Quran For Beginners! Let's Explore! — Transcript

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2. 0:16hi everyone welcome to unveiling Islam
3. 0:19I'm David wood here with brother Rasheed
4. 0:21and brother Rasheed there are lots of
5. 0:24specifics that we can get into um when
6. 0:26we're examining the Quran there are all
7. 0:28sorts of different issues that arise
8. 0:30things that the Quran says on different
9. 0:33topics but uh lots of Christians don't
10. 0:37even know what the Quran is they think
11. 0:38it's you know the the the Muslim version
12. 0:41of the Bible and that's true in a sense
13. 0:43as far as being their their core text
14. 0:45but there are some serious differences
15. 0:46so why don't you start us off like at
16. 0:48the very beginning of uh you know the
17. 0:51most the the most basic issues like what
18. 0:54what does what is the Quran word Quran
19. 0:56even mean Quran is from the Arabic word
20. 1:01Quran so Quran is not even an Arabic
21. 1:05word so even if Muslims say it's Arabic
22. 1:08it's not it's
23. 1:10Syriac it comes from Syriac language
24. 1:12quite a bit of Syriac going around some
25. 1:15sources it's corono actually Orana it
26. 1:19depends if the west or the East
27. 1:24Soo corono or corana means a scriptures
28. 1:28a liturgy
29. 1:30so when in the early days they go to
30. 1:32church and they read certain readings a
31. 1:36reading is called
32. 1:39Horan so Muhammad or whoever compiled
33. 1:43the Quran use that
34. 1:45word a liturgy to name this
35. 1:50book we read also in history when they
36. 1:53gathered the book they they didn't find
37. 1:55a name for it actually some sources say
38. 1:59they tried to to name it a
39. 2:03gospel and so they they said mus now we
40. 2:07say mus mus is a
41. 2:11book is um anything written we can call
42. 2:16it sah this is sah for example so mus is
43. 2:19a book that Gathering of
44. 2:23um pages so it's a book MAV is a book
45. 2:28Quran is this book
46. 2:30it's uh written in Arabic classical
47. 2:33Arabic very old it's like reading
48. 2:36Shakespeare now or even worse um so we
49. 2:39don't understand most of it if you go to
50. 2:42mosques or like go to the street and ask
51. 2:44Muslims in Morocco or Tunisia or Egypt
52. 2:49you ask them some basic words in the
53. 2:51Quran they would not know the meaning
54. 2:53and and people don't even even Scholars
55. 2:56don't know the meaning I was just
56. 2:57reading uh a chapter of the Quran and
57. 3:00reading the commentary and it actually
58. 3:02said There are 16 interpretations of
59. 3:04what this word means I was like what
60. 3:05what
61. 3:06what there is not a single verse in the
62. 3:10Quran I never read in the
63. 3:13commentaries there are differences about
64. 3:17this
65. 3:18verse I never until now I never found
66. 3:21one that there is a total agreement
67. 3:23about the meaning of that verse and that
68. 3:26is I I think that is an issue because
69. 3:27one of the things the Quran repeatedly
70. 3:29claims is it talks about how clear it is
71. 3:32like like like a
72. 3:34lot like a
73. 3:36lot book yeah so like the impression you
74. 3:40get from reading these claims about how
75. 3:42clear it is is like Allah had all
76. 3:44eternity to get this book exactly the
77. 3:46way he wanted it and he made it like the
78. 3:47the perfect most clear language he could
79. 3:50and then you read it and it's uh you
80. 3:52know you can you can read a dozen
81. 3:55different completely different
82. 3:56interpretations of a verse yes and it's
83. 4:00114
84. 4:02chapters and it starts with the longest
85. 4:05to the shortest kind of very strange way
86. 4:08to arrange your exactly no
87. 4:10chronology and sometimes it jumps from
88. 4:14one topic to another it's talking about
89. 4:16Moses now suddenly Noah suddenly Jesus
90. 4:21suddenly about the poist at Muhammad's
91. 4:24time suddenly about how Heaven proves
92. 4:28the existence of God and you see no no
93. 4:32link between topics it's not like the
94. 4:36Bible you read Genesis and then you
95. 4:38expect what's coming next and you follow
96. 4:41the process in the Quran there is no
97. 4:44chronology there is no
98. 4:47logic uh and that's because of the way
99. 4:50How It Was Written Muhammad had scribes
