What Is the Holy Quran?

The Holy Quran is a living miracle. It is true evidence to a living God and a true evidence for the teachings contained in it. The topic of the Holy Quran and aspects related to it are huge. The topics that are contained in the Quran are Tawhid, Risalah, Akhirah and Al- Qadr.

The Holy Quran was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (SAW) in a period that bridged about 23 years. During this time the Holy Quran that we recite today was revealed in bits and pieces and in an order not as we see today. This leads into some important explanations to be made right away. The Holy Quran is a huge book with massive amount of subject matter, knowledge and information. When we study the Holy Quran we find it taken into verses that combine into chapters that combine into sections and so forth. However, the Holy Quran was not revealed in this order. This is important to understand because if looked closely, it points to another miracle of the Holy Quran, that is the exact order of a vast book was managed by Allah alone. Even writing this essay, I had to manage that my subject stays clear and flows nicely.

Verses were revealed based on the needs of the current time and orders. So we see a clear difference between the verses revealed in Mecca which relate more to the moral needs of the time, to those revealed in Madina, which have a lot of laws for the society like inheritance etc. However, the final gathering of the Holy Quran keeps all these verses and chapters in an order that make sense for the book and how the book of Allah should be planned. The nature of the revelation required that the Prophet (SAW) should recite the verses of the Qur'an constantly to his Companions and check continually that the sequence and the contents of the remains were correct. After the death of the Prophet (SAW), the caliph Abu Bakr helped to put the gathering of the Quran together s that it was complete.

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