Great work! just to add some information in here ..
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Originally Posted by Archaea
One Thing Christians can learn from Muslims and Jew is hermeneutic.
One of the fascinating aspects is Muslim's fascination with the Qu'ran in Arabic. It is similar or exceeds a devout Jew's belief of the Tanakh in Hebrew.
For example, in the Second Surah, which is the longest "chapter" of the Qu'ran, 109 ayat, or verse, there is a footnote, 110, where the words of "forgive" are translated from 'Afa meaning to obliterate from one's mind, Safaha translated to "overlook", means to turna awayfrom, to ignore, toreate as a matter as if it did not affect one and Ghafara means to cover up something as Allah covers up our sins in His grace, one forgives again and again. See also footnote 120.
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Getting back to the root of the words in Arabic, significantly contributes in Quran interpretation ,particulary when it goes hand by hand with considering the circumestances under which a verse was revealed.
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Muslims try to get back to the original meaning just as Jews do in Hebrew, and New Testament Greek speaking Christians do to a lesser extent. Muslims in essence "worship" Arabic, classical Arabic.
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I always feel uncomfortable seeing the word "worship" accompaning "Quran" and i am wondering if there is any need to reiterate the very fact that muslims worship nothing but God and the Holy Quran is considered as glorious ,comprehensive pattern for man's life.
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Mohammed is not said to have written but merely recited the Qu'ran, and I believe it was one of the Companions that actually wrote it.
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Muslim unanimously believe that Holy Quran was memorised and written by prophet Mohammad 's companions under his vigilant supervision .Imam Ali (first infallible shia -Imam) was one of the Quran writers ,who had a distictive role in registering and writing the revelation and organizing it as long as providing many of historical and political documents ,invitation letter ...etc.
However the complete Quran was written down by prophet Mohammad's numerous scribs ,it hadnot been promulgated as a "book" ,because the period of revelation of the Quran continued up untill just a few days befor prophet Mohammad departure.(pbuh)