Part One

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Part One

Imam Marc Manley

Jul 29

 

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The Qur’ān is the book, the text, at the very heart of Muslim life. Amongst the many noble sciences of the Qur’ān is the art and science of its recitation. I will be presenting here a work on the fundamental rules related to one of the Recitations of the Qur’ān, that which is know as Qālūn. This series is a translation of the work by Dr. Aḥmad Muḥammad Jād Allāh (د. أحمد محمد جاد الله), may Allāh preserve him, entitled The Fundamentals of Qālūn from the Shāṭibiyyah Method – Question and Answer (أُصُولُ رِوَايَةِ قَالُونْ مِن طَرِيقِ الشَّاطِبِيَّة – سُؤَالٌ وَجَوَابٌ). Dr. Jād Allāh is Professor of Arabic and Qur’ānic Sciences at Omar al-Mukhtar University, Libya, as well as a member of the Qur’ān Review Committee. This work serves as an introduction to the recitation of Imām Qālūn, one of the 20 authentic ways to recite the Qur’ān (riwāyāt).

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My reason for writing this translation series is many but I’ll list just a few here. First, Qālūn as a recitation, is very strong from an isnād and ‘ilmal-riwāyah point of view (chain of transmission and narration). Second, Qālūn is an easier recitation, in my opinion, when compared to other recitations such as Imām Warsh – who is also a student of Imām Nāfi’, the teacher of both Imams Warsh and Qālūn – due to Qālūn having not only fewer rules, making it sound closer to regular speech, but also having fewer long vowels (mudūd). This helps to facilitate ease in new students studying the Qur’ān. And finally third, the recitation marries well with the study of Mālikī Fiqh here at Middle Ground, as it is the recitation that historically has been relied upon by the Mālikīyyah throughout the centuries in terms of academic study (even if Warsh gained popularity amongst the Mālikīyyah today) as well as with our tafsīr class, Understanding the Qur’ān, in which the two primary tafsīrs we’ve been reading, Ibn Juzayy’s al-Tashīl li ‘Ulūm al-Tanzīl and Imām al-Shawkānī’s Fatḥ al-Qadīr rely and primarily reference the recitation of Qālūn.

I’ll be updating this series on the Middle Ground website so you can check back here or there for updates. Here’s the link to Question One.

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