Hacene Chebbani – Who Is The Author Of The Quran #02
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The speakers discuss various issues related to the Quran and its meaning, including the use of the title " internet is a light," the "people are familiar with" the title, and the lack of personalization in language and language use. They also discuss the challenges of creating a book and memorizing the Quran, as well as the importance of research and conservative media. The speakers emphasize the need for certainty and peace for neighbors, while acknowledging the difficulty of living in a state of war.AI: Transcript ©
Last Friday we were talking about
the same subject
who is the real author of Allah's of
the Quran.
And we said
that we Muslims are familiar with this question.
We know the answer. We know it's Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala who revealed the Quran to
his Prophet Muhammad
So basically the author of the Quran is
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. This is obvious
and easy to answer.
But
we know that there are people in this
society,
on social media everywhere,
they have other options. They talk about other
options.
And we said one of them,
one of these possibilities,
they say that
Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam wrote the book.
He's the one who wrote the book.
So
we dealt with this possibility.
We talked about they said we said that
this possibility, this option will give rise to
many problems,
And we discussed
6 of them, 6 problems,
and we stopped at problem number 7. So
there are 7
questions that
you know,
that need to be answered.
Otherwise,
this possibility is not, it should be off
the table.
This option is not possible. So the first
problem,
we said the style of writing.
The style of writing,
the style of the Quran is way different
than the style of the Sunnah. Even when
the Quran is translated in English and the
Sunnah is translated in English,
people can easily distinguish between what is Quran
and what is Sunnah. When it comes to
Arabic, it's obvious. Anyone who knows the Arabic
language
will be able to distinguish between the style
of the Quran
and the style of the sunnah of our
prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. We said
the second problem is blaming the prophet himself
in the Quran.
If he was the one who wrote the
book, why he would blame himself?
And we mentioned a couple couple of examples.
One of them is in Surat Al Taherim.
The other one,
in Surat Abasa, and there are some other
examples line. There are maybe 6 or 7
incidents
or more than that,
in which Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala blamed him
for making a mistake, for making a mistake.
So it's not a sin, but making a
mistake and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala would blame
him for making this choice.
Number
3, we said there are prophecies. The Quran
made some prophecies which came true.
If he was
the one who wrote the book, how did
he know about this event that will happen?
He promised that, you know, the Muslims will
enter Mecca in the future after Surah Al
Hudaybiyyah and it happened. They went to Umrah
on the 7th year of the hijrah
and after 1 year they were able to
conquer the city of Mecca.
The other methanal prophecy we said, the Romans
were defeated by the Persians and the Quran
predicted that the Romans will be victorious again.
How did we did he know these things?
Number 4, we said the delay of
revelation. If he was the one who made
the Quran,
why he would embarrass himself
and wait for 15 days
or 1 month in the case of his
wife when his wife was falsely accused
before saying something,
before giving an answer to people. Why he
would I mean if he was a professional
liar and he was able to write all
this Quran,
then it should have been easy for him
to give answers.
And we said one of these three questions
that were made, for example, when the wahi
was delayed for 15 days,
is the answer that came in Surah Al
Isra. So
they ask you about the Rooh,
say the knowledge of the Rooh, the soul
belongs to Allah, but he didn't give them
an answer.
Man, if he was a false prophet, he
would try him
his best to give an answer to the
Kuffar. Right? But in this case here, he
told them, I have no knowledge about the
Rooh.
The knowledge of the Rooh belongs to Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Number 5, we said the challenge to produce
a similar Quran
and that was a very difficult challenge for
everyone and until now it's an open challenge.
Until now people were not able to bring
a Quran similar to our Quran.
We said, yeah, there is a group of
people who tried
and they called their Quran Al Furqan Al
Haqq in the United States of America.
Their book is in their church collecting dust
now. No one cares about it. And no
one believes that it's a book that has
any value.
So, I mean, after 1400
years,
no one was able to produce a Quran,
a book similar.
So we said, like, it's very difficult for
someone to write a book and say, I
am willing to challenge everyone in the world.
I am challenging everyone
to bring
a book similar to my book
and this is not reasonable because if I'm
able to write a book
then someone else should be able to do
the same thing.
Another human like me should be able to
do the same thing.
That it will be difficult for someone to
make this challenge.
And what is more interesting, number 6, we
said his personal profile in the Quran. It
doesn't fit a liar. It doesn't fit someone,
a fabricator who is trying to, you know,
gain some
fame
or give some honor to his family
or it's
like his name was mentioned 4 times,
His family is not their names are not
there. We said one of his family members
was mentioned in a negative context, Abu Lahab,
and the story of his family.
So
his profile in the Quran does not fit
a fabricator at
all at all. If if he fabricated the
book, he would be talking about his mother.
Why why talking about Mary?
Honoring Mary the mother of Aisha, a prophet
who lived before him, 600 years
before him
and he left his mother. His mother is
not there, his father is not mentioned,
his daughter who is supposed to be
in the second position in Jannah after
Maryam alaihis salam,
her name is not there, her story is
not there in the Quran,
Fatima
radiAllahu a'ala and so on and so forth.
Now number 7, it's another interesting problem.
Certainty about the nature of the Quran.
Certainty.
And here this this problem
could be divided into 3 aspects
and all of them are very challenging,
very challenging.
So number 1 is
the Quran is saying about itself that it
is an easy
it's a book that is easy to remember
and memorize if you want to include it
in the word Dhikr.
So Surat Al Kamar Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
said,
So basically it means
We certainly made the Quran easy to remember
and understand.
So
will
is there anyone who will remember?
