Sheikh Abdul Majid Subh
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In his book, Good Argumentation with the Doubters of Islam from the
Qur’an, the Torah, the Gospels and Science, Sheikh `Abdul-Majid Subh
replied to the question “Your Book, the Qur’an, contains several
contradictions; it is incoherent, and it comprises numerous repetitions.
How do you regard it as a miracle then?” as follows:
“Your question is not a novel one.
Rather, it is based on the false claim of the preceding orientalists
that the Qur’an is the work of Muhammad. By the same token, your
question can be traced back to the lifetime of Prophet Muhammad (peace
and blessings be upon him) when the Divine Revelation was descending. In
this connection, I would like you to reflect on what the Glorious
Qur’an itself has recorded of similar questions, saying, “When We
substitute one revelation for another, and Allah knows best what He
reveals (in stages), they say, thou art but a forger: but most of them
understand not. Say, “The Holy Spirit has brought the revelation from
thy Lord in truth, in order to strengthen those who believe, and as a
guide and glad tidings to Muslims.” We know indeed that they say, it is a
man that teaches him. The tongue of him they wickedly point to is
notably foreign, while this is Arabic, pure and clear. Those who believe
not in the Signs of Allah, Allah will not guide them, and theirs will
be a grievous penalty. It is those who believe not in the Signs of
Allah, that forge falsehood: it is they who lie.” (An-Nahl: 101–105)
“But the disbelievers say: “Naught is
this but a lie which he has forged, and others have helped him at it. In
truth it is they who have put forward an iniquity and a falsehood.” And
they say: “Tales of the ancients, which he has caused to be written:
and they are dictated before him morning and evening.” Say: “The
(Qur’an) was sent down by Him Who knows the Mystery (that is) in the
heavens and the earth: verily He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”
(Al-Furqan: 4–6)
Now, it becomes clear that those who claim that the Qur’an is the work of Muhammad blindly imitate their predecessors.
The Glorious Qur’an, the very words of
Allah, has challenged all mankind to produce even the like of its
smallest surah (chapter). It contains endless and astonishing miracles
that stun the fair-minded scientists and prove its Divine nature.
In his well-known The Bible, the Qur’an
and Science, Dr. Maurice Bucaille compares scientific data and
statements contained in the Scriptures—the Qur’an and the Bible. The
results stunned the author: the Qur’an, most definitely, does not
contain a single proposition at variance with the most firmly
established modern knowledge. In the conclusion, Dr. Bucaille says, “The
comparison of several Biblical and Qur’anic narrations of the same
subject shows the existence of fundamental differences between
statements in the former, which are scientifically unacceptable, and
declarations in the latter, which are in perfect agreement with modern
data: this was the case of the Creation and Flood, for example.”
Among the fruits of this study is that
the author embraced Islam, for he unswervingly believed in the Divinity
of the Glorious Qur’an. In his book, Dr. Bucaille discovered numerous
contradictions between the Bible and the scientifically established
facts.
However, as to the Christian
missionaries’ claim that the Glorious Qur’an is “incoherent”, it is null
and void for they have no knowledge of the Arabic stylistic features.
In spite of their eloquence and mastering of Arabic, the Arabs, who
belied the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), never depicted the
Qur’an as incoherent or contradictory to the Arabic stylistic rules.
Finally, as to your claim that the Qur’an
contains numerous repetitions, it is groundless for the above-mentioned
reason, namely, that you have no profound knowledge of the Arabic
stylistic rules. In fact, the Glorious Qur’an has no repetition, but it
sometimes states the same event or story in more than one location.
Nevertheless, it adds each time more and more pieces of information to
the narration.
Furthermore, the Glorious Qur’an always
varies its mode of expression so as to suit the context of speech as
well as the nature of the addressees. So, it uses diverse modes of
expression: examples, briefness, expatiation, threat, promise, clarity,
metaphor, and so on.
In fact, variation in the Glorious Qur’an
was one of the challenges faced by the eloquent Arabs when they were
called—and they assuredly failed—to produce even a single verse similar
to any of the Qur’an’s.
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