The Phonetics and Phonology of Single-Letter Prefixed Chapters in the Holy Quran: a Case Study of Chapters Saad, Qaaf, and Nun

One of the characteristics of the Arabic language is the ability to expand meaning. The study aimed to investigate the expansion of meaning and its most common methods in the Holy Qur’an and to reveal their effect on interpretation. The Qur’an was extrapolated entirely in search of expansion methods. Then the effect of this expansion on interpretation was studied with the descriptive approach. It has been shown that the Holy Qur’an is rich in the phenomenon of expansion which includes several methods; the word semantics, the morphological form of the word, the structure of speech, the letters of meanings, the revelation of the Qur’an in several readings, the precedence and the delay, the inclusion, the deletion, and the ecarts. The expansion effect was evident in the interpretation, so the Qur’anic meanings are numerous. The expansion of Qur’anic meaning is of two types. The first is a modal expansion, in which multiple meanings can be combined into one holistic sense. The second is a real expansion; several aspects of meaning are acceptable within their context; however, each can be considered individually. Hence, the language of the Qur’an expands to elicit deducers so that rulings of creatures are taken of it forever. Thus, the importance of the research is introducing new dimensions for understanding the rhetorical miracle of the Holy Qur’an.

Reading the Holy Quran is a well form of worship to Allah. By reading the Holy Quran, even only a single letter, someone will get a reward, let alone memorizing it. KH. Yusuf Mansur tries to realize the hopes of parents who want their children to be good at reading and memorizing the Holy Quran. Therefore, he built Pesantren Tahfidz Daarul Qur'an, which the main campus lays in Tangerang and a branch campus in Singapore. He has a vision of building a civil society based on the Tahfidzul Quran for economic, social, cultural, and educational independence that relies on local resources to the Holy Quran maintenance. In order to realize the vision, Pesantren Tahfidz SDQI Bandung wants to make Tahfidzul Quran as a life culture in Indonesia; realize economic, food, education, and self-reliance independence based on Tahfidzul Qur'an; make Indonesia free of illiteracy of the Holy Quran. The method of this study is explorative methods. The data collection techniques employed interview, observation, documentation, and the study of literature. The purpose of this study is to reveal goals and assumptions; procedures/implementation; participation of teachers and students; social and cultural systems; means of support; and the results of learning the Tahfidz Quran in Pesantren Daarul Qur'an Bandung. That will produce a picture of the instructional model of the Tahfidz Quran in Pesantren Daarul Qur'an Bandung. Based on the research results, Pesantren Tahfidz Daarul Qur'an have used a variety of methods, strategies, and techniques of Tahfidz learning in accordance with the abilities of students. In this case, the instructional model is an instructional model of memorization because the instruction loads on the teaching model that consists of teaching procedures, social, and cultural systems, the participation of teachers and students, supporting facilities, as well as the results of the application of the teaching model.

With the significant materialistic developments in 20th century, there has been observed remarkable increase in mental disorders all over the world. Meta-analysis indicated that most common among all mental disorders was Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), which has enormously affected humans globally. This research paper aimed at demonstrating the usefulness of psycho-Quranic therapy for the treatment of GAD. The paper comprised of three sections: the first looked into causes of anxiety; the second highlighted its major forms, and third provided the solution in the light of Holy Quran. Qualitative research method was used to gain an understanding of underlying phenomenon and to uncover trends in thought and behavior. The thematic review of Quranic verses reveals that Allah has used an astounding word “لا خوف” (No fear) repeatedly in Holy Quran for those who follow divine patterns of thought, beliefs and actions that they do not need to fear and grieve. Moreover, unlike psychology, Holy Quran testifies that it is exclusively possible to prevent mental disorders in general and anxiety in particular. It was also found that some of the serious anxiety disorders were mentioned in the Holy Quran including fear of abducting, killing, privation, hunger and losing wealth, etc. The Noble Quran used Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in order to deal with them and lower the level of anxiety. Psycho-Stats and demographics also endorsed Quranic scheme of treatment as it was established research that meditation and CBT had been proven much effective in lowering the anxiety level. However, CBT was considered better than that of meditation due to its long lasting effects.

