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« on: December 21, 2010, 12:18:56 pm »

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As we know, many Surahs of the Noble Quran begin with Arabic alphabets. 

For example, Surah Al-Baqrah and Al-Imraan (and I think more) begin with Arabic alphabets, "Alif. Lam. Mim."   ألم

Surah Al-Araf begins with "Alif. Lam. Mim. Saad."   المص

Surahs Ta Ha and Ya Sin begin with alphabets "Ta Ha" and "Ya Sin"  طه and يس respectively, which have been chosen as the titles of these two Surahs.

Similarly Surah Qaf begins with alphabet "Qaf" or ق and Surah Saad begins with alphabet "Saad" or ص

All these alphabets are always included in the text and recited as part of it.

Opinions differ to their significance.   There are two views in this regard, as follows:

1)  The prevalent view is that they indicate some mystic words.  This is apparently the opinion of the ulemas but they haven't mentioned what mystic words these alphabets might refer to.

2)  Others have opined that these alphabets are merely the initials of the scribes. 

In my personal view the second opinion seems more correct. 

Concerning the first opinion, if these alphabets referred to some mystic words, Allah Almighty would surely have told us the meaning and significance of them, just as all important matters mentioned in the Quran about Faith and practical life have been clarified and identified.   But since the Quran does not clarify nor discuss the meanings of any of these Arabic alphabets, therefore it's far more likely that these alphabets are the initials of the scribes who noted the Divine Revelations as the Prophet recited them.

And only Allah knows best.


Discussed in much greater detail in the thread:  Significance of Huroof-Muqataat (حروفمقطعات)
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« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2010, 06:55:17 pm »

Exactly, while Allah knows best, I too think the second opinion is far more likely.
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« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2010, 08:31:05 pm »

Thanks for putting this brother.   It's important information especially for the new readers of the Noble Quran.
 
I also think the second opinion is more likely to be correct. 
 
It's quite typical of our ulemas to pick their view but give no reasons to support it. 
 
I think why our scholars prefer to accept the first opinion on being "mystic words" and do not want to consider these alphabets as initials of scribes is probably because the initials of hardly any of the so-called sahabas who have narrated numerous untruthful Hadiths match with the alphabets mentioned at the start of several Quranic Surahs.   This can be taken as an evidence that those people who were truly the close companions of the Prophet (SAW), close enough to have been chosen by him as scribes to note the Divine Revelations, were not amongst the narrators whose names we keep reading  in those lousy Hadith narrations.
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