The Holy Book of Muslims is the Qur’ân al-kerîm. The Qur’ân al-kerîm was revealed in the Arabic language to our Prophet Muhammad ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ by Allâhu ta’âlâ. Despite the fourteen hundred years ever since, not a single word or a single letter in it has been changed. Anyone who reads it, no matter in what religion he is, admires its grandeur and sublime style. Even those who do not know Arabic acknowledge the power of its tremendous textuality when they read its translations in other languages. =>
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The Qur’ân al-kerîm is a peerless miracle. As we shall exemplify down below, it contains the most profound pieces of knowledge and scientific information, essentials of law and jurisprudence that would provide a basis for all the forms of civil law that have ever been established up to now, a number of unknown facts about ancient history, the most comprehensive ethical principles that could be given to humanity, valuable pieces of advice, the most logical explanatory rudiments about this world and the next, and many other similar facts, which no one knew, or could ever know, or even imagine until the time of its advent. And all these facts are expressed in such a high style as could not be within anyone’s capacity.
Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ was ummî (illiterate). That is, he had not studied with anyone, learned from anyone, or written anything. The forty-eighth âyat of ’Ankabût Sûra purports, “[O Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’! Before this Qur’ân al-kerîm was brought down to you,] thou wast not (able) to recite a Book before this (Book came), nor art thou (able) to transcribe it with thy right hand: In that case, indeed, would the talkers of vanities (polytheists) have doubted [and said that you had learned the Qur’ân al-kerîm from someone else or copied it from other heavenly books. And the Jews would have doubted, saying, ‘It is written in the Torah that the new prophet will be illiterate. Yet this person is not illiterate.’]” (29-48) Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ was forty years old when Jebrâîl (Gabriel) ‘alaihis-salâm’ brought him the first piece of wahy (revelation of the Qur’ân al-kerîm) on the mount of Hira, where he had secluded himself for worship. He was so overwhelmingly bewildered and stricken with awe that he ran home with fright, asked his blessed wife Hadîja ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhâ’ to make him lie on his bed and to cover him tightly with something thick, and did not recover for a long time. Is this the way that a person who assumed exceptional spirituality and great superiority and who wished to prepare a new religious book for the humanity would be? First of all, would not he have acquired knowledge ample enough to write such a tremendous work of art, reading volumes of books and making the long preliminary studies? As a matter of fact, Muhammad ‘alaihis- salâm’ was taken along in two different business expeditions to Damascus as he was a child, was charged only with the protection and security of the commercial goods and the management of the caravans in these expeditions, and accomplished these duties owing only to HIS EXCEEDINGLY LOFTY MORAL QUALITY AND INTEGRITY and unbelievably high intellectual merits. This sudden, unexpected revelation, which he had not even imagined, frightened, rather than pleased him. However, as the events of revelation recurred, he gradually realized that Allâhu ta’âlâ had decreed to assign him a considerably important and heavy task, committed all his existence to obeying the commandments of Allâhu ta’âlâ, and began to publicize the Islamic religion, which He had communicated to him and which was based on the ‘Unity of Allah’. Muhammad’s ‘alaihis-salâm’ spreading Islam provided him no worldly benefits, but on the contrary all the Meccans became his enemies. He is known to have stated, “No other Prophet suffered so much as I have, nor did any one of them experience the same distresses as I have.” This hadîth-i-sherîf is recorded in books. These facts show that Muhammad ‘alaihis- salâm’ did not seek any worldly advantages or any personal aspirations in spreading a new religion. In fact, as we have already pointed out, his educational background and the social environment he had found himself living in would hardly promise him any success in the realization of so great a dream.
Then, it would be impossible to quite out of the question to believe that Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ might have arranged the Qur’ân al-kerîm by himself. So let us now reason on the conjecture that the Qur’ân al-kerîm may be a stupendous masterpiece revealed by Allâhu ta’âlâ.
When a new Prophet appears, people around him anticipate miracles from him. Both Mûsâ (Moses) ‘alaihis-salâm’ and Îsâ (Jesus) ‘alaihis-salâm’ had to display miracles to prove their prophethood. Actually, these miracles took place only with the command and permission and creation of Allâhu ta’âlâ. Yet they were recorded as “the miracles of Mûsâ and Îsâ ‘alaihim-as-salâm’ ” by historians. In reality, Prophets ‘alaihimussalawâtu wattaslîmât’, who are merely human beings like us, cannot perform miracles on their own. Miracles are created only by Allâhu ta’âlâ. And Prophets can display only the miracles created by Allâhu ta’âlâ.
As the greatest miracle of Muhammad ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’, Allâhu ta’âlâ revealed the Qur’ân al-kerîm to him. The Qur’ân al-kerîm is the greatest book, and it is definitely a miracle. Despite this fact, the Arabs demanded Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ that a Book be sent down from heaven or he change a mountain into gold. The Qur’ân al-kerîm explains this subject in an exquisite style. The fiftieth and fifty-first âyats of ’Ankabût Sûra purport, “Yet they (polytheists) say: ‘Why are not Signs, [which will denote Muhammad’s ‘alaihis-salâm’ prophethood, like the meal table of Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ and the rod of Mûsâ ‘alaihis- salâm’,] sent down to him from his Lord (Allâhu ta’âlâ)?’ [O My Messenger!] Tell them that the Signs are indeed with Allâhu ta’âlâ. [They depend on His Will. He creates them whenever He wishes and in whatever manner He chooses. These things are not within my capacity.] And I am indeed a clear Warner of His torment.” “And is it not enough for them [as a miracle] that we sent down to thee the Book which is rehearsed to them? Verily, in it is Mercy and a Reminder to those who believe.” (29-50, 51) Then, the Qur’ân al-kerîm is the greatest miracle of Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’. As for those who may assert that “it is not a Book of Allah; it was written by Muhammad;” Allâhu ta’âlâ gives them their answer in the forty-eighth âyat of ’Ankabût Sûra, which we have quoted and explained above. Thereby He dispels any possible doubts in this respect beforehand. Allâhu ta’âlâ emphasizes that Muhammad ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ does not have the capacity to write a book in that level and that He Himself revealed the Qur’ân al-kerîm. As a matter of fact, He purposely chose an illiterate person, Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’, as the Prophet, so that people, seeing that he had not learned how to read and write, would incontestably realize that the Qur’ân al- kerîm could have been revealed only by Allâhu ta’âlâ. The tafsîr (explanation) of this âyat-i-kerîma contains detailed information on this subject. The greatest personal signs testifying to the prophethood of Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ are his EXTRAORDINARY QUALITIES such as HONESTY, INTEGRITY, FAITHFULNESS, VALOUR, PATIENCE, and EFFICIENCY, as well as his high knowledge. Allâhu ta’âlâ declares, as is purported in the eighty-second âyat of Nisâ Sûra, “Do they not consider the meanings in the Qur’an al-kerîm (with care)? Had it been from other than Allâhu ta’âlâ, they would surely have found therein much discrepancy.” (4-82) How true it is! Today’s Holy Bible, which we have already realized is not the Word of Allah, contains so many discrepancies, which proves that it is man-made.
Now let us perform an extremely patient and thoroughly impartial observation to see whether the Qur’ân al-kerîm is really a great miracle. =>
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