Zia Sheikh – Allah subha nahu wa taala responds to false accusation Surah AnNahl

Indeed, we know that they are saying that

the Qur'an was taught to the Prophet

ﷺ by a human being.

So who is this human being?

There are various interpretations or various opinions as

to the accusation that they made against the

Prophet ﷺ.

Firstly, one opinion, Salman al-Farsi.

Another person, his name was Ya'ish.

Another name, Udaas.

And another name, Balaan.

All of these names were the ones that

people put forth as people that they suspected

that the Prophet ﷺ was learning the stories

from the previous scriptures from.

And Allah SWT is responding to that charge

over here.

According to other riwayat, it was a person

who was amongst the Quraysh and the Prophet

ﷺ used to sit by him.

He used to sell things at the Mount

of Safa.

And the Prophet ﷺ used to sit with

him and talk to him.

And this person was an A'ajami.

A'ajami means he was not an Arab.

And the Prophet ﷺ used to sit with

him.

So this accusation was brought against the Prophet

ﷺ that he was copying the stories that

that person knew from the previous texts and

just putting them into the Qur'an.

So Allah SWT responds to that.

Before I get into the response, there is

also an accusation that Khadijah r.a, who

did she take the Prophet ﷺ to see

when the Wahi started coming to him?

She took him to see Waraqa ibn Nawfal

who was related to Khadijah r.a. And

this Waraqa was a person who was familiar

with the previous scriptures, Christian teachings, Jewish teachings.

And he told the Prophet ﷺ that I

wish that I could be there at the

time when your people turn you out of

your city.

And the Prophet ﷺ at that time was

very surprised that how could my people turn

me out of my city when I am

supposed to be an Ameen.

I am the Sadiq people.

They trust me and they love me and

they have affection for me.

So Waraqa told him that every person that

has stood up with his message of Tawheed,

he has been thrown out of his city

and he has had a difficult time.

I wish I was alive when this thing

happens to you so I could come to

support you.

So this Riwayah which is in Bukhari, it

says at the end of it, at the

end of that Riwayah, it says that after

a while Waraqa died.

Waraqa died and then the Wahi stopped coming

for a while.

The Wahi stopped coming for a while.

So people have jumped upon this wording in

this Hadith in Bukhari and they say that

the Prophet was actually copying from Waraqa the

stories and when Waraqa died then the Wahi

stopped coming because he was copying from him.

That's why it stopped coming.

But the reality is the answer is here.

The answer is mentioned.

Allah SWT says, The tongue or the language

that they are accusing the Prophet of copying

from was a'ajami, meaning non-Arabic.

In Hebrew or Greek or previous Aramaic, whatever

different languages but not in Arabic.

So first of all the Prophet could not

even read Arabic.

Forget about different languages.

And on top of that, the Bible and

the previous scriptures were not translated into Arabic

until many many centuries even after the Prophet

SAW.

Not even during the time of the Prophet.

So to accuse the Prophet of copying from

the previous scriptures, it is foolish on his

face because why?

First of all the Prophet, he doesn't know

how to read.

He doesn't know how to read Arabic, let

alone the other languages.

So how could he copy the stories in

such detail?

So the story of Yusuf SAW is in

such detail.

The story of Musa SAW, different stories of

Musa SAW are mentioned throughout the Quran in

great detail.

The story of Yunus SAW is mentioned in

detail.

The story of Lut SAW is mentioned in

detail.

Ibrahim SAW is mentioned in detail.

So time and again all of these stories

are mentioned without any kind of discrepancy, without

any kind of problem between them, all corroborating

with each other.

So how could the Prophet SAW bring and

copy those stories in such detail from and

on Arab when he doesn't even know how

to read Arabic, his own mother tongue.

It is impossible for it to happen.

So Allah SWT responds by saying, The tongue

that they are accusing the Prophet SAW of

copying from is A'jami.

The word A'jami by the way is

the word that Arabs use for non-Arabs.

And this traditionally was and still is used

for non-Arabs.

And the actual literal meaning of A'jami

is dumb.

They used to regard the non-Arabs as

people that didn't know how to talk.

Why?

Because the Arabs themselves were very famous for

poetry and literature and reading and writing, storytelling.

In fact there were market places where people

used to just gather just to recite poetry

to each other.

This was how famous poetry was and literature

was at that time.

So any person who didn't know Arabic, he

was automatically known as A'jami, meaning a

person who is dumb, doesn't know anything about

language, doesn't know anything about poetry, doesn't know

anything about linguistics.

So this was why they were known as

A'jami.

And while we are on this issue, the

Anbiya Ali Musa A.S. were sent to

their nations and the miracles that Allah SWT

gave them were in accordance with the things

that people were famous for at that time

or what people used to look up to

at that time.

So during the time of Musa A.S.

for example, magic was at a peak.

Black magic, magicians, illusions, all these type of

things, they were at their peak and people

looked up to it.

So Allah SWT gave Musa A.S. the

ability to counter the magic with miracles that

looked like magic but was more powerful than

magic.

The stick that was given that turned into

a snake and the shining hand, all of

the different things that happened during the time

of Musa A.S. but in response to

the magic of the time which basically made

people understand that this is not magic.

Isa A.S. was given miracles of curing

people.

At the time of Isa A.S. medicine

and treating people of illnesses, it was prevalent.

So the miracles that Isa A.S. was

given were related to the treatment and the

cure of people.

So the fact that he could miraculously cure

blind people, the lepers, the sick, even bring

people back from the dead, it was a

miracle, miracles which were according to the thing

that was prevalent at the time.

The Quran was given to our beloved Prophet

S.A.W. in such a way, it

is a literary miracle which is complete in

every way, in a poetic sense, in a

storytelling sense, in a powerful sense.

Why?

Because the people of the time, they used

to be into the poetry and linguistics and

literature and so on.

So that is why Allah S.W.T.

says here, The tongue that people are accusing

the Prophet S.A.W. of copying from

is a non-Arabic language.

وَهَذَا لِسَانٌ عَرَبِيٌ مُبِينٌ And this is a

tongue which is in clear Arabic, meaning the

Quran that has been revealed, it is in

clear and beautiful Arabic, open Arabic that can

be understood by everybody.

This is what the Quran is.

And if the Prophet S.A.W. had

copied from other languages, then there would have

been problems, there would have been differences that

took place in the stories, but there is

such detail that he could not have copied

it.

So with that, Insha'Allah, we finish for

today.

I pray that Allah S.W.T. gives

us tawfiq to understand and practice.