The Holy Qur'an: Historical Basis For Its Compilation

The Holy Qur'an: Historical Basis For Its Compilation - Khalid Blankinship

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The heart of this talk is Dr. Blankinship's response to the criticisms levied against the Qur'an's authenticity as a sacred and preserved scripture from God. After discussing briefly the two periods of revelation in Makkah and Madinah as well as the revelation event at the cave of Hija, the speaker analyzes the Qur'an's quality of self-reference, the significance of knowing the chronology of revelation, and the character of the Qur'anic text (both the written and the oral aspects). In discussing the many fascinating qualities and characteristics of the Qur'an, the speaker allows for the most sacred text in Islam to speak for itself in answering the supposed question of legitimacy. One highlight of this lecture is an example that Dr. Blankinship puts forth of the unique rhyme scheme of certain verses in the Qur'an and orthographic irregularities that actually prove the authentic transmission of the text! Another wonderful lecture for Muslims and non-Muslims as well as students of history. The speaker's passionate style evokes very engaging questions from the non-Muslim audience and results in many interesting and enlightening exchanges. (Recorded at the Dar al Islam Teachers' Institute seminar).

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@MrResearcher122 8 жыл бұрын

Wonderful lecture. In times of doubt and darkness, it delights to hear respect for the Great Books of history.

@abdulhalimyeo 7 жыл бұрын

Indeed brother.

@indtrading 10 жыл бұрын

Excellent scholarly presentation! Masha Allah Tabaraka Allah!

@presbourg 6 жыл бұрын

Thks to bro khalid...ur explanation is clear and v truth and consistent with Muslims scholar..MashaAllah

@BashkesiaIslameNYNJ 13 жыл бұрын

wow thanks so much for these wonderful vidoes on ISLAM may ALLAH reward IslamOnDemand

@IslamOnDemand 12 жыл бұрын

@psalmsurfer1 But the difference is that the original text of the Qur'an has not been altered. Therefore the "misinterpretation of the holy books" by human beings cannot be done in the case of the Qur'an because of access to the original Arabic. This is what I was emphasizing in my comment, just in case he or she hadn't considered this before. But thanks!

@IslamOnDemand 12 жыл бұрын

@lambuponthethrone Read the Qur'an. I think you'll find God talking to you. And if you don't want to rely on human interpretation, learn Arabic and read it again. Arabic is the original language it was revealed in, so you have access to the authentic revelation without changes. You seem sincere. May you be guided!

@IslamOnDemand 13 жыл бұрын

@zafthedon Wasalam... thanks! Please tell others about our channel! JAK!

@c5quared626 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, this is Hamza yusuf, nice.

@sibrahimasamuddin1949 4 жыл бұрын

It is a tradition of a muslim to memorise chapter from the quran or the whole quran during ancient time or in the early part of islam as you can see it today in the islamic country and recite chapters in the quran everytime a muslim perform prayer from the time of muhammad (PUB) and it continued until today. So oral tradition is strong let alone the written record of the quran. And its error's free is a proof of its originality ant its authenticity and still stands today as a challenge to non muslims.

@007kash007 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Arnold

@saidsule 13 жыл бұрын

when were these lectures held?

@IslamOnDemand 12 жыл бұрын

@xXxAxBxZxXx No problem... The Khalid Blankinship sessions were recorded in 2000.

@AlexaDeWit 8 жыл бұрын

I'm interested in your interpretation of Mohammed in the cave. When I have previously been learning this story I had heard it translated as "read", rather than recite. Is it appropriate to conclude that the arabic word uses can be translated into both read and recite and is ambiguous to some degree?

@vicachcoup 8 жыл бұрын

The word can mean both. Iqra is an imperative commanding the person to recite. The root QR can be use to denote the act of reading or recitation. So people who recite the quran are called Qaris and the act of reciting the quran is called sometimes called Qiraya. I have very basic knowledge in arabic so I'm not sure this is the level of answer you were looking for.

