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I begin by praising Allah and ask for His forgiveness and I take refuge with Allah from the evil of ourselves and the accursed Satan. Whom so ever Allah guides, there is non to misguide and who so ever Allah leaves to go astray, there is none to guide. _____________________________________________________________________________________
WHAT THE CRITICS SAY ABOUT THE GLORIOUS QUR’AN
I came across an intresting article on what the critic has to say about our Holy Scripture - Qu'ran. I'm just gonna share with you the testimonies of these reviewers taken from non-Muslim sources.
Let's sit back and see how divine the Qur'an is to them. Masya Allah.
"That the best of Arab witnesses have never succeeded in producing anything equal to the merits in the Qur'an... to compose such revelations at will, was beyond the power of the most expert literary artist.”
(Encyclopedia Britannica)
"The Qur'an could not be the work of an uneducated man unless he had the help of the Almighty".
(Dr. Laura Vaglieri)
"There is probably in the world no other book which has remained twelve (now fourteen) centuries with so pure a text".
(Sir William Muir - One of the staunchest critics of Islam)
"Over the centuries, many theories have been offered as to the origin of the Qur'an... Today, no sensible man accepts any of these theories".
(New Catholic Encyclopedia)
"It is an immense merit in the Qur'an that there is no doubt as to its genuineness... that every word we can now read with full confidence that it has remained unchanged through nearly thirteen centuries".
(Lane Pool: "Selections from the Qur'an"-100 years ago)
"The text of the Qur’aan is the purest of all the works of a like antiquity".
(Wherry in "Commentary of the Qur'an", vol.1 pg.349)
We Muslims NO DOUBT believe that the Qur'an is indeed the Word of God revealed to our beloved unlettered prophet Muhammad (pbuh), which was then preserved word for word in a written form which we have today. We can verify to see for ourselves that no 2 Qur'ans contradict each other. NOWHERE! This is so because it's well preserved and that the slightest change or manipulation made, will be OBVIOUS! (Will discuss this in another post insyaAllah).
Therefore, we can also say that the Qur'an is the verbatim of Allah's kalam (Word).
With the testimonies above, now let's see what the Qur'an has got to say about itself. Wait let me rephrase that....
Let's see what the CREATOR GOD ALMIGHTY has got to say about HIS Word/Revelation - The Holy Qur'an.
A book which testifies for itself... Like a witness who's been brought to the court to testify him/her self.
Just sit back to witness the testimony that it (Qur'an) is indeed a DIVINE REVELATION...
"Say: If the whole of Mankind and Jinns were together to produce the like of this Qur’an they could not produce the like thereof, even if they backed up each other with help and support."
[Al-Qur'an 17:88]
Later the challenge was made easy in the following verse of Surah Al-Hud:
"Or they may say, "He forged it." Say, "Bring ye then ten Surahs (chapters) forged, like unto it, and call (to your aid) whomsover ye can, other than Allah, if ye speak the truth!"."
[Al-Qur'an 11:13]
It was made easier in the following verse of Surah Yunus:
"Or do they say, "He forged it"? Say: "Bring then a Surah like unto it, and call (to your aid) anyone you can, besides Allah, if it be ye speak the truth!"."
[Al-Qur'an 10:38]
Finally in Surah Al-Baqarah, Allah (swt) further simplified the challenge:
"And if ye are in doubt as to what We have revealed from time to time to Our servant, then produce a Surah (chapter) like thereunto; and call your witnesses or helpers (if there are any) besides Allah if your (doubts) are true.
But if ye cannot – and of a surety ye cannot – then fear the Fire whose fuel is Men and Stones – which is prepared for those who reject faith".
[Al-Qur'an 2:23-24]
After reading the above verses with much attention, any person with a sensible mind will instantaneously realise that these verses quoted above are in the form of a challenge. A challenge for the skeptics who have a big time doubting/rejecting the Qur'an's Divine content.
So yea here you go:
Have any doubts??
Or think that this Revelation is a fraud??
A plagiarized material??...
....sure, then by all means go produce something like it!!
DO YOU SEE THE LOGIC??!!
If you claim that this book (Qur'an) is copied/forged/plagiarized or simply MAN-MADE and is not DIVINE, (and if all of these are true) then it simply means that any other MAN can do it! Any other MAN can produce better than it or something like it or at least similar to it.
If someone can come up with COKE, then someone else can come up with PESPSI.
Someone came up with 7-UP? Don't worry, someone else came up with SPRITE.
WINDOWS?? Well we have our very own LINUX!!!
MAKE SENSE?? SURE IT DID!!
Furthermore, God Almighty is so generous that He doesn't restrict this "create-a-qur'an-project" to just a MAN. He mentioned MANKIND!!! (17:88) Wow that's all of us!
Allah has challenged those in doubt to just produce a Surah (2:23) - The shortest Surah (chapter) in the Qur'an is ONLY 3 VERSES!!! (chapter 108)
WALLAH! until today, NO MAN or even the whole of MANKIND have ever produce something like the Qur'an or at least like Surah Al-Kauthar!!!- chapter 108. Well, there were many attempts... but unfortunately not even far from close.
Alhamdulillah, the Qur'an is the ONLY religious scripture in the world which have such a test/challenge for the critics. We call it the FALSIFICATION TEST. So if you still have any doubts, please by all means take up this 1400 years old (and still counting) challenge.
Many people have wasted their lifetime to just come up with a chapter like the Qur'an but to no avail.
With this, i will like to end the post with a verse from the Qur'an where God Almighty says :
"This Qur'an is not such as can be produced by other than God...."
(Surah Yunus 10:37)
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If there's any error, I'm open for rectification. None is perfect as perfection only belongs to Allah (God Almighty). All good things come from Allah and all the bad things are from my side and the side of Satan the accursed. _____________________________________________________________________________________
I begin by praising Allah and ask for His forgiveness and I take refuge with Allah from the evil of ourselves and the accursed Satan. Whom so ever Allah guides, there is non to misguide and who so ever Allah leaves to go astray, there is none to guide. _____________________________________________________________________________________
WHAT THE CRITICS SAY ABOUT THE GLORIOUS QUR’AN
I came across an intresting article on what the critic has to say about our Holy Scripture - Qu'ran. I'm just gonna share with you the testimonies of these reviewers taken from non-Muslim sources.
Let's sit back and see how divine the Qur'an is to them. Masya Allah.
"That the best of Arab witnesses have never succeeded in producing anything equal to the merits in the Qur'an... to compose such revelations at will, was beyond the power of the most expert literary artist.”
(Encyclopedia Britannica)
"The Qur'an could not be the work of an uneducated man unless he had the help of the Almighty".
(Dr. Laura Vaglieri)
"There is probably in the world no other book which has remained twelve (now fourteen) centuries with so pure a text".
(Sir William Muir - One of the staunchest critics of Islam)
"Over the centuries, many theories have been offered as to the origin of the Qur'an... Today, no sensible man accepts any of these theories".
(New Catholic Encyclopedia)
"It is an immense merit in the Qur'an that there is no doubt as to its genuineness... that every word we can now read with full confidence that it has remained unchanged through nearly thirteen centuries".
(Lane Pool: "Selections from the Qur'an"-100 years ago)
"The text of the Qur’aan is the purest of all the works of a like antiquity".
(Wherry in "Commentary of the Qur'an", vol.1 pg.349)
We Muslims NO DOUBT believe that the Qur'an is indeed the Word of God revealed to our beloved unlettered prophet Muhammad (pbuh), which was then preserved word for word in a written form which we have today. We can verify to see for ourselves that no 2 Qur'ans contradict each other. NOWHERE! This is so because it's well preserved and that the slightest change or manipulation made, will be OBVIOUS! (Will discuss this in another post insyaAllah).
