Hacene Chebbani – Who Is The Author Of The Quran
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The transcript discusses the origins of the Quran and its significance in the history of Islam. It emphasizes the importance of protecting one's job as a prophet and avoiding revealing one's mistakes to others. The speaker also discusses the challenges of the Prophet sallali Alaihi- withdrawn from the Bible and the importance of not revealing one's mistakes to others. The discussion also touches on the history of the holy Bible and the importance of avoiding comparing deeds to those of one's siblings.AI: Transcript ©
Tonight, insha'Allah, as it was advertised, we'll be
talking about,
this topic,
at the Quran. Who is the real author
of the Quran?
So we
as Muslims, we are familiar with the answer.
Everyone knows the answer
that it is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
who revealed this book to our prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
But the question is how can we prove
this if we're having a discussion with non
muslims?
If we're talking to the youth,
young people who are confused in our community,
if we're talking to our children,
how can we prove to them
from the Quran,
from the book itself
that it is a book that was revealed
by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to our prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Because there are we live in a society,
in a multicultural
society, we have non Muslims.
We live with them.
They could be our colleagues, our neighbors, our
friends, sometimes family members,
you know, who don't believe
that this Quran
was revealed by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
our Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So they have other options.
They have other options. One of the options
is that it is Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam himself who wrote the book.
There are people who believe
that it is him who wrote the book.
The second option,
they said
he must have taken
the
information
that is found in the Quran from the
Jews and the Christians.
Just
because they believe that
there were some Christian communities in the Arabian
Peninsula,
some Jewish communities,
So he must have taken this information
or the revelation or the content of this
book
from these sources.
Some of them they said someone
must have helped him
writing the book. If he was an illiterate,
someone who was not able to read and
write,
then someone else
has helped him writing the book.
One of the claims
is that
devil the devil revealed the book to him,
Satan. Shaitan revealed and this is the most
maybe the most ridiculous
claim.
But we have to deal with it since
it is there and if you check the
YouTube and social media you will find it
there.
So we have to talk about it
and we talk investigate
all these these options.
So now if we are able
to eliminate
all these options,
so we are left with only one option.
The option that we believe in it, that
we have accepted
that this book was a revelation
from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And the Quran
itself is claiming that it is a revelation
from Allah.
Our prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
never attributed the book to himself.
He said himself that this book came from
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. This Wahi came from
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So today maybe we'll deal with the first
option only and
the second part of this halaqa of this
program will be next week InshaAllah, June
7th
because we cannot deal with all these options
and all these claims
but we try to focus on the first
the first option
which says that Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
wrote the book.
And if we if we deal with this
claim,
if we accept this statement,
this will give rise to many problems
and many issues
and many questions.
And we have to deal with these problems.
We have to think about them.
Are they reasonable
or not? Reasonable questions or not? The first
one is the first problem
that we face if we say that
the Quran was written by our Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
the first problem is the style of writing.
There is a huge difference
between the style of the Quran
and the style of the Sunnah.
All people know that the Sunnah
which is Hadith
and any Hadith will be a statement of
Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
or it could be a story
that took place during his time
or could be a statement
describing
his actions,
would be describing his actions
or his approvals. He would see something
he would see something happening in front of
him and he would keep quiet or he
approve it.
So but when when people compare between
anyone who knows the Arabic language,
he will notice that there is a huge
difference between the style of the Quran
and the style of the hadith.
I don't know, I've never met
someone who knows the Arabic language and he
was confused about an ayah and he says
or or it was confused. He was confused
when it comes to comparing between the ayah,
the verses of the Quran and the Hadith
of Rasulullah SAW.
And he said for example,
I don't know which one is which. I've
never met a person who knows the Arabic
language and he said I'm still confused. I
don't know the difference between the both of
them. There is a clear difference
and I would claim, I would make another
claim
even if the Quran is translated
and the Hadith are translated which means you're
reading the English
translation of the Quran
and you read the English translation of the
hadith,
and you don't speak the Arabic language, you
will notice a big difference between the English
translation of the Quran. You will recognize that
this is Quran
and this is Hadith.
It will it will not be difficult,
Especially for Muslims who are familiar with the
Quran
and familiar with
the Hadith, the style
of, you know, of the speech of Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasall.
And even the Arabic poetry,
those who know Arabic language,
they can easily distinguish between Quran
and and between the Arabic poetry that existed
at that time.
The Arabs at that time were the masters
of the language
and they used to take a pride
in this
and their poetry was very strong. It's very
eloquent.
If we study a piece of their poetry
nowadays,
we the Arabs at the time living at
this time, it will be difficult for us
to understand
the meanings of this classical. I'm talking about
classical poetry. Talking about Anarab Nusaddad, Nabi Khazubiyani,
Umru'ul Qais. These are famous
poets who lived during the time of Rasulullah
or before before the time of Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
But no Muslim
would be confused when it comes to comparing
between Quran and between this Arabic
poetry.
They know the difference right away. It's a
different style.
There is no there is no confusion.
And of course these non Muslims who study
Arabic, especially those
scientists and scholars who are in Western Universities,
they they admit that there is a difference
between these different styles.
The second problem
would be blaming the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam in the Quran.
Blaming the Quran, the Prophet for his mistake.
And of course whenever we talk about the
mistakes of the Prophets, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam,
we always have to distinguish between sins and
mistakes,
between sins and miscalculations.
A
sin, you know something is ham. You're not
supposed to do it and you do it
on purpose.
That's something
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and the
rest of the messengers and the prophets were
were free from this. They didn't commit sin.
They didn't they didn't know that something is
Haram and they did it on purpose.
So we're not talking about sins here
even though sometimes the word them is used
you know, in the Quran when talking about
the mistakes of the Prophet. But it means
mistakes.