@hayyanmintgreen8561 5 жыл бұрын

The word is “iqra” it means to recite or read.

@corazoncubano5372 5 жыл бұрын

Yes. And that is the case for many Arabic words.

@biomed007 3 жыл бұрын

One interpretation is that Prophet Muhammad thought the Angel was commanding him to read, and since he could not read or write, he answered I am not a reader, then the Angel repeated recite. Another interpretation is that the prophet understood the word i context, but he still would not be a reciter because he was illiterate and so he was answering that he has no material to recite. Either way that was a reflection of lack of any significant knowledge or memory by the prophet at the time. This is in fact big evidence (among other huge piles of evidence) that hugely weakens the accusation that Quran was partially plagiarized.

@IslamOnDemand 12 жыл бұрын

@xXxAxBxZxXx Wa iyakum! Ameen.

@Pikkinmink7 6 жыл бұрын

Ma sha allaah

@zafthedon 13 жыл бұрын

Salaam awsome peace

@TheWahajahmad 2 жыл бұрын

I feel that this presentation has not given due credit to Usman Ibn Affan RA who during his time as Khalifa established standard written Quran. He is an extremely knowedgeable scholar and has given an excellent lecture indeed

@abz2000123 6 жыл бұрын

If one asks - why did the Prophet saws not have the quran compiled into one complete volume in his lifetime. Some possible answers might be that he was anticipating the revelation of verses which would be placed between other verses up until his death, and that he was also anticipating the abrogation via forgetting and losing single pieces during his own lifetime whilst the Quran was yet being revealed despite best efforts of people to remember - and this is not the same as putting it in a single preserved book during his lifetime - which would create the issues of other peoples copies becoming obsolete daily, and any possible leader after him using him as an authority for making other companions disregard the verses they had with them. The fluidity makes sense in proper context. Volume 6, Book 61, Number 550:Narrated Abdullah:The Prophet said, "It is a bad thing that some of you say, 'I have forgotten such-and-such verse of the Qur'an,' for indeed, he has been caused (by Allah) to forget it. So you must keep on reciting the Qur'an because it escapes from the hearts of men faster than camel do."Volume 6, Book 61, Number 551:Narrated Abdullah:I heard the Prophet saying... (as above, no. 550).Volume 6, Book 61, Number 552:Narrated Abu Musa:The Prophet said, "Keep on reciting the Qur'an, for, by Him in Whose Hand my life is, Quran runs away (is forgotten) faster than camels that are released from their tying ropes."

@biomed007 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder what class this was and what University.

@psalmsurfer1 12 жыл бұрын

@IslamOnDemand I could also easily say to lambuponthethrone read the Bible I think you'll find God talking to you..I think when he said "They misinterpret holy books" he was including the Qur'an too.

@dd.oliver 3 жыл бұрын

I am listening to this in 2020, so many update needed information... angelika neuwirth, fred donner should be analyzed ;)

@flashcat2702 5 жыл бұрын

Actually the order of chapters and verses was set by revelation not by the Prophet or his companions

@SuperNation22 12 жыл бұрын

your video is very thorough on the biography but the order of the quran is definite you have mentioned that it is "purely speculative and is not known" actually according to islamic hadith it is related that the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon) was told the correct order of the quran by angel Gabriel, and the order has not changed until this day, because anyone who chooses to change it will never be accepted the quran has been memorized from cover to cover

@zipodipo7923 6 жыл бұрын

Peace Islam22. Yes you are right the holy prophet went to great pains to make sure the Quran was written down in it's proper order. So is it coincidental then that the Ayat are arranged from big to small, from front to back ? I mean that would have to be some coincidence.

@abdullahk9606 6 жыл бұрын

He's talking about order of Revelation please listen carefully

@Demigod_99 5 жыл бұрын

Is the life and existence of muhammed based on any historical research or are we just believing in him existing becuz scholars said so ? Plllllzzzz answer me

@tokasab6839 5 жыл бұрын

Youssef Kayass kzfaq.info/get/bejne/icVxmsSp0sXdpps.html

@Kaffielo 2 жыл бұрын

Answer also whether your grand grand uncles, grand-grand aunts, siblings, ancestors have ever really existed or you just take it for granted.

