The Methodology of the People of the Sunnah and the Community Regarding the Qur'an, and the Clarification That the Recited and the Read Are Not Created, While the Writing and the Reading Are Created
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The Shaykh : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
This is a passage from the words of the author (may Allah have mercy on him) in which he clarifies that Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) informed that He is the Speaker of the revelation and the criterion, saying:[At-Tawbah 9:6], and He said: [Al-Jathiyah 45:29]. He also informed that His speech is in the breasts of the people of knowledge and faith, saying: [Al-'Ankabut 29:49]. He also informed that it is the written in purified tablets, as He (the Exalted) said: ['Abasa 80:11-16]. He also informed that it is the recited and the read, such as His saying: [Al-Baqarah 2:121]. He also informed that it is read: [Al-Qiyamah 75:18-19]. The recited and the written are all one thing, not that it is four or three or two, as Ibn Hazm (may Allah have mercy on him) held. As for the recitation and the writing, they are our actions. The recitation and the writing are our actions. When I take a paper and write a verse from the Book of Allah on it, this is my action. When I speak the Qur'an, this is also my action. So there is a written thing and a read thing, and there is writing and reading, is that not so? Good.
The writing and the reading are created, and the written and the read are not created. Is that clear? The evidence for this is that the Qur'an is complete in every aspect, and yet a person with a bad voice recites it, and you do not enjoy his recitation, and a person with bad handwriting writes it, and you can barely read it. So what was bad here, was it the Qur'an itself or the voice?
The student: The voice.
The Shaykh : Good, was it the Qur'an itself or the writing?
The student: Writing.
The Shaykh : The writing. So there is a difference between the writing and the written, and between the reading and the read. Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) says:
"Our voices, our ink, our performance, *** and the parchment, then the writing of the Qur'an"
All of this is created. My voice is created, the ink, which is the dye, is created, the performance is created, the parchment is created. I have "our tools" with a taa, "our tools." Good. "Our tools" is perhaps better because it refers to the pen with which one writes. Then the writing of the Qur'an, all of this is created.
This is a passage from the words of the author (may Allah have mercy on him) in which he clarifies that Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) informed that He is the Speaker of the revelation and the criterion, saying:
And if any one of the polytheists seeks your protection, then grant him protection so that he may hear the words of Allah
وإن أحد من المشركين استجارك فأجره حتى يسمع كلام اللهThis, Our record, speaks about you in truth
هذا كتابنا ينطق عليكم بالحقRather, the Qur'an is distinct verses [preserved] within the breasts of those who have been given knowledge
بل هو آيات بينات في صدور الذين أوتوا العلم(11) No! Indeed, these verses are a reminder; (12) So whoever wills may remember it. (13) [It is recorded] in honored sheets, (14) Exalted and purified, (15) [Carried] by the hands of messenger-angels, (16) Noble and dutiful.
كلا إنها تذكرة فمن شاء ذكره في صحف مكرمة مرفوعة مطهرة بأيدي سفرة كرام بررةThose to whom We have given the Book recite it with its true recital
الذين أتيناهم الكتاب يتلونه حق تلاوته(18) So when We have recited it [through Gabriel], then follow its recitation. (19) Then upon Us is its clarification [to you].
فإذا قرأناه فاتبع قرآنه ثم إن علينا بيانهThe writing and the reading are created, and the written and the read are not created. Is that clear? The evidence for this is that the Qur'an is complete in every aspect, and yet a person with a bad voice recites it, and you do not enjoy his recitation, and a person with bad handwriting writes it, and you can barely read it. So what was bad here, was it the Qur'an itself or the voice?
The student: The voice.
The Shaykh : Good, was it the Qur'an itself or the writing?
The student: Writing.
The Shaykh : The writing. So there is a difference between the writing and the written, and between the reading and the read. Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) says:
"Our voices, our ink, our performance, *** and the parchment, then the writing of the Qur'an"
All of this is created. My voice is created, the ink, which is the dye, is created, the performance is created, the parchment is created. I have "our tools" with a taa, "our tools." Good. "Our tools" is perhaps better because it refers to the pen with which one writes. Then the writing of the Qur'an, all of this is created.