some orientalists and some propagandist if you so please that
have some knowledge of basic grammar and so on and so forth.
They will say this happens to be a mistake in the Quran. Okay, right
here you guys say the language of the Quran is the epitome of all
language and so on and so forth. But here it is. I found you a
mistake. Right? [إِنْ هَذَانِ لَسَاحِرَانِ] the norm is when you have the word "inna".
Now, this is the recitation of [حفص عن عاصم] "In Hazani
La Sahiraan" you go to the other recitations, many of them which say
"Inna Hazani La Sahiraan" indeed, these two happened to be magicians,
right? Musa and Haroon (AS). Now the norm is when you have the word
inna after it, whatever, I'm going to get a little bit grammatical, if
you don't understand, don't worry about it, but whoever can
understand it Alhumdulillah, right, because I have to get a little bit
technical in order for me to ward off this particular accusation
that's made around the Quran or about the Quran. So you'll say look
in some of the recitations of the Quran, Allah had revealed "Inna
Hazani La Sahiran" and we know that the word inna it's [أداة النسب],
it is an instrument which ends up making whatever is after it, have
Fathatayn on top of it, or it makes it go through the state called the
state of Nasb, right? There's three different states and syntax the
Raf' Nasb and Jarr. So it places it into the state of Nasb that means
there should be either Fathatayn there should be a Yaa or there
should be different things that can represent that state of Nasb right.
So over here, it should have been "Inna Hazayni La Sahirayn". But
over here it says "Inna Hazani La Sahiraan" even though it should
have been based on basic grammar, if you studied the Medina books,
even you know this, it should be "Inna Hazayni" right. But the thing
is, the Quran doesn't always come with basic grammar, that's the
issue. Your basic mind may understand one thing, but the Quran
may come with something that's a little bit different, because you
have to understand Allah had revealed the Quran so that every
single person amidst the Arabs in that society will be able to
recite, some things are very difficult for certain tribes to say
and other things are very, very difficult for other tribes to say,
Now, when I used to hear this answer before, some things are very
difficult for some tribes to say, and other things are very
difficult, very difficult for other tribes to say perhaps that other
thing is easy for the first tribe, and vice versa, right? When I used
to hear this before, I would say Well, you know what, I can say
"Inna hazan" and I can say "Inna Hazayn" I can say that. It's not
difficult for me to say either one. Until in the final year of my
bachelor's degree, when I was in Riyadh the teacher in our Tajweed
class made me a TA. I was teaching now to a person who is a Bedouin,
literally, okay. My own classmates, because there's three of us. And
there was a lot of different students. So the teacher took three
students who you thought could become TAs and he made me and two
other students, TAs. And we were teaching basically, we were taking
the class dividing it into four pieces, one portion for the teacher
and the other portion for the other students. Right. So now I have
these students, some of whom come from city lives, others are
literally bedouin. Okay, what I mean by literally bedouin, I mean,
literally bedouin and literally some of them are driving from an
hour away, okay, or hour or two away outside of Riyadh coming for
the class. Okay, so they live literally in villages, they were
raised in village culture. And they, of course, speak Arabic as a
native language. They're all Saudis. And one of the students, I
started teaching him and a number of others as well, I realized that
if I teach him to say any word, he actually cannot say the word in any
other way, except the way he grew up saying it. It's like when I
speak English, and I speak with a Canadian accent, I cannot suddenly
switch myself into an Australian, or a British person, and so on and
so forth. Perhaps someone that is learning the language as a new
language altogether, he has to learn every single intricacy of the
language they can, they can learn, practice different voices for
certain words, but I cannot do that. Right. It's very difficult
and some people that are skilled, they're able to manage that as
well. Even though that is a little bit different. Okay, Arabic is a
little bit more systematical in that regard. Okay, but this person
is literally and I mean, literally, I'm saying it's Alayhi. He cannot
say Alayhi, he has to say Alayhu, because all of his life has been
saying Alayhu Alayhu, and in the Quran. There's a couple of places
where Alayhu does come as well and that's also a dialect amongst the
dialects are the Arabs. But I realized at that point, it was one
of those lightbulb moments I realized that the hikma of Allah
revealing the Quran in these slightly different ways so that
people from each tribe are actually able to pronounce. This person is
not able to and I'm trying, he's a student, his fourth year student in
Shariah program or Islamic Studies program, he is not able to say
anything but what has been raised up saying, Alayhu Alayhu Alayhu
because that's how he says it at home. That's how he was raised up
and he's not able to pronounce anything else. Not that he doesn't
have good majorities he's Arab is able to say Ayn and Ghayn and all
the other Makharij as well, but this particular word, it just
didn't work for him. Okay, and then I noticed in some of the other
students as well so my point again over here is these people are not
people who the Quran is coming down to nomadic people, okay? They're
not people who learn what a Fatha is, what a Dhamma is what a Kasra
is what, uh, you know, this or that they just learn the language as a
natural phenomenon, or a natural sort of process of learning as they
grew up, a mother tongue. So it's going to be very difficult for them
as speakers to suddenly switch to something different that they're
not used to right. And there's an incident like this a teacher was
trying to teach a student [arabic] right? destruction be to the hands
of Abu Lahab, so every time he would teach he wanted to teach the
student in intervals and not the whole ayah it was a young child. So
he would say Tabbat Yada right Tabbat Yada he would stop there.
