Regarding Letters in the Beginning of Some Suwar
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following is extracted from Ruh al-Bayan by Shaykh Ibrahim Niyas al-Kawlakhi at-Tijani ( q.s. ), and translated by Ustadz Moctar Boubakar. Letters such as ‘ Alif, Lam, Mim ’, are most disturbing to the Arabs because they could not comprehend anything regarding their meaning. Although the Qur’an is a miracle in its fluency, eloquence and in the fact that it informs about hidden matters, the Arabs do nevertheless understand it. They were Arabs and understood everything that came in the Qur’an until these letters appeared in the beginning of suwar . They did not get the least bit of taste for their meaning and as a result they became the greatest disturbance to them. Besides their disbelief and stubbornness, they were nevertheless Arabs and fluent in linguistics. They were aware of the tafsir for the speech of the Arabs. Every word in Arabic holds several meanings that are in occurrence with the temperament...