The Miracle of The Quran

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The Miracle of The Quran

• Bashar A. Shala
• Ramadan 1425

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What is a Miracle????????

• An Extraordinary Event
• A Devine Source
• Can not be replicated by humans.
• The Arabic root of the word ???
• Challenging.
• Comes after beginning of Prophecy (Message).

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What is a Miracle????????

• Comes to challenge people in a matter they have
  mastered
• Musas (PBUH) miracles challenged Magic.
• Issas (PBUH) miracles challenged Medicine.
• Muhammads (PBUH) miracle challenged the Language
  Arts of the Arabs.
• Khaled bin Uqba or Al-Walid bin Al-Mugira
  ..these are not the words of a human..
• Islam of Umar

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The Miracle of The Quran

• The Quran is a miracle that is not limited by
  place and time.
• The Quran combines The Message and The Miracle at
  the same time.
• The Miracle of the Quran goes beyond language
  into many aspects.

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The Miracle of The Quran

• The Devine Source
• Could not have been scripted by The Prophet PBUH
• The illiterate Prophet

And you were not (able) to recite a Book before
this (Book came), nor were you (able) to
transcribe it with your right hands in that
case, indeed, would the talkers of vanities have
doubted.
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The Miracle of The Quran

• The Devine Source
• Could not have been scripted by The Prophet PBUH
• Quran was not revealed according to the request
  and the needs of the Prophet PBUH
• The Falsehood Event ????? (A whole month
  waiting)

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The Miracle of The Quran

• The Devine Source
• Disagreement with some of The Prophets actions.

1 (The Prophet) frowned and turned away, 2
Because there came to him the blind man
(interrupting). 3 But what could tell you but
that perchance he might grow (in spiritual
understanding)? 4 Or that he might receive
admonition, and the teaching might benefit him?
5 As to one who regards himself as
self-sufficient, 6 To him you attend 7
Though it is no blame on you if he grow not (in
spiritual understanding). 8 But as to him who
came to you striving earnestly, 9 And with
fear (in his heart), 10 Of him you were
unmindful.
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The Miracle of The Quran

• The Devine Source
• Could not have been scripted by The Prophet PBUH
• Disagreement with some of The Prophets actions.

O Prophet! Why do you hold to be forbidden that
which Allah has made lawful to you? You seek to
please your wives but Allah is Oft-Forgiving,
Most Merciful.
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The Miracle of The Quran

• The Devine Source
• Could not have been scripted by The Prophet PBUH
• Disagreement with some of The Prophets actions.

It is not fitting for a Prophet that he should
have prisoners of war until he has thoroughly
subdued the land. You look for the temporal goods
of this world but Allah looks to the Hereafter
and Allah is Exalted in might, Wise.
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The Miracle of The Quran

• Challenging

Say "If the whole of mankind and Jinns were to
gather together to produce the like of this
Qur-an they could not produce the like thereof,
even if they backed up each other with help and
support.
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The Miracle of The Quran

• Challenging

13 Or they may say, "He forged it." Say, "Bring
you then ten Suras forged, like unto it, and call
(to your aid) whomsoever you can, other than
Allah! if you speak the truth! 14 "If then
they (your false gods) answer not your (call),
know you that this Revelation is sent down
(replete) with the knowledge of Allah, and that
there is no god but He! Will you even then submit
(to Islam)?"
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The Miracle of The Quran

• Challenging in Mecca

Or do they say, "He forged it?" Say "Bring then
a Sura like unto it, and call (to your aid)
anyone you can besides Allah, if it be you speak
the truth!"
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The Miracle of The Quran

• Challenging in Madina

And if you are in doubt as to what We have
revealed from time to time to Our servant, then
produce a Sura like thereunto and call your
witnesses or helpers (if there are any) besides
Allah, if your (doubts) are true.
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• Alif-Lâm-Râ. (This is) a Book, the Verses whereof
  are perfected (in every sphere of knowledge), and
  then explained in detail from One (Allâh) Who is
  All-Wise Well-Acquainted (with all things).

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The Miracle of The Quran

• The Language of the Quran
• The Arabic Language The richest in vocabulary.
• The most derivative from one root. (40 words vs.
  12 for English)
• Poetic Language An art mastered by Arabs before
  Islam. They hung poems on Kaaba.

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The Miracle of The Quran

• 192 Verily this is a Revelation from the Lord of
  the worlds
• 193 With it came down the Trustworthy Spirit of
  Faith and Truth,
• 194 To ypur heart and mind, that you may
  admonish (them)
• 195 In the perspicuous Arabic tongue.

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The Miracle of The Quran

• The Language of the Quran
• No word can replace another.
• Al-Asmay
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The Miracle of The Quran

• No word can replace another.

.."O my son! I see in vision that I offer thee in
sacrifice now see what is thy view!" (the son)
said "O my father! do as thou art commanded
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Behold, Yusuf said to his father "O my father! I
did see eleven stars and the sun and the moon I
saw them prostrate themselves to me!"
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The Miracle of The Quran

• The Beautiful Internal Rhythm of Quran

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The Miracle of The Quran

• The Rhythm is appropriate to the meaning.

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The Miracle of The Quran

• The Rhythm is appropriate to the meaning.

O you who believe! what is the matter with you,
that, when you are asked to go forth in the Cause
of Allah, you cling heavily to the earth? Do you
prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter?
But little is the comfort of this life, as
compared with the Hereafter.
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The Miracle of The Quran

• Each word and letter has a purpose.

O my son! establish regular prayer, enjoin what
is just, and forbid what is wrong and bear with
patient constancy whatever afflicts you for this
is firmness (of purpose) in (the conduct of)
affairs.
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But indeed if any show patience and forgive, that
would truly be an exercise of courageous will and
resolution in the conduct of affairs.
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The Miracle of The Quran
kill not your children on a plea of poverty - We
provide sustenance for you and for them ???????
6 151
Kill not your children for fear of poverty We
shall provide sustenance for them as well as for
you. Verily the killing of them is a great sin.
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The Miracle of The Quran
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• Repeated syllables, repeated actions

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• Repeated syllables, repeated actions

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Parables of the Quran

• Timeless.
• Accurately portraits the idea and goal behind it.
• Understood regardless of cultural or ethnic
  background.

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Parables of the Quran
"And made the moon a light in their midst, and
made the sun as a (Glorious) Lamp? ??? 71 16
"Blessed is He Who made constellations in the
skies, and placed therein a Lamp and a Moon
giving light ??????? 25 61
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Parables of the Quran
O ye who believe! Cancel not your charity by
reminders of your generosity or by injury, like
those who spend their substance to be seen of
men, but believe neither in Allah nor in the Last
Day. They are in Parable like a hard barren rock,
on which is a little soil on it falls heavy
rain, which leaves it (just) a bare stone. They
will be able to do nothing with what they have
earned. And Allah guides not those who reject
Faith. ?????? 2 264
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Parables of the Quran
And the likeness of those who spend their
substance, seeking to please Allah and to
strengthen their souls, is as a garden, high
(elevated ground) and fertile heavy rain falls
on it but makes it yield a double increase of
harvest, and if it receives not heavy rain, light
moisture suffices it. Allah sees well whatever
you do . ?????? 2 265
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Parables of the Quran
The parable of those who take protectors other
than Allah is that of the Spider, who builds (to
itself) a house but truly the flimsiest of
houses is the Spider's house if they but knew. .
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The Structural Weakness The Family Life Weakness
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Parables of the Quran
175- Relate to them the story of the man to whom
We sent Our Signs, but he passed them by so
Satan followed him up, and he went astray. 176-
If it had been Our Will, We should have elevated
him with Our Signs but he inclined to the earth,
and followed his own vain desires. His similitude
is that of a dog if you attack him, he pants, or
if you leave him alone, he (still) pants. That is
the similitude of those who reject Our Signs so
relate the story perchance they may reflect. . .
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Parables of the Quran
There are among men some who serve Allah, as it
were, on the verge if good befalls them, they
are, therewith, well content but if a trial
comes to them, they turn on their faces they
lose both this world and the Hereafter that is
loss for all to see! . ???? 22 11
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• Alif-Lâm-Râ. (This is) a Book, the Verses whereof
  are perfected (in every sphere of knowledge), and
  then explained in detail from One (Allâh) Who is
  All-Wise Well-Acquainted (with all things).

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Themes in The Quran

• Sura Al-Kahf ???? ?????
• Four Stories
• The Youth of The Cave.
• The Two Friends, one of wealth and arrogance,
  then denial of the day of judgment.
• Musa (PBUH) and the Knowledgeable Man.
• Thi Al-Quarnayn ?? ??????? The mighty
  righteous King.

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Themes in The Quran

• Sura Al-Kahf ???? ?????
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• Those who memories ten verses of the beginning of
  Al-Kahf will be protected from the False Massaiah
  (Fitna-Trials and Tribulations).

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Themes in The Quran

• Sura Al-Kahf ???? ?????
• Four Stories
• The Youth of The Cave.
• Trials by religious persecution.
• The Two Friends, one of wealth and arrogance.
• Trials by wealth.
• Musa (PBUH) and the Knowledgeable Man.
• Trial by knowledge.
• Thi Al-Quarnayn The mighty righteous King.
• Trials by Might and Power