And the choice here of the words is
amazing.
If you look at the terms that are
used by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Because if I write a book as a
human being,
I cannot challenge people and say, Okay, people
will be able memorize my book and remember
the guidance of this book.
The most thing that I can do is
I say I'm writing a book and it
should be easy for people to read and
understand.
I mean if it is in English and
you know you speak English, you'll be able
to
to read a book in English or in
Arabic, right? And
of course I will write it in an
easy style so people will be will be
able to understand what I wrote.
But to say that,
you know, because when you talk about remembrance
here
that includes memory,
recollection,
right? Remembering something
and we know that people are able
This prophecy here or this promise is being
fulfilled
in the best way possible. In the best
way.
People are able to memorize this book. Rasool
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was able to
memorize this book. 114
chapters,
600 pages. Of course he didn't have this,
you know, this format. It was not available
for him but the book but Rasool Allah
SAWHANNAH did not rely
on written material. Jibril used to reveal to
him and Allah enabled him to memorize.
But how about his Sahaba?
His Sahaba, some of them they used to
write the Quran and many of them or
majority of them used to memorize
the Quran.
Until now, we have millions of people who
are able to memorize the Quran.
What is amazing is what is amazing
is we have people who don't speak the
Arabic language
and this is very common,
who don't speak the Arabic, they don't understand
the language
but they are able to memorize the whole
book
with the proper
mode of recitation.
This, you can't find this in any
religion.
You can check any religion.
If you tell me, if you find someone,
a member of any community,
who is able to memorize their book, then
let me know, please,
because this is something interesting
and I would like to look into it.
We have millions of people who are able.
In this community,
we have Pakistani children
who don't speak Arabic at home. I'm sure
that they don't speak Arabic.
They don't.
And they are able to memorize the Quran
with the proper rules of Tajweed
and they are leading the Muslim community in
Tarawih prayer.
How is that possible?
Can you memorize
a book written in Chinese
if if you don't speak the Chinese language?
Or French?
You come to a book written in French
and you memorize it and you don't speak
the language.
So Allah Subhanahu Ta'ala said We
made it easy, that's it.
It will be easy for people to memorize
this Book
and remember this book.
How can a human being write a book
and make this claim?
Makes this claim
that all people will be able to memorize
my book
or remember the guidance at least of my
book
or the content of my book.
So this is this is something amazing,
as I said, that is not available
in any religion.
You don't find someone
who don't speak a language and who will
memorize the book of that faith
or group faith group.
It's not. I don't know.
I don't know anyone who and the way
the way Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala made it
easy,
this book is not available for only the
elites
or or you know
leaders in the community.
It is open for all Muslims.
It is available for all Muslims.
In a way,
if anyone wants to change the book
then he will find other people who memorize
it and they will correct him. And this
is this is something that happens every day
in our salawat.
The imam would lead, I would lead the
prayer, make a mistake, there is always someone
behind me who will correct me.
Why? It's because we have other people who
memorize the same book.
So there is no way
you can change the book.
If you make a mistake, there is always
someone
who will correct you.
There's someone who went was hired to go
to Europe from Medina a long time ago
to lead the prayer, taraq prayer
in a European country. I don't remember the
country but they gave him a room in
the hotel and they placed the Mushaf.
He opened the Mushaf. He was a Hafid
who opened the Mushaf that was placed in
his room and he found some mistakes.
So he started correcting these mistakes.
Why? Because he was a Hafid.
So this is how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
as I said protected this book.
The second aspect here,
what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said about it
in Surat Fusilat,
And in Surat Al Isra in the Hadith
Al Quran
So basically
the Quran is saying
about itself
that this book contains ultimate truth,
the guidance of the Quran is the best
guidance
and when we say
that means it cannot
be proven
false from any angle.
It cannot be proven false from any angle.
So the guidance that is in the book
is the is perfect.
Yeah? We say about ourselves, no one is
perfect.
We're humans, we're not perfect.
But the Quran is a different story. The
Quran is challenging people.
It's saying, I have the perfect guidance.
I have the best guidance, I have the
ultimate truth.
And here, I would like to give you
2 examples. One of them is very interesting
because it was proven
in the last
very interesting
in the last 6 years,
people started in the west going back to
the guidance of the Quran and the Sunnah.
And I will give you details. I have
statement here from different organizations.
Different organizations,
well respected
organizations.
The first one
is related to the public, public health regulations.
And the second one, I chose one example.
There are many examples in the Quran about
science and scientific research.
Something very simple. That no one can say
this is false, this is wrong,
right? This is just an example and you
can apply it
to other examples. But the first one is
interesting.
The first one is about wine drinking.
Wine drinking.
When I came to this country
25 years ago or more, more than that
I came in 1997.
I used to hear people saying
one drink or 2 a day is good
for your health.
It's good for your health.
Good for your
heart. Right?
This is a very popular knowledge in this
country and I think in the West.
And then I found out later that this
is not
a general understanding
and within
the community,
without a valid,
you know,
source. Actually
these are official
official health
guidelines
in the health in Department of Health
saying, Yes,
one drink or 2 are good for your
health
and they are good for the health of
your heart.
One drink or 2 a day.
If you exceed, you increase, then you will
be exposing yourself
to some risk.
Now here what do we have
in the in the Quran?
We have some ayat regarding
this guidance
about wine drinking.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said, They ask
you about, you know, wine drinking
and gambling.
Say,
There is a greater
there is a great evil
in both of them.
But
there are some benefits for people
regarding these two practices, two things, right? Wine
drinking and gambling.
But Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala concluded the Ayah
by saying, Wa if mumuuma aqbaruminnafeehim.
However, their evil is greater than their benefit
and that's why Allah made them Haram.
I'm not going to talk about their benefits
during the time of Jahiliyyah,
and certainly
it's not a health benefit. Why?
Because we have a story
during the time of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
as Sahabi,
his name Tariq ibn Suwayed. He used to
make wine. He was a winemaker.
You know, the Sahabi used to drink and
they used to make wine before Wine made
was made Haram, right?
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala did not say wine
is Haram from day 1.
It was a gradual process
and it was made
haram in the city of Medina.
So this guy is Sahabi radiAllahu anhu.
Farak Mus Wade came to Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
He asked him about wine.
He said don't use it, don't make it.
He said I only make it as a
treatment or a medicine.
So what did Rasool Allah SAWSAW Tell
him? Inna Halayesat bidawah
walaqinna
Hada.
He said Rasoolullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, it
is certainly not a treatment.
Look at the confidence.
It is certainly not a treatment.
It is not a medicine.
Rather it is
a disease.
That is the statement of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
explaining this is an interpretation of the Quran
because the Sunnah completes the Quran. Both of
them are wahim,
Right? And this is authentic sunnah. So authentic
sunnah completes the Quran. Sometimes it explains the
Quran. Right?
So the Quran did not say it is
a disease, but the Quran says,
This is what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said
in Ainani in Surat Al Maidah.
They are but the defilement from the work
of Shaitan.
So avoid it or avoid them, you know,
wine drinking and gambling.
So that you may be
successful.
So the Quran said,
don't come close to wine. Do not make
it, do not sell it, don't work a
work in a place where they are selling
alcohol if you are directly involved.
Do not obviously do not drink it. Fashtani
boo. But the Sunnah is giving us some
extra knowledge.
So
1400 years ago or more than 1400 years
ago, the Messenger of Allah
said
that it is a disease.
Now
until 2018,
all
the health, public health guidelines were saying the
same thing. One drink or 2, they are
good for the health
of your heart until 2000
18.
Why? Because there was a study,
a major study. I'll tell you about the
name of the study. I'll give you everything
today.
A major study that was concluded in 2016
and published in August
2018.
You know what is the conclusion of this
study? You know how many countries were involved
in this study?
1
95 countries and territories.
It lasted for 26 years.
From 1990
till
2016.
It was concluded in 2016,
this major study.
And the conclusion of this study,
no amount of alcohol
is safe for your health.
Forget about 1 drink or 2 drinks.
No amount
So going back to the statement of Rasool
Allah SAWHAN
No amount of alcohol
is good for your health. And here I
have different
declarations. All of them going back to this
study after this study was
published in 2018. But of course I will
warn you, I will give you a warning.
If you go and do your research about
alcohol, what people are saying,
you have to distinguish between what media is
saying
and between what
scientists
and
academic,
you know,
institutions
are saying about wine drinking.
You see a difference. Media is still hesitating.
Is still saying oh one could be still
good for your health. This is media because
it's a big something big within within the
society.
It's an important
thing in their society, in their culture. It's
part of their culture. You cannot have a
party without
without drinking.
You can't.
One time I was studying English with a
group of people, they were from South America
And, I told them when I told them,
we don't drink alcohol.
And he told me, what do you do
when you party?
When you have a party? I said
I said, we drink Pepsi and Coke and
and they were started laughing.
I made their day. They were laughing for
the whole session. We're having studying English for
2 hours or 3 hours. They're laughing the
whole time. Say you drink Pepsi during your
I mean, this is what we
do. So
it's part of their culture
and the media still, they are not believing
this research, the results of this research.
But let's here, let's listen to Mayo Clinic.
Mayo Clinic is a major clinic in the
state
and in one of their
articles they said, research on alcohol suggests a
sobering conclusion. Drinking alcohol
in any amount carries a health risk.
And they said in their statement
that the title of this article, Alcohol Use
Weighing Risks and Benefits,
they said in the past I want you
to pay attention to this.
There is a past
and there is a new research
confirming what the Quran says, what Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam said.
In the past, moderate drinking
was thought to be linked with a lower
risk of dying from heart disease
or possibly diabetes
after more analysis
of the research.
That doesn't seem to be the case.
In 2018
that doesn't seem to be the case. And
one of their headlines on this, on this
article,
drinking alcohol
is a health risk regardless of the amount,
regardless of the amount.
You go to there is an organization
in Australia,
alcohol think again dot com
dotau in Australia.
So they said the evidence,
they were talking about cardiovascular
disease,
The evidence continues to grow stronger
showing that no amount of alcohol is good
for heart for health heart health because this
is what they used to believe that it's
good for your for the health of your
heart.
Now we got the Canadian Centre,
Canadian Centre of Substance Use
and Addiction,
Canadian Centre
of Substance Use, they have a report, it's
called Canada's Guidance on Alcohol and Health.
You know when was it updated?
They got a new guidance in July 2020.
July 2020,
that's 4 4 years ago.
They said the new guidance was shared in
July 2020 and it it replaced,
it replaced
what is called Canada's low risk.
So they had another guidance called Canada's
Low Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines.
And in this,
this article they said
while defining the new guideline,
they said this guidance is based on the
principle of autonomy,
autonomy in harm reduction. Autonomy
it's a personal choice.
If you wanna be in the safe side,
you wanna protect your health, this is what
you are supposed to do. There's no no
haram and halal. In our deen, no, it's
haram.
Stay away from it.
