Words written separately and joined
(Part four)
We continue explaining the words that are
written joined or separated in the Glorious Qur'an, please refer to the first
three lessons on this subject now located in the tidbit archives for the
importance of these lessons.

There is one place in the Qur’an
where these two words are written, by agreement,
.

There are four places where there is
a difference in the copies of the Qur’an as to whether they are written
or
.




Imam Ibn Al-Jazaree said the following
about these two words:

Sheikh Al-Jazaree as shown, referred
to the place in surah An-Nisaa', but did not refer to the other three places
in his poem. These two words are written in all other places
.
Another scholar, Sheikh Ibrahim Ali Shahaatah As-Samanoodiyy,
May Allah have mercy upon him , in his poem:
"
"
,
completed the issue with the following lines of poetry:


These two words are found written in
the Qur’an
,
or
.
Sheikh Al-Jazaree started by stating the one place where there is a difference
in the copies of the Qur’an as to them being written
or
. He then
stated the places where they are written
in agreement. His statement
"
"
(also), means there is difference as to the writing of the next words
or
.

The aayah that there is a difference
as to the writing of these two words
or
is:

There are two places in the Holy
Qur’an where these two words are written
:


These two words are found written in
all other places in the Qur’an 

These two words are written
in
10 places in the Qur’an, in all other places they are written
.
The last one listed Ash-Shu'araa is one that Imam Al-Jazaree
forgot to state that there is a difference in the copies of the Qur’an as to
whether it is written
or
.
The places where they are written
are:



The place where there is a difference
in the copies of the Qur’an as to whether it is written
or
is
:

Imam Ibn Al-Jazaree, may Allah have mercy
upon him, said:

He included the aayah in Ash-Shu'araa'
in the listing of the places where
is written
, but the truth is there
is a difference in copies of the Qur’an as to the way it is written.