Thank you, Your responces have made me cry. I really need a family like you.
Thank you for the link brother, I like this version as it is easy to read and understandable. I will get me the book tomorrow, inshallah.
Is there any spesific order to read the Holy Quran? Or shall I go on as God guide me?
wa aleykum salaam wa rahmatuhu.
Yes there is specific order if u wont mind to spend reading the below as just few line; and in details It is There you have to go deedply and figure out thoroughly; (no matter how long in details but my sincere advice Do read it Please)
An Introduction to the understanding of the Qur'an
Syed Abul A'ala Maududi
Translated by Dr. Zafar Ishaq Ansari
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This is the book which contains no doubt, [it is ] guidance for the heedful who beleive in the Unseen, keep up prayer, and spend from what We have provided them with; Who beleive in what has been sent down to you as well as what was sent down before you; while they are certain about the Hereafter, such people hold guidance from their Lord, such will be successful. ( The Qur'an 2:2-5 )
In the name of Allah, The most Beneficent, Most Merciful
This introduction has been written with two objectives:
First to acquaint the reader with certain matters which he should grasp at the very outset so as to acheive a more than superficial understanding of the Holy Book.
Second, to clarify those disturbing questions that commonly arise in the mind of the reader during the study of the Qura'n.
The Author
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We are accustomed to reading books that present information, ideas and arguments systematically and coherently. So when we embark on the study of the Qur'an, we expect that this book too will revolve around a definite subject, that the subject matter of the book too will be clearly defined at the beginning and will then be neatly divided into sections and chapters, after which discussion will proceed in a logical sequence. We likewise expect a separate and systematic arrangement of instruction and guidance for each of the various aspects of human life.
However, as soon as we open the Qur'an, we encounter a hitherto completely unfamiliar genre of literature. We notice that it embodies precepts of belief and conduct, moral directives, legal prescriptions, exhortations and admonition, censure and condemnation of evildoers, warning to the deniers of the Truth, good tidings and words of consolation and good cheer to those who have suffered for the sake of Allah, arguments and corroborative evidence in support of its basic message, allusions to anecdotes from the past and the signs of Allah visible in the universe. Moreover, these myraids subjects alternate without any apparent system; quite unlike the books to which we are accustomed, the Qur'an deals with the same subject over and over again, each time couched in a different phraseology.
The reader also encounters abrupt transitions between one subject matter and another. Audience and speaker constantly change as the message is directed now to one and now to another group of people. There is no trace of the familiar divisions into chapters and sections. Likewise, the treatment of of different subjects is unique. If an historical subject is raised, the narrative does not follow the pattern familiar in historical accounts. In the discussion of philosophical or metaphysical questions, we miss the familiar expressions and terminology of formal logic and philosophy. Cultural and political matters, or questions pertaining to man's social and economic life, are discussed in a way very different from that usual in work of social sciences. Juristic principles and legal injunctions are elucidated, but quite differently from the manner of conventional works. When we come across an ethical instruction, we find its form entirely differs from anything to be found elsewhere in the literature of ethics. The reader may find all this so foreign to his notion of what a book should be that he may become so confused as to feel that the Qur'an is a piece of disorganised, incoherent and unsystematic writing, comprising nothing but a disjointed conglomeration of comments of varying lengths put together arbitrarily. Hostile critics use this as a basis for their criticism, while those more favourably inclined resort to far-fetched explanations, or else conclude that the Qur'an consists of unrelated pieces, thus making it amenable to all kinds of interpretations, even interpretations quite opposed to the intent of Allah Who revealed the Book.
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What kind of book, is the Qur'an? In what manner was it revealed? what underlies its arrangement? What is its subject? What is its true purpose? What is the central theme to which its multifarious topics are intrinsically related? What kind of reasoning and style does it adopt in elucidating its central theme? If we could obtain clear, lucid answers to these and other related questions, we might avoid some dangerous pitfalls, thus making it easier to reflect upon and to grasp the meaning and purpose of the Qur'anic verses. If we begin studding the Qur'an in the expectation of reading a book on religion, we shall find it hard, since our notions of religion and of a book are naturally circumscribed by our range of experience. We need, therefore, to be told in advance that this Book is unique in the manner of its composition, in its theme and its contents and arrangement. We should be forewarned that the concept of a book that we have formed from our previous readings is likely to be a hinderence, rather than a help, towards a deep understanding of the Qur'an. We should realise that as a first step towards understanding it we must disabuse our minds of all preconceived notions.
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The student of the Qur'an should grasp, from the outset, the fundamental claims that the Qur'an makes for itself. Whether one ultimately decides to believe in the Qur'an or not, one must recognise the fundamental statements made by the Qur'an and by the man to whom it was revealed, the Prophet Muhammad ( peace be upon him) to be the starting point of one's study. These claims are:
Moreover, if one wishes to spread any intellectual, moral and cultural moveent on an international scale, it is by no means essential,
Where to find this.
on there
http://www.tafheem.net/tafheem.html
just on the left hand side below todays date there is a colum as
Introduction
There you will find.
Allah Maak