This is the best guidance,
right? You wanna protect yourself
from jahannam,
don't disobey Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, stay away
from it and at the same time you'll
be protecting
your health. But here they're still saying, oh
okay, it's based on a personal choice, autonomy
in harm reduction and the fundamental
idea. They said the fundamental idea
behind it, behind this new guidance
is that people living in Canada
have a right
to know
that all alcohol use comes with a risk.
So forget about the old the old guidance.
The website eatingwell.com.
How much alcohol is safe? This is the
title of their article.
So they said, well here
at eating well in this website,
believe that all food can have a place
in a healthy diet including alcohol. They are
still resisting.
That all food can have a place in
a healthy diet including alcohol.
But they said recent research
suggests that no level
of alcohol consumption is considered safe.
They wanted to be honest.
This is what research
recent research
is saying. Now the study that I told
you about, it is shared on a in
a magazine called Lancet. The Lancet, if you
wanna take a note. The Lancet.com.
The title of this research
that lasted for 16 years from 1992 to
2016,
the title is alcohol use and burden
for 195
Countries and Territories.
1990
to 2016,
a Systematic
analysis
for the global burden of disease study 2016.
I mean I can share it with you
later on if you want.
And you know the conclusion in the conclusion.
There's a long study
but I want you to conclusion
because this is the most important thing.
They said our results
show that the safest level of drinking is
none.
Allahu Akbar.
The safest level of drinking is none. There
is no amount
that is safe
for
your health,
for your body. That's it. Going back to
the guidance of the Qur'an, going back to
the guidance of
our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Now the second example,
which is very simple, very easy,
about science and scientific research, you are familiar
with it,
it's about the water. It's very important to
study the concept, the
nature of water in the Quran.
There is no life
without water.
So what did Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said
in Surat Al Anbiya, wajalna minalma'i
kullashayin?
Look at the end of the Ayah.
That Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is saying in
this Ayah, We created from water every living
thing. Will they not believe? And of course
in this ayat, in Surat Anbiya, He talked
about many verses, many ayat,
many signs. But I choose to talk about
water because it's very simple.
Why? Because no one can say this is
wrong.
No one can say
this concept
is wrong about water methane.
We know that
when it comes to water,
what is beautiful about it is a Bedouin
in the desert can testify to this reality,
right?
But the scientist in the lab, in his
lab also can testify to this reality.
Why? Because modern science is saying
what is called cytoplasm
is is a is an inside, the inside
of a cell,
is composed of 80% of water.
It's
a gelatinous liquid
that is
found in the inside of any cell.
They said it's composed of 80% of water.
Modern science is always saying all types of
organisms
are made of 50, between 50 to 80
or 90 percent of water.
This is what scientists are saying. So a
Bedouin in the desert will not have access
to this science, right? But he still can
testify to this reality
that Yeah, if there is no water there
is no life. There is no life without
water.
No one can say this is wrong
And you might think that this is simple
because we are familiar with it. We study
science, we go to school.
This is
basic knowledge.
But I'll tell you something, think about, Mathuram,
the miracle that was given to Maryam alaihis
salam.
To you it's not a miracle. Why? Because
you live in the 20th
century, you lived in the 20th or you're
living in the 21st century.
Giving her summer fruits in the winter
or
winter fruits in the summer.
For them that was a miracle.
Why?
Because they didn't have the technology
to store
fruits.
To fruit to store, you know, winter fruits
in the summer or summer fruits in the
winter. They didn't have the technology.
So within that context,
within that time,
it was a miracle.
Now think about Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
living in a desert.
People used to walk for miles to find
some water,
small amount of water.
And him coming
saying here in the Quran that all
all types of life are made of water.
There's no life without water. It's a big
statement.
It's it's a conclusion, right, that scientists have
made. And no one can say this is
wrong. And you can apply this to any
any scientific
information. I'm not I don't want to talk
about scientific miracles
because people are are confused sometimes when they
talk about scientific miracles. If you don't want
to call it a scientific miracle, it's okay,
But you can still call it a scientific
information
or an information that is consistent with science.
It is consistent consistent with Science. No one
can say, no, this is wrong. I wanted
to first to talk about
sending iron from from the sky.
That iron came from outer space.
But, of course, you know, when you study
you find some people, media people, again talking,
oh no, but there is some iron that
was made that is part of the Earth
or or it was found in the Earth,
it didn't come from space.
But, you know, whenever you study something like
that,
scientific information,
you need to distinguish between media,
what the media says,
and journalists and people who are not scientists
and between what scientists said.
So you need to forget about what media
says or what people are talking about on
social media.
You need to go to the real sources,
you know, you know scientific
resources and then you try to verify
any information about the deen of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala or about the Quran.
The third aspect of this certainty
which is amazing,
something
something else that is amazing,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is saying,
none can change his words.
Surat Al Kahf.
So Allah is saying to the Messenger of
Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and recite what has
been revealed to you from the book of
your Lord.
None
can change his words. This statement is full
of confidence.
It is a big challenge
that I am writing a book
and no one
will be able to change it. This book
will be preserved. That's it.
As I said, people tried before
but they were not successful.
Now
we have now Muslim scholars have enough evidence
now
that many Qurans, many manuscripts who were written,
during the time of the Sahaba
are available nowadays.
There is a center in Turkey, I forgot
the name, I can bring the name later
on, I'm sorry. I was able to
verify the name before I came to the
Halakh, I forgot to do that.
A center, a big center in Turkey,
they are collecting all these old manuscripts.
So we have the Birmingham manuscript,
we have the Paris manuscript, we have many
manuscripts
that are now dated,
carbon dated.