Right? We're talking about mistakes here. For example,
Madeline, in Surat
Al Taherim Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la said in
the beginning, Surat
You ayu and Nabiu limit to harim mumahallallahu
laka tiptari mardadaazwajik
So Allah Subhana Wa Ta'ala addressed
the Messenger here in this ayah in Surat
At Tahrim, O Prophet,
why do you prohibit
yourself
from what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has made
lawful to you?
Seeking to please your wives,
seeking to please your wives and Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala is the Most Forgiving,
the Most Merciful.
So so here there is there are 2
stories about this this ayah or this incident,
the tafsir of this ayah.
The one that they choose is found in
Surat
al in Sahih al Bukhari. In Sahih al
Bukhari that Rasoolullah
of course in Madinah,
who was his
wife and she was his cousin too.
He used to eat honey in her house.
He used to like honey and sweet
stuff alaihis salallahu alaihi
wasalam.
That was his preference when it comes. One
of his favorite food is to eat sweet
and honey and those things. So he used
to to eat sweet honey.
Then Aisha and Hafsa
and this is something by the way normal,
jealousy between wives.
If women are married to same same person,
then they will be jealous from each other
and it's normal. It's a normal human being,
a normal behavior
when 2 wives or 3 wives are married
to 1 person.
So they said,
let's Hafsa they were friends. Hafsa, she was
the daughter of Umar al Khattab radiAllahu an
and Aisha, the daughter
of Abu Bakr as Siddiq, they were close
friends. So they made a plot.
They said okay, when he comes to your
house,
the first one said to the second one,
when he comes to your house, tell him,
you know that I smell
the smell of Maghafer. Maghafer
is a sort of sap
and it's like a syrup or a liquid
that the Arabs used to take from a
certain tree.
It is sweet
but it has a bad smell
and they knew that Rasool Allah SAW HATES
bad smell. He doesn't like bad smell. Always
he was he used to he has the
habit to put perfume on himself and everything
for going to the Masjid or Jumah.
So he would eat honey in the house
of Zaynab
and then go to the house of Aisha
and he would tell him, what did you
eat? He said I ate honey in the
house of Zainab. He said no, I smell
Maghafir. Maghafir, that's that's the name of this
liquid.
He said no,
I drank I drank honey in the house
of Zainab. He went to the house of
Hafsa
and she made
the same statement.
She made the same statement until he thought
maybe he may he ate the Baqafir without
knowing. So he said I'm not going to
do it again. I'm not going to eat
honey
in the house
of Zaynab Bintu Shashr radiAllahu An.
So Allah Subhana Wa Ta'ala blamed him for
making this statement. Why do you make this
statement? Allah Subhana Wa Ta'ala made halal for
you to eat honey.
Why do you make this statement? Why do
you prohibit yourself from eating honey when Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala made halal for you? Right?
And there is another interpretation of this surah
again about jealousy between
women or group of women married to 1
man.
So this is one thing. Matalan in Surat
Abasa,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala blame him. This story
is very famous.
When the
blind man came to him seeking to know
the truth.
Abba Sawatawalla
and You ahu Alama. Umma idrikala allahu
yahoo lamah. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said
he frowned,
so talking to us about here
the behavior of the Prophet, he frowned
and turned away his attention.
He frowned. Frowned that means he was not
happy.
He felt that
this man Abdullah Abdullah Abu Maktoum
was interfering or he came in the wrong
time. Why? Because you know the story. He
was talking to these leaders, Makkil leaders
And he, Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
had a good intention.
He was hoping that if this was that
was his thought alaihis salatu was salam. If
these people would accept Islam, the leaders of
Makkah accept Islam, then the whole community will
accept Islam. That was his
argument
or that was his thought alayhi salatu wasalam.
So he was engaged with them, talking to
them, having discussion with these people and of
course they were tough people, they were not
there to seek the truth, they were there
to argue with the Messenger of Allah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. But this man
had a different intention, the blind man. He
came to seek knowledge,
to seek the truth. He had a soft
heart. He wanted to accept Islam,
right? So he had a different attention
intention.
And then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala knew about
his intention that a man,
he's a man who's he wants to purify
himself, right?
His attention.
When the blind
man came to him,
You never know. Maybe he will be
purified or who he purify himself, but that
means which means this man might accept Islam
and he will be better than these people
who are rejecting the truth
and rejecting Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala as
their Lord.
Another
example which is found in Surat Al Kahf,
Ayat 2324,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala revealed this Ayat
Surat Al Kahf
So the story of this Ayat,
this this ayat will be used
in 2 ways, Insha'Allah. So the first way
here the first way about blaming the prophet.
The second way we can use it when
we talk about the other problem,
delaying the revelation. The delay of the revelation.
So what happened here? The Meccans didn't know
how to deal with the Prophet.
They know how to respond to the Ayat
of the Quran.
It's bringing knowledge to them
and they're not used to this kind of
knowledge. They didn't dealt, they were not people
of the book. They were pagans.
So they sent 2 people,
Uqmabnu Abi
Muayd and Nader ibn al Harith. They sent
them to Madinah.
They told
them go and
meet the Jewish scholars in Medina
and ask them about what is the best
way to deal with this man?
How can we deal with him?
Because they didn't have Christians or Jews. I
mean, there was one Christian, Warak Abdul Nofal,
the cousin of Khadija and he passed away
like 2 days or 3 days after Rasool
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was sent as
a messenger.
But they didn't have Jewish scholars in Makkah,
they didn't have Jewish,
Christian scholars in
Makkah,
so they sent these people.
The Jewish scholars in Medina told them, ask
him 3 questions.
If he gave you the right answers,
then this is a prophet, then you should
a real prophet or true prophet, then you
should follow him. Right?
