Mus'haf
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A Mus'haf is a Arabic word that literarly means "cover", as in a book cover. In common terms, it refers to an individual copy of the Qur'an. The word is pronounced "Mus-haf" and not "Mu-sh-af".
The Islamic Term "al-Qur'an" means "The recitation", denoting content. When referring to the material book, some use the term Mus'haf.
This use has led to a misconception: Some belive the Mushaf of Fatimah to mean the "Qur'an of Fatimah", thus accusing the Shi'a of beliving in a special Qur'an.
Al-Islam.org writes:
| Mushaf" refers to a collection of "Sahifa" which is singular for "page".
The literal meaning of Mushaf is "The manuscript bound between two boards". In those days they used to write on leather and other materials. They either rolled the writings -- what is known as scroll in English. Or they kept the separable sheets and bound them together, in what could be called as "Mushaf", a book in today's terms. The equivalent to the word book "Kitab" used to (and still is) refer to either a letter (e.g. of correspondence) or to an document that was written down or recorded. The Arabic word for wrote "Kataba" is a derivative of the same word. Although the Quran is commonly called a "Mushaf" today, perhaps referring to its "collection" after it was dispersed. Quran is a Mushaf (book), but any Mushaf (book) is not necessarily the Quran [1] |
