The winds of change.

Thank you for sharing wa alaykum asalam wa rahmet Allah wa barakato

سبحان الله

Masha’Allah

May Allah bless you and bestow your efforts....

@jelumbard

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May Allah bless you as well.

Hey Dr. Lumbard. I became familiar with symbolism first through Jordan Peterson who is a Jungian psychologist and is also influenced by Mircea Eliade. Then I read a little about it in one of the writings of Guenon and I have heard Dr. Nasr talk about symbolism too. however, coming from Iran I haven't really heard the Ulama talk about the "symbolism of the Quran". For example, I took a look at Allamah Tabatabei's tafsir al Mizan to see if he explained the symbolism of Alaq and Qalam in the first revealed chapter of the Quran but Alammah took them very literally even though he was not only an exoteric scholar but he was also a philosopher and 'arif. It's always the western scholars that talk about "symbolism" but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I haven't looked into it properly. So my question is where can I find this science in the writings of traditional Islamic scholars in the Islamic world because I'm really interested in it?

@jelumbard

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This is a very interesting question. This is an area where the writings in the school of Ibn Arabi tap more deeply into a science, that is a developed methodology for approaching symbols. It comes up in tarsier, but not always systematically. Perhaps the best tafsir for it is Ibn Ajiba'a tarsier, which in addition to tafsir has sections of isharat, allusions.

@Tony-yw2fn

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@@jelumbard Thank you for the response. I’ll look into them

I am very impressed with your explanation and very good Arabic pronunciation you have Mashah Allah I do have question though my nephew who was Muslim but now he is an atheist and very anti Islam and he is misinform unfortunately he reads sura 9:29 and say Quran teaches violence etc could you please explain if you can as I understood that this revelation is at time of a war and treaty

@jelumbard

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Yes. Such verses are not universal and were never understood by ulama' as such. They apply to the particular tribes with whom Muslims were at war at the time.

Ustaz could you elaborate on QS 3: 185 the translated word 'taste' being used in the English? How is Death to be tasted? (I hope this is the right nuance to ask) May Allaah Swt forgive me.

@jelumbard

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Yes. I'll actually do a very short video. on that.

@Oneummahgeneration

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Death isn’t permanent so one only tastes it not in a perpetual state of it.

Dear professor, isn’t this only the case in certain qirat? For instance, “riyah” in 30:48 is read “reeh” according to Hamza, Kisai, Khalaf, and Ibn Kathir. Thank you for the reflections though.

@jelumbard

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Salaam, Very interesting point.

@asr2009

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maybe, some qiraat has more/different miracle than others. Personally, i have also realized that for some reason, some of these miracles are found mainly in hafs qiraat.

Interesting I am sure there are many other examples of linguistic precision in God’s Book.

@jelumbard

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Many indeed. I'll be making some longer videos regarding particular words and phrases.