If he doesn't give you any answer,
then ignore his message,
right? And you should know that he's a
liar or a fabricator.
He came back to the city of Medina
with these questions.
What are the three questions?
What is the story of the people of
the cave, Ahlul Kahf?
And who was the Dulkarnayn?
The king, the 2 horn king or the
2 horn one. And the third one about
the ruh. Give us some knowledge. Do you
know anything about the ruh, the soul?
So the Meccans came to Rasulullah SAWAYSALAM and
asked him this
this question, these three questions.
So he said I'll tell you about the
answer tomorrow.
But he forgot to say Insha'Allah,
He forgot to say Insha'Allah.
Hoping he was hoping that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala will reveal the answers to him on
the same day or the day after.
So he gave himself some time tomorrow, 24
hours.
Hopefully, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will reveal
will tell me about the answers of this
question.
But you know the Wahi was delayed
for 15 days.
15 days.
Maybe Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wanted to teach
him a lesson.
So that's why He told him
He said never say of anything
that I will definitely
do it tomorrow.
Ilah and Yasha'allah
without adding the word Insha'allah,
if Allah wills.
So if you are planning to do something
in the future, you have to say you
need to say but one one of the
etiquettes, right, it's not haram if you forget
it but one of the etiquettes, he's talking
to the Messenger of Allah
and he's the rule a rule model for
the whole Umma.
So he said do not say
never say if anything I will definitely do
it tomorrow
without adding the word
if Allah's Wills,
if Allah so Wills.
The ul Amadi said it means here and
remember your Lord
if you forget.
They
said if you forget to say Insha Allah,
you are allowed to say it even after
a couple of hours or a couple of
days.
You thought about something and you made a
statement that I'm going to do this and
this and this and you remember after a
couple of hours, a couple of days that
you didn't say Insha'Allah. You can say it
in yourself.
Say Insha'Allah. But then you thought about it
and you say Insha'Allah.
This is one of the etiquettes
of dealing with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So
as you can see that and there are
other examples. I mentioned here 3 examples,
but there are other examples in which Rasool
Allah Almighty SAW was blamed for making a
decision
or doing a miscalculation,
doing something. But it's not a sin again.
It's not a sin. It's not something haram.
He knew it was haram and he did
it on purpose. No.
But it was a miscalculation.
Right?
And then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala would blame
him for these little mistakes.
So now the question is
if he was
if he was the one who wrote the
book, why
would he blame himself?
Why would he expose himself?
Why would he tell other people about his
own mistakes?
Right?
Because
if you think about it,
he was either a true messenger of God
or he was a fabricator or a liar.
If he was a liar or a fabricator
and if you study psychology of liars, they
would try their best to what?
To gain
the trust of other people.
They would be worried
from any they don't want to show their
mistakes.
Right? Especially with this big claim, I am
the prophet of God
and the messenger of God. If you are
a liar, you try your best
to cover your mistakes.
You don't want people to know about your
mistakes, right? Because you want to protect your
claim
Especially if you know there is some benefit
or some you know some gains, some material
gains behind this claim,
you try to look yourself, look always,
you know, right,
always truthful,
or someone who get it right all the
time. You're the prophet of God.
So if you are someone who wrote the
book, if he was someone,
it doesn't seem right for him to expose
his mistakes,
to tell other people about his mistakes.
So now we try to put all this,
talk about all these problems and and these
things should make us think
and Insha'Allah gain confidence
that this book came from Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala, right?
The third problem
about prophecies.
The prophecies on the Quran. Rasool Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam made many prophecies.
Some of them, he made them in the
Hadith, they are found in the sunnah of
Rasool Allah SWALLAM.
Some of them are included in the Quran.
So those
who claim or believe that Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam wrote the book, he himself wrote
the Quran,
we have to deal with these prophecies.
Right? Because how did he know that these
things will happen in the future?
And we have, I have two examples here,
Matan Sul al Hudaybiyah
which took place in the 6th year
after the hijrah of Rasulullah
Al Hudaybiyah Peace Treaty. It's called Al Hudaybiyah
Peace Treaty.
When he was going to Umrah with 1400
Sahabis
and the Makkans did not allow them to
go inside the city of Makkah and they
had to sign a treaty, a peace treaty
for 10 years, right?
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala revealed to him
Surat Al Fath during that
occasion, Surat Al Fath, the opening
or sometimes it is translated as the conquest
because the people people believe that the Fath
here, the opening means the opening of Makkah
or the conquest of Makkah.
Wallahu ta'ala. So some of ulama, some of
other ulama have different interpretation.
They said the event itself
was a big
achievement.
It was like an opening for the Muslim
community because people
felt safe. There was a peace treaty, no
war taking place between the Americans and the
people of Madinah,
so people were traveling
around and they were able to meet Muslims
from the city of Medina and they started
accepting Islam, listening to the message of the
Quran,
meeting the Sahaba,
teaching them the Quran and many people accepted
Islam.
Until after 2 years
when the Muslims, you know,
went
to towards Makkah to open the city of
Makkah, the army was
around 10,000.
10,000 Muslims.
So the the community grew
within 2 years from 1 thou from around
2000, 3000 because
if we count the people who were left
in Madinah
to 10,000
or more.
This 10,000 here was just talking about the
army,
the army who which went to open the
city of Makkah. So it was a great
achievement for the Muslim community.
But anyway,
in Surat,
Al Fattah, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said,
Allah
Subhana
Wa Ta'la said, Lakat Sadaq Allahu Rasoolahu Ruya
will have, let it huluun al Masid Al
Haram.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala he said, verily
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has fulfilled his promise
to the Messenger
when he saw a vision. Rasool Allah SWAMI
saw a dream or a vision that he
will go into the city of Makkah. So
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has fulfilled
That you will enter the city of Makkah!