Now he's hoping for the student to recite, and the student would say
Tabbat Yadan. Because you can't stop like that. You can't stop like
that in Arabic. Okay, if you want to drop the noon, then you have to
say [arabic] you have to say the whole thing. I'm getting to a very
important point. When you are raised up with a language, it's
hard for you to suddenly make a change to it. Okay. So now let's
get back to the ayah. "Inna Hazani" is actually a dialect from amongst
the dialects of the Arabs. In some of the dialects of the Arabs
including [زبيد], including [خثعم], including Kinana,
including [بني الحرث] right? They used to actually say "Inna Hazani"
Okay, they would say "Ja' Az Zaidani", "Marartu Biz Zaydani"
"Ra'aytuz Zaydani". So in all three syntax forms, they would actually
leave the Alif. Okay, that was the way they would speak. So for
[كثعم], for Kinana, for a number of other tribes, it would have been
difficult for them to recite "Inna Hazayni". Okay, so Allah (swt)
revealed it in this way upon their Lehja upon their dialect, so it's
easier for people to recite, and this is found in Arabic poetry as
well. I'm saying all this because some people will say, Oh, no,
there's some scholars who, even Muslim scholars who said this is
wrong. You know what, I'm not going to hide something from you because
you're going to hear something from me. And then they'll say, well, the
sheikh was saying this, but this particular orientalist has another
proof. It's not that I don't know, I'll tell you directly. There are
some Muslim scholars who have also said something like this, but
ignorance is cured through knowledge. If they didn't realize
that there's other dialects available within the Arabic
language, then that is their problem. They just didn't know. And
we have a principle which says [المثبت مقدم على النافي] The one who affirms is
always given preference, you give preference to the person who
affirms over the one who negates so someone negating the the fact that
there happens to be another dialect within the classical dialects of
the Arabs. He is going to be sidelined if someone comes and
establishes that especially with the proof and I'll give you the
proof. There's a line of poetry and there's many lines of poetry. And
normally when we talk about proofs in establishing a dialect we go
back to the classic Arabic poetry a poet says [إنّ أباها وأبا أباها قد بلغا في المجد غايتاها] so over here, if
you notice the poet is saying "Inna Abaha", that's fine. "Wa Aba Abaha"
it should have been "Wa Aba Abiha". [قد بلغا في المجد غايتاها] it should have been "Ghaya
Tayha". So he kept the Alif in all of the states in the different
states. Right? [ إنّ أباها وأبا أباها قد بلغا في المجد غايتاها] and there's many examples of this. So the point
is in some dialects, the Alif stays through all the different states,
whether that be Mansoob or Majroor or also Marfoo' and this is
basically one answer. There's six different answers to this. So
before you hear someone says, you know, there's mistakes No No No
Arabic language is a very very vast language. The second answer and
this is what Ibn Ashoor said is that and of course others mentioned
as well Ibn Ashoor said this is the strong answer. Is that the word
inna it actually means yes. Okay. There's among the usages of the
word inna is to simply mean yes. So when Allah (swt) says, "Qalu inna"
they said inna i.e. yes. Hazani La Sahiran definitely of a surety
these people happen to be these two people happen to be magicians. So
inna is simply Yes, just as you say Na'am there is another way of
saying Na'am or just as you say Ajal, which is another way of
saying yes, in Arabic there is another way of saying yes, which is
inna. That is not again the famous meaning but again, Arabic language
is so vast that not everybody knows all the different meanings. So you
have to be a proper lexicographer in order for you to know these
different dialects or different meanings and so on and so forth.