their only eternal miracle

• • The training of Quran reciters and memorizers by the Prophet

• • Non-rejection of the current Qur’an from the Ahl al-Bayt

• • Naming the surahs of the Qur’an at the beginning of Islam

• • Shia and Sunni mutawatir hadith regarding the naming of most of the surahs during the time of the Prophet

Memorizing the words and connecting to the luminous interior of the Qur’an through it

Effects:

• • Lightness of the heart

• • material and spiritual blessing

• • spiritual and psychological health

• • defense of evil forces such as demons

• • invalidity of magic and magic

• • presence of angels

How to benefit from the interior (Baatin) of the Qur’an

• • Refinement, purification and polishing of soul and Nafs

 Lesson 3: Miracles of the Holy Quran 1

Prophet’s miracles and their number, ten thousand cases

External Reasons as proofs to Miracle of the Qur’an:

• • Human history: no rival for the Qur’an so far

• • The most explanations and commentaries for the Qur’an

• • Most of the great scientists spent their time to understand it

• • The existence of hitherto undiscovered layers

1. 1.  The bringer’s characteristics

• • Trust

• • Honesty

• • Purity

• • Muhammad Amin

• • Unlettered

هُوَ الَّذِي بَعَثَ فِي الْأُمِّيِّينَ رَسُولًا مِنْهُمْ يَتْلُو عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتِهِ وَيُزَكِّيهِمْ وَيُعَلِّمُهُمُ الْكِتَابَ وَالْحِكْمَةَ وَإِنْ كَانُوا مِنْ قَبْلُ لَفِي ضَلَالٍ مُبِينٍ

It is He who sent to the unlettered [people] an apostle from among themselves, to recite to them His signs, to purify them, and to teach them the Book and wisdom, and earlier they had indeed been in manifest error. Surah Juma (62)

وَمَا كُنْتَ تَتْلُو مِنْ قَبْلِهِ مِنْ كِتَابٍ وَلَا تَخُطُّهُ بِيَمِينِكَ ۖ إِذًا لَارْتَابَ الْمُبْطِلُونَ

You did not use to recite any scripture before it, nor did you write it with your right hand, for then the impugners would have been skeptical. Surah Ankabut (29)

2. 2. Humiliation of opponents

 Sarfah miracle

 وإن كنتم في ريب مما نزلنا على عبدنا فاتوا بسورة من مثله و ادعوا شركائكم من دون الله إن كنتم صادقين

And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down to Our servant, then produce a chapter like it, and call on your associates besides God, if you are truthful.

أم يقولون افتراه قل فأتوا بعشر سور مثله مفتريات وادعوا من استطعتم من دون الله إن كنتم صادقين.

Or do they say, “He forged it?” Say, “Then bring ten chapters like it forged, and call upon whomever you can besides God, if you are truthful.” Hood 14 Yunus 39

 قل لئن اجتمعت الإنس والجن على أن يأتوا بمثل هذا القرآن لا يأتون بمثله ولو كان بعضهم لبعض ظهيرا

Say, if mankind and jinn were to unite to produce the like of this Qur’an, they would not produce the like of it, even if they backed each other up.

The claim of prophethood of Mussaylamah Kadhaab

3. 3. Eloquence, pleasantness and beauty

• • Beautiful and fluent words

• • Eloquent sentences

The most beautiful and excellent content in accordance with human nature and spiritual needs

• • Pleasant content

• • pleasant sound

Guiding many people throughout history by listening to the sound and content of the Qur’an

• • How beautiful is the picture of this painting and why is it on page 53, Yederek Vela Yusef

• • Examples of eloquence and eloquence in the Qur’an

4. 4. The harmony of the verses and the absence of differences

لو كان من عند غير الله لوجدوا فيه اختلافا كثيرا

If it was from other than God, they would have found a great deal of discrepancy in it

5. 5. Occult news

Past news

The story of Dhul-Qarnayn

The story of the Companions of the Cave

Future events

• •  Returning to Mecca and conquering it

 إن الذي فرض عليك القرآن لرادك إلى معاد

 انا فتحنا لك فتحا مبينا ليغفر لك الله ماتقدم من ذنبك وما تأخر

 لقد صدق الله رسوله الرؤيا بالحق لتدخلن المسجد الحرام إن شاء الله آمنين محلقين رؤوسكم ومقصرين لا تخافون فعلم ما لم تعلموا فجعل من دون ذلك فتحا قريبا

 Indeed, He who imposed the Qur’an on you will return you to a hostile place

 We have given you a clear opening so that God may forgive you of your past and future sins

 God, His Messenger, has fulfilled the vision with truth, so that you will enter the Sacred Mosque, God willing, in safety, with your heads shaved and shortened, not afraid. He knew what you did not know, so He made besides that an opening soon.

