This is the last Friday of this Ramadhan.
Nothing special but most Muslims privately as well as in masajid complete recitation of the whole Quran, that had been started from first of Ramadan, This (Quran) is a spoken and written speech and has some unique aspects known to Muslims and some nonMuslims who have studied this book. This is well preserved speech of Arabic language of over 14 centuries and so important from this point of view also as human speech was not as well developed at that time as it is now (even the Arabic language) (we will not talk about EjazulQuran)
We noted in the evolution process that there was a sudden appearance of Man who could speak like no other lower animals. It started with naming of objects. Words and then their connections and then their meaningfulness in order to make sense from one person to the other After spoken words and sentences developed question of making symbols to write arose.
We have Sumerian Cuneiform Symbols 4000 years BC and then of course the Egyptian Hieroglyphics Now Logosyllabic characters require a lot of brain effort to decypher so the need for alphabets was realized Greeks were the first to develop that but also Sanskrit (and probably Chinese)
Thus we see all scientific knowledge was preserved in Greek which was passed on to humanity by Arabic speaking people (By translations etc they made it possible - and here for Muslims to see that if there was no Quran there would be no scientific knowledge inheritance) Roman alphabet followed Greek alphabet But when we see the historical evidence of Socrates and Plato we see the ORAL culture passing on to LITERARY Culture (written works) This is so fascinating to consider as Muslims that Quran, historically, sits just in the middle of Oral and written culture times (and connecting the two) emphasizing both aspects of human speech.
Then there is a whole lot of development of English (Roman languages) and Latin etc. writing We are told there was a "continua type" writing up until 12th century before verbs nouns etc started being written separately as we see today.
Nothing special but most Muslims privately as well as in masajid complete recitation of the whole Quran, that had been started from first of Ramadan, This (Quran) is a spoken and written speech and has some unique aspects known to Muslims and some nonMuslims who have studied this book. This is well preserved speech of Arabic language of over 14 centuries and so important from this point of view also as human speech was not as well developed at that time as it is now (even the Arabic language) (we will not talk about EjazulQuran)
We noted in the evolution process that there was a sudden appearance of Man who could speak like no other lower animals. It started with naming of objects. Words and then their connections and then their meaningfulness in order to make sense from one person to the other After spoken words and sentences developed question of making symbols to write arose.
We have Sumerian Cuneiform Symbols 4000 years BC and then of course the Egyptian Hieroglyphics Now Logosyllabic characters require a lot of brain effort to decypher so the need for alphabets was realized Greeks were the first to develop that but also Sanskrit (and probably Chinese)
Thus we see all scientific knowledge was preserved in Greek which was passed on to humanity by Arabic speaking people (By translations etc they made it possible - and here for Muslims to see that if there was no Quran there would be no scientific knowledge inheritance) Roman alphabet followed Greek alphabet But when we see the historical evidence of Socrates and Plato we see the ORAL culture passing on to LITERARY Culture (written works) This is so fascinating to consider as Muslims that Quran, historically, sits just in the middle of Oral and written culture times (and connecting the two) emphasizing both aspects of human speech.
Then there is a whole lot of development of English (Roman languages) and Latin etc. writing We are told there was a "continua type" writing up until 12th century before verbs nouns etc started being written separately as we see today.
When we see Quran we see how the spoken Quran was memorized and also written both were accomplished during the lifetime of the prophet SAWS. Art of writing developed soon afterwards and continued to improve for appropriate pronunciation tajweed.
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