Tafsir Ibn Kathir of Qur'an - Surah Fatiha

Revelation of Quran

Bismillah ir Rahman ir Rahim✨

🌸 Alhamdulilah🌸

✨All praises be to Allah✨

🌺Quran-the last book of Allah which Allah sent to Prophet Muhammad SalAllahu Alayhi Wassalam through the angel Jibreel Alayhi Salaam

🌺The Quran is a book for guidance and it is one of the greatest blessings of Allah

🌺Quran is not just about reading,its about reading and implementing it in our lives,

🌺It contains the commandments of Allah and the one who adheres to it and lives life according to Allah then Allah has promised Jannah for them

🌺Quran wasn't sent in one revelation,rather it was sent in 23 years

🌺Prophet Muhammad SalAllahu Alayhi Wassalam would memorise the verses revealed to him,

It was written later

🌺The way in which the revelation used to come could be deduced from the following reports in which the Prophet himself or his onlookers have described it:

🍁" Sometimes it came to me like the beating sound of the bell - and this is the hardest experience for me - and when that ceases, I retain well engraved in my memory all that it has said;

🍁But sometimes the angel appears to me in the shape of a human being and speaks to me and I retain what he says " (Bukhari).

🍁 In the transmission of Ibn Hanbal, this same report reads:

✨" I hear the beating sounds and thereupon I keep silent; there is not an occasion of the revelation to me when I do not fear that my soul will depart ."✨

🍁His Companions relate their observations, "whenever a revelation came to him, a sort of rest (immobility) captured him." (Ibn Hanbal) Or, "whenever the revelation came to the messenger of God, he was overwhelmed and remained in this state a while as if he was intoxicated." (Ibn Sa'd) Or, "the revelation came to him in the coldest day, and when it ceased, the front of the Prophet perspired with (sweat falling as) pearls." (Bukhari)

🌺Or, "once when the moment (of revelation) arrived, he bent his head inside (a  garment?), and lo, the face of the messenger of Allah had become red, and he snored; later the state vanished" (Bukhari).

🌺Or, "whenever the revelation came, he suffered therefrom and his face darkened." (Ibn Sa'd)

🌺Or, "when the revelation came to him, we heard near him like the humming sound of bees." (Ibn Hanbal and Abu Hu-aim)

🌺Or, "the Prophet suffered great pain when the revelation came to him, and he used to move his lips." (Bukhari)

🌺Another series of reports say that he then felt the weight of a great load, and said,

✨"I saw the Prophet while he was on his camel when a revelation came to him. The camel began to foam with rage and twist its legs to the point that I feared that they would break with a crack. In fact sometimes the camel sat down, but sometimes it would obstinately try to stand, with legs planted like pegs all through the time of revelation, and this lasted until the state (of revelation) vanished, and sweat would fall from him like pearls." ✨(Ibn Sa'd)

🌺Or, "the load almost broke the leg of the camel with a crack" (Ibn Hanbal).

🌺Zaid Ibn Thabit reports his personal experience of a certain day in the following words:

✨"His leg lay on my thigh and weighed so heavy that I feared that my femur would break with a crack" (Bukhari).✨

🌺In another version, there is this addition: "... had it not been for the Prophet of Allah, I would have pushed a cry and taken away my leg." Other reports say:

✨"The revelation came to him once while he was standing on the pulpit of the Mosque and he remained immobile." (Ibn Hanbal)✨

🌺Or,

✨"He was holding a loaf of meat (during his meal) when a revelation came to him, and when the state ceased, the loaf was still in his hand" (Ibn Hanbal).✨

🌺 At such an occasion, the Prophet Muhammad SalAllahu Alayhi Wassalam sometimes lay on his back, sometimes the inmates even covered his face in respect with a piece of cloth, as the circumstance may be. Yet he never lost his consciousness nor control of his self. In the early times of the mission, he used to repeat aloud, during the course of the revelation, what was revealed to him, but while still at Mecca, he abandoned this habit of simultaneous repeating, but remained silent until the end of the state of revelation, and then he communicated the message of Allah to his secretaries to note (as is mentioned in the Qur'an 75/16):

✨" Stir not thy tongue herewith to hasten it; upon Us the putting together and the reading thereof ."✨

And again (20/114):

✨ " And hasten not with the Qur'an ere its revelation hath been perfected unto thee and say: my Lord, increase me in knowledge ." ✨

🌺And when the Prophet returned to his normal state, he used to dictate to his scribes the portion of the Qur'an which had just been received by him, in order to publish it amongst the Muslims and to multiply the copies.