{"_id":"674b061012d1c92af2d86c59","title":"{\"ops\":[{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"Are the other confirmed revelations considered uncreated as well? Or are those revelations completely distinct from the revelation of the Quran?\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\"}]}","question":"{\"ops\":[{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"color\":\"#000000\"},\"insert\":\"For the scholars who have the opinion that the Quran is the uncreated speech of Allah ﷻ , do they consider the original Injeel, Tawrat, and other confirmed revelations uncreated as well? Or are those revelations completely distinct from the revelation of the Quran?\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\"}]}","answer":"{\"ops\":[{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"It's not easy for me to gauge how much I need to cover for you on this topic, so I will leave you with a basic, mainstream Sunni position on the issue of Allah's Speech. This should give you a good foundation.\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"Speech is categorized into Self Speech (Kalam Nafsi), and Uttered Speech (Kalam Lafthi). The Self Speech is an attribute that the speaker is characterized with, by virtue of which he signifies meanings. As for the Uttered Speech, it is those sounds or letters which express the meanings signified by the Self Speech.\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"The above distinction is made clearer with an example: if a human uttered the phrase “give me water”, then before uttering those words, he finds within himself a request for water which he then expresses with the phrase “give me water”. And we know that the request that he finds within himself, differs from the expression, because he can express the same request using different sounds – either by using different English words, or by using words from another language. And so what changes (i.e. the sounds which express that request) is other than that which remains unchanged (i.e. the request for water, which the speaker is attributed with, no matter how the speaker chooses to express this request).\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"This is also why the Prophet (ﷺ) distinguished between the speech within oneself, and the pronunciations expressing this Self Speech\"},{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\",\"bold\":true},\"insert\":\" \"},{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"(\"},{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\",\"link\":\"https://sunnah.com/muslim:127a\"},\"insert\":\"Muslim 127\"},{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"):\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5)\",\"color\":\"#000000\",\"italic\":true},\"insert\":\"إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَجَاوَزَ لأُمَّتِي مَا حَدَّثَتْ بِهِ أَنْفُسَهَا مَا لَمْ يَتَكَلَّمُوا أَوْ يَعْمَلُوا بِهِ\"},{\"attributes\":{\"align\":\"right\"},\"insert\":\"\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"\\\"\"},{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\",\"italic\":true},\"insert\":\"Verily, Allah will overlook for my people anything they say within themselves, as long as they do not pronounce it, or act upon it.\"},{\"insert\":\"\\\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"Allah ﷻ will overlook for the Muslim what he says within himself, and will only hold him accountable for his utterances and actions. And what is overlooked (the Self Speech) is other than that which is not (the Uttered Speech).\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"With the above distinction in mind, when we speak of Allah’s attribute of Speech, we are referring to His Self Speech – an attribute by virtue of which He signifies all what He knows. This Self Speech is not of letters, and it is not sequential, as one may be accustomed to. Since the pronunciations of letters are contingent (created), and it is impossible for Allah’s attributes to exist contingently.\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"The pronunciations of letters are contingent because they are sequential. When you utter the Arabic word “Allah” for example, the “A” sound emerges before the “L” sound, and the “L” sound emerges before the “Ah” sound. And since each of the sounds that the word “Allah” is comprised of began to exist, the word “Allah” itself began to exist and is need of a creator. The same applies to any other sequence of sounds or letters.\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"The Arabic letters expressing the Quran written in the books, the Arabic words coming out of the mouth of the reciter, the Arabic verses memorized in the hearts of the Hufaz, all of this is necessarily created. And we say that those Arabic words are a transcription of Allah's Uttered Speech: a created arrangement of words expressing the meanings Allah eternally signified by virtue of His being attributed with Self Speech.\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"In summary: Allah eternally signifies what He knows by virtue of His being attributed with Speech. He has chosen to create Arabic words to express some of the meanings He eternally signified. And those created Arabic words are what we call His Uttered Speech. This Uttered Speech is transcribed onto the books we hold in our hands today.\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"Also, the word “Quran” can either refer to the Arabic text transcribed onto the books in our hands, or to the meanings that those Arabic words express. For this reason, you might find that many scholars state that the Quran is uncreated. They intend by “Quran” in this context: that which Allah enterally signified with His Speech (the Self Speech), not the Arabic sounds and letters (the Uttered Speech).\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\\n\\n\"}]}","tags":[{"_id":"668d9fef0b76658b4c232988","tag":"Quran: Other","count":56},{"_id":"674b061012d1c92af2d86c4e","tag":"Kalam Lafthi","count":1},{"_id":"674b061012d1c92af2d86c51","tag":"Kalam Nafsi","count":1},{"_id":"674b061012d1c92af2d86c54","tag":"Self Speech","count":1},{"_id":"674b061012d1c92af2d86c57","tag":"Uttered Speech","count":1}],"createdOn":"2024-11-30T12:33:20.278Z"}