@Blady99 5 жыл бұрын

54:40 tucker carlson face

@corazoncubano5372 5 жыл бұрын

Many of the audience members seem to have the mistaken belief that Quran is an extension of the Bible and the Torah, which it is not. Anyone who has read Quran will see that it is totally different than those 2 earlier revalations.

@c5quared626 2 жыл бұрын

In what way.. all 3 were political tools..

@noxdelyrium 4 жыл бұрын

I am not sure what he is talking about. All of the hadiths along with biography of Mohammed is a-historical, that is matters of faith not historical fact. The Qur'an itself may well predate the seventh century.

@moflow66 4 жыл бұрын

Well no. The Islamic Texts are not ahistorical. Even orientalists have agreed to its authenticity

@moflow66 4 жыл бұрын

As far as Hadiths are concerned you can even know the chain of narration of a hadith. Don’t just assume that because it is religious text that somehow it lacks authenticity

@armleuchte6460 3 жыл бұрын

Can we a chain of narration trust? Some Hadiths are definitely not from Hejaz or 7th centauri.

@ashraf6435 3 жыл бұрын

Really interesting insight, I wish you could elaborate

@IslamOnDemand 12 жыл бұрын

@xXxAxBxZxXx Wasalam! The Dar al Islam Teachers' Institute in Abiquiu, New Mexico... daralislam . org

@vicachcoup 8 жыл бұрын

47:15 false there are the verses about very victory of Rome.

@AustinOKeeffe 6 жыл бұрын

If the final message was so important, why didn't Mohammad compile the Quran before he died. He had a slow death (from being poisoned) so had time to organise it, and had time to say for definite who would be his successor to organise this. Neither happened. Yet decades later it was decided thta it WAS important to compile it because verses were being lost. There is no original Quran. Not one survived the 7th century - so much for preservation. The earliest Qurans are from the 8th century and are different in length, in words and sentences.

@abz2000123 6 жыл бұрын

Austin O Keeffe Thank you for your important question, it wasn't his duty to compile it in written form since his duty was only to convey the message to the people, it was the duty of the people to organize their own affairs and future leaders, and God's to call them to account - this can be seen in many instances in his life and from the way in which he refused to fix the market food prices during downturns despite requests - his reason given being fear of being held to account for people's property and honour on the day of judgement. He did however have revelations written down as they were revealed, and he did assign various companions to the memorization of chapters.

@sgma4m 6 жыл бұрын

abz -You exposed the Quran author called as Allah was a poor one … when Muslims assumed he transferred his words through various unverifiable means: one unknown spirit, one illiterate warlord, various unknown companions, and specially various unreliable recording tools (leaves, skins, memorization...lost, missing, destroyed).

@hayyanmintgreen8561 5 жыл бұрын

The Prophet (peace be upon him) did NOT die by poison but by natural death.

@corazoncubano5372 5 жыл бұрын

Your knowledge of Islamic history is faulty. The Prophet by the way was not poisoned. Be careful where you get your propoganda.

4 жыл бұрын

abz2000123 It was the duty of the people to organize their own affairs?? Really? Even the 4 caliphs ar-rashideen were killed by the muslims! Nowdays, islam have many versions such as sufi, sunni, syiah, ahmadiyah, the 4 imam mazhabs like malikki, syafie, hambali, hanafi and now wahabbi. Confused? Or maybe was just too much for human nature to handle? Action of human crime changes over time. Human knowledge and morals also changes continuously over generations and that is how it goes. Nothing will stay the same. Have you not realised even the Quran and the interpretation changes over time. Why? We humans homo sapiens are getting smarter not the other way round! So be it!