The present discussion will explore the aspects of Shah Wali Allah’s effort to unite Muslims so as to enable them to defend their Sultanate as well as their faith on collective basis as the unity of the Muslims is among the basic trait of their faith without which they are not in a state to safeguard their faith. This could not be achieve without softening the sectarian tension prevailing at that time and this, in turn, could not be done without going beyond the religious interpretations causing the rift among the Muslims. Besides the thought paradigm the practical steps taken by Shah Wali Allah for Muslim cause will be analyzed to fully understand his practical approach to understand the Quran. The impact and the legacy of Shah Wali Allah’s thought will also be discussed at length.

This article deals with The Holy Qur’an, a book of translation and of a quranic exegeses written by Abdullah Yusuf Ali. This book becomes popular since it not only uses international language (English), but also possesses its own characteristics which make it different from other books of exegeses. The Holy Qur’an is so dominant in its sufistical commentary that it employes esetoric hermeneutics over the symbols existing in the Qur’an. In addition, this book employs lexical, grammatical, contextual, and social-cultural meanings that convey message that the translator depends on the standard language of the Qur’an. Abdullah Yusuf Ali obey does not the literal meanings of the verses, but he puts stongger emphases on its spiritual meanings.Kata Kunci: The Holy Qur’an, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, kitab tafsir

The Hindi Urdu Flagship hosts this fascinating exploration of the development of the Urdu language by the renowned historian of Urdu, Mehr Farooqi. Farooqi is Assistant Professor of Urdu at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. “The Secret of Letters: Chronograms in Urdu Literary Culture,” which appeared in Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures, is her most recent publication. She is currently translating a voluminous selection of women’s writings in Urdu, spanning the last several centuries, for Oxford University Press. Prior to joining the University of Virginia, Dr. Farooqi taught Hindi, Urdu, and Persian language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed both her undergraduate and graduate studies at Allahabad University in India and has numerous publication translations to her credit.

Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi was a great scholar of the seventeenth century belonging to the Thatta city of Sindh. Thatta was the capital of Sindh at that time and was famous for its abundance of high quality Islamic institutions which produced great scholars. He wrote one hundred and sixty books in Arabic, Persian and Sindhi on all disciplines of Islamic sciences such as Quranic Exegesis, Prophetic Traditions, Islamic Jurisprudence, Arabic literature, and Islamic History etc. However, unfortunately many of his books have vanished and most of those which have survived down to us are in handwritten form. Bayaz-e-Hashmi is the most comprehensive of all his books and is probably the last one as well. It is on the subject of Fatawa. Due to it being in handwritten form, people are unaware of its existence and cannot benefit from it. Through this article we have tried to introduce this hidden scholarly work of Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi to the academic world to provide some opportunity for publication so that it becomes available for researchers and scholars to benefit from. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.4479497 Link: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4479497.v4

The continuing advances in deep learning have paved the way for several challenging ideas. One such idea is visual lip-reading, which has recently drawn many research interests. Lip-reading, often referred to as visual speech recognition, is the ability to understand and predict spoken speech based solely on lip movements without using sounds. Due to the lack of research studies on visual speech recognition for the Arabic language in general, and its absence in the Quranic research, this research aims to fill this gap. This paper introduces a new publicly available Arabic lip-reading dataset containing 10490 videos captured from multiple viewpoints and comprising data samples at the letter level (i.e., single letters (single alphabets) and Quranic disjoined letters) and in the word level based on the content and context of the book <i>Al-Qaida Al-Noorania</i>. This research uses visual speech recognition to recognize spoken Arabic letters (Arabic alphabets), Quranic disjoined letters, and Quranic words, mainly phonetic as they are recited in the Holy Quran according to Quranic study aid entitled Al-Qaida Al-Noorania. This study could further validate the correctness of pronunciation and, subsequently, assist people in correctly reciting Quran. Furthermore, a detailed description of the created dataset and its construction methodology is provided. This new dataset is used to train an effective pre-trained deep learning CNN model throughout transfer learning for lip-reading, achieving the accuracies of 83.3%, 80.5%, and 77.5% on words, disjoined letters, and single letters, respectively, where an extended analysis of the results is provided. Finally, the experimental outcomes, different research aspects, and dataset collection consistency and challenges are discussed and concluded with several new promising trends for future work.

