Mufti Tariq Masood's remark on scribal errors, and Islam as a deen of mercy

alaykum folks I want to deal with a question and that is to do with the the writing the orthography how we write the script of the Quran in the mus let it be clear that there are no mistakes categorically in the Quran or in the mus and the mus is the written Quran we call it mus in Arabic and the the study of how it's put

together the writing of any language system um is the orthography so and in Arabic we call itas theas now many of you may be familiar this has become a bit of a topic because there is a very popular Pakistani uh Muti I'll just bring Muti Tarik masud now who is from I believe Karachi Pakistan and

whilst away on a tour I think of Canada he gave a speech and in his speech he said some things I've not heard the full speech but I've seen some some of the clips that are viral where he is praising he's attempting to praise the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam but whilst doing so does it in a way that is it's you know it's not only counterintuitive but just outright inaccurate and

wrong he he gets carried away in what he's trying to say and he says that during the lifetime of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam um be he says that the prophet uh did not know how to read and write and therefore relied on the scribes of his time and he would tell the scribes to write down a verse and some of the scribes at times may have written it inaccurately in terms of grammar so they've kind of got the script

wrong but the glory of the Quran is such that it's been preserved even with their orthographical mistakes so even with their uh scriptural errors the Quran has been preserved with that so and then this has triggered an entire um many of you may be aware um you know a whole Fiasco where now people have come out saying he is blasphemed against the prophet and and as many of you are aware the the culture the extremist culture in in parts of Pakistan is to then kill and execute so

he's now afraid for his life he's still um he hasn't gone back to Pakistan yet and a lot of people have come out and they've discussed this now so firstly I want to highlight this thing of saying that they should Islam is a dean of Mercy okay the messenger of Allah sallallah alaihi wasallam came as a mercy for the entire worlds all worlds especially for believers you

know he so compassionately loving and merciful and this Dean is an extension of the messenger that has reached us and we then are embassadors of the messenger sallallah alaihi wasallam the prophet said I have only been sent to perfect good character the Quran teaches that you are upon the best the highest of great

character that this we this Dean is one of Love ease and mercy that that give good tidings do not scare people away you know make things easy that is a so this call for uh this kind of bloodthirsty call to say that whenever somebody you know makes a mistake I mean let's be clear that muik

Mas clearly was 100% wrong in what he was saying clearly I mean first of all there are no grammatical errors in the Quran secondly okay the the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam according to fair enough the majority opinion is that the Prophet uh did not read and write but there are substantial who have felt that he could read and write though although he was not somebody that would do that and one of the leading Scholars um of of Muslim