Saleem Chagtai – Islam Awareness Week Messengers to Mankind 3 of 7
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Another being in the spirit world,
we would have said, well, look, that's a
different creation.
Obviously, they're gonna find some of this stuff
easy or, and we're gonna we're not gonna
be able to copy that.
So the creator sends human beings,
people from their own backgrounds,
to deliver this message
in order to make it easier to follow
and easier to process,
easier to see, easier to witness,
and easier to empathise with.
So this is why it's worthwhile going through
the quality of the scripture
in a little bit of detail
because, ultimately,
if one sees the Quran, they will notice
that this is not
the workings of an illiterate man. Because remember,
the prophet Muhammad was
illiterate.
It's because of the unlettered prophet. This is
part of the miraculous nature
of his of his prophethood.
This is a proof to those people because
it's ridiculous. They're literate an illiterate person. I'm
gonna say an illiterate person in in the
UK.
Is it likely they will be able to
match even forget a divine scripture, even Shakespeare?
Will they be able to even get that?
Or not even Shakespeare, let's go to Dickens.
Or if not, let's go to Wilfred Owen
or any other poetry. Will they be able
to match that? No. It's impossible.
Nobody's experienced this
in human experience that somebody
who's illiterate will be able to produce
even a comp let's forget even an eloquence,
even a competent speech or competent piece of
writing. It's impossible. It doesn't happen.
And even the non Muslims have acknowledged this
fact. The people who have studied the Quran,
the orientalist.
Abuth Ngo explains in his book the construction
of the bible of the Quran,
this effect of the Quranic style. It is
confessedly the standard of the Arabic time.
In other words, non Muslims accept the Qur'an
is the standard by which all other Arabic
is judged.
Even the Muslim Arabs study the Qur'an for
this,
as well
known. He said the style of the Quran
is generally good, beautiful, and fluid. And in
many places, especially where the majesty and attributes
of God described sublime and magnificent,
he succeeded so well and so strangely captivated
the minds of his audience
that several of his opponents thought it to
be the effect of witchcraft enchantment. This obviously
talk about the the the accusations of the
pagans upon the prophets of Allah.
And, therefore,
we will see that
not just the literary miracle,
but even the challenge of even bringing 1
surah like it. One chapter, the smallest chapter
is sort of. It's only 3 lines long
or 3 verses long.
They they didn't even bother.
Us.
This is not even touching upon the science,
the embryology,
which is mentioned in detail, the ground, which
is over to microscopic detail.
A literate man in,
in amongst the people who have no interest
in science.
They're not they weren't even like the Babylonians.
They were not even like the Egyptian ancient
Egyptians. They were not even like the Greeks,
the pagan Arabs. They had no interest in
this,
and yet the the Quran came with that.
So this is an impossibility.
And not only that, but this book at
the same time manages to deal with different
peoples in different times and places
with the Quran's impact on the individual and
global
politics has been unparalleled,
and any Arabic test text both past or
present has not achieved what the Quran has
achieved with regards to its aesthetic reception in
the order in in other words, its beauty.
No other Arabic literature
has that effect.
So if this book
clearly shows itself to be the truth,
then this will shed light on why messages
were sent.
We touched on that a little bit before,
but ultimately, why did messages keep on being
sent? Why is it not just for 1
book
to be given and passed and disseminated throughout
humanity?
Again, scripture communication tells us that this was
to bring human beings back from the path
of deviation
and to bring them black back to their
natural inclination,
which will revere their creator and not to
revere things which are created,
which they then they owe their own selves
created.
Was that clearly absurd?
And not only that, but these messages of
prophets are sent as an exam as examples
and embodiments of the message
and as leaders and guides.
As Allah mentions in the
translation which is, and rarely we have set
among every community and nation a message proclaiming,
worship Allah, God alone,
and avoid and keep away from false deities
and all those things which are worshiped aside
from him.
Then of them were some of whom Allah
guided and of them some upon whom the
whom were misguided.
Amongst
Semitic peoples and amongst the Jews and Christians,
there's an acknowledgement
that there are that there are a number
of can be a number of scriptures,
such as the Torah,
the gospel, the zaghur, the Psalms,
and the Muslims accept the Quran. And,
again, the Quran mentions that it is he,
Allah, who has sent down the book, the
Quran,
to you, to the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam confirming what came before it and he
sent down the the the Torah and he
sent down the gospel.
And also, and to David, we gave the
Psalms.
So going back to the early verse where
it says that Allah sent a prophet to
every nation. This is indeed fair and just.
That every single peoples
that have lived throughout time,
those groups of people have received a messenger
to remind them
of their duty towards their lord,
And to give them their purpose and to
give them rules and laws of regulation by
which to judge their lives and to
deal with
their
relationship between themselves.
And there are some whom Allah has told
us about and some which he hasn't told
us about.
And even the prophet
was not aware of the names of all
the messengers and prophets that have come throughout
time.
Some hadith say that there are about 224,000
with maybe about 300 odd books that were
sent,
and and
of those, only 25 are mentioned in the
Quran. A lot of them are the ones
which are known by the people of the
book, people of scripture.
And is obligatory to believe in all the
books which Allah has revealed, of course, and
all the prophets and messengers
whom he has sent.
But also, we need to understand that the
messengers also tell us the consequence of our
actions and how justice will be administered in
the hereafter.
So not just about justice being established on
this Earth, but also in the hereafter, and
how it will be done and what basis
will be done.
Because all of human beings, no matter where
they are, where they come from, which time
or era they come from, they all value
justice.
Even a child
is hardwired to accept justice
or to expect justice.
If any of you have nieces or nephews,
you'll know that if they bump into something
inanimate and you hit that thing,
then the child, even if it's crying, will
feel that some justice has been done. And
this is very important.
It's very important that human beings all appreciate
justice.
Don't take a lot to prove that. So
it only makes
sense that this is, again, part of
the human being's consciousness,
And that's what what is called,
the natural inclination that they want to see
justice.
And that justice, who's gonna come from? The
most just, which is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Now the Quran is the greatest and the
last of all revelation,
and it aggregates the books that came before
it as well as confirming it, and it
is a witness over all the other books.
So that is the task that we human
beings must follow now. We have to follow
the message of the Quran.
And as we are now in the era
of the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
then again,
it made sense for us to focus on
him
as as the prophet messenger because he is
the prophet and messenger for this era now
to all peoples and to for the rest
of
till the day of judgement.
And he was given a specific task
to convey the to be the messenger for
all peoples,
whereas other prophets
and messengers were sent to their people primarily.