How is it reconciled that the Qur'an is written in the Preserved Tablet and that Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) revealed it during the time of revelation and spoke with it?
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The Shaykh : That does not contradict it. First: its being written in the Preserved Tablet has not been established through a means that gives a person certainty. As for the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Az-Zukhruf 43:4], it is possible that the intended meaning is mentioning this Book, as Allah the Exalted said: [Ash-Shu'ara 26:196]. It is known that the Scriptures of the former ones do not contain the Qur'an, but rather contain speaking about it and mentioning it. Therefore, there is no definitive evidence that gives a person certainty that the Qur'an was written in the Preserved Tablet. If this is established, it does not contradict that the speech of Allah the Exalted with it is created, in the sense that He speaks with it to convey it to Jibril, even if it was written previously in the Preserved Tablet.
The Shaykh : That does not contradict it. First: its being written in the Preserved Tablet has not been established through a means that gives a person certainty. As for the saying of Allah the Exalted:
