As Muslim we are believe that throughout history. There have been messengers and prophets. men send from the creator. bringing laws and revelation on how man should conduct his life. they were given miracles with proved to mankind that they have a communication with god and a revelation from him. A miracle is something which he goes against the laws of nature which is impossible for anything else to do; by miracles the prophets were able to prove their direct relationship with God. For example prophet Musa (as) had a stick which parted the red sea. Prophet Isa (as) had the ability to cure the sick by just touching them.
But how do we know of these messenger existed? The miracles performed by above prophet were only miracles for that specific period of time. But how we do know that they were not just legends and fables? So what miracles do we have right now to convince us and guide us through our life.
The Quran itself is the main miracles that prophet (saw) brought which is different to the physicals miracles of the other prophets as they limited to their times only.The Quran is an intellectual miracles that the proves of Islam. is was revealed to Muhhamad (saw) in the 6th century. its exists today and has been revealed for all times.
It is an established fact that the Quran was proclaimed by Muhammed(saw) in Arabia over fourteen hundred years ago. in order for us to prove decisively that it is from Allah. We must first consider the possible sources of the Quran and then eliminate this to arrive at its true origin.
The only possible sources of the Quran are...
* The Arabs
* Muhammad (saw) himself
* Allah (swt)
At the time it was revealed the pagan of Arabs were deeply into poetry. It was an indication of nobility in society. people used to go to the deserts for days just write poetry. the Arabic language has great fluidity and depth of expression. so it was held high in esteem by the Arab. Allah in the Quran challenged the Arabs to produce something comparable to it in language and they failed to do so.
They may say: he forged it (the Quran).say...bring you them ten forged sura (chapters) like unto it and call whom soever you can, other than Allah (to your help). if you speak the truth. [TMQ11:13]
They failed to do so, Allah then reduced the challenged to something that at first glance may sound easy .Allah said....
''If you are in doubt of what we have revealed to our messenger, then produce one chapter like it . call open all your helper. Besides Allah, if you are truthful''. [TMQ2:23]
The smallest chapter in the Quran, sura al -Kauther is only three sentence long surely someone history must have matched this challenged? the Arabs at time of muhammad (saw) failed to do so. although they were the best Arabic language .
For none Arabs something this maybe difficult to perceive as they do not appriciate the language of the Quran directly, however everyone can agree that any piece of literature written by humans being can be matched ; people can copy its style and produce something comparable to it in quality. if we look at great English authors like Shakespear no one would claim that they were prophet and that their works are miraculous in nature. Even though they may have been geniuses in language, people can easily write something similar in excellence to three sentence from their books. Despite having the Arabic language its letter, grammars, syntax and dictionaries available today. the Arabic linguists can not construct any piece of language that is comparable to the Quran.therefore, it is impossible that the Quran was by written by any of the Arabs.
It is also inconceivable that the quran is the speech of muhammad (saw). after all he is one of the Arabs. also whatever level of genius people may assing to him, he was a still a human being and one of his tribe and nation. since the Arabs failed to bring like of the quran. this equally applies to muhammad (saw). moreover muhammad(saw) has left saheeh ahaadeeth (sound narration) and matuwaatir ahaadeeth(definitive narrations) whose authenticity is beyond doubt. if any of these ahaadeeth were to be compared with any verse of Quran, their would be similarity between them of style. he (saw) used to utter the revealed verse and say the hadeeth at the same time and yet there is a difference between them in style. when ever any man attempts to diversify his speech, it will remain similar in style, because it is a part of him.since their is no similarity between hadeeth and the verse in style. the Quran is absolute not mohammad (saw) is speech. it is important to point out that none of the Arabs. who despised Muhammad (saw), particularly at the time, were the most acquainted with the style of arabic speech yet never claimed that the Quran was Muhammad (saw) speech or even similar to his speech..
To this day muslim and non muslim scholar have not been able to find any contradiction or mistake in the Quran, moreover, if one was to compare word by word a copy Quran published today to one of the first copies of the Quran available then one would find that not a single word has been omitted or added. copies of the Quran dating back to the first century of the islam can be found in Istanbul and tashkent . Allah (swt) says in the Quran......
''Do they not ponder about the Quran? if it had come from other than God they would surely have found there in much contradiction''..
There are many texts available today claiming divine status from God, like the Bible of the christian and the torah of the jews etc. however, they have no proof that they have been revealed by God, if they are not miraculous in nature then their is no reason to believe in them.
Allah says: '' say ye; '' we believe in Allah, and revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Ismail, Issac, Jacob, and the tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to all prophets from their lord. we make no difference between one and other of them and then we bow to Allah ( in Islam).'' [TMQ: al Bakarah:136]
Once we have establish through rational, proof that Allah exists and that the Quran is the world of Allah. we must believe in everything that the Quran inform us of and commands us with, whether we can perceive them or not. therefore, we must have Iman(belief) in the day of Resurrection, in paradise (jannah) and hell, in reckoning and punishment, in angle, in jinn, in shayaateen and other that the Quran or hadeeth mutawaatir (definitive narrations) have mentioned. To believe in these things is therefore not irrational just because we cannot see them or sense them physically as we have conclusively proved the Quran being from Allah which informs us about all of these.
Once the Iman in Allah, his messenger and the Quran has been proven. every Muslim is obliged to believe in the Islamic Shari;ah as a whole. we cannot pick and choose as we like. As the shariah was revealed in the glorious Quran, and the messenger conveyed it. if someone disbelieves in this he would be a kafir. therefore, it is belief to deny the shariah rules as a whole, or any definite detailed rule amongst them. this is the case whether these ahkam(rules) are connected with worships(ibadaat) transactions(mu'amalaat), punishments (uqoobat), food etc.....
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