Zia Sheikh – Allah subha nahu wa taala responds to false accusation Surah AnNahl
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The speaker discusses the history of the Prophet's actions and the importance of his language and language systems in the transmission of scripture. They also mention the use of the word "shit" to describe culture and language, as well as his ability to cure people of illnesses and bring people back from the dead. The Prophet S.A.W. used various names and claimed to have been copied from the previous scriptures, but the history of the Prophet's actions is unclear. The speaker also touches on the importance of the Prophet's language and language systems in the transmission of scripture and the use of his language to describe culture and language systems.
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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.