You will enter Haram!
Aminin!
In safety!
Shaving your hands or Muqasreem,
having
your head shaved or shortened.
Let a kafoon, you don't have to worry
about anything. And this is what happened the
next year, umratulqaddah.
After 1 year, the sahaba were able to
do umra because that was part of the
treaty,
part of the agreement that he made with
the with the Makans.
And of course when Allah Subh'ala talks about
Fath,
as I said, many people thought that,
they said this could be about Fath Makkah,
and it happened after another year, in 8th,
year of the hijra. So we are talking
about the 6th year of the hijra, the
7th year, the Muslims went into Umrah, it's
called Umrah Al Qadah, and then after 1
year they were able to conquer the city
of Makkah and the city of Makkah became
became a Muslim city. Now if he was
the if he was the one who wrote
the book, he he wrote the Quran,
it would be a huge risk to tell
his companions
that don't worry,
definitely we're gonna enter the city of Makkah.
Even if you made an agreement with the
Makkans, you don't know if they're gonna fulfill
their agreements.
I mean next year, going next year for
a new for our Umrah. You don't know
if they're gonna fulfill for sure their agreement.
So you don't use a language, a strong
language that for sure you're going to enter
the city of Makkah.
That would be a huge gamble, a huge
risk if he was the one who wrote
the book. But it is a message
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. The second example,
it is in Suratul Rum.
The Byzantines or the Romans will rebound
rebound.
They will win the war again
and this
was during a war that took place between
602
to 628
CE between the Byzantines
and the Sasanians
who are the Persians.
So it's called, if you want to check
it online, it's called the Byzantine Sicilian War
602628.
Now Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala told us,
the Romans were defeated,
That took place in 6 614
CE in the Christian era. Rasool Alaihi Wasallam
became a messenger of Allah in which year?
In
which year, Ihor?
In the Christian era.
6.
610.
16 he became a prophet. He received a
message
for the first time in 610.
After 4 years, that means he was in
Makkah because this is a Makkan Surah by
the way, a Makkan Surah, it was revealed
in Makkah.
So 6 14,
the Persians
defeated the Romans and they took what? Jerusalem
from them.
That is called in history the conquest of
Jerusalem
by by the Persians
and they, of course, they were helped by
the Jews. The Jews and the Persians were
allies, were united against the Christians
who lived in Jerusalem and many Christians were
killed
during that conquest. It was a big war
between
the two parties. So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is telling us who live at room?
In
Jerusalem
in Jerusalem.
Right? Of course, there is another interpretation.
Another interpretation of this Ayafi adn al Arth,
they said this could be a scientific miracle.
There are there is another interpretation.
It could be it could the meaning could
be in the lowest
area on earth.
The lowest area on earth or the lowest
point on earth.
Some scientists, they said yes.
This is proven
that that is that is the lowest
area on earth, Allahu Ta'ala.
I didn't research it but
this is a second interpretation.
By the way, we're not concerned with this
interpretation here today because we're not talking about
scientific information. That's another subject too. That's another
beautiful subject.
Beautiful subject when you talk about Science and
the Quran
or the relationship between the Quran and Science.
So here Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said,
In a nearby
area or a nearby
land, and yet
following their defeat
they will rebound,
they will win the war.
He's talking about the future
here. Who told him that the Romans will
win the war
and Allah gave us
a timing here. He said,
and in the Arabic language, any period of
time between 3 years to
to 9. Biddeh, the word Biddeh in the
Arabic language. Biddeh isini, that means a period
between 3 years
to 9 years. That's it. Within this period,
the Romans will win again the war.
Right? So this is a who who told
him? Okay. He doesn't live with the Romans,
he doesn't live with the Persians,
he doesn't know. He's not
a you could say let's say nowadays
we have military experts, right,
who know about
the military power of this country, the military,
you know, power abilities of this country, of
this army. They might predict.
They might say okay,
you know, this army, maybe this country, you
know, if we make some adjustments to their
strategies,
they might actually
win the war but
I mean they are humans but we know
they are predicting.
They will sometimes they will get it right
and some other times they not get it
right. But here you are a Prophet,
you claiming to be a Prophet
and yet you are taking this huge risk
and who told you
if you didn't receive this information from Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, who told you that the
Romans will rebound?
They will win the war again.
And there was another campaign,
they call it the Heraclius
campaign.
The campaign of Heraclius
started in 6/22.
6/22. That's the year when Rasulullah SAWSALAM went
to the city of Madinah, moved to the
city of Madinah.
22 in the Christian era.
But before that, few
months, the Romans were able to win a
crushing victory against the Persians and it was
Anatolia.
In Anatolia, nowadays we call it
Turkey. Nowadays we call it Turkey. So at
that time, they didn't take Jerusalem
but at least that was the first victory
of the Romans
against the Persians in Anatolia
in 6/22.
So from 614 to 622, how many years?
How many years?
8. 8 years. And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
said,
within a period of
between 3 years to
to 9 years. So within 8 years, the
Romans were able to, as I said, win
a crushing victory. It was a big victory
for them. And of course, Heraclius had some
problems
back home in Eastern Europe. He has to
go back and deal with his local local
issues, but then he came back later with
a huge army and he was able to
defeat the Persians
and
and remove them from Jerusalem. He was able
to enter Jerusalem later on with a cross
on his back to thank God based on
his understanding
and then there
he met Abu Sufyan. Abu Sufyan
was one of the leaders of the Arabs
making business tijara with a group of Maqans.
They were visiting Jerusalem.
