Hi everyone and welcome. This is The Apostate Prophet
The Quran which is the Holy Book of Islam
The religion of mysteries is full of mysteries
In the studies of Islam
there is a well-known thing called huruf muqatha'ah
which stands for disconnected letters
or disjoint letters
these disjoint letters are 14 combinations of letters
Found at the beginning of 29 of the 114 chapters of the Quran
They are also called the mysterious letters and you will understand why
All of these letters are at the beginning of chapters
They are recited when reciting the Quran
and almost in all cases the Quran refers to itself or seemingly to these letters
immediately after the letters
for example
Alif Lam, Ra.
This is a book, which we have revealed to you
Alif, Ram, Meem
This is the book about which there is no doubt
Ta, Seen, Meem
These are the verses of the clear book
In only 3 out of 29. It doesn't
Alif, Lam, Meem
Allah - there is no deity except him
there have been so many discussions on what these letters mean
and why they are there
People who recite these verses. Recite those letters too
because they are in the Quran,
but there is no consensus on what they actually mean
Of course
You could think that Allah probably communicates to the reader
in a magical mysterious way and it's probably a miracle
Maybe it has a divine code
Reaching us through the different dimensions
from above the Dome of the seventh heaven, down to us humans
who are located on a carpet known as The Earth
which sits on the back of a whale
which swims on the waters where Allah's throne
Previously used to float or swim on
Maybe aliens brought these letters.
Maybe it is a different civilization from the future
That is just messing with us
and laughing about the efforts of Islamic scholars who are trying to decipher these letters
Maybe it is just nothing
In the face of such a mysterious thing.
We would of course first look at the fundamental sources of Islam
to understand what they mean.
Maybe the Quran told us what these letters mean
Well. It didn't
Maybe Mohammed told us and his believers what these letters are about
He didn't
In thousands of reports of Mohammed
There is no single mention of these letters and what they mean
It seems very unimportant or self- explanatory to the people of his time
This means that these letters were either very common in his time
Which is why no one ever asked him about it
or no one was interested and impressed
or these letters were added after Mohammed's death
Which is why there is no mention of them at all during his lifetime
Islamic scholars and others who study the Quran
have tried to interpret these letters and have come up with different explanations
Some early scholars have said that they stand for
Qualities of Allah
like Allah is Hadi - The Guide
and some scholars of our time still support this view
But you can discribe any meaning to these letters
Including very negative ones
and you couldn't get any certain conclusion from these letters at all
There are countless possibilities and these letters are very select letters
all that makes this interpretation very arbitrary
Scholars weren't able to agree on this
Other scholars somehow think these letters are a miracle of the Quran
No one can decipher them, which means it is a miracle.
Everything can be a miracle in Islam.
Sorry. Everything is a miracle in Islam.
But what kind of logic is that?
I could write a book now and start every chapter with weird drawings and letters
and people could eternally try to figure out what those
letters and drawings mean
if I conquered other nations in a very bloody way
enforced my book as obligatory upon them
Others have suggested that this might just be some kind of exclamation
to get the attention of the reader that makes sense,
but it's also kind of weird
Islamic Mysticist have long claimed that these letters have some
mystical meaning
meanings that we don't understand with our simple minds
meanings that are miraculous and glorious
They are the key of the Quran and are only shared with very few
Holy people among the Muslims whom Allah guides and loves
angels take care of these letters and reveal their life-changing meaning
to these important selfless high scholars whom Allah has chosen
Mistist are known to say weird stuff like that
Some think these letters might be references to the names or contents of the chapters
But the general scholarly consensus is that no one knows for sure
What these letters stand for
and we will probably never know
until we die and maybe Allah reveals their meanings to us
when we are in heaven with our living sex dolls and wives
I have some problems with all that
First off, the Quran claims to
be very clear and explained in detail
It says so several times,
but there is nothing clear about these letters
that are at the beginning of 29 Quran verses
Obviously no one knows what they mean
The Quran somewhere explains though that its verses are very clear
and that there are some verses that are not clear
and that only Allah truly knows their meaning
These letters must be one of those cases
Those verses that only Allah fully understands and knows
but let's say the Quran has actually these weird letters that no one can understand
that are only clear to the Almighty Allah
And he puts them in this book that is supposed to be a guide to humankind
What exactly is the point of that?
If the Quran is the word of Allah
Serving as a guide for mankind and humans need to read it
and follow it word for word
Then why does it contain some weird letters
that no one is supposed to understand? And why would this be a miracle?
Why would it be a secret?
Why would there be a secret code? What is the point?
is that some kind of hobby that Allah has
to put secret letters into the Quran that no one can figure out
And he is up there on his throne and watches all of us and goes.
Hey, they don't understand it
I'm so good
There really is no reason why The Almighty Allah, The Creator of Everything
will put mysterious letters only understood by him
Into this book,
Letter that don't mean anything
and even if they mean something have no significance at all
But Allah will probably reveal it to the good humans. Once they go to heaven
because that makes so much sense
You can really use that knowledge up there in heaven.
You're a pious Muslim and you go to heaven and Allah goes
Hey remember those letters in the Quran?
This is what they mean. Nice, right?
Oh, that's what they mean
Well played Allah, I could have never thought of that
I guessed it right. I'm not surprised
But I'm impressed, Allah. Nicely done
Yeah, that's what they mean brothers
Good one right? Now that you in heaven with me
You can finally know what they mean and be impressed, Yeah?
I thought it'd be fun. You get me brothers and sisters
Now from purely non-islamic perspectives some non-muslim scholars, orientalists
suggests that these might be initials, identifiers
or references to the chapter they open
written by scribes that these verses were collected from
which would mean the Quran accidentally includes notes by humans
Muslims of course brutally rejected this
Because, how dare you suggest that people who compiled the Quran
and made it a book decades after Muhammad's death
might have tampered with the Quran?
This makes sense because as said
No one in Muhammad's time talked about these letters
which could mean they weren't actually recited in his time
On the other hand
Companions of Muhammad speculated about what these letters mean after he died
which could mean they were probably in the original scripture
But no one cared
Some non Muslim and Muslim scholars interpreters
think that this was actually a common practice
in pre-islamic Arab literature
Where a text or a poetic text would start with these
Letters by the author
for purely aesthetic reasons or different reasons.
This does make sense
and in that case
Why would the Almighty Allah
The creator of all humankind
author a book in Arab style
in seventh century Arab style
that no one else understands and can relate to?
This would be kind of pathetic and it's just another reason to say
Islam is a religion for Arabs
But in the end, there are so many theories and you can basically
make up your own interpretation.
Maybe these letters were a secret message by the authors.
Maybe they were editions by other humans
Maybe they were just meaningless science.
No one knows.
What's for sure
Is that the Quran contains something?
That no one can make anything off
which doesn't make any sense at all for a book from divine origin
Addressed at humans
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