Dynamism within the Quran | Mufti Abu Layth

in your mind tribe with dr shazad i couldn't figure out how many ayahs are different is there a known number uh i don't know if there's a known number you see just to be clear what is my understanding on the nature of the quran some people haven't understood it i have said very clearly that my understanding is that the quran was dynamic okay like the way sunnah had traditionally said that the actual quran the was the meaning the essence which was with god the arabic quran is something that is to do with this world it's not so they say that what what

allah revealed it manifested in and then the sunnah disagrees some say it manifested within the prophet's mind uh and he expressed it in arabic some say it manifested in the mind of jibril this kind of the spirit that then manifests it to the prophets or the prophet he is or both but the assal which was with allah which is the word of god is a meaning it's not actually in language encapsulated because language is finite and allah god is infinite so you couldn't

encapsulate something infinite within something finite so the arabic quran comes to us it appears to the prophet and he expresses it now in that sense there was a dynamism to it and they did allow as imam malik imam shafi said that they did allow the uh there was a permissibility for the companions to substitute certain words with other similar words now where they may disagree is was this substitution something inherently part of the quran or was it just

a a rasa a dispensation given to them to make life easy for them i would argue it was inherently a qualitative nature of the quran it was a qualitative aspect it was there was a dynamism within the quran that it allowed that you know none of these changes that they speak of these different words that are used change the the meaning of the quran they may i mean they may change nuances but they don't change the absolute meaning and i was giving an example i know look these examples aren't necessarily good but just an approximation

of like uh how you have isotopes within um the structures within chemistry you have different kind of structures the way you'll have for example a carbon 12 carbon 13 carbon 14 these are all still carbon but it's just that the way the structures work some will end up always being more stable now i feel it was the same thing with the quran that when people were allowed the nature of the quran did allow this dynamism that people could substitute

certain words but the very nature was that some of these would always be more stable okay the way you have those isotopes now you would like carbon 12 carbon 13 carbon you have uranium you know whether it will be 235 or something some will always be more stable and some of these readings would have always just dominated because the nature that they had was m much more stable now some people have argued that's a mathematical nature that we may not perceptibly see but it is maybe subconsciously we recognize these kind of patterns

so fair enough i i i you know i'm open to that that that makes sense as well but to me the quran was dynamic this is not something that's oh my god muslims have suffered here they haven't this is always the nature of the quran and we've just had a misunderstanding in the last 1 200 years that's been massively pushed but that's all yeah so i hope that clarifies that