100. 4:53around him so each time he gets this
101. 4:56chance and he starts like he I think for
102. 5:00me it's an epilepsy we can talk about it
103. 5:02certainly sounds like that and then
104. 5:04after a while he wakes up and he says
105. 5:06hey write this verse it came to me and
106. 5:10they start writing then they collected
107. 5:12them later so of course they they didn't
108. 5:15put them in chronology so they just like
109. 5:17kind of gathered them together and just
110. 5:19compiled them and they started naming
111. 5:21the chapters oh put that in the chapter
112. 5:24that talks about the cow so now we have
113. 5:25a chapter of the cow oh put that in the
114. 5:28chapter that talks about Mary and then
115. 5:30we have the chapter of Mary and then oh
116. 5:33yeah put that in the chapter of Alan or
117. 5:37Al the table so they put it in the table
118. 5:40and that's why uh the it's like a a
119. 5:45chaos it's just bunch of verses gathered
120. 5:49together put in this book and when you
121. 5:51read it you get really confused yeah
122. 5:54that's uh that is an ongoing uh issue
123. 5:57with the arrangement what's what's
124. 5:58interesting is you can
125. 6:01we can understand why this difficulty
126. 6:03arose because if Muhammad is just you
127. 6:05know on various uh occasions when people
128. 6:08are asking him questions that he he
129. 6:11claims to have received a revelation
130. 6:13they don't have it in a book they don't
131. 6:15have it's he's he's not making this book
132. 6:19as he goes along and then they're just
133. 6:21adding you know new chapters uh to it
134. 6:24he's he's he's he's giving verses and
135. 6:26passages to his followers telling them
136. 6:27to memorize it and then some of them are
137. 6:29memorizing and so on so it's all
138. 6:30circulating and then Muhammad dies and
139. 6:32it's and it's like oh we've got all this
140. 6:35stuff we've got all this stuff that
141. 6:37Muhammad's been quoting for all these uh
142. 6:39years to us and we need to put it
143. 6:41together and it's just so weird to say
144. 6:43hey let's just you know we got the
145. 6:44little prayer at the beginning but other
146. 6:45than that we'll go longest to shortest
147. 6:46even though it's completely out of out
148. 6:48of order the one of the problems is the
149. 6:50Quran doesn't give you even the
150. 6:52background of certain verses so we have
151. 6:54to dig somewhere else to understand why
152. 6:57he said this for whom
153. 7:00and what's the topic here exactly for
154. 7:04example they ask you
155. 7:07about who yeah who asked why so you
156. 7:12don't understand you have to go to
157. 7:13commentary they say some Jews some Poli
158. 7:17different interpretations and that
159. 7:19started from the beginning of the Quran
160. 7:21you you of course you
161. 7:24studied um the first revelation how it
162. 7:28came to Muhammad it told us he was in a
163. 7:30cave and suddenly the angel came to him
164. 7:33and said read read and then the first
165. 7:37chapter in the Quran started which is
166. 7:4196 and but who knows exactly because
167. 7:45even that story when we dig at the
168. 7:48beginning was they said it was a dream
169. 7:51and then they changed it through history
170. 7:53now it's a fact it's not just a dream it
171. 7:55happened literally they believe it
172. 7:57happened as is we don't no exactly and
173. 8:00that's why the Quran is just a
174. 8:01collection so that 96 is not even it
175. 8:04should it should be the first one yeah
176. 8:07if you if you were arranging it in order
177. 8:08of Revelation like you could there there
178. 8:10are multiple there are multiple ways of
179. 8:13arranging the material that makes sense
180. 8:14one would be in order that mamading the
181. 8:17Revelation or you could go Chron
182. 8:19chronologically like if it's talking
183. 8:20about Abraham put that here
184. 8:22it'ses putting all these putting all
185. 8:24these in in order uh but no they went
186. 8:27they went uh they went longest to
187. 8:28shortest and and that's why if if you
188. 8:30want to study the story of Moses you
189. 8:33will not find it in one chapter you have
190. 8:35to just collect verses from here and
191. 8:38there and then you have the story of
192. 8:40Moses and if some of them are repeated