• •  The story of the war between Iran and Rome

 غلبت الروم في ادنى الأرض وهم من بعد غلبهم سيغلبون في بضع سنين لله الأمر من قبل ومن بعد ويومئذ يفرح المؤمنون بنصر الله ينصر من يشاء وهو العزيز الرحيم وعد الله لا يخلف الله وعده ولكن أكثر الناس لا يعلمون

 The Romans have been defeated in the lowest part of the earth, and after their defeat they will be victorious in a few years. God has command before and after, and on that day the believers will rejoice in the victory of God.

Lesson 4: Miracles of the Holy Quran 2

Quran is the book of human creation:

ليخرجكم من الظلمات إلى النور

To bring you out of darkness into light

But

Why express the contents of physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics?

Only for the sake of mentioning and paying attention to God and proving the miracles of the Qur’an

The need for expertise to discover scientific miracles

Miracles in natural sciences

Educational miracle

Among all schools of moral and psychological education, the Qur’an has taken the lead in education

Examples of educational miracles:

The difference between the Qur’anic school and the philosophical and moral schools throughout history: The Qur’an suggests a special way to cure mental and emotional illnesses, and that is to get rid of everything and connect to the source of power, which is the Almighty God.

• •  Paying attention to God to cure moral and mental illnesses

 إن العزة لله جميعا

إن القوة لله جميعا

 وبشر الصابرين الذين اذا اصابتهم مصيبه قالوا انا لله وانا اليه راجعون

ولنبلونكم بشيء من الخوف والجوع ونقص من الأموال والأنفس وبشر الصابرين

All glory belongs to God

All power belongs to God

And give glad tidings to those who, when a calamity befalls them, say, “We belong to God, and to Him we shall return.”

We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and souls, but give glad tidings to those who are patient

• •  The way of love and affection for the saints

 قل لا اسالكم عليه اجرا الا المودة في القربى

 ما أسألكم عليه من أجر إلا من شاء أن يتخذ إلى ربه سبيلا

 هل الدين الا الحب

 Say: I do not ask of you any reward for it except love for my kin

 I do not ask you for any reward for it, except for whoever wants to take a way to his Lord

 Is religion but love?

• •  Attention to faith and piety for growth and progress

 لو ان اهل القرى امنوا واتقوا لفتحنا عليهم بركات من السماء والأرض

 If the people of the villages had believed and feared Allah, We would have opened for them blessings from heaven and earth

• •  Attention to death to solve psychological problems

نَحْنُ قَدَّرْنَا بَيْنَكُمُ الْمَوْتَ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ- عَلَىٰ أَنْ نُبَدِّلَ أَمْثَالَكُمْ وَنُنْشِئَكُمْ فِي مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ

We have ordained death among you, and We are not to be preceded.

We have ordained death among you, and We are not to be outmaneuvered

That We shall change your likenesses and raise you up in that which you do not know.

from replacing you with your likes and recreating you in [a realm] you do not know.

 ولا تحسبن الذين قتلوا في سبيل الله امواتا أحياء عند ربهم يرزقون

 And do not think of those who were killed in the cause of God as dead, alive with their Lord, being provided for

• • The last verses of Surah Al-Yakedeh

• • Surahs except 30

Jurisprudential and legal miracle

• •  Scope of legislation

 All aspects of individual and collective life, religious and non-religious prayer, fasting, pilgrimage, prayer, vows, buying and selling, marriage, divorce, rent, all kinds of transactions, retribution, Diah, limits, and judgment, and even up to the limits of urban planning and use of Forests and pastures and waters, health, education, economy, nutrition

• •  The content of legislation

 Proficiency and strength of laws

 Example: Legislation on the issue of inheritance with all the problems it faces such as relations between members and relatives, classes of inheritance

 Lack of history in Islamic laws and lack of role models, contrary to Western social laws such as inheritance, which are helped by Islamic inheritance law

• •  Coordination of legislation

  Laws must be in harmony with each other and be compatible with the goals of the legislator

 The compatibility of Quranic laws in various fields with human nature and the path of happiness in this world and the hereafter

Epistemic miracle

• • The truth of man and his transcendence and his survival after death and flying to the kingdom and reaching the meeting of God

• • Description and explanation after death (more than a thousand verses about resurrection)

• • Drawing the monotheism of God in the relationship between the creator and the created

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