@gyancurious6751 7 жыл бұрын

‏Narrated Ibn `Abbas `Umar said, "Our best Qur'an reciter is Ubai and our best judge is `Ali; and in spite of this, we leave some of the statements of Ubai because Ubai says, 'I do not leave anything that I have heard from Allah's Messenger (pbuh) while Allah: "Whatever verse (Revelations) do We abrogate or cause to be forgotten but We bring a better one or similar to it." (2.106) USC-MSA web (English) reference : Vol. 6, Book 60, Hadith 8 Arabic reference : Book 65, Hadith 4481

@gyancurious6751 7 жыл бұрын

Mohamed A. Hussein Together with verse 16:101 , they are called the verse of abrogation, and is applicable whenever two verses on the same subject have been revealed with different rulings , the verse revealed later prevails over the former and this is the opinion of majority of the scholars and confirmed by the hadith- ‏ ‏"Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (pbuh) as saying: He who took an oath and then found another thing better than (this) should expiate for the oath (broken) by him and do (the better thing). Reference : Sahih Muslim 1650 b In-book reference : Book 27, Hadith 19 USC-MSA web (English) reference : Book 15, Hadith 4053 (deprecated numbering scheme). The verse 9:5 and other similar verses thus abrogates some of the comprising verses revealed earlier in Mecca. After this discussion one question arises - why Allah in all his wisdom didn't revealed the better verses at the outset, why most of the verses were revealed later to give divine justification of the actions of Mohammed, why most of the verses were revealed at the convenience of Mohammed and further his agenda, fulfill his own lust and ambitions.

@gyancurious6751 7 жыл бұрын

Mohamed A. Hussein Nice job can you explain to me 109:6, 2:256,6:108,2:62 in context to 2:190-193,3:28,3:85,8:12,47:4,48:29,5:51,9:29,*9:5*.

@gyancurious6751 7 жыл бұрын

Mohamed A. Hussein Read my question carefully.

@catotheelder9524 6 жыл бұрын

Gyan curious You have no answer to Mohamed Hussein?

@c5quared626 2 жыл бұрын

@@gyancurious6751 hi there. Still around? 2.106 I always understood to mean abrogations from preislam.

@musfazahosein7463 4 жыл бұрын

A very confusing and distorted lecture. Please listen to lectures by Gary Wills and Lesley Hazleton for an honest and informed discourse of similar topics.

@NathanKwadade 4 жыл бұрын

Very lightweight talk that sheds no light on the veracity of the revelation of the Qur'an. He simply only gave a historical rundown of the public knowledge account of how the Qur'an was supposedly put together. How can a prophet be scared when they receive a word from GOD? Muhammad convulsed and was suicidal and wanted to throw himself off a cliff out of torment from receiving the word of Allah. Only a demonic spirit (a jinn) appearing as an angel of light is capable of tormenting and forcing someone (squeezed his arm to read or recite) to want to commit suicide. Waraqah ibn Nawfal (Khadijah's cousin who was a Christian) was the one who convinced Muhammed that he was supposedly hearing from GOD. The Qur'an is a hadith and the word comes from the root word "Iqra" which means to read or recite. There are no verifiable manuscripts that support the authenticity of the Qur'an.

@hushabyehum4805 11 ай бұрын

@@NathanKwadadeidiot😂

@albertdevasahayam6781 9 жыл бұрын

It is completely inexplicable that the Koran cannot be chronologically arranged or ordered. Why not? Is it such a complicated matter unless Allah wanted to complicate matters or that Mohammad could not recall the order of the revelations?

@vicachcoup 8 жыл бұрын

The quran was revealed as a jigsaw and when a verse was revealed it was also revealed how this would fit into to the big picture.

@abdullahk9606 6 жыл бұрын

Lecture is really good but the class seem very narrow minded people who are not self critical! Also he is misinterpreting ibn hazm. Ibn Hazm was a genius

@InayetHadi 12 жыл бұрын

and doesn't really know about how the Holy Quran was revealed and transmitted. Go listen to Yusef Estes explanation of what is the the Holy Quran and how it was transmitted directly from the first people around him.