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This article aimed to map the literature of Quran exegesis prevailing for Sunni.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;There are seven literatures classified as a tafsir bi al matsur, and four of them&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;elaborated as comparison, namely Adhwa al Bayan fi Iydhah al Quran bi al&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Quran of asy Syinqithi, Jami al Bayan fi Tawil al Quran of Ibnu Jarir al&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thabari, Tafsir al Quran al Adzhim of Ibnu Katsir and al Dar al Mantsur fi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;at Tafsir bi al Matsur of Imam Suyuthi. The historical study and methodology&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;are the main subject of this literatures research using library approach. The&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;research show that there are some excellence and weakness of each literatures if&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;they are viewed by methodology aspect. But according definition of al Matsur,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;the most valid (mutamad) literature is Adhwa al Bayan fi Iydhah al Quran bi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;al Quran. Whereas according to turats and seniority of writer, the most valid&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;literature is Jami al Bayan fi Tawil al Quran. The third position is Tafsir al&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Quran al Adzhim, as a resume of Jami al Bayan fi Tawil al Quran. And the&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;last position is al Dar al Mantsur fi at Tafsir bi al Matsur, because its sanad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;validation only pin up the closest of rawi.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

The holy Quran is one of the Holy Books of God. It is considered one of the main references for an estimated 1.6 billion of Muslims around the world. The Holy Quran language is Arabic. Specialized as well as non-specialized people in religion need to search and lookup certain information from the Holy Quran. Most research projects concentrate on the translation of the holy Quran in different languages. Nevertheless, few research projects pay attention to original text of the holy Quran in Arabic language. Keyword search is one of the Information Retrieval (IR) methods but will retrieve what is called exact search. Semantic search aims at finding deeper meanings of a text, and it is a hot field of study in Natural Language Processing (NLP). In this paper topic modeling techniques are explored to setup a framework for semantic search in the holy Quran. As the Holy Quran is the word of God, its meanings are unlimited. In this paper the words of chapter Joseph (Peace Be Upon Him (PBUH)) from the Holy Quran is analyzed based on topic modeling techniques as a case study. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling technique has been applied in this paper into two structures (Hizb Quarters and verses) of Joseph chapter as: words, roots and stems. The log-Likelihood has been calculated for the two structures of the chapter. Results show that the best structure to use is verses, which gives the least energy for data. Some of the results of the attained topics are shown. These results suggest that topic modeling techniques failed to capture in an accurate manner the coherent topics of the chapter.

Local contain of Al Quran education is learning which give opportunity students to learn, applicative and do all Al Quran doctrines. The focus that is process and knowing about reading, writing, and Al Quran understanding useful for life. In fact, the local contain Al Quran education at year 2009 that first published Province Regulation. By published Province Regulation South Kalimantan No. 3 year 2009 about Al Quran education in South Kalimantan The aims of Al Quran education is every students can be read, write Al Quran character well, understand and use full all doctrine Al Quran for life. Development curriculum in this study are action of perfecting based element Al Quran education has use by Province Government. And every school program development to increase student ability with learn school activities to get vision an purpose of school. This research aims to describe curriculum development Al Quran education in Islamic Elementary Darul Azhar and State Elementary School 1 Tungkalan Pangeran Simpang Empat South Kalimantan. This research use a qualitative approach with planning multi case study. Methods of data collection through interviews, observation, and documentation. And the research informer is head school, vice head curriculum, Al Quran education teacher supervisor. All data be analysed in this case and cross analysis. While data validity use triangulation source and method. The results from this research is: (1) curriculum plan envelop background, source idea, purpose, principle, content analysis, evaluation. (2) curriculum realization is envelop intra curricular, extracurricular and for example. (3) curriculum evaluation is envelop programme, realization, and assessor. (4) curriculum development model of local contain Al Quran education have characteristic top an down.

