of the
Authorized
English translation of the Quran by
Dr.
Rashad Khalifa
Muhammad
Wrote God's Revelations With His own Hand
The first revelation was "Read,"
and included the statement "God
teaches by means of the pen"
(96:1-4),
and the second revelation was "The
Pen" (68:1).
The only function of the pen is to write.
Ignorant Muslim scholars of the first two
centuries after the Quran could not
understand the Quran's challenge to produce anything like it.
They had no idea about the Quran's mathematical
composition, and they knew that many
literary giants could have composed works
comparable to the Quran.
In fact, many such literary giants did claim
the ability to produce a literary work as excellent as the Quran.
The latest claim came from Taha Hussein, the
renowned Egyptian writer.
The ignorant Muslim scholars then decided to
proclaim Muhammad an illiterate man! They figured that this would make the
Quran's extraordinary literary excellence truly miraculous. The word they
relied on to bestow illiteracy upon the Prophet was "UMMY."
Unfortunately for those "scholars," this word
clearly means "Gentile," or one who does
not follow any scripture (Torah, Injeel, or Quran)
[see
2:78,
3:20 & 75,
62:2]; it does NOT
mean "illiterate."The
Prophet was a successful merchant. The "Muslim scholars" who fabricated the
illiteracy lie forgot that there were no numbers during the Prophet's time;
the letters of the alphabet were used as numbers.
As a merchant dealing with numbers every day,
the Prophet had to know
the alphabet, from one to one-thousand.
The Quran tells us that Muhammad wrote down the
Quran - Muhammad's contemporaries are quoted as saying,
"These are tales from the
past that he wrote down. They are being
dictated to him day and night" (25:5).
You cannot "dictate" to an illiterate person.
The Prophet's enemies who accuse him of illiteracy abuse Verse
29:48, which
relates specifically to
previous scriptures.
On the 27th night of Ramadan 13
B.H. (Before Hijerah), Muhammad the
soul, the real person, not the body, was summoned to the highest universe
and the Quran was given to him (2:97,
17:1,
44:3,
53:1-18,
97:1-5).
Subsequently, the angel Gabriel helped Muhammad
release a few verses of the Quran at a
time, from the soul to Muhammad's memory.
The Prophet wrote down and memorized the verses
just released into his mind.
When the Prophet died, he left the complete
Quran written down with his own hand in
the chronological order of revelation, along with specific instructions as
to where to place every verse. The
divine instructions recorded by the Prophet were designed to put the Quran
together into the final format intended for
God's Final Testament to the world (75:17).
The early Muslims did not get around to putting
the Quran together until the time of Khalifa Rashed `Uthmaan. A committee
was appointed to carry out
this task. Read Appendix
24 for the details.
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