Chapter 2:

Preservation of the quran in the era of Prophet

SAW
Generally, there are two ways to preserve things in this world. One is to memorize
it and other is to write it down. Former method is difficult and humans are not
motivated towards it. Whereas the later method is easy and human nature is more
inclined towards it. But for the protection of the holy quran both ways has to be
used by the nature. So where Allah swt keep this quality in Quran that we can
memorize it easily he has also made beloved Prophet saw to encourage the ummah
to memorize it.Allah swt completed both methods to preserve the holy Quran in
the life of holy prophet. And where many sahabas became hufaaz in the life of
prophet, the complete Quran was compiled and the whole text of Quran was
preserved.
It has been widely explained in the narrations that the Prophet arranged the text
of Quran in systematic manner and whenever some portion of the Quran was
revealed, the Holy Prophet would call a scribe and dictate its words to him.
And because zaid bin sabit ra was the neighbor of prophet in medina, he got most
of the privilege of compiling the Quran after hijra.
The effect of Prophets compiling the Quran was that many of the companions had
the complete written text of it and they used to keep the portion of Quran with
them and used to recite from them.

Chapter 3:
Preservation of the quran in the era of Sahaba:
In the beginning period of Caliphate of hazrat abu bakr Siddique , he arranged a
troop against the false prophet meselma kazab and his followers which resulted in
a horrid war. In this war many companions of prophet who had memorized the
Quran attained martyrdom.
On this incident hazrat umar ra became highly worried that if the huffaz
continued to meet martyrdom in this manner, some part of Quran may become
extinct.
Hazrat umar expressed his great concern to hazrat abu bakr Siddique ra and
suggested him to have the Qur'an collected and compiled so that it is wellpreserved.
Hazrat zaid bin sabit ra used the highly cautious method to preserve the
Quran.That is why there is no doubt and uncertainty in the text of the Quran .He
did not allow any verse to be included in his master copy of the Quran unless he
received written and verbal testimonies proving its uninterrupted succession.
Following are some features of the master copy of quran he compiled.
1. In this master copy, the Quranic verses were arranged in accordance with
the order fixed by the Holy Prophet saw. The surahs were not arranged,
however, and so every surah was written and kept separately.
2. All the seven recitations / dialects (qiraas) were incorporated in the master
copy.
3. This copy was written in hijri script.
4. Only those verses were included whose recitation was not cancelled. The
purpose of compiling it in the presence of hazrat abu bakr , hazrat umar and
hazrat zaid bin sabit was to prepare an organized document with the
collective endorsement of the entire Ummah so that reference could be
made to it when required.

After having several of these standard transcripts of the Holy Quran prepared,
hazrat uthman ra appealed to people to destroy all the other manuscripts except
this one. The entire ummah followed him and all other manuscripts were burnt.

Some people were not aware that quran was revealed with seven dialects, so they
insisted that others dialects were incorrect and even today this is needed to
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Chapter 5
In Arabic, the term zabt ul kitab is used when a person memorizes
something so perfectly that there is no doubt in its authenticity and zabt
means the diacritical marks and vowel signs. In Arabic the diacritical marks
are denoted as the knowledge of zabt is the knowledge of diacritical
marks (zabr , zeer , peesh ), vowel signs, tashdeed and sakun with letter with
which one can recognize the letter.
Literal meaning of a dot is to put a dot on a letter but in terms it means to
make the dots works with diacritical marks and other symbols whose
inventer is allama Abu l-Aswad al-Duali .. and whose two
students (Yahya bin Yamur, and Nasr ibn Asim) raised his work .
Literal meaning of shakal is to chain the animals feet but in terms it means to put
diacritical / vowel marks on the sentences. This effort is a debt from maulana
Khalil ibn ahmad al farahidi.
Aajam means to put a dot or dots on a letter to make it different from the similar
letters like etc. although aajam has been fixed with dots and and
shakl with vowel signs. Although knowledge of zabt is subject to
two..which is helpful in the correct pronunciation and recitation of the
quranic sentences. The benefit of knowledge of zabt is ..

Chapter 6

Division of Quran according to chapters, verses, section and parts:

The Chapter is of quranic which have beginning and ending verses and a surah has
at least three verses. Sometimes a surah has only one name and and sometimes a
surah has been given two or more than two names (multiple names).
And having multiple names of a surah shows its value and importance.
In this regard, the book considered to be a source is tafsir hadai which is
published from da rut tauq an naja makkak mukkaramah.
Based on this book, below is the list of names of all surahs and its explanation.
Other than this book, many arguments about the names of surahs can be found in
tafsir qurtubi , tafsir rooh ul mai and ....
The knowledge of . Is a reported knowledge and in quran ..every ayah
has its marks on it and it has been numbered.
This chapters has arguments about knowledge of fawasil. The quranic verses have
strength like the dialects of quran and is authenticated.
it is reported from Hazrat Abdullah bin masud that once we had an argument about
the number of verses in a certain (surah).Some said number of verses are 30 and
some said its 32 so we went to the prophet and told him about this. The color of
his face changed and he said something softly to hazrat ali ra. Then hazrat ali
turned towards us and said that prophet has said that recite the quran the way you
have been taught to recite.
From the above mentioned narration, if this difference of opinion in the number of
verses was not right. Prophet saw would have mentioned one particular number and
put an end to this difference. So the number of verses is authenticated by prophet
saw. He counted the verses of surah fatiha on fingers. So it is narrated from ume
salma ra that prophet saw recited bismillah and counted it as a verse. Then
counted three verses uptil ar Rahman , four on malik yaumiden, five on nastaem
then on mustaqeem he raised a finger which meant sixth number and from surat

alazeena till the end of surah he raised one more finger which meant the total of
seven verses.
It is narrated from hazrat abu darda that he who memorizes the first 10 verses of
surah kahf and faces dajjal. Dajjal will not be able to harm him.
There are four ways of recognizing fawasil.
1. Equality
2. Scholars have said that he who doesnt remember surah fatiha shall recite 7
other verses

In Pakistani scripts letter ____ is identified as a sign of ruku(section) which has

three numbers on it.the upper most number is for the rukuh of surah and the
lower most is for the rukuh of para and the middle number shows the number of
verses

Chapter seven
Stop signs/symbols:
It is important to stop correctly in the recitation of quran. Literally the meaning of
waqf is to stop but in terms of recitation waqf means to pause the amount of time
which we take for a normal breath, amount of which is two harkat. If this pause is
with the intention of .

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