Unique Issues Making the Western-Arab Book of Qur’an Different from that of the Eastern-Arab from Beginning of Surat Ash-Shura to the end of Surat Al-Jathiyyah

Abstract

Abstract

 Research deals with what distinguishes the issues the Western Arabs’ editions of the Qur’an are different from the other Qur’an editions in terms of pauses and starts, in accordance with the restriction of Sheikh Al-Habti’s pauses in the middle of the verses, and explaining his approach and choices and what he might have used as justifications for his pauses, from the beginning of Surat Ash-Shura to the end of Surat Al-Jathiyah. The problem of this research becomes apparent to the reader in the Western Arabs’ editions of the Qur’an that there are signs of pauses in them, which were absent from the Eastern Arabs’ editions of the Qur’an, . so Thus, this matter was worthy of study, especially since these pauses were the subject of great controversy among specialists in the Science of Pauses and Starts, some of whom support them and others oppose them. This research adopts the descriptive analytical methodology in explaining what distinguishes the Western Arabs’ editions of the Qur’an from the other Qur’an editions, and studying it with a descriptive and critical study that relies on the statements of specialists in the science of pauses and starts, grammar, rhetoric, exegesis and syntax. This research also follows the inductive methodology in tracing what Surat Ash-Shura, Surat Az-Zukhruf, Surat Ad-Dukhan and Surat Al-Jathiyah contained. The researcher reached a number of results. The first, the number of pauses of this research in these surahs reached nineteen pauses. Second, Sheikh Al-Habti has references for six of them, but he has no references in the rest. Third, they are all sufficient according to Ibn Abd is-Salam Al-Fasi..

Keywords : Western Arabs’ editions of the Qur’an; Eastern Arabs’ editions of the Qur’an; al- Waqf, al-Ibtidaa, al-Wasl, al-Qatu’, Surah ASh-shura, Surah al-Jathiyah.