03-02-2007, 07:16 PM
Bismillah
Praise be to Allah The One Who Revealed the Furqan (Criterion) to the whole worlds and prayer and peace be upon our teacher, leader and beloved Messenger Mohamed, all Messengers and Prophets. May Allah Reward them all.
To further pursue this crucial topic of Naskh Insh a Allah I will use this term from now on, since this issue is ground to many non Muslims who claim that Quran has been changed.
Look at this Ayah, which is already used on this same thread earlier, but I would like to highlight more aspects of this noble Ayah.
Allah, may He be Glorified, Say:” Whatever a Verse (revelation) do We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, We bring a better one or similar to it. Know you not that Allah is able to do all things?”(Quran 2:106)
With all due respect to all scholars who explain this as Ayahs from Quran that have been removed. The bolded underlined word which is translated as abrogate, in Arabic is Nansakh. The verb yansakh = to copy. To make a copy of something, a document, or other. Making a copy is surely totally different from the sense the word abrogate gives. The term abrogate implies annulling something, replacing something..etc.
When you examine the following part to this Ayah that says We bring a better one - of course to replace the one which Allah Made forgotten - then He Say or a similar, here is the core of interest. Bringing a similar is the detailed explanation of the verb to copy. Please do note that the word Ayah has multifaceted meanings of them is sign, evidence, proof..etc. As such, there are two kinds of action Allah Takes, one is to copy, the other is to make forgotten. If we apply those meanings on the noble Ayah, we will gather that Allah clearly Explained the sense from the consequent action as being either that Allah Brings a better one for the one which was made forgotten or a similar (a copy of the one that Allah Made a copy of Nasakha).
How can this be interpreted that Allah Changed His mind, revealed an ayah then took it off the well protected book?
As we know that Quran is of a well coherent texture of which one part explains the other, if we move to the Ayah:
"Only those believe in Our Signs, who, when they are reminded of them fall down prostrate, and glorify the Praises of their Lord, and they are not proud." (Quran 32:15)
Just take an in depth look at this Ayah (verse), I m not saying that the one of the meanings of the word Ayah is not verse, but the sense sign is clearly evident here. Allah, in one of the definitions of a believer He Made in Quran, is the one who is when reminded of Ayatu Allah, Our signs, falls down to the ground prostrating in a glorifying and admittance to Allah’s Capability. Matter of fact, in our daily life, we do encounter Ayah’s of Allah even on the slightest matters. But it is only made explicit to those who think, who ponder and reflect on Allah’s Capabilities that manifest through those Ayahs (signs and proofs). Those Signs might be signs of Allah’s Existence, Capabilities, and much more.
The same type of Ayahs are those Allah Made either forgotten or copied.
And Allah Knows best. Alhamdulelah Who Guided us for this and if it wasn’t for Him we wouldn’t have been guided.