And they found that the dates of this,
you know, the the skin of the animals
or the parchment
is, you know, one of them. Like the
Birmingham
the Birmingham
manuscript when it was barking carbon carbon dated,
they said
it must have been written
between 568
to 645
in the Common Era.
568
are 2 years before the birth of the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
So this animal lived during that time
And Peres, the Peres manuscript, they are the
same and many manuscripts that are,
you know,
the the scholars nowadays
were able to prove that these manuscripts were
written during the 1st century,
during the 1st century in the Hasidic calendar.
Right? And this is not something you cannot
say the same thing about the Bible.
There is nothing that you can
date it back
to the 1st century after
the disappearance or the descent of the ascent
of Isa alaihis salam.
So
and and the Quran the way the Quran
was preserved as I said,
people used to memorize it
and this process of memorization
is found until now. People will continue memorizing
the Quran
SubhanAllah
during the time of Umar Bar Abdul Aziz
there was a Quran school in the in
the city of Dimashb, Damascus.
The historian said,
Ibn Umar
was scholar who used to used to be
in charge, he was in charge of this
school in the city of Damascus during the
time of Umar Bar Abdul Aziz. He said
when the teacher,
the head teacher
was absent,
they had around 400 disciples who were able
to teach in his place.
Not students,
400 students who were able to teach
in the same way he was able, he
was a great scholar,
the head of this school during the time
of Umar ibn Abidaz. This is just one
example. So we said, Al Hiv, the second
day a Kitabah writing. The Quran was written
during the time of Rasoolullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
It was not compiled in one book but
it was written in different pieces.
And also a tawatur.
A tawatur. What is a tawatur? Mass transmission
of the Quran.
That group of people,
a huge group of a big number of
people will take the Quran.
The Surahs memorize them from the Sahabis and
then a big number of
Tabi'een
will memorize the same Surahs from these Sahabis
and so on and so forth. Tawatr.
You know hadith mutawatr?
A hadith that was mass transmitted.
In every level
of the chain of narration of this hadith
there is a big number
of narrators
and it is impossible
it is impossible that all these narrators will
agree on a lie to fabricate a lie.
Let's say for example, I give you example
during our life nowadays.
For example, I did not visit the city
of Moscow in Russia
or maybe take another city Khortoum in Sudan.
I've never been there.
But I cannot say that Khortom does not
exist because I didn't see it.
Because I have enough roofs that the city
exists.
Enough roof. Many people talked about the city
of Khortova. I met many people coming from
the city, I read about it, I watched
some programs about it, so I have enough
knowledge. This is what they call in modern
times mass communication.
Mass communication.
So this is what happened to the Quran.
So we have 7 Aqirahat,
7 modes of recitation,
all of them all of them have been
narrated
in this mode in this way in this
way through
a tawatur,
mass transmission.
And this something does not exist within Western
civilization and that's why they don't understand it.
This is not a joke
to say like you have thousands of people
who memorize,
you know, the Quran from one teacher and
one Sahabi, and then thousands of people who
memorize the Quran from these
thousands
of reciters and so on and so forth
until we have people until now we have
people who memorize the Quran and they have
the Sanad until
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
The chain of narration
from this person who lives with you now
in the 21st century,
so the Chain of Narration contains all
the names of all his teachers, all the
teachers until Rasoolullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasall. And it
is available. We have this Ijaza.
They call it Ijaza.
It's
like a certificate that they receive
after they memorize the Quran.
We have people who memorize the Quran.
Gaza, the other day I was watching a
video
and they were having a big
event in
a huge Masjid in the city of Gaza,
where young people,
you know they call them excellent Khafar.
They come
to review and recite the Quran in front
of the teacher,
recite the whole Quran from Surat Al Fatiha
Al Nas
without a single mistake.
Can you believe it?
Can you believe that a human being would
memorize the Quran from Al Fatiha tel and
Nas without a single mistake? We have these
people living with us nowadays.
I mean we have many kafads but the
kafads when they go and review the Quran
they make mistakes
you know other kafads but we have some
kafads
who memorize the Quran and when they recite
it, there is no single mistake.
So we have enough knowledge
to believe,
a reasonable ground to believe that the Quran
was preserved and of course we have the
promise of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala promised that He will,
you know, He will
preserve this Quran.
Now let's move to possibility number 2 and
I'll try to be quick here. Unfortunately,
we don't have time but I will try
my best here. So the second possibility,
they said the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
used previous books to write the Quran. That
means he got this the content
of the Quran from previous books, previous scriptures.
Basically they mean Jewish and Christian
scriptures.
Now number
this will give rise to many problems, at
least three problems. Number 1 is
he was an illiterate.
Everyone knows
that he was an illiterate prophet, a nabeer
ummi. He was not able to read and
write.
So how
how can someone who's not able to read
and write
get access to other
sources and use them to make a book,
to write a book himself.
This is not possible. Now we have historians,
Muslims and non Muslims, all of them agreed
that he was not able to read and
write.
Because we know the details of his childhood,
we know the details of his life alaihis
salatu wasalam. And I'll tell you
something.
It is
being
able or being an illiterate
is a disadvantage
except
in the case of our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, it is an advantage.
Why? Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Yani,
he said, if you were able to read
and write,
then the people of falsehood will be will
be suspicious.
This is in Surat, in Surat Al Ankabut.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala told the Prophet sallallahu
ahi wa sallam, oh you Prophet,
could not, you could not read
any writing even before this revelation,
nor
you could write at all.