So when when the the Heraclius went to
Jerusalem, he heard about the message of our
Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He said,
do you know any group of people who
are here doing business from that community? They
told him, yes. They told them they told
him, yes, there is a guy here. Is
a leader in his people and has a
group of people, they're doing business, a caravan
from Makkah. So I told him invite them
to my court and he had a long
discussion.
There was a long discussion between Herakles and
Abu Sufyan and it is well documented in
Sahih al Bukhari
and other sources. It's a beautiful discussion,
A beautiful dialogue
because Heraknis was a very intelligent man.
Actually historians said he was inclined towards
accepting Islam
but he felt there is a strong rejection
and disapproval
within his own community
and then he changed his mind.
He changed his mind but
he said after having this long discussion with
Abu Sufyan
about Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
So he said he was kind of inclined
towards accepting Islam, but he changed his mind
later on. But the point is, there is
a prophecy that is in the Quran,
in the book. If he wrote the book,
who told him about it?
And all historians actually there are there are
non Muslim historians. I don't remember any name
and the book, but there is a Muslim
scholar,
Muhammad Chinawi, he's an imam in the US.
He wrote a beautiful book about proofs of
prophethood
and he studied
this Mas'allah,
the rebound of the Romans
and he included some statement from European and
non Muslim historians
said at that time, everything
indicated that the Romans were
defeated. There's no way they will rebound.
They will win again the war. There was
no indication
but the Quran says they will win again
and that was a difficult prophecy to make
at that time.
The other problem, the 4th problem is the
delay of revelation
and we have couple of examples here. I
mentioned the first example, the 3 questions that
the Arabs of Makkah received from
the Jewish scholars of Medina.
You know, the first question about the people
of the cave. First question second question about
Dun Karnay
and the third question about Arruh.
The revelation about Arruh came in Surat Al
Isra, chapter 17.
88.
Yeah. They ask you about the Ruoh, say
the knowledge of the Ruoh, the soul belongs
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Basically, he didn't
give them an answer, he said I don't
have an answer. And this is a proof
that he was a true messenger of God.
Because if he was a fabricator,
he would say something about the Ruhr, which
just give them some information about the Ruhr.
I mean if he was a liar he
would be a professional liar.
He would be someone very
extremely smart, genius
to come up with this Quran
and to make the Arabs to believe that
he was a Messenger of God. I'm saying
if he was a fabricator.
Right? So it would have been easy for
him easy for him to give them an
answer about the Raul.
Tell them, this is what I know about
the soul. And they will accept it because
they accepted, some of them at least at
that time, that he was a Messenger of
God. But he said
The knowledge of the Ruha belongs to Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And he gave them about
some knowledge about the people of the cave,
it is found in Surat Al Kahf and
about Dhul Al Karmein.
But the lay of revelation, the lay of
revelation, it's a proof that he was a
Messenger of God. He was not making up
stories.
15
days, 15 days
before he received
the answer. The second,
second
example
is the false accusation of his wife Aisha
radiAllahu anhu.
And the answer or the story is mentioned
in Surat An Nur.
And you know how
what is the period? The the wahi
was delayed
for 1 month.
It was a very difficult time. Can you
sit down please? It was a very difficult
time for the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
You know the story well known in Surah
Sahih al Bukhari.
They were traveling.
It was, an expedition, a military expedition and
then Aisha
lost the necklace. She was looking for the
necklace,
looking for the necklace hoping that the army
will wait for her. They didn't wait for
her. They didn't feel that she was not
on the hautej the camel, so they moved
and then when she looked for them, she
found like that the whole army left and
she didn't know what to do, she slept
in her place. And Safwan Bir Mu'attil radiAllahu
anhu
used to stay behind the army. So they
used to have people to stay behind the
army just in case to check
if anyone
forgot something,
right, to take it, to pick it up
and take it and give it to the
the rightful owner.
So he followed Aisha, he said,
He didn't have any discussion with her
and he, you know, allowed her
to mount the camel, his camel and he
went
trying to catch the army, but
the leader of the munafiqeen,
Ubay ibn
Ubay
ibn Ubay ibn Salul, when he saw them
you know, so he made his
false
accusation.
But
as I said, it was a very difficult
time for the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam,
if he was sure about her innocence,
why? Why would he wait for 1 month
before telling people
that my wife is innocent
and my wife is pure.
She didn't do anything wrong.
And he consulted Ali, he consulted Usam Abu
Zayd about her. He consulted
a young girl who used to serve Aisha
and everyone he said,
we don't know anything wrong with this lady,
she's a good lady, we didn't see anything
wrong.
So but there are people outside who started
talking,
talking and, you know, gossip in the community.
And then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala waited for
1 month before revealing this Ayat, 11 Ayat
in Surat in Surat or 10 Ayat in
Surat Al Noon from Ayat 11 to
Ayat 21. Alhamdulillah,
luckily Aisha
did not know about this false accusation from
the beginning. She was sick, staying at home,
the only thing she felt,
she noticed that Rasulullah his behavior
is different. He used to be very kind
when she gets sick,
very
gentle.
She would, he would come and take care
of her and everything, but during that time
he was kind, Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
was emotionally disturbed.
He would come at home and say
how is she feeling? He would ask about
her, how is she feeling? And then he
would leave.
She knew
about this accusation, false accusations, 2 days or
3 days before the Wahi
came
down to declare her innocence,
to absolve her from this sin.
And she was crying for for this period,
for 2 days or 3 days.
She didn't go to bed and she was
crying for the whole period of time. Imagine
if she was crying, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
treated her with mercy.
Allah did not want her to cry from
day 1 because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knew
that
Masjid
because Rasulullah SAWS said on the member,
I need someone to take care of this
guy who is making false accusation about my
wife And then the Aus and the Khazraj,
they had their old issues.
