I think what you're pointing
to
is the miracle of the
Quran isn't it as the prophet sallai
wasallam said all prophets were given
something which would cause people to
believe in them this is in sah bukari
and sah Muslim the thing which I was
given is none other than a revelation
the Quran which Allah revealed to me so
I hope that I will have the most
followers among them on the day of
judgment it was the definitive Miracle
of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam it is not the only
Miracle he was given other Miracles many
other
Miracles but when he talked about the
miracle which was given to the prophet
to convince their people that that they
were in fact prophets of Allah the
miracle he mentioned here was the
Quran not the splitting of the
Moon not the water coming from between
his
fingers the variety of other Miracles
which he did by the will of
allaha he mentioned the
Quran
so that GI gives the Quran a particular
significance that we need to grasp we
need to understand the miracle of the
Quran the other prophets were given
Miracles which if you asked the people
who believe in those
prophets if you ask them to
prove that they were prophets of
Allah based on the miracle
could they do
it
Moses split the Red
Sea Jews he would this was a sign to
them but if you asked a Jew to prove
that Moses was a prophet of Allah show
us his
Miracle can they show
it
no if you ask the Christians who claim
to follow
Jesus can you prove that Jesus brought
the dead back to life Lazarus was
mentioned in their
book who was dead and he called him to
get up and he got up is Lazarus still
around can you show him to us
no
so those Miracles were limited to the
times in which they took
place because those prophets were sent
for particular
times similarly the other miracles of
the Prophet Muhammad wasallam splitting
of the Moon well I know you've heard
some people said okay when uh Armstrong
and the others went to the moon they saw
the split that was on the moon it's not
true that's a story Muslims made up
unfortunately out of desperation to
prove that Islam is really the truth you
know all kinds of stories started to
circulate when Neil Armstrong went to
the moon he heard the aan on the moon
right you all heard that one
right reality is that those
Miracles we cannot prove them we believe
in them because they are narrated To Us
by authentic narrations we believe in
Jesus raising the dead Moses splitting
the water
but because Prophet Muhammad sallallah
wasam was to be a prophet for all
times then it meant his Miracle had to
continue had to be available at all
times and that's what is special about
the
Quran it is a miracle in and of itself
which will stand until the last
days it is a
miracle fundamentally a literary
Miracle yes there are issues also in the
Quran about science Quran speaks
something about science these things
were found out now which we didn't know
before 1,400 years ago people didn't
definitely didn't
know there are other issues found in the
Quran but primarily the Quran is a
literary
Miracle
now
occasionally missionaries may say to
us if I
bring a
chapter or a book written like your
Quran will you
then become a
Christian because because you claim
because the challenge of the Quran first
began
with imitating the whole Quran itself as
in Surah is Allah says there say if all
mankind and the Jin would come together
to produce the like of this Quran they
could not produce its like even though
they exerted all their strength in
aiding one another later Allah reduced
it to 10
suras he said or do they say say that he
has invented it say to them bring 10
invented suras like it and call for help
on whomever you can besides Allah if
you're truthful that's Surah HUD 11th
chapter verse 13 and then finally inah
Allah says
there and if you are in doubt about what
I revealed to my servant then bring a
single Surah like
it and call your Witnesses besides Allah
if you're truthful this is the
challenge so the Christian says okay if
I bring a
chapter written in Arabic like the one
that you have will you then give up your
faith and join mine
people get
scared when this is presented to
them because in
Arabic we RAR can't understand the
miracle unfortunately the vast majority
of the Muslim world today are not
Arabs and the vast majority of the Arabs
don't really speak Arabic
anymore I they speak something like
Arabic but not really speaking Arabic
anymore so if somebody wrote something
in
Arabic who had a flare for writing and
it sounded like the Quran then you would
be up against the wall finished the
proof has been
brought so when they bring this
challenge mostly we are
afraid we wouldn't say yes you bring it
and I'm ready to become a
Christian in the prophet s alam's time
what do you think the sahaba would have
said if somebody said that they would
have said bring it I'm ready no problem
I'll follow you because they were
confident that this was in fact a
miracle the only way that we can grasp
the miracle of the Quran
today we who don't know any Arabic or
what Arabic we know is not sufficient to
grasp the miraculous nature of the
Quran the only way that we can
understand it is just to look at it in
its historical
context if we look at the life of
prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam and his relationship to the
meccans the
meccans they were were the center they
were at the center of trade in Arabia
Mecca was the Center of Trade where all
the trade routs through which all the
trade Roots
passed and it was also the religious
Center it was the fact that it was the
religious Center which made it the
center of
