1- The Quran is the Divine book of Islam which contains the tenets and
religious laws upon which the Faith of Islam is founded and is also the source
of its morals and ethics. If the Quran is proved to be a Divine Revelation,
which is free from all falsehood, there is no alternative but to believe in it.
Accordingly the powers hostile to Islam since the past and up to the present day have done their utmost to shake the belief the authenticity and Divine Origin of the Quran in the past, the pagans of Mecca did every thing in their power to challenge the belief that the Quran was a Divine Revelation and they claimed:
Accordingly the powers hostile to Islam since the past and up to the present day have done their utmost to shake the belief the authenticity and Divine Origin of the Quran in the past, the pagans of Mecca did every thing in their power to challenge the belief that the Quran was a Divine Revelation and they claimed:
“Naught
is this but a lie which he has forged and others have helped him at it’’.
They
also described the Quran as being:" Tales of the ancients, which he has
caused to be written:and they are dictated before him morning and evening’’. and
that Muhammad was taught by a man:
“It
is a man that taught by man: it is a man that teaches him ’’
They
even alleged that the Quran was the work of a magician or a priest, in order to
deny that is was a Divine Revelation inspired to Muhammad, blessings and peace
upon him, to guide mankind.
A number of orientalists who were biased against Islam supported the Pagans’
false accusations and made desperate attempts to convince the world that the
Quran was not a divine revelation but had been contrived by Muhammad ,blessings
and peace be upon him. These Orientalists repeated the pagans’ allegations
despite the Querns authentic and conclusive proofs to the contrary.
Since Muhammad was illiterate he charged some of his companions to commit to
writing the Divine Inspiration that was revealed to him .Had he been able to
read and write, he would not have needed anybody to write down the verses that
had been revealed to him. The allegation that he relied upon the Jewish and
Christian scriptures in the Quran is not only false but is also ridiculous, for
how could an illiterate person read, understand and convey any beliefs existing
in the Holy Books of other religions? How and when could that have happened?
Such false allegations are not based upon any facts or proof.
2- Muhammad, blessings and peace be upon him, preached his message in Mecca for about thirteen years, during that time there was no relationship between him and the Jews, and this fact is historically authenticated. His relationship with Christians has also been magnified beyond proportion. It has been related that when Muhammad was about eleven years old, he travelled with his uncle Abdul Muttalib by caravan to Syria. During the short time that the caravan rested, Muhammad met Bahiri, a Christian monk, and talked to him a few minutes. How could a boy of that age possibly comprehend the principles, rules, precepts and fundamentals of a religion in the few minutes that Bahiri had talked to him? Also why did Bahiri the monk choose Muhammad out of all the people in the caravan to teach him the principles of the Religion of Christianity? In addition to all this, why did Muhammad wait thirty years after his meeting with Bahiri before proclaiming his new faith? Such a story is not credible by any means.
2- Muhammad, blessings and peace be upon him, preached his message in Mecca for about thirteen years, during that time there was no relationship between him and the Jews, and this fact is historically authenticated. His relationship with Christians has also been magnified beyond proportion. It has been related that when Muhammad was about eleven years old, he travelled with his uncle Abdul Muttalib by caravan to Syria. During the short time that the caravan rested, Muhammad met Bahiri, a Christian monk, and talked to him a few minutes. How could a boy of that age possibly comprehend the principles, rules, precepts and fundamentals of a religion in the few minutes that Bahiri had talked to him? Also why did Bahiri the monk choose Muhammad out of all the people in the caravan to teach him the principles of the Religion of Christianity? In addition to all this, why did Muhammad wait thirty years after his meeting with Bahiri before proclaiming his new faith? Such a story is not credible by any means.
This matter led the Orientalist Huart to reject this story as being fabricated
.He affirmed that not one of the Arabic documents and manuscripts that have
been covered,studied and published support this false allegation .He added:
"The role allegedly played by the Syrian Monk was nothing but the imagination
of the author of the story” .
3- The Quran in common with the divine religions previously revealed declared
there was one God, the Creator of the Universe and that all creatures are
destined to return to Him. God Alone is Source of all divine religions so there
should be no conflict in the fundamental precepts. The Quran, however, opposed
many other prevalent beliefs among the followers of both Judaism and
Christianity. This itself is sufficient proof to the allegation
that Muhammad referred to the Jewish and Christian sources of faith. Had that
been the case; the difference in these beliefs would have been insignificant
and would not have involved fundamental beliefs.
4- No other scripture or Holy Book other than the Quran included scientific
facts and cosmic and biological phenomena in its verses more than fourteen
centuries ago, all of which were discovered only in the fifties of this century (The
twentieth century) following the advanced progress in all branches of science
.Examples of this include the successive stages of the embryo and the fetus in
the womb, the sun, the moon,
The planets, the wind, rain, etc.
When
astronomers failed to a scientific explanation for a phenomenon they admitted
that it was the result of “The Divine Hand” where could the illiterate prophet
Muhammad have possibly acquired such highly advanced scientific information ?
It cannot be claimed that his sources in these matters were Jewish or Christian
Scriptures, which make no reference to any such matters. The only source of the
inspired verses of the Quran was undoubtedlyly and exclusively God Almighty,
the Creator Universe and could not possibly been any human source.