EXORDIUM TO COHERENCE IN THE QUR’AN PDF

Exordium To Coherence In The Qur’an By Tariq Mahmood Hashmi

EXORDIUM TO COHERENCE IN THE QUR’AN

The Holy Qur’an shapes and governs all aspects of the life of the Muslim community – individual and collective, religious and social, political and financial, legal and moral, national and international.

It gives meaning to their lives. In Muslim perception, those who dedicate their lives to understanding the Qur’an and explaining it to others earn great respect in this world and everlasting reward in the Afterlife. It raises their religious as well as social status in the Muslim ummah.

 The Book has therefore attracted the best minds over the last fourteen centuries, who immersed themselves in deciphering its text, deriving legal commands from it, highlighting its social implications, discovering ethical principles, and formulating religious dictates from it that govern the Muslim individual as well as collective life. Such contributions have in turn further established their relevance to the Muslim belief and practices of all ages.

The first generation of readers (or listeners) of the Qur’an were the Companions of the Holy Prophet (saws). The Companions and their successors commented on the text spontaneously and directly.

 “This was because they knew what was revealed before their eyes, had full knowledge of the circumstances in which it was revealed, and were characterized by a perfect understanding, correct knowledge, and virtuous deeds.

 It appears that a few of them developed a special taste for the study and understanding of the Qur’anic sciences. This activity must have involved little research and more questioning from the Prophet (saws).

The Companions must have asked the Prophet (sws) about the verses or surahs of the Qur’an to get an immediate answer that, coming from the Prophet (sws), would be fully satisfying for them.