You know, one of them, he said, if
it is from our Kabila, we will take
care of him. But if he's from the
other tribe, we will take care of him
too. And then the other leader of the
other tribe, he said, well, you will never
take care of him. You will never be
able to touch him. And there was a
conflict between the two tribes in the Masjid.
It was a very difficult time,
very difficult time. But Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
wanted to see how the community will behave
and then
when the Surah was revealed, the Ikhwan,
it's amazing when you study Surah Tanur.
Study this ayat between
11 to 21.
Nothing her name is not mentioned.
No
drama. No names mentioned. No names mentioned about
the other people.
No emotions.
No feelings. Personal feelings.
So you feel like there is a complete
disconnect
between the personal life of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
and between the Quran
because the message is to share guidance, to
give guidance to people.
To tell them if something like this happen,
this is how you behave.
So giving guidance to people.
No personal information shared in the Surah.
The name of Ahi was not mentioned.
Right?
And of course you know people are tested
with this too.
Her name is not mentioned then the Shia
are tested.
Because the Shi'a believe no, the Surah is
not about Aisha, about Mary Al Kabtiyyah
radiAllahu Anha. And this is a big test
for them, miss Allah Salamahu Alafiya. Because every
Muslim scholar
from mainstream Islam knows that this Surah, Surah
al Noor was revealed about Aisha radiallahu anhadithatil
Iq. Is called the event or the incident
of the slander.
Right?
And it was a beautiful story about
etiquettes of, you know, interaction. How should the
interaction between the 2 genders
and the adab and the akhlaq, hijab
and how people should behave when when rumors
are being shared or spread in the community,
how to deal with rumors
and we should stay away from this false
accusations.
So nothing personal.
Nothing about Aisha, nothing about personal human,
personal emotions or feelings.
It's something beautiful.
The
5th problem,
the challenge in the Quran.
The Quran is challenging people.
The Quran challenge people
to bring the Quran like it, another Quran,
like this Quran.
Then the Quran challenged people to bring 10
Surahs like the Surahs of the Quran.
Then the Quran challenged people to bring the
Surah,
one Surah like the Surah of the Quran.
And of course,
at the beginning you might feel like okay,
what's the point of challenging people to bring
1 surah? It should be easy, right?
But it's not that easy if you understand
the composition of the Quran, the construct the
linguistic construction of the Quran,
the miracles of the Quran. So Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala is talking about all these things
and I'll share with you one Ayah today
and I'll tell you the miraculous nature of
this Ayah.
One of the problems
or one of the beautiful things in the
Quran also to as a proof that the
Quran was not from Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
it was from Allah
An ayah that is 1 ayah
in Surat Al Qamar, we'll talk about it.
But the Quran is challenging them to bring
1 surah
and until now do you know anyone who
claims that oh I brought a Surah like
the Quran and people accept it as a
Surah that is challenging the Quran.
We know that some people, some Americans try
to write a Quran,
it's called,
they called
it Al Furqan Al Haqq,
10 years or 15 years ago
and they tried to spend money on it.
They wasted their money.
They wasted their money. They're distributing
copies of this book in Kuwait, in Saudi
Arabia and some other countries
and they they tried to distribute some copies
here
and then no one accepted this Quran. There
is no acceptance.
Because everyone knows that it is a joke.
Right?
So there is a secret. There is power
behind this Quran. There is a Divine
protection.
Right? Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala promised that he
will protect the Quran and it is protected.
Now the challenge when it comes to the
challenge,
how do the way we look at it?
If he was the one who wrote the
book,
right,
and he's a human being,
if it was easy for him,
if it was easy for him to write
a book like this,
Different than the prose that was not known
at that time,
different than the speech of people at that
time, and different than their poetry,
something
different, new.
But yet
he was able to write it.
Think about it this way.
Why would you challenge
all people
in the whole world,
the whole humanity,
you tell them you will never be able
to bring the Quran like this. I mean
if it was easy for you. If I
was able to make a car
and I am a human being, I studied
and I learned how
to make a car, right?
It should be easy for Ahmed or John
or Paul to study also and make a
car. They are intelligent.
They have the same abilities. There could be
some other people who will have the same
abilities,
the
same
to make a car or to create, you
know, to build a house. If I build
a house, I cannot say, well, you know,
I challenge the whole world. No one will
be able to build a house like this.
So I if I write a book,
do you think it will be reasonable for
me if I write a book, do you
think it will be reasonable for me to
say,
I challenge the whole world, Muslims and non
Muslims. 8,000,000,000. What are 8,000,000,000 people now?
8,000,000,000 people, no one will be able to
write a book like my book.
These people will laugh at me?
At least, they will say you know this
guy is crazy, right?
This is
this guy is insane and he should go
to the mental health department,
to the hospital and check yourself.
You know, you wrote a book, he's selling,
saying no one will be able to produce
a book like my book.
No. That would be it would be at
least to say at least it's a huge
challenge. It's a big risk it's a big
risk
to say this because
if I was able to do it to
someone else, it should be easy for someone
else to do the same. That is the
point. This is how we should look
at this. So then when it comes to
1 surah
to 10 surahs,
the challenge becomes
goes to a different level different level.
The the problem number 6, So we dealt
with number 5. Number 6,
this is a big topic, a big chapter.
Personal information
of the prophet himself in the Quran, his
profile in the Quran,
his names,
his family in the Quran. I talked about
it in the in Jum'ah,
but it's beautiful to
expand on this
topic.
Right? His family
and himself, the way he
his names his name was mentioned only 4
times.
Musa alaihi salaam, his name was mentioned 1
35 times in the Quran. Isa alaihi Salam
25 times.
Yahia who is not
John the Baptist, Yahia who is the cousin
of Isa alaihi Salam,
who was not a famous prophet, his name
at least 5 times was mentioned in the
Quran. Prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihis name mentioned only
4 times.
