- The moment I opened the Qur'an,
even from the first page that I read,
something inside me just said that this is the truth.
You cannot deny that this is the truth.
It was so convincing.
It was as if Allah was speaking to me directly,
and this is coming from a background
of no religiosity at all.
Like I considered myself an agnostic at the time.
It's just,
it's sent by Allah.
It is sent by Allah.
There's no other explanation.
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- I was once in an interfaith dialogue,
in which the MC was a pastor, a minister in the church.
A young boy, Hafiz,
recited some verses of the Qur'an from memory.
When the boy sat down, the MC got up, and he said,
he said,
"We as Christians, when we hear the Qur'an being recited,
know that this is not the word of man.
This cannot be the word of man."
And then he said,
"And it sends shivers up my spine,
or up our spine, when we hear the Qur'an being recited."
And this is nothing new.
- On one occasion the Prophet (pbuh)
goes to the Haram, to Makkah,
and he begins to recite Surah An-Najm out loud,
before everybody,
He continues on reciting this beautiful and very
powerful in meaning, surah,
until he reaches the last section of the surah
The narration it mentions that after the Prophet (pbuh)
recited this verse
all of the people in the Haram,
the believers with the Prophet (pbuh)
with the Mushrikeen (polytheists) that were opposed to him.
They fell down in prostration before Allah subahanahu wa ta'ala
they couldn't help it
they realized first hand they experienced it.
It is the work of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
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- The Qur'an incapacitates creation
from producing anything like it.
You cannot imitate the Qur'an
you can't produce something like the Qur'an.
and in fact, in three different places in the Qur'an
Allah challenges creation to produce
something like the Qur'an
- When they couldn't meet this challenge
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made the challenge
a bit more easier
Then at least bring 10 chapters like the chapters
of the Qur'an.
- And given that they cannot produce even 10 surah
of the Qur'an,
he minimizes that challenge
to even produce one surah of the Qur'an
and we know that one surah of the Qur'an is as short
as just a few words
- The shortest chapter is Suratul Kawthar
it consists of three verses.
In it there's round 10 words,
the scholars they say
even in this short surah
there are six words out of the 10 that are not
mentioned anywhere else Qur'an,
except in this surah.
That's just another example of the miraculous nature
of the Qur'an Alkarim
- How do we know the Quran is divinely sent
from God?
Umm...
- How do I know the Qur'an is divinely sent from God?
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- In the early or mid 1990s
Australia was very lucky
or the Muslim community was very lucky
and fortunate to have a visit by Professor
Zaghloul Al-Najar
Subhanallah,
I had the chance to transcribe
one of his lectures
and I basically memorized
the scientific miracles that he spoke of
when Allah Subhana wa ta'ala says,
and it was as if it was an oil painted rose,
you know we didn't know what that meant decades ago,
but now we know
that when we look up into the sky, the night sky
we can see an oil painted Rose in the night sky
which Allah subhana wa ta'ala so beautifully described
in the Qur'anic verses
the other verses of course was
and the ocean set on fire.
And again
when the first people heard these verses were addressed
they did not know that there were literally fires
under the ocean, the magma oozing out of the Earth's crust.
And of course, the miracles of the embryo
how it is created.
All of those verses confirmed that Allah subhana wa ta'ala
is the one who sent down the Qur'an
as a guidance for all of mankind.
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- It's also got some amazing insights into the ancient past.
The Qur'an mentions
the people of Abraham worshiped the sun,
the moon
and a third celestial object
recent archeological discoveries have shown that the people
of this region did indeed worship
an astral triad of the sun, the moon, and Venus.
Now this knowledge was lost for thousands of years.
It was only rediscovered recently in the 20th century
chapter 10 of the Qur'an makes the claim
that the Pharaoh of Moses was drowned
in the sea and that his body will be preserved
as a sign for future generations.
Historically, Egyptian priests
hid the body of Ramses II
who was the Pharaoh of Moses, in a secret location
until it was rediscovered in the year 1881 CE
today the mummy is on display in the Cairo museum.
So how is it possible that the author
of the Qur'an had access to such knowledge?
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- See this is like something.
When I started off my journey, you know
I always knew and as a Muslim
this is what you're told
the Qur'an is the word of God
and it's a linguistic miracle,
and it just takes a lot of effort
in terms of once you reach a certain level
of Arabic and you've tasted Arabic
especially Arabic outside the Qur'an,
you get a feel for like
how the Qur'an is so different to all other Arabic.
- One example that the scholars gave
they say in one verse of the Qur'an Alkarim
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
he mentions in this one verse
two commands,
two prohibitions
and two glad tidings are given
all of these six things are mentioned in just one verse.
Now you try put a sentence together.
Just one sentence that mentions all of those six things.
It is very, very hard.
And if you are able to
it won't be as eloquent,
as beautiful as the Qur'an Alkarim.
- And then we look at the miraculous aspects
of word choice and positioning.
For instance, we take Surat Yaseen,
Allah tells us in Surat Yaseen
And every one of them,
meaning those celestial objects
the sun, the moon, the earth, and the rest
of the objects in the solar system
and in the universe
is in its own orbit, swimming.
If we read from beginning to end
and if we read it from the end to the beginning
it is exactly the same letters.
So in this part of the aya
that message is literally represented visually
in order for us to see that floating
and orbit and swimming with the letters themselves.
- So it, it's hard to, to describe it,
you can talk about specific techniques
that are used in the Qur'an
and so forth,
but just like the fact that it's
it's a book that I've spent hours and hours on
but there's still so much more.
And I know that it's an ocean that I can keep diving into.
So that's that,
that for me tells me that, you know
this can't just be, you know, any, any book or,
It's not, it's not the word of man.
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