He said, otherwise the people of falsehood
would have been suspicious. They will make a
claim against you. Say you were able to
read or write.
Hey, you were smart, so you were able
to, you know, write this book. So Allah
SWT, you know, when you think about it,
his life was designed.
Everything in his life
was designed
to give a proof, a strong proof to
people that this man cannot be a fabricated.
He was a true messenger of God. Everything
about his life is designed to serve this
purpose.
Everything,
including his family, including his life,
including the way
he behaved alayhis salatu salam.
Because, I mean, writing
there are some people in his community who
were able to write
and he was a smart person but he
didn't.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala did not allow this
to happen
because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala was preparing him
for
another purpose.
This man would become a messenger, a final
messenger,
and he will not be able to read
and write, and yet he will be able
to memorize this beautiful book and share it
with
whole humanity.
The second thing, Yahuwani, when it comes, if
you want to confirm this meaning,
one of the proofs, and this is very
important,
to investigate
the list
of accusations made by his own people
because they are the ones who know him
better.
His own people!
Investigate what they said about him. Look at
the Quran.
They said he was
crazy.
He was a liar.
One of the things, on one occasion he
said there is someone
who must,
there is someone who is helping him to
write this book.
But he never said oh we know that
he used to write and write, you are
hiding your skills.
They are people of Makkah. They know him
very well. He grew up with them. Right?
They are his own people.
They never said that we know that you
are able to read and write. You must
have get access,
gotten access to some resources
and therefore you were able to write this
book.
This accusation
was not made
against him. So it's very important to investigate,
you know the accusations that were made by
his own people.
Problem number 2,
no Arabic translation
was available of the Bible
during his time. Yes,
Warak Abu Nu'afal and this way how I
understand
the work of Warakabneu Nafil was Christian, I'll
talk about him. And he used to write
copy,
translate maybe some some knowledge from the Bible,
from the Hebrew language to the Arabic language,
but
a Bible, a translation, a complete
translation
of the Bible was not available during the
time
of Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And those who are saying this, they're not
Muslims. They're They are non Muslims who are
saying this. There is a famous author, his
name is Sydney Griffith.
He wrote a book, The Bible in Arabic.
And he
said in one of his statements, he said
there is no compelling evidence,
there is no compelling evidence that such
translation was available at that time. This is
non Muslim, a non Muslim author,
Sydney Griffith.
And other sources, other Christian sources,
they said the Bible was translated for the
first time in the 9th into the Arabic
language
In the 9th
century,
around maybe
857
in the Christian in the Common Era
or 67,
I'm not exactly sure. But it was in
the middle of 9th century,
which means around 200 years
after the death of our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
Now the critics will say,
if he did not take this knowledge,
if he did not borrow this knowledge from
Christian and Jewish
sources,
how did he know about the stories of
all these Prophets and Messengers
that are found in the Bible, mentioned in
the Bible? Lot'alayhis salam and Nuhalayhis salam and
Ibrahim and Isa and Suleiman and Zikariya and
all these Prophets. The answer is very simple
because the true bible and the true Torah
and the true and all the revealed books
came from one source.
Who is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? The one
who revealed the Quran is the one who
revealed the bible.
The one who revealed the Quran is the
one who revealed the Creator of the Heavens
and the Earth who revealed the Torah.
It's one source.
So that's very simple but they don't want
to accept this and they keep saying, you
know, how did he know about all these
stories and about this knowledge?
Now problem number 3,
that the Quran
is completely different than the Bible and the
Torah.
The style of writing is different, the content
is different.
The content is different.
You study the stories of the Prophets and
Messengers,
the stories of the Quran are way different
than the stories of these Prophets, the same
Prophets and Messengers in the Bible.
Nuh
in the Bible,
he used to drink alcohol.
On one occasion, he became a drunk,
he became naked in his in his tent,
his children saw him naked and horrible things
in the Bible.
One of the prophets, I don't want to
mention his names, had an illegal relationship with
his 2 daughters
in the bible.
I'm sorry I had to mention these things
but we have to say
say these things. You don't find these things
in the Quran.
The Quran is teaching them. So one of
their ul Hammadi said, those who are saying
saying that Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
learned these things from, you know, these Christian
and Jewish Jewish
sources,
where Rasool Allah SAW Alaihi Wasallam or the
Quran is telling them, you're wrong about this,
you're wrong about this, you're wrong about this,
and this is the correct information about this
Prophet. This is the correct story. The Quran
is not learning from them. The Quran is
teaching them. It's correcting their mistakes.
So how can you take from a source
and then you start correcting this source,
right?
Possibility number 3, they said he must have
received help from some Christians and Jews
to write, you know, the book.
And here there are many problems. One of
them is,
if if revealing the Quran or writing the
Quran was a great honor, why these people
who were able, who had the skills
and knowledge to help Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam to write the Book?
How come they did not attribute this honor
to themselves?
Right? This is the first problem.
Why they went to Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
who was an Ummee, was not able to
read and write, and they chose him to
be
a spokesperson,
to speak on their behalf.
Why?
If they were able to come up with
this book,
with this knowledge, with this guidance.
So it doesn't make sense.
Now number 2 and problem number 2, the
Quran challenge
their beliefs.
So they're saying he must have received
help from some Christians and Jews.
The problem that
you know, the second problem is that the
Quran is challenging their beliefs.
How can a Christian teach Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam to say, Those who believe
that Jesus the son of Mary
is God, is Allah.
That Jesus Himself is God. And the Quran
is saying, Those who say this
have
fallen into have fallen into disbelief.
How can a Christian teach Prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam this ayah?
