Introduction To the Quran Part 2 Before starting

Introduction To the Qur’an Part 2

Before starting Cleanse yourself

And your intentions too !

Involve your feelings

Relate it to yourself

Say taoodh i. e. seeking refuge from Satan

Why?

Diverting your attention to other worldly things.

Makes you forget the actual reason for reading the Qur’an i. e. to follow it!

Diverts you to good deeds that can be delayed

Makes you feel sleepy

Makes you feel bored too !

Gives you 101 reasons why not to read the Qur’an

It is a living book

It speaks directly to each one of us

It is the only book of it’s kind in the world

The Qur’an has an unending meaning disclosed in it’s ayaats

It is so interesting….

It makes your ‘dil mangay more’

Any book can be altered in 2 ways: • Sequence-wise • Text- wise

The Qur’an is original, safe and secure Why ?

Where is the actual Qur’an preserved ? in Loh-e-Mahfooz

Harf (Pl: Huroof) letters

The smallest unit of the Qur’an is called an… ayah

Number of ayah’s in the Qur’an … 6250

Few Ayahs form a… Surah

These Surahs are separated from each other with…

Every surah has a central theme.

Which is the smallest Surah of the Qur’an ?

Which is the biggest Surah of the Qur’an? It has 286 Ayats

Few ruku’make a… Number of ruku’ in the Qur’an… Surah 540 Number of Surahs in the Qur’an 114

Number of paras in the Qur’an… 30

hospitality

fulfilling oaths

hard-working,

They were a clean slate

Their only weakness was. .

And Qur’an sorted that out !

They were chosen by Allah (swt) and Allah (swt) alone knows best

Compilation of the Qur’an

Wahi on the Prophet(pbuh) Prophet recited to Sahaba Memorised Wrote it on Bones leather, dried date leaves During Abu. Bakr’s time compiled in book form

Order of verses was arranged according to Allah (swt)'s inspiration 1. Surah Al-Fatihah 8. Surah Al-Anfal 2. Surah Al-Baqara 9. Surah At-Tauba 3. Surah Al-i'Imran 10. Surah Yunus 4. Surah An-Nisaa 11. Surah Hud 5. Surah Al-Maidah 12. Surah Yusuf 6. Surah Al-An'am 13. Surah Ar-Ra'd 7. Surah Al-A'raf

Dora e Qur’an of the Prophet (pbuh) with Gabriel (as) every Ramadan

A copy of the Qur’an was sent to various cities so that everyone followed the same text.

Even today every where around the world there is no difference in the Qur’an.