07-11-2006, 01:04 PM
Quote:Bismillah:
Muslims believe that <b>Prophet Muhammad is not the author of the Quran</b>. God is the author. The following points bear the fact:
1. The Quran itself, at a number of places and in different ways,<b> says it is from God</b>. One of the claim runs thus: "This is indeed a Quran most honourable, a Book well-guarded...a Revelation from the Lord of the Worlds."
(56:77-80)
2. The Prophet <b>did not claim credit for the Quran</b>. Furthermore, the Quran claims: "This Quran is not such as can be produced by anyone other than God."
(10:37)
3. The Prophet was <b>illiterate</b>. <b>He was not a learned man or a philosopher</b>.
4. The Quran took <b>23 years to complete</b>. Had the verses of the Quran <b>(6,666 altogether)</b> been written by the Prophet, he would have needed editing, updating, etc. He did not have spell-check, thesaurus, etc. <b>Yet all the information in the Quran is consistent and without discrepancies</b>. The verses were taken down as dictate by the Prophet only once and no redrafting, editing or updating took place after that.
5. If the Prophet had written the Quran,<b> he would not have made the challenges that are in the Quran</b>, <b>for fear that the learned Arabs and eminent poets of his time would have taken up his challenges and shamed him</b>. "And if you are in doubt as to what We have revealed (from time to time) to Our servant (Muhammad), then produce a chapter like thereunto..."
(2:23)
6. If the Prophet had written such an inimitable Book of Information and Wisdom without resorting to consultation with prominent scholars and the best books from the best libraries in the world?! If he did this, it would surely have been known, <b>since every move he made was known to people. The Prophet was a historical figure, not a mythological figure. </b>
7. The Prophet was <b>the busiest most active person in history</b>. So how could he have found the time to write <b>(even if he were educated)</b> <b>such a comprehensive and extensive Book of Guidance which would have needed years of seclusion and concentration to complete? </b>
8. In Chapter <b>111</b>, it is mentioned that <b>Abu Lahab</b>, one of the Prophet's uncles who was <b>always against Islam</b>, <b>would never accept Islam</b>. This Revelation came some <b>ten years before the death of Abu Lahab</b>. <b>How could the Prophet have dared to write this chapter because all he (Abu Lahab) needed to do to prove that Quran was not the words of God, was to accept Islam dishonestly?
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9. The Prophet was mentioned <b>by name in the Quran only 5 times whereas Jesus Christ's name was (honourably) mentioned 25 times</b>. <b>Could the Prophet go to such an extent of honouring someone more than himself if he had written the Quran? </b>
10. There is a chapter in the Quran entitled and dedicated to <b>"Mary", the mother of Jesus Christ</b>, while <b>there is no chapter called, or dedicated to, the prophet's own mother, "Amina", or daughter, "Fatima", nor were their names mentioned in the Quran</b>. <b>Could this have happened if the Prophet was the Author of the Quran? </b>
11. Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, is glorified in the Quran as <b>"the choses lady above the women of all nations". </b> <b>Why would the Prophet glorify a woman he had never seen and one from another race, saying that she was chosen (by God) above all women, unless the formation of the verses had nothing to do with the Prophet's own authorship but that he only repeated what was inspired to him by God? </b>
12. In the Quran, God is called "Allah" and (in arabic) he is also referred to by his attributes, like the Cherisher, the Merciful, the Almighty. <b>There are 99 such attributes but none of these is "Abba" (father) by which the Arab Christians of the Prophet's time (and even today) refer to God</b>. <b>If the Prophet was the writer of the Quran, he would surely have used "Abba" as one of the names for God because of its familiarity and also because it was easier to say "Abba" than many of the attributes. </b>
i hope this would be useful for those who reflect. Ameen.
Salam
Wael.
Point number 10 brings up a good question. Why was Jesus, if only another one of God's prophets, born of a virgin? And why was this fact prophisized in scripture before it happened?