“Dalal ut zamier is an importamt topic of 'uloom ul Quran. It is a fundamental method to understand the Quranic verses from different angles for interpretation of Quran.It is essential to know about “reference of pronoun” that’s change causes differences in Quranic exegesis and also a major reason of theological discussions. In Quran, pronouns and their references are indepensible for one another whether they are used in plane words or semantically or are inferred from the context. Due to the importance of relationship between pronoun and its references, the interpreters and syntacticals have derived the basic rules of reference of pronoun from Holy Quran. In the light of these rules and principles, it becomes easy to understand the purpose of using pronoun and correct interpretation of Holy Quran.

This study examines the impact of geographical interpretation on the differing opinions among Quranic commentators, specifically in the context of the Battles of Uhud and Al-Ahzab. The Holy Quran, rich in multi-faceted meanings, often leads to varying interpretations among scholars, especially concerning verses with geographical implications. This research focuses on how geographical context influences the understanding and preference for specific interpretations over others in these two significant battles. By analyzing the geographical elements mentioned in the Quranic verses, the study aims to provide a more precise understanding of the locations and events described, thereby resolving discrepancies in interpretations. The research is unique in its approach to incorporating modern geographical tools and digital mapping technologies to enhance the study of Quranic exegesis. Through detailed examination of the relevant verses, the study identifies the role of geographical context in shaping the historical and theological narratives of the Battles of Uhud and Al-Ahzab. The findings suggest that a deeper geographical awareness can significantly contribute to resolving interpretative conflicts and advancing the scholarly understanding of these events. This work not only underscores the importance of geographical considerations in Quranic exegesis but also opens new avenues for research that integrates traditional Islamic scholarship with contemporary geographical analysis. The study concludes with recommendations for further research in the integration of geographical data into the interpretation of other Quranic verses with similar implications.

Synonymy is one of the fundamental linguistic phenomena influencing the structure of lexicon. This paper examines the intricate nature of synonymy in an attempt to investigate its problematic nature in relation to translation. Types of synonyms are examined, with special emphasis paid to the translation of synonyms in the Holy Qur’an, where the translator is expected to achieve a high level of accuracy in rendering the exact meaning of the lexical items. The main focus of the study is on the translation of the near synonyms of the Arabic lexical item 'khawf' خوف)) (meaning 'fear') within the Holy Qur’an. In this comparative descriptive study, componential analysis is used to evaluate the semantic aspects of the synonymous lexical items. The meaning of each lexical item is also analyzed according to its context in the verses of the Holy Qur’an. The study is limited to three translations: those of Pickthall, Yusuf Ali and Shakir. It highlights the challenges that Qur’an translators encounter in the translation of near synonyms. It also aims to enhance the field of Qur’an translations with suggestions for achieving increased accuracy..

This article studies about education of values according to the Holy Quran. The analytical tends to move from the Quranic verses by using the Quranic exegesis science approach. Instruments of analysis use multiple approaches, including semantic, particular external aspects, socio-historical approach, internal relationship, and so on. The Holy Quran pays a good attention to the education, particularly caracter building and internalization of core values. A caracter building, according to The Holy Quran, is built from inner awarness of the humen (anfus). The core values are internalyzed and actualyzed to build a good caracter. In this case, the Holy Quran shows alot of examples about historical facts in order that the human kinds find good morals which bring about core values or inner values. Hopely, those core values build a good attitude, a good caracter, intelect, and faithfull.