RLG204Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Qisas, Hyperbole, Law And Justice
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Ound and meaning in the qur"an : definitions of the quran and important terms, oral characteristics of the quran. Quran definitions: for muslims the quran is th e word of god in the rabic language as revealed to. During the reign of the claip uthman, companions collected the recitation of the quran from copanios who had memmorizedit and collected what was preserved in writing. They came to a consensus on which recitations were soundand where not. They wrote3 down what they (cid:272)o(cid:374)side(cid:396)ed sou(cid:374) i(cid:374)a (cid:373)a(cid:374)su(cid:272)s(cid:396)ipt k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) as the (cid:862)uth(cid:373)a(cid:374)i(cid:272) (cid:272)ode(cid:454)(cid:863). Some people were writing down verses from the quran, people were memorizing. Muslimssays: one quran, no change, perfect and complete as muhammad received. When we talk bout a book being exact, we talk bout a book in shelf. But (cid:449)ith o(cid:396)al it"s a (cid:271)it (cid:373)o(cid:396)e diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)t. A(cid:272)a(cid:373)dei(cid:272)s ha(cid:448)e a (cid:374)u(cid:373)(cid:271)e(cid:396) of diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)t pe(cid:396)spe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)es o(cid:374) the |qu(cid:396)"a(cid:374). Wa(cid:374)s(cid:271)o(cid:396)ough a(cid:396)gued that the |qu(cid:396)"a(cid:374) de(cid:448)eloped o(cid:448)e(cid:396) hu(cid:374)ds(cid:396)eds of (cid:455)ea(cid:396)s out of je(cid:449)ish,
