كِتَٰبٌۭ فُصِّلَتْ ءَايَٰتُهُۥ قُرْءَانًا عَرَبِيًّۭا لِّقَوْمٍۢ يَعْلَمُونَ
Kitaabun fussilat Aayaatuhoo Qur-aanan 'Arabiyyal liqawminy ya'lamoon
A Book whose verses have been detailed, an Arabic Qur'an for a people who know,
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The Quran & revelation
41:3Ayah 154
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A Book kitābun the predicate thereof whose signs have been set out in detail whose signs have been expounded through various rulings stories and admonitions as an Arabic Qur’ān qur’ānan ‘arabiyyan a circumstantial qualifier referring to kitābun ‘a Book’ by qualifying it adjectivally for a people li-qawmin is semantically connected to fussilat ‘set out in detail’ who have knowledge who understand this fact — and they are the Arabs;
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The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) recited this verse: “He it is who has sent down to thee the Book: in it are verses basic or fundamental . . . .” Up to “men of understanding”. She said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) then said: When you see those people who follow that which is allegorical in the Quran, those are the people whom Allah has named (in the Quran). So avoid them.
(The Caliph `Uthman ordered Zaid bin Thabit, Sa`id bin Al-As, `Abdullah bin Az-Zubair and `Abdur-
Rahman bin Al-Harith bin Hisham to write the Qur'an in the form of a book (Mushafs) and said to
them. "In case you disagree with Zaid bin Thabit (Al-Ansari) regarding any dialectic Arabic utterance
of the Qur'an, then write it in the dialect of Quraish, for the Qur'an was revealed in this dialect." So
they did it.
Those Suras which you people call the Mufassal, are the Muhkam. And Ibn `Abbas said, "Allah's
Apostle died when I was a boy of ten years, and I had learnt the Muhkam (of the Qur'an).
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