Commerce because all of the various
tribes used to come to Mecca to worship
their Idols which were kept around the C
so when Prophet Muhammad s wasallam came
along and
said all of these Idols are false there
is only one God
Allah and all of the rest of this is
false what did that mean to the
meccans this
was danger their whole economic base was
threatened their position in Arabia
was
threatened this was a very
dangerous call so they tried to stop him
tried to get him to stop they talk to
him
first why are you saying this you want
to be the leader of Mecca okay we'll
make you
leader or uh women why why do people do
these things women you want the most
beautiful women we'll take from our
daughters the most beautiful and give
them them
to oh okay money money maybe it's
money we'll gather from all of our
wealth give it to
you he wouldn't
stop so okay let's talk to his uncle Abu
Talib try to get him to stop put
pressure on the
uncle Abu Talib couldn't stop him he
told him this is his thing you know it's
what he believes in and you know he's
not giving it
up okay let's boycott
him let's boycott them starve them into
submission he and his whole
clan
failed what's left we have to kill
him get young men from all of our
various Clans Converse in his house and
kill him one
stroke so that his clan would not be
able to fight all of us
they failed he went to
Medina one would think okay he went to
Medina enough they're okay no they they
could see the danger of his
da that his da was like a disease if you
didn't stop it dead it was going to come
back and get you so they had to try and
get him in
Medina they fought battles lost lives
they were
imprisoned forced to make a
treaty think about it if all they had to
do was to make three verses
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like that's all three verses like that
if all they had to do was
that don't you think they would do
it why go through all that fighting loss
of life and all this when all they had
to do was
that so it must have meant it wasn't
possible they were the masters of the
language at the
time the average Arab
in that time he spoke what they call
F classical
Arabic they loved po poetry and Pros so
much so that they etched their favorite
seven in gold plates and hung it on the
cabba they worshiped their
writings and they couldn't produce
it
this is the sign for us to know that it
is not possible so when that Christian
brings us writings and says doesn't this
sound like
your Quran we say it might sound
something like it but it
isn't but our Scholars say what do your
Scholars know who are the masters of
Arabic
today scholars in o for and Yale
and no certainly not they cannot compare
to the scholars in Baghdad or Damascus
or
Cairo Etc cannot
compare so the miracle of the
Quran is a literary
Miracle proven by the historical fact
that the people of its own time
could not reproduce it and they had a
need to reproduce it because sometimes
people make challenges and there's no
need to rep to to answer the challenge
for example in America we had an
individual by the name of Elijah
Muhammad back in the
30s who
claimed that
Allah was a
man who came to to him and designated
him to be the messenger of Allah to
Black
Americans that was his
claim his story was
Allah
was from the colored
peoples and they were allahs not just
one
Allah and all the white people were in
fact
Devils they call it Reverse Racism right
white Europeans they portray the devil
as either black or
red so he turned it around and said no
it's
white
right
so he speaking to his
followers
said I
dear any white
man to come and prove that he's not a
devil and he repeated
this time and time again in his lectures
see I've been saying this for the last
so many years and not a single white man
has come along to prove he wasn't a
devil okay well of course white people
didn't need to go and prove they weren't
Devils I mean who was Elijah Muhammad
there was a little speck on the you know
on the
pavement insignificant what power did he
have there was no need no drive for
white Americans to prove they weren't
Devils so that kind of claim you say
there are different types of claims
people make claims right it's like the
bah the bahis their founder Ali Shiri he
wrote a book
called the holiest of books right bah is
their Prophet right
it is claimed in that book because they
want to outdo the Quran and it's written
in Arabic if you don't believe that this
book is from Allah then produce one word
like
it produce one word like
it
well when the uh book came out the Arabs
in what is now known as Iran and there
many Arabs in the south of Iran who are
Sunni Muslims people don't even know
about them about 35% of Iran is Sunni so
all in the South there's Sunni towns
that are arabic speaking and there are
Sunny Muslims there anyway they pointed
out you know uh Ali Shiri you and bahah
this that you have it's got a lot of
grammatical mistakes in
it you know cuz he was was a he was not
he was not an Arab who wrote it so
naturally in his writing he wasn't
really an Arabic scholar even so he he
made a lot of grammatical
mistakes so he said no this is a new
Divine
grammar so this type of claim you can
see there's no drive for Muslims to want
to prove we can produce one letter word
like it it's known it's obvious right so
there's no need to respond
whereas the challenge of the
Quran for it there was definitely a need
to
respond so it's important for
us to have that clear
understanding of the importance of the
Quran what is it it is the living
Miracle of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam which will continue you till
the last day