The mother of Isa alaihis salam, Mariam.
As I said, I talked about it in
detail in some of our Khutab but I
would like to say it again.
The family of Isa alaihi salaam or the
family of Maryam,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala actually revealed 2 Surahs
about them because we always say 1 Surah.
We mentioned the
Surah of Maryam
chapter
19 but we forget about another Surah.
Chapter number 3, Al Imran, the family of
Imran. Who is Imran?
Who is Imran? The father of Maryam.
He is the grandfather of Isa alaihis salam.
Two chapters about the same family.
Nothing about his own family, alaihis salatu wassalam.
Maryam alaihi wasallam, her name was mentioned at
least 3435
times in the Quran
as they said the complete Surah.
Not all the verses about her story but
there is a big part
about her story in Surat Maryam
and the Surah named after her. This is
a great honor given to Maryam Alaihi Wasallam.
And Ali Imran, a Surah that has 200
verses,
not all 200 verses about the story of
Al Imran
but there is one part
from the story of Al Imran, the family
of Maryam.
Her mother is mentioned in the Quran which
is the grandmother of Isa alaihis salam but
her name is not mentioned.
But the grandfather of Isa is mentioned in
Iran. So Maryam been to Imran.
Right?
And
their story is mentioned in a very beautiful
way.
So basically Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala telling us
about their religious commitment,
their Ibadah,
their connection with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Right?
I mean if I write a book,
why would I honor another Prophet and I
honor his mother
and I name a Surah after his mother,
and I name a Surah about his family.
Nothing about my family, think about it people,
Nothing about my family.
Nothing. Even when Rasoolullah
SAW
wanted to tell us about the status of
Fatima
because she was a great woman, Fatima his
daughter,
he did not mention her name in the
Quran because it was not his choice.
But in a famous hadith that is authentic,
he said Fatima sayyidatunisa
ila'anamin,
but there is an exception.
There is an exception.
Fatima is the master of all women of
paradise
except.
There is an exception.
Except for Maryam Bintur Imran,
which means that Maryam will be the best
woman
in paradise.
She will be the leader of all women
of paradise.
The second
after her, Fatima.
I mean, if I was
I was a fake prophet. I mean,
there is a small difference between the two
women. I'll put my daughter first.
Right? My daughter is a great woman. Fatima
radiAllahu ana. She had a great relationship with
Allah.
She was made to Ali ibn Abi Ataleb,
my cousin. He was a great man.
Right?
But Rasool Allah SWAMI has to mention this
exception
because he cannot lie, cannot share a lie
with people. He had to be honest.
So when you think about his family, the
only one who is mentioned by name
is Abu Lahab
in a very negative context.
And the story of Abu Lahab is serving
the purpose of Islam.
Serving
the purpose of what? Prophethood.
Because it is a proof
that Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was the
true messenger of God.
Why?
Because he's studying the stories of his ankles,
4 ankles,
who were alive at that time when he
was when he became a messenger of Allah.
Who are these 4 ankles? Abu Talib,
Abu Lahab,
Al Abbas ibn Abdul Muttalib, Hamzab ibn Abdul
Muttalib.
Now
the the reason amazing you should compare, if
you compare between Hamza, Just take Hamza and
take Abu Lahab.
2 opposite examples.
Right? Abu Lahab rejected the message of his
nephew
in a very harsh way.
When he publicized the message. May you perish
for the whole day. That was the dua
of Abu Lahab against his nephew, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
He used to come when Rasulullah salallahu alaihi
wa sallam used to approach
people during Hajj. You know, they used to
have Hajj, but Hajj Bay, they got Hajj
from the Deen of Ibrahim alaihis salam, but
of course it was not Hajj in the
right way.
They used to mix Hajj with idol worshiping
and all this stuff. But people who used
to come to Makkah,
Arabs would used to come to Makkah, so
Rasool Allah SWALLAM would go to these Arabs
and share the message of Islam with them.
You know who would come after him?
His uncle Abu Lahab.
He said do not believe him he is
a liar, he is my nephew, I know
him very
well.
He's lying, he's not saying the he's he's
just faking, you know, a message. He's not
a true messenger of God. Do not believe
him. Do not listen to him. And then
some people will say, if his uncle is
saying this, then he must be saying the
truth. So they stay away from
the messenger of Allah.
That was the behavior of his uncle. He
rejected Islam in a very strong way.
Now
Allah the moment he said
may you perish for the whole day, Allah
revealed this surah at the beginning.
You shouldn't be offended. Yes, he's the uncle
of the Prophet but this is what Allah
said.
Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam accepted this
Quran and he had to include it in
the Quran.
He didn't say he is my uncle, I
will hide this surah. He cannot do that.
He was a true messenger of God,
right?
And then Allah SubhanaHu Wa Ta'ala is promising
Abu Lahab here that he will be in
Halfa'i
which means that he is going to die
as a Kafir. You know after
you know how long Abu Lahab survived
after the revelation of this Surah? 10 years.
There are non muslims, non muslim scholars
who study the history of Islam,
they said Abu Lahab could have at least
made
at least could have made a fake claim
to actually defeat
the claim of his nephew and say, I
believe now. I am a Muslim. You're saying
I'm going to hellfire, deal with it now.
That means you're not saying the truth. Right?
He couldn't,
he couldn't. He knew about this Surah.
His family knew about this Surah. He had
6 children, 3 boys
and 3 girls.
Now before talking about his family
because that's another proof too
that Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was true
Messenger of God, he was not a fake
Prophet.
Before talking about the family of Abu Lahab,
let's talk about Hamza.