Trinity.
The Quran is rejecting the concept or the
creative Trinity saying Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
1. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala cannot be 1
of 3.
Right?
So the Quran is rejecting their beliefs,
and
it's not. And also
But then about the Jews, Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala said, you know about being the chosen
people of God.
We hear this these days.
In Surat Al Jumu Amat Anil, Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala said to Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, O
Prophet, say, O Jews, if you claim to
be Allah's chosen people out of all humanity,
then they wish wish for death
if what you say is true.
If you what you say is true, then
wish. If you have a great relationship with
Allah,
and you are the chosen people of God,
they wish for death. And the Quran confirmed,
they will never wish for death,
because they know themselves,
they know their deeds.
Quran challenging them, how can a Jew would
come to Rasulullah SAWAYAMI teach him
with Jews and Christians.
Madinah is a little bit different but let's
start with Makkah.
How many Christians in Makkah? We know only
about Waraqab Noufan
who was a Christian.
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in his childhood
when he was 12, he traveled with his
uncle Abu Talib. He met a monk by
the name Bahira.
He met him for a couple of hours,
they had lunch together or dinner
and he asked about him because he saw
a cloud, the story protecting the caravan.
So he had this knowledge in his books
that there
there must be a man here who will
be the next prophet, the future prophet. So
he called them for a lunch or dinner,
and then he asked about if anyone is
here. And he brought Prophet Muhammad
who was 12 years old,
and he asked him some questions.
But do you expect someone who is 12
years old to learn about the Quran
from this monk Bahira
in a meeting of 2 hours or 3
hours?
Warakabru Nofal, they said, historians, they said,
when Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam became
a Prophet, he was an old man, 70
or 80 years old and he was a
blind. Yes, he was christian, he had some
sources, he used to, I mean, maybe he
became a blind at at a later age,
at the end of his life, but he
they used to he he had some
pieces of the bible and he used to
translate from the Hebrew language into the Arabic
but that was the only Christian who was
known in the city of Makkah and he
died
within a short period of time after Rasulullah
Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam became a prophet.
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam stayed in Makkah preaching
for 13 years.
Who taught him all this Quran for 13
years? Warak Abu Nu Nafal himself died?
It was not a book that he received
one time, once.
The Quran was revealed in a gradual process
for the period of
23 years.
And if these men these people told him
about the Prophets and Messengers,
so how come about other events
that took place later on like Ghazwat Badr,
Ghazwat Uhud
and all these events, the false accusation against
his wife. How did they know if they
were Christians
and Jews? How did they know about these
events that have nothing to do with Christian
and Jewish communities?
So these accusations or these possibilities
do not make sense at all.
We have 7 minutes before we continue. The
last possibility which is ridiculous,
they said Satan revealed
the book to him,
was listening to a Christian priest saying,
I'm not saying he was a liar,
I'm not saying he was a crazy
but he was deceived
by the devil.
He was deceived and he was like
stressing on it with Gunnah, with Mad. He
was deceived,
deceived by the devil.
And this is something that is easy, it
should be easy for any Muslim to refute,
right?
Why? Because
the Quran
is full of Ayat telling us, you know,
for example, in one occasion Allah
told his Messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
when you recite the Quran, seek refuge
with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala from the accursed
Shaitan.
Do you expect Shaitan to teach this to
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
In one occasion,
Shaitan is your enemy.
Treat him as your enemy, your adoo.
He's your enemy, so treat him as an
enemy.
So do you expect Shaitan to teach this
to our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
In another ayat wa atatabir Khutwah to Shaitan,
do not follow the steps of Shaitan.
So shaitan will never come and teach this
to our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam
and at the end shaitan, the Quran says
that Shaitan will be in * fire with
his followers.
Do you think Shaitan will come and tell
Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Tell your people that
I will be in * fire with my
followers. It doesn't make sense at all, right?
So this is a very actually weak argument
and but
the other arguments, you know, that he must
have taken this knowledge from Jewish or Christian
sources
or he must have received help from Jewish
and Christian people.
You know,
these possibilities
are being shared within academic circles.
The Shaitan,
you know, people talking
without any proof and Quran is against this
possibility,
but unfortunately
you know, the other possibilities are being shared
in Western Universities.
Right?
And we Muslims we need to learn
how to refute these these, these these false,
you know, options.
The only option we have
left with is that the Quran cannot be
written by a prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. It did not come from Christian and
Jewish sources.
No one helped him to write the book.
It is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala who revealed
this book to His Messenger Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
These are matters of aqidahwad,
when we prove because nowadays,
if we want to help the youth
to be confident about their deen,
we need to focus on 2 subjects.
The the miraculous aspect of the Quran, and
this is what we are trying to do
in this 2 halakat,
the miraculous aspect of the Quran.
Number 2, proofs of prophethood.
And alhamdulillah, we have project here in Calcutta
in
in in ISC. We're working on it. It's
very slow
because we're busy with too many things, but
InshaAllah we are we are determined to continue
working this project and soon Insha'Allah you will
see some books being sold in the different
places here in Calgary
about stories to teenagers,
about every story will include proof of prophethood.
We we printed 2 stories,
but we're planning, inshallah, to print more of
these stories
and share them with the community and translate
them into English. It's a project that we
were working on it, as I said it's
very slow but we'll get some results Beidnillahi
Ta'ala.
So two
things, the miraculous aspect of the Quran
and proofs of prophethood. If you have these
two things,
then Insha'Allah your faith will be very solid.
