Saif Morad – Allah Issues The Quran Challenge Surah AlBaqarah 2324

To whom my dear brothers and sisters,

may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless us with

the best in this world

and the next.

In this video, we're gonna be talking about

how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala laid a challenge

to the entire world.

In Surat Al Baqarah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

calls on mankind, everyone in the world to

worship him alone and not to associate

any partners with him. Then in the next

verse, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is establishing

the prophethood of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa

sallam, which is the second part of the

shahada.

That there is no one worthy of worship

except Allah, and

Muhammad is his messenger.

Allah

is telling the people that if you are

in doubt of that which we sent to

our slave,

that which we sent to the prophet

then bring a bring a chapter, the likes

of it, and call upon your

likes of it,

and call upon your witnesses, call everyone you

want to help you in this task if

you are truthful.

The prophet

came to the people of Mecca, he came

to the people and he told them that

I am the messenger of Allah. Listen to

me, you'll be saved. And Quresh said, no,

you're not the messenger.

We don't believe you,

that you are the chosen one over everyone

else.

The prophet

said,

you are the people

of literature,

of eloquence,

of fluency,

of poetry, of rhetoric,

your oratory skills have no match,

you are at the highest level when it

comes to

language,

then produce a chapter like that of the

Quran

in its structure, in its flow, in its

beauty, in its miraculous nature.

If you claim that I am not the

messenger of Allah and that the Quran isn't

from Allah

And this is not the first time that

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala laid a challenge to

the Meccans.

The first time Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala declared

this challenge upon the Meccans was in Suratul

Isra,

in which he says,

The people of Mecca said

that if we wanted we could bring something

like this Quran,

then Allah

told the prophet

to tell them that

if all of the humans and jinn were

to gather

to try to produce something like the Quran,

they would not be able to produce anything

like the Quran

even if all of them were helping one

another and were assistance to one another.

Says

that this is clear cut proof that the

prophet is

the messenger of Allah and that the Quran

is the truth, because Allah challenged them, and

he even said that you will never be

able to come up with something like the

Quran even though you helped one another.

And they were unable to produce a book

like the Quran, so

made it easier for them.

Or do they say that Muhammad salallahu alayhi

wa sallam invented the Quran?

Because the Americans claimed that Muhammad, he invented

this Quran salallahu alayhi wa sallam, so Allah

said that tell them to bring 10 chapters

like that of the Quran,

and to call upon those who you can

other than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala if you

are truthful.

You people claim that he salallahu alaihi wa

sallam invented this Quran,

there's no difference between you and him in

eloquence,

in oratory skills, so bring something like it.

They had severe enmity towards

Islam,

towards the message of the Quran.

So bring something like it, and they were

unable to do that. Then Allah

made it even easier for them.

That do they say that he invented this?

Then bring one chapter the likes of

it, and call upon those who you want,

whoever you want other than Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala if you are truthful.

And in this verse as well in Surat

Al Baqarah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala challenges them

once again. Now in Madina,

that to bring something like this Quran, if

you're truthful that this is not from Allah

and he is not the messenger of Allah

salallahu alayhi wa sallam.

And if you are unable, then Allah

says,

Allah

says, and if you are not able to

do this,

Allah is

saying, you will never be able to do

this. It's impossible for you to come up

with something like the Quran because this is

the word of Allah

Allah it is unmatched, nobody can bring something

like the Quran.

And when you fail,

then fear the fire,

fear the hellfire

whose fuel is

men and stones,

people and stones

that is prepared for the disbelievers.

Allah

challenges them and tells them that there is

no way you will be able to bring

something like this. And when a person looks

at the Quran and contemplates over the Quran,

they realize

that this is the book of Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala. So you have one of 2

choices,

you submit to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala or

you continue in your stubbornness, and those people

who are stubborn,

who refuse to listen to what Allah says,

he says then prepare yourself and fear the

fire.

Protect yourselves from the fire.

And we protect ourselves from the fire, from

the punishment of

Allah by doing the things he told us

to do, by obeying Allah

by praying our prayer, by listening to our

prayers, by doing good, and staying away from

that which he has forbidden. And if the

Meccans,

the people who are at the highest level

when it came to literature,

when it came to rhetoric, when it came

to eloquence.

If they were unable to do it, and

Allah said, you will not be able to

do it, then what about the generations that

came after them? It's impossible

for them to come up with something like

the Quran. Quran is something that's a miracle.

If you come with something, it has to

resemble the Quran,

it has to resemble the Quran in its

miraculous nature.

Not just switching one two words around saying,

oh, this is something like the Quran.

So today's exercise is

to take out time

even if it's 10 minutes a day, even

one ayah,

and to strive to understand it and to

see how we can implement it. To ask

ourselves the questions, what does Allah mean by

this ayah? What is the reality of the

ayah? What is the context of the ayah?

Are people implementing it in today's day and

age? Are they implementing this verse in their

lives?

And if they did, what would be the

result? And if they didn't, what would be

the consequence?

May Allah bless

us with the understanding of the Quran, the

right understanding of the Quran,

and make us the companions of the Quran.

May he bless us to taste the sweetness

of the Quran,

and make us from the people of Quran.

Until next time.