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This book is written by Imam Shirazi.
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Glorious Qur’an
an introduction and background
Contents
Contents.Foreword.Prophets in the Holy Qur’an.Introduction.
Allah
.
His Name
.
The Beautiful Names of Allah
.
His Attributes
.
The Holy Qur’an
.
Its Eloquence, Beauty and Inimitability
.
Its Structure
.
Its Revelation
.
The Final Messenger
The Compilation of the Qur’an
.
The Divinely Appointed Successors
.
The Inseparable Entities
.
The Direct Intervention
.
The Perfection of Religion and Blessings
.
The
Ahl al-Bayt
Glossary.
Foreword
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Praise be to Allah, Master of the worlds, and peace and blessings be with His messenger Muhammad, and withhis noble, purified house.
The Noble Qur’an is the greatest of the books of God. It is the most outstanding book ever to appear on the faceof the earth. It is not merely a compilation of chronicles of an ancient people, nor yet of a group of Prophets, or even of all Prophets. Nor is it solely a book of morals. It is certainly not just a book of science, and it is notsimply a book of rules and laws. Rather, it is a set of arguments in the Divine tongue setting out exactly whythe reader, or listener, should recognise Allah, glorified be He, submit to Him, glorified be He, and follow theDivine religion. These arguments are both rational, addressed to the mind, and spiritual, addressed to the heart.In the Divine words the Noble Qur’an is a book ‘of guidance’, guiding man from darkness to light, from evil togood, from ignorance to knowledge, from uncertainty about the origin and the end, and about man’s role in theworld, to certainty and conviction.The noble Qur’an was brought down from the highest level of heaven by the angel Jabra’il (Gabriel) who presented himself to the eye of the Prophet Muhammad,
may
Allah bless him and his purified house,
and presented the Qur’an to his blessed ear, at precisely that moment in history when mankind had reached the point of being sufficiently mature to appreciate it and be guided by it. Soit was that towards the conclusion of his holy mission, the Prophet Muhammad,
may
Allah bless him and his purified house,
stated clearly for hiscompanions to hear, heed and record, these words:
“I leave behind me two weighty things - if you grasp the two of them you will not go astray. The Qur’anand my household (
Ahl-ul-Bayt
).”
Yes, for protected themselves, these are the two guardians of the religion of Islam, protecting the truth and itsmost lofty and subtle points from obliteration and annihilation throughout the lengthy ‘age of reason’ that is thefinal stage of man's life on earth.The Prophet’s household are headed by that most illustrious of the Prophet’s followers Ali,
peace be with him,
and his most noble wife Fatimah,
peace be with her
– who was also the Prophet’s beloved daughter born to himduring his mission – through their sons the Prophet’s only grandsons, Hasan and Husayn,
peace be with them,
and the nine Imams after Husayn,
peace be with them all.
In one way or another, all of these members of theProphet’s purified house played their part in protecting the sacred fabric of Islam, and did so with suchconstancy and dedication that they were each known as being ‘like the Qur’an walking’. Here is not the placeto recount their achievements, but the books of history, of ethics, of law, and of every branch of learning fromgrammar to medicine all bear witness to their invaluable services to the religion and culture of Islam, whiletheir sacrifices in doing so constitute the finest examples ofhonour and constancy the world has ever seen.Who can argue, then, that they were not protected from deviation and sin?In the same way, the noble Qur’an is protected from error, and is the solid heart of the religion that never fails.Unlike any other book it has remained unchanged, unaltered, free of any additions or deletions, from the veryoutset. It is the testament and message to mankind from its Master, the One God, who is well able to protect the purity of His word. The Noble Qur’an is, therefore,the sacred text of Islam par excellence, just as Islam is thereligion of the Noble Qur’an. Those who wish to follow Islam find themselves obliged to read and know theQur’an, as it is one of the mainstays of their faith, and to read parts of it is on certain occasions obligatory. Andthose who wish to heed the Divine message of the Qur’an find themselves obliged to practice Islam, for that isthe religion, the way of life and the system of belief Allah has chosen and perfected for those who would be Hiswilling servants; and theirs is the best of ends.
Prophets in the Holy Qur’an
The following lists names of some of the prophets and messengers of God that appear in the HolyQur’an, along with their Biblical equivalents:
Prophets’ Names in the Bible
Transliterationof Prophets’Arabic Names
Prophets’ Names in theQur’an
Adam
A<dam
مدﺁ
Noah
Nu>h}
حﻮﻧ
Abraham
Ibra>hi>m
ﻢﻴهاﺮﺑإ
Lot
Lu>t}
طﻮﻟ
Ishmael
Isma>
c
i>l
ﻞﻴﻋﺎﻤﺳإ
Isaac
Ish}a>q
قﺎﺤﺳإ
Jacob
Ya
c
qu>b
بﻮﻘﻌﻳ
Joseph
Yu>suf
ﻒﺳﻮﻳ
Jethro Shu
c
ayb
ﺐﻴﻌﺷ
Moses
Mu>sa>
ﻰﺳﻮﻣ
Aaron
Ha>ru>n
نورﺎه
David
Da>wu>d
دواد
Solomon
Sulayma>n
ﻤﻴﻠﺳنﺎ
Jonah
Yu>nus
ﺲﻧﻮﻳ
Zacharias
Zakariyya>
ﺎﻳﺮآز
John (the Baptist)
Yah}ya>
ﻰﻴﺤﻳ
Jesus
c
Isa>
ﻰﺴﻴﻋ
The
Comforter
, or
parakletos
of the
Bible,which has been substituted for
perikletos
: anexplanatory rendering of
‘ahmad’,
the MostPraised One. Ahmad is another name of theProphet Muhammad; both are derived from theArabic word meaning the Praised One –
perikletos
in Greek.
Muhammad
ﺪﻤﺤﻣ
Introduction
Before beginning to talk about the subject of this introduction, which is the Holy Qur’an itself, itwould be appropriate to say something about the author of this extraordinary book – the AlmightyAllah.
Allah
His Name
In Arabic, the main name of the One Deity that is the creator of all existence is known as Alla>h, which is infact the merged form of Al-Ela>
h, meaning The Deity or The God. The word Ela
>
h is the Arabicequivalent of the corresponding Hebrew word Eloh, meaning God. In the merging process of Al-Ela
>h, the letter E is dropped from the pronunciation, and the spelling, of the name and the end result is theword Alla>h.
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