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all the Praises due to Allah and we ask
Allah to send his peace and blessings
upon Prophet Muhammad welcome back to
the proof that Islam is the
truth
now today we're going to launch into a
really special topic the miracle of the
Quran the linguistic Miracle of the
Quran you see the prophet Muhammad
sallallah alai wasallam told us that
every single messenger was sent with a
convincing Miracle a miracle when the
people saw it and when they observed it
they knew in their hearts even if they
did not profess it with their tongues
they knew in their heart that this was
the truth that this man truly was a
prophet of God so for example
Moses was given the miracle of The
Parting of the Red Sea and when Pharaoh
saw it and when the army of pharaoh was
crushed he
knew that Pharaoh was what he claimed to
be now I believe he said in the god of
Moses the Ben Israel the children of
Israel Jesus he healed the sick he cured
the lepers he gave sight to the blind
even the dead were raised by the
permission of God these were the
convincing Miracles that were given to
the prophets who came before but the
prophet Muhammad sallallah alaihi
wasallam may God's peace and blessings
be upon him said I have been given the
Quran I have been given the Quran
that is the convincing Miracle of the
prophet and he said I hope that because
of it more people will enter my religion
than any other
Prophet So today we're going to be
discussing the miracle of the
Quran this is it I'm holding in my hand
here a
miracle some of you may say how is it a
miracle
if you watched the previous series you
would have got an inkling into how the
Quran terms of its
preservation is truly amazing thing but
something being amazing doesn't mean
it's a miracle so what do we mean by a
miracle exactly well a miracle is
something that cannot normally be
achieved by natural processes and a
miracle is something quite different
from Magic because for example there are
things that magicians can do like for
example when Moses went to pharaoh and
the sign that God gave to Moses was his
staff when he threw the staff it became
like a snake and Pharaoh said well I
have magicians who can do the same thing
so he called his magicians and he
organized a competition between The
Magicians and
Moses and so The Magicians they managed
through their magic to deceive people
into thinking that their starves were
snakes so they threw down their starves
and they did they deceived the people
into believing that these starves were
snakes and it seems as if they were
moving but then when Moses threw down
his staff it demolished the magic and
The Magicians themselves realized that
what had taken place was beyond what any
magician could accomplish
these magicians were
experts magic in Egypt at the time had
reached a type of an art form it had
reached its
peak and they were in every stratum of
society involved with aspects of magic
even the Egyptian Book of the Dead is a
type of magical incantation that is
supposed to bring the dead pharaohs and
the dead people back to life
but these magicians were astounded they
knew that this was beyond their art this
was beyond their craft this was beyond
their capabilities what Moses had was
from God and they knew it for them it
was a convincing Miracle similarly in
the time of
Jesus the people were very skilled at
the time in medicine and the Jews were
very proud of their abilities in the
field of Medicine
but yet when Jesus came giving sight to
the Blind and curing lepers even the
dead were brought back to life they knew
that this was beyond what any human
being could do this was something that
was from
God so how can a book the Quran how can
this be a miracle on the same level as
that that's what we're going to be
examining over the next two episodes of
the proof that Islam is the truth
because that's what we're trying to
bring to you the
evidences that can convince any rational
sensible person that Islam is exactly
what it claims to be the divine
revelation from Allah the creator of the
heavens and the Earth for the benefit
and the guidance of all of mankind now
of course what is noticeable is that
each
Miracle is appropriate for each time and
for each place as I mentioned you see
the miracle that was given to Moses when
his staff became a snake and how it was
able to destroy the magic of The
Magicians was suitable to Egypt at that
time because that was what they were
impressed by
similarly in the time of Jesus
the doctors and the people who were
expert in medicine were very impressed
they knew that compared to what their
capabilities were at that time there was
no way that they could do those things
they knew that what Jesus had bought was
something that was from God so it was
very suitable to that time to that
place but the
Quran is for all
times the Quran is until the day of
judgment and the Miracle of the Quran is
not just one Miracle it's as aspect is
miraculous in many many different ways
and certainly one of the miraculous
aspects about the Quran are the
statements in the Quran concerning the
natural world concerning things that
normally is the realm of scientific
investigation yet the Quran contains
information that no person could
possibly have known 1,400
years ago these are the scientific
miracles of the Quran because the Quran
is Guidance the age of science just as
it was guidance for the age of the
Prophet Muhammad may God's peace and
blessings be upon him but our topic
today is not the scientific miracles in
the Quran we're going to be dealing with
that in some further episodes today our
topic is the linguistic Miracle of the
Quran and in some ways this is a
historical investigation although it is
still something that is a challenge that
stays until this day because the Arabic
language is a living language people
still speak Arabic people can still pick
up the Quran who speak Arabic and read
it and understand it and comprehend it
even though this book book is 1,400
years old you would be very hardpressed
in fact I don't even know if there is
another book like this in the world
today or another language like this in
the world today that is so ancient yet
people still comprehend it and still
people understand its language so this
is something very special about the
Quran but what we're going to be
investigating is this linguistic Miracle
of the Quran the challenge of the Quran
that was laid down to the Arabs 1,400
years ago if you do not believe that
this book the Quran is from God then
produce one chapter like it just produce
one chapter like and if you can't do it
and verily you will never be able to do
it then fear the fire fear the Hell Fire
whose fuel is men and Stones so this is
the challenge of the Quran
the challenge was for the Arabs to
produce just a chapter like the Quran so
I want to really spend a little bit of
time explaining the significance of this
and in order to do that we need to
travel back in time and we need to
understand something about Arabia in the
time of the Prophet Muhammad may God's
peace and blessings be upon him and we
have to understand that this was a time
this was a place with no civiliz ization
that we can speak of it was a real
Backwater there was no real civilization
there it was in fact the life in Arabia
in the time of the Prophet Muhammad was
barbaric we could describe it as
barbaric a common practice was female
infanticide they had no roads no
impressive buildings no amazing
infrastructure no art forms to think of
and to talk about but what they did have
of course what was in place was the
language they were masters of their
language and if they had a civilization
their civilization was in the language
itself and we're going to talk about
that in more detail after the break
don't leave us stay with us for the
proof that Islam is the truth the
linguistic Miracle of the Quran
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welcome back to the proof that Islam is
the truth and today we're talking about
the linguistic Miracle of the Quran and
we were talking about how the Arabs had
no civilization to speak of in terms of
monuments and buildings but they were
extremely proud of their language in
fact the word Arabs use for people who
are not Arab is ajmi and ajmi means
someone who who is dumb someone it's
like someone who can't speak so they
were really proud of their language it
was a pure language it was a strong
language and they were masters of it
they were masters of the use of language
and they were very very fond of poetry
as well in fact they had a Marketplace
for poems a Marketplace for poetry it
was called has and this is the context
in which I need to place the revelation
of the word of God the
Quran because it's in this
context that the challenge of the Quran
is made you see the prophet Muhammad may
God's peace and blessings be upon him
was not a literate man he was not a man
of
letters he was not known to be a poet or
a narrator that's not what he was known
to be he was known to be honest and
truthful and trustworthy yet he came
with this
book
outstanding in its qualities a
masterpiece of literature unlike which
the Arabs had never heard before and the
proof of it the proof that it was from
God to the Arabs was its eloquence it's
Mastery of the language its sness
so the Quran made a challenge the first
challenge was because the people were
saying Muhammad invented the Quran they
were claiming he invented it so