Quran for Young Adults - Ramdan Day 12 - How is Quran Allah's word?

6 EXAMPLES OF SYMMETRY IN THE QUR'AN

->The example of Eesa A.S. is like Adam A.S. He created him from earth and said him BE and he was. This is in response to the concept of trinity and son of god concepts. The Quran mentions both Eesa AS and Adam AS 25 times. Adam AS was also born without parents and Eesa AS also didn't have a father. And this ayah is in the 3rd juz of Quran and till here,both are mentioned 7 times.

->Majority of Quran was revealed in Makkah and few in Madinah. Surahs were never revealed in one go or part. Surahs were revealed bit by bit,many at a time.And it wasn't compiled as Quran in written form. One of the earliest Surahs was Baqarah and one of the last Ayahs was also from Baqarah. The companions never gave us Ayah numbers. They just knew where an Ayah stops and where it begins. The Ayahs or Surahs weren't numbered back then. All of these statistics were compiled later
That is how we made you a middle nation(One of the ayahs from Surah Baqarah). Wasat=middle nation. Ayah number is 143 which is middle of Surah Baqarah 246

->Ayah tul kursi

2:255

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Allah - there is no deity except Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of [all] existence. Neither drowsiness overtakes Him nor sleep. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. Who is it that can intercede with Him except by His permission? He knows what is [presently] before them and what will be after them, and they encompass not a thing of His knowledge except for what He wills. His Kursi extends over the heavens and the earth, and their preservation tires Him not. And He is the Most High, the Most Great.


1.2 of his names
2.drowsiness and sleep
3.he owns skies and earth
4.nobody can make intercession except who he permits
5.he knows whats behind and whats ahead
6.nobody knows except what he wants
7.his throne is over skies and earth
8.he doesnt get tired taking care of them
9.2 of his names

1 vs 9 - both are his names. Hayyul Qayyum vs Alliyul Azeem
2 vs 8 - drowsiness and tiredness are interlinked
3 vs 7 - ownership and kingdom are different. You are not the king of your pen or your bag or your room etc. Ownership is for little things. Kingdom is for big things. A king does not have control over the smallest of things because he has too many things and people under him. Owner owns small things but he has total control over it. So Allah is BOTH the king and the owner. He can control both the big things and the little things.
4 vs 8 - Both have an EXCEPTION- No intercession and no knowledge except what he wants
5 - He knows what's coming ahead and what's coming behind

->Surah Fatiha

1:1

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In the name of Allah , the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.

1:2

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[All] praise is [due] to Allah , Lord of the worlds -

1:3

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The Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful,

1:4

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Sovereign of the Day of Recompense.

1:5

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It is You we worship and You we ask for help.

1:6

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Guide us to the straight path -

1:7

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The path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not of those who have evoked [Your] anger or of those who are astray.

First half is for me and second half is for my slave
Both halves are 63 huroof each. The Prophet SAWW did not even know how to read so he couldn't have done this. You can't speak like that. This can only be done if you are writing something. But humans don't speak like that

->Surah Rehman vs Surah Waqia (55 vs 56)
Surah Rehman has 5 sections:
The greatness of Quran
Amazing Creations
Day of judgement and hell
Economy class heaven
Premium Level 2 luxury class heaven

Surah Waqiah
The best of all believers(first and the foremost)
People of the right hand
People of the left hand
Allah's power to create
The greatness of the Qur'an

Surah Rehman forwards and Surah Waqiah backwards have complete symmetry and same sections

->The story of Yusuf A.S.
was revealed in one go

First section is a dream
2 is his brothers try to hurt him
3 is the minister's wife trying to seduce him
Yusuf AS goes to jail
5 is the King's dream
6 is interpretation of dream
7 is Yusuf coming out of Jail
8 is confession of Ministers wife
9 is brothers apologizing
10 is dream getting interpreted and fulfilled

First 5 elements of Surah Yusuf are solved by next 5 sections
 5 vs 6
4 vs 7
3 vs 8
2 vs 9
1 vs 10

15:9

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Indeed, it is We who sent down the Qur'an and indeed, We will be its guardian.

NO doubt We, We have sent down the ultimate reminder and We are the ones who will guard it

Zikr:something mentioned/something remembered/a reminder

According to Western scholarship, the strongest kind of preservation is written. But it's not absolutely correct and reliable because it might be smudged or incomplete or altered.
The weakest kind of preservation is oral because it's like Chinese whisper and people narrate the way they understood it or perceived it. The Qur'an was not compiled immediately. So Western scholars argue that the Qur'an is not perceived in its absolute form. Secondly, there were different dialects in Arabic and people from different tribes spoke Arabic differently.

The Qur'an claims that Qur'an will be guarded in people's hearts and memory. But isn't that less reliable? All people who memorized it were scattered all over the world. It's possible that they make an error in passing it on and after some years, there are many hundreds of version of quran that are passed on in generations, error after error.
BUT the Qur'an was miraculously memorized by thousands of people that made sure that there was no mistake in compilation. It was memorized down to the way it is supposed to be pronounced. We can travel across the world and there is absolutely no difference in the way people are reciting Quran.

Imagine a crazy world in which there is no written literature left. All books are burnt. We can still recover the Qur'an in less than 24 hours. No other book can be recovered that quickly and in the same form. The Qur'an changed the standard of the strongest kind of preservation and proved that memory can be the strongest form of presentation.Bible has so many versions. But the Qur'an has stayed absolutely the same although there have been disagreements on so many other things.