193. 8:43literally the same and if you want to
194. 8:46study the the life of Jesus you need to
195. 8:49gather from here and there and here and
196. 8:51there and then you collect it's not like
197. 8:54the gospels start with the birth and
198. 8:56then ends with the crucifixion and the
199. 8:58resurrection
200. 9:00no it's not like that you just go it's
201. 9:02scattered all over the Quran yeah and so
202. 9:04it's a it's quite a bit of work and so
203. 9:06some of the
204. 9:07issues that that you've already brought
205. 9:10up it you know one the Quran is saying
206. 9:14things if you do not know what this is
207. 9:15responding to or what question this is
208. 9:17responding to or the the background you
209. 9:19don't even know the people who are named
210. 9:21if you don't know the historical
211. 9:22background you can't understand this and
212. 9:25then the way it's arranged is confusing
213. 9:26is especially as something we'll be
214. 9:28talking about
215. 9:30uh eventually the the idea of abreg that
216. 9:33uh earlier Revelations can be canceled
217. 9:35by later ones but if it's not an order
218. 9:38you need all of these outside sources
219. 9:40and commentaries to understand a book
220. 9:45that constantly brags about how clear
221. 9:47and fully explained that that it already
222. 9:49is the Quran is not sufficient for a
223. 9:52Muslim the Quran always has to have
224. 9:56something with it it's not like the
225. 9:59Bible you can't read the Bible and it's
226. 10:01sufficient for a Christian for the Quran
227. 10:03you will not understand even some verses
228. 10:06what they are saying the meaning unless
229. 10:09you have the background and have other
230. 10:11commentaries that will help you for
231. 10:13example when it talks about Zade Zade
232. 10:16divorcing his wife who is Zade M what's
233. 10:20the relationship with Muhammad and we
234. 10:22don't know so you have you you need to
235. 10:25dig somewhere else or like when it
236. 10:28mentions um
237. 10:30lookman we don't know who's lookman
238. 10:34who's this guy who's
239. 10:36the who's this so you need to dig and
240. 10:40and the problem when you go to
241. 10:41commentary is you don't have one opinion
242. 10:43so many times as I said so they they
243. 10:46have different versions so you're just
244. 10:49uh it's a very difficult task actually
245. 10:52yeah and lots of times the the sources
246. 10:54that you would need to even understand
247. 10:55these passages are are much later and so
248. 10:58how how can I trust them um one more
249. 11:01important difference just for for
250. 11:02Christians who are who are watching
251. 11:03because you you've mentioned the Bible
252. 11:05the Bible is a collection of um of
253. 11:09writings of various Witnesses and here
254. 11:13talks about Adam and Abraham and Moses
255. 11:16and Jesus and so on but it's all just
256. 11:19from Revelation specifically to
257. 11:21supposedly to one guy Muhammad Muhammad
258. 11:24supposedly got Revelation through the
259. 11:27angel Gabriel from
260. 11:30God Allah himself it's his word letter
261. 11:33for letter word for word he had no hand
262. 11:37in it he was just a receiving vessel
263. 11:40like he receives it then he says it and
264. 11:43it's written in Arabic you can't pray in
265. 11:46other language they say it can't be even
266. 11:48translated they say the translation of
267. 11:51the meanings of the Quran God will not
268. 11:54accept your prayer unless you do it in
269. 11:56Arabic because the it's the holy
270. 11:57language and and uh if you want to get
271. 12:01really um the right meaning you have to
272. 12:04study it in Arabic that's what they say
273. 12:06because even translation it picks one
274. 12:09one side or one background or one
275. 12:13commentary and it follows it yeah and so
276. 12:16uh at the end of the day this all comes
277. 12:18down to one witness it's it's all from
278. 12:20Muhammad so everything's riding on one
279. 12:22guy as opposed to the Bible where we've
280. 12:23got an entire cloud of witnesses uh
281. 12:25explaining these things to us and so
282. 12:28seems like we need to look at these
283. 12:30things a bit more closely and we'll be
284. 12:32doing that uh in future installments
285. 12:35here
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