@southakj 5 жыл бұрын

What exactly is objectionable about what he said? Critics critics everywhere, a kafrina below accuses him of Taqiyyah, you accuse him of jahl and .. well . bias. But in such a passive aggressive cutesy false modest adib way that, well, what's the use? Critics critics everywhere.

@southakj 5 жыл бұрын

There is nothing that he's said in this lecture that's historically inaccurate, he's presenting it in somewhat objective academic talk, in a 20 year old video when the guy was younger, to a room of mostly non-Muslims but nothing he's said is inaccurate differs from what is known to scholars. HE spoke of the Jazm, the Qirat, the vowelying, the predominance of the oral transmission over the written (which is true and well known to any Muqri or Hafidh), the history of the writing, compares it to the Bible and Greek writings, the earliest dated Quranic inscription in the Qubat al-Sakhra in Jerusalem, and so on. All of this stuff can be found in Arabic language historical texts much less than anything else. And if you were paying attention and not getting triggered by the fact he doesn't sound like a bloody village Movli Sahib, which is pre-requisite for any 'traditional Muslims' paying attention to one, then you would notice everything he is saying is stuff well known to our Muslim Ulama and none of it is objectionable. He explicitly says "the story of the transmission of the Quran is pretty unshakable"

@tsharmine 10 жыл бұрын

Can any one tell me if this lecturer is believer or non believer for never mentioned PBUH when uttering Prophet name. I agree with others , he is biased.

@southakj 5 жыл бұрын

This is an incredibly stupid question. His first name is Khalid. He's a well known Western scholar of Islam. Of course he's a Muslim, is it absolutely wajib on him to say Salallahu alayhi wa sallam when giving a general language lecture to a room full of curious non-Muslims? (Salallahu alayhi wa sallam, Not "PBUH" - because since you are so critical here is some criticism back at you, you do realize that some people would make inkar on you Mr. Talat Rahman for abbreviating the english language translation of the salawat ? )

@corazoncubano5372 5 жыл бұрын

The respect, love, and personal knowledge of the speaker attests to his belief whether he considers himself one or not. He is not antagonistic nor does he express negativity towards Quran. Why even raise the issue of whether or not he is a believer or not? Shouldn't that be left to Allah, since it is He who really knows? Whatever the case may be this was an excellent discussion of the history of the compilation of Quran.

@InayetHadi 12 жыл бұрын

This guys is a little biased.

@southakj 5 жыл бұрын

Inayet, everyone is biased. What exactly do you mean by saying "biased". Don't be shy, it's false adab. Just spit out what you mean. You are biased, I am biased, everyone has a bias. You believe that he has biases which are counter to your own which is simply your dhan anyway because I doubt you've met him in person or have directly asked him about the range of his opinions which might happen to differ from yours. People like you and Talat above are prime examples of many things wrong with Islam

@jarlestorm1428 5 жыл бұрын

blah blah blah... wishfull thinking... so the text flows in certain rythm, and at the end there is different verse in different rythm... but categorically it can not be added... hmm, sure... and many more bollocks...

@NathanKwadade 4 жыл бұрын

@sgma4m 6 жыл бұрын

Believe or not? Unlike the Muslim claims, Islam in fact had no original Quran version.. because Moh's word was recorded with various poor unreliable tools (leaves, skins, memorization...missing, lost, destroyed, ...). As a result, after Moh died, there were various unreliable, different Quran versions for sure, and worse when Calif Othman made one Quran as one God law system in the new Islamic empire by burning the previous Quran versions to cover up his Quran version.

@hmoflehi 5 жыл бұрын

Not!

@tsharmine 10 жыл бұрын

Not very good explanation done by the lecturer and great disrespect shown in his lectures not mentioning( PBUH ) when mentioning Prophets name.

@NathanKwadade 4 жыл бұрын