Hamza bin Abu Muttalib. Compare between Hamza and
Abulaab. Hamza
was a great man. When he accepted Islam,
it was
like
a starting, a turning point turning point in
the history of Islam. Mackenzie said, call us,
we lost hope that Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
will be defeated. His uncle Hamza has accepted
Islam
and he was a type of a person
who would come and say to the Maqans,
Hey, you cannot touch my nephew.
If you touch him I will deal with
you. And then they will be the old
backup.
That was Hamza radiAllahu anhu. You will never
I mean no one touched him after Hamza
radiAllahu anhu accepted Islam.
And then
he was supporting the Prophet.
He moved with him to the city of
Madinah.
He was a strong fighter.
Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam called him in
a famous hadith, Asadullahi
wa Asadullah Rasooli, the liar of Allah and
the liar of His Messenger.
When he died as a martyr, as a
shahid in the in the ghazwat Uhud, he
said sayyidu shuhada I hamza Hadith,
the master
of all parties is hamza.
But why?
Why not
fabricating a surah about the achievements of hamza?
You made a surah about your uncle Abu
Lahab who is going to al fire. How
about Hamza who had
great achievements?
Because it was not his choice.
It was not up to him.
If it was up to him, he would
have
fabricated a surah about Hamza.
Because at that time, if you think about
the context,
the society that at that time is a
tribal society
and Rasulullah SAWAYAM used to love his family.
At that time, the honor of individual is
strongly linked to the honor of the tribe.
If my nephew, my my uncle is disgraced
this way,
then it is a disgrace, some sort of
disgrace for the whole family.
This is how they used to look at
it at that time.
But they can't deal nothing about it when
it is they can do nothing about it
when it is revealed, something revealed in the
Quran. It's Wahi. You cannot
change it. Abu Lahab had 6 children.
1 boy rejected Islam, died as a Kafir,
Qutayba
and the other 2
Rujba and Mu'attib
and Azza and
Durrah,
the girls,
Khalidah,
all of them accepted Islam.
All of them accepted Islam.
5. But we
never we never know about any hadith
in which these 5 children of Abu Lahab
came to the Messenger of Allah complaining.
Say,
you are our cousin, we know that you
are a prophet, you are a fake prophet,
can you please delete this Surah?
It's a disgrace for the whole family, you're
disgracing your uncle.
You know what happened? 1 of the ladies,
one of the girls,
I'm not sure it could be she could
be Dura
or Azza, I'm not sure. She both 3
girls or ladies lived in Medina. They moved
to the city of Medina and they accepted
the message for Islam.
Some people in Medina, they were talking about
her father. Oh, your father is mentioned in
the Quran and he will go to how
far I died as a kafir.
They were bothering her, right?
She was very upset
and she came and she complained to Rasool
Allah She didn't complain that the Quran was
revealed about her father,
and the Quran says that her father will
be in Halpha. She didn't say that because
she knew that Rasool Allah SWAMI is true
Messenger of God and he can do nothing
about this Surah. He cannot remove it from
the Quran. She complained about the behavior of
these people
who were taking her to account or insulting
her because of what was mentioned
about her father in the Quran and Rasoolullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
made a statement. He said,
some people are saying this and this.
You don't take someone
to account for the deeds of his father.
Everyone will be taken to account for his
own deeds and his own choice. So it's
not right for you to tell someone to
blame someone about the actions and the deeds
of their their parents, their father or mother.
Everyone is responsible,
about his deeds on the Day of Judgment.
So this is what Rasool Allah shalallahu alaihi
wa sallam shared with them. But he didn't
say, Oh cousin, don't worry, I will just
say that this Surah was abrogated.
Masch.
You know the abrogation of the Quran? It
is a concept that we believe in it.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala would reveal some Ayat
and He would abrogate them. Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala does whatever He wishes, right? For a
hikmah.
But he didn't say, okay I'll just claim
that this surah was abrogated,
right? Removed from the Quran. He didn't say
that.
So it is a proof
that
you know he didn't have choice and
he was
true Messenger of God Alaihi Salatu Wasallam.
As I said,
the names of his wives is not mentioned
in the Quran.
What is mentioned about them that they are
mothers of the believers
in
And Allah reminded them about their status without
mentioning their names,
without talking about their Ibadat, but He told
them you have a special status, you are
the wives of the Prophet, you are the
mothers of the believers, you should behave this
way, you should behave this way, you should
behave this way. This is Surat Al Hazab,
Right? Ayatul Tothir. You go and read this
Ayatul Surat Al Hazm.
And then telling the people how to treat
and how to
interact with the wives of the Prophet. You
have to interact with them with respect
behind a hijab. You don't talk to them
directly.
So just giving them guidance and instructions
how to treat and or how to deal
with the wives of the Prophet.
But
no Surah is men named after one of
his wives
or his family.
There is one Surah that was named about
himself.
Surat
Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
But nothing about the rest of the family.
You don't compare Surat Muhammad with Maryam Ali
Imran.
That's a different story
right? A different story.
Now problem number 7,
that's a beautiful problem.
As I said, it's an Ayah in Surat
Al Qamar,
certainty about the nature of the Quran.
Certainty.
We should talk about it next week InshaAllah
because Maghreb
is is 9:40 in Maghreb today?
Or 9:41?
9:42.
So the Ikama is now. We're supposed to
do the Iqamah now. So I cannot keep
talking about it. So this problem InshaAllah we'll
talk about it next week, Bismillah Ta'ala
and we talk about we refuse to try
to refute the other options.
The, you know, the Quran taken from the
other sources, the other scriptures,
the Bible or the Torah or someone else
has taught Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam the
Quran. So we deal with all these issues
we will be left
with with only one option that you know
and I know that the Quran was revealed
by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala bless your families,
bless your efforts. Nas Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
We
need someone to make the Adan.
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