Therefore, we can also say that the Qur'an is the verbatim of Allah's kalam (Word).
With the testimonies above, now let's see what the Qur'an has got to say about itself. Wait let me rephrase that....
Let's see what the CREATOR GOD ALMIGHTY has got to say about HIS Word/Revelation - The Holy Qur'an.
A book which testifies for itself... Like a witness who's been brought to the court to testify him/her self.
Just sit back to witness the testimony that it (Qur'an) is indeed a DIVINE REVELATION...
"Say: If the whole of Mankind and Jinns were together to produce the like of this Qur’an they could not produce the like thereof, even if they backed up each other with help and support."
[Al-Qur'an 17:88]
Later the challenge was made easy in the following verse of Surah Al-Hud:
"Or they may say, "He forged it." Say, "Bring ye then ten Surahs (chapters) forged, like unto it, and call (to your aid) whomsover ye can, other than Allah, if ye speak the truth!"."
[Al-Qur'an 11:13]
It was made easier in the following verse of Surah Yunus:
"Or do they say, "He forged it"? Say: "Bring then a Surah like unto it, and call (to your aid) anyone you can, besides Allah, if it be ye speak the truth!"."
[Al-Qur'an 10:38]
Finally in Surah Al-Baqarah, Allah (swt) further simplified the challenge:
"And if ye are in doubt as to what We have revealed from time to time to Our servant, then produce a Surah (chapter) like thereunto; and call your witnesses or helpers (if there are any) besides Allah if your (doubts) are true.
But if ye cannot – and of a surety ye cannot – then fear the Fire whose fuel is Men and Stones – which is prepared for those who reject faith".
[Al-Qur'an 2:23-24]
After reading the above verses with much attention, any person with a sensible mind will instantaneously realise that these verses quoted above are in the form of a challenge. A challenge for the skeptics who have a big time doubting/rejecting the Qur'an's Divine content.
So yea here you go:
Have any doubts??
Or think that this Revelation is a fraud??
A plagiarized material??...
....sure, then by all means go produce something like it!!
DO YOU SEE THE LOGIC??!!
If you claim that this book (Qur'an) is copied/forged/plagiarized or simply MAN-MADE and is not DIVINE, (and if all of these are true) then it simply means that any other MAN can do it! Any other MAN can produce better than it or something like it or at least similar to it.
If someone can come up with COKE, then someone else can come up with PESPSI.
Someone came up with 7-UP? Don't worry, someone else came up with SPRITE.
WINDOWS?? Well we have our very own LINUX!!!
MAKE SENSE?? SURE IT DID!!
Furthermore, God Almighty is so generous that He doesn't restrict this "create-a-qur'an-project" to just a MAN. He mentioned MANKIND!!! (17:88) Wow that's all of us!
Allah has challenged those in doubt to just produce a Surah (2:23) - The shortest Surah (chapter) in the Qur'an is ONLY 3 VERSES!!! (chapter 108)
WALLAH! until today, NO MAN or even the whole of MANKIND have ever produce something like the Qur'an or at least like Surah Al-Kauthar!!!- chapter 108. Well, there were many attempts... but unfortunately not even far from close.
Alhamdulillah, the Qur'an is the ONLY religious scripture in the world which have such a test/challenge for the critics. We call it the FALSIFICATION TEST. So if you still have any doubts, please by all means take up this 1400 years old (and still counting) challenge.
Many people have wasted their lifetime to just come up with a chapter like the Qur'an but to no avail.
With this, i will like to end the post with a verse from the Qur'an where God Almighty says :
"This Qur'an is not such as can be produced by other than God...."
(Surah Yunus 10:37)
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If there's any error, I'm open for rectification. None is perfect as perfection only belongs to Allah (God Almighty). All good things come from Allah and all the bad things are from my side and the side of Satan the accursed. _____________________________________________________________________________________
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