You will have no doubt
and you will be able to help many
people. Wallahi, these days
we receive many emails from families
of people saying I have someone in my
family who is having doubt about his deen.
We need your help.
The last
okay. Maybe I shouldn't share this but anyway,
we have stories. We have people saying, you
know, I have a son or I have
a family member
who is in doubt or he decided to
leave Islam.
To leave Islam.
To leave Islam, he doesn't believe in the
Deen
in the Deen at all. So ikhwan, we
need to learn these things
so we can help our children,
help our children and help our families.
Wallahi, I had someone here
2 years or 3 years ago. He said
my cousin used to pray Taraweeh with us
here. He said after Ramadan we went on
a trip to Banff
and his cousin told him, he used to
pray with Taraweeh with us,
his cousin told him, you know I don't
believe that in the existence of God.
And he said, it all and he shared
with him a very
ridiculous statement. He said, you will be shocked
after death when you discover that there is
no God. If there is no God, you
will not be shocked. There will be no
life.
You will not be shocked. It's either there
is God and you will be shocked to
find that there is God and there is
Jannah paradise and hellfire
fire or there is nothing,
nothing to lose,
right? It's either this one or this one,
you know. And this is a by the
way, for someone who who has doubt, it's
a very good argument to start with. This
is the foundation.
He said I want you to consider the
other option.
If I am
right wrong
that there is no God and you are
right there is no God,
I am not a loser, you are not
a loser. Both of us will be fine,
right? But the problem is if I am
right, that there is God and there is
life after death and there is Jannah and
Jahannam
and you are wrong,
I am right, I will be a winner.
We are talking about eternity here, ultimate. This
is ultimate success
and
you will be a loser
and you will have fire forever.
This is an argument that we can use
it with these people for the sake of
argument and you cannot
carry this as a aqeedah. You cannot have
doubt about the Day of Judgment. You have
to have certainty Yaqeen about the Day of
Judgment. But for the sake of argument, you
can use it to help someone to move
forward one step
when he because this is something that I
know for sure. A doctor, a medical doctor
who said
he met someone who had the same problem,
another young Muslim who did not believe in
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, born in a Muslim
family, he left his deen and he was
asking him this question,
what if
it happened to you, you know, and you
find out at the end that there was
no God? What will happen to your salat?
What you cannot think about your Salat? I
said okay, I'll just think about it as
an exercise.
How about Hajj?
How are you going to feel about Hajj?
He said
I'll just consider it as a as a
as a trip, as you know
you know vacation when you go to Umrah
or Hajj. And then he was talking this
this question. And this doctor was listening to
him, what if what if what if and
at the end he said, I have one
question for you.
What if you are wrong and you die
on the day of judgment
and you will find that there is God,
there is day after life,
life after death
and there is Jannah and Halifa'a.
And his doctor, he said,
he opens his eyes
and he starts looking at him
and he couldn't say anything, he said maybe
I'll think about it. He said after 1
month he called him, he said you changed
my life, allahi. This through this discussion,
he said you changed my life,
I came back to the Deen praying 5
daily prayers and going to the Masjid, he
completely changed his life after this simple
discussion.
It's an argument that you can use, but
we need
to know about our deen. We need to
have certainty
that this Quran was revealed by Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
And we need to have certainty about the
mission of our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam if we want to
help our children, our community and our families.
It's time for Salabas. I'm sorry. Go ahead.
Yeah. I have a quick question. Yeah.
Yeah.
I have a quick answer. I have a
quick answer to your
statement, to your question. So the brother he
said, there was a Christian who opened the
book, the Mushaf and he he said this
first thing that he read is that Muslims
are supposed to kill the the disbelievers, right?
Just tell him the answer. Do not please
don't take this Ayat out of context. You
need to read the whole page, right? And
it is a state of war. Whenever whenever
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala talks about killing,
you know, it's a state of war and
in a state of war, non muslims would
be killing non muslims. Christians will be killing
Jews, Jews killing non muslims, Buddhists killing non
muslims.
You know it's
everyone will be killing someone else right? It's
a state of war
right?
The Quran is not saying all Muslims whenever
you find a non Muslim
get rid of him.
Do you find this in the Quran?
The Quran talks about peace. The Quran talks
about respecting your neighbors, right? The Quran talks
about having good relationship with those who did
not remove you from your houses.
They did not fight you because of your
faith.
Surah Al Mu'tahana.
So we have all this beautiful
beautiful
Ayat, they forget about all this Ayat and
they pick some other verses. Said this is
a context, a specific context which is a
state of war between Muslims and non Muslims
during that time and they were fighting with
each other. And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala was
instructing Muslims how to behave in war. We
have beautiful guidance actually when it comes to
war that is better than what the Zionists
are doing in Israel, in the state of
Israel nowadays in Gaza, right? They're killing women
and children. Our prophet Muhammad salaam
used to tell Muslim armies when you go
and fight, you don't kill women, you don't
kill children, you don't kill those who are
worshiping
God or in their places.
Those people who are, you know, staying in
dynasties and or or or churches or places
of worship. Do not come close to them.
Do not touch them.
So this is a beautiful guidance that we
have in our Deen that other people don't
have. Right?
So
my answer to this with this,
follow tell him continue reading
and you will find peace. You will be
happy with the Quran
because we know American ladies and Canadian ladies
and people who are reading the Quran, they
said we're able to read the Quran from
the beginning till the end on TikTok nowadays
and I'm a different person.
I feel at peace. I'm happy to be
a Muslim.
I have made the best decision in my
life to revert to Islam. Jazakumullah khairan barakallahu
feekum, we need to pray salatul
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