The Noble Qur’an And The Unseen (1/4)

Allah, Blessed and Exalted be He, willed that the Noble Qur’an embraces never-ending miracles till the Day of Resurrection. The Noble Qur’an was sent down a miracle in the power of speech to the Arabs who excelled in rhetoric and oratory, therefore the Noble Qur’an came challenging what they excelled in.

A Miracle of Allah must challenge what mankind excelled in, for if it challenged things they knew or mastered not, people would claim that if they learned or mastered these things they would be capable of achieving what surpasses the working of the miracle. But Allah, praise be to Him, brought forth to them what they fully knew and mastered and were able to attain in it the summit of civilization during their time. Challenging them thus with a miracle they are powerless against in order to reveal to them their incapacity and weakness before His Might, perhaps they would believe.

The people of Pharaoh were famed for their magic and they excelled in its esoteric arts, so the miracle sent to them came in what they mastered. Also, the people of Isa (Jesus, peace be upon him) excelled in medicine, so the miracle of Isa (peace be upon him) came in what they excelled. The Arabs were masters in the arts of rhetoric and oratory. They competed in composing poetry and boasted of their poets; setting up marketplaces where people used to convene to witness the poets vying with each other in reciting their poems. Therefore, the Noble Qur’an came challenging what they excelled in. The challenge was even escalated inviting them to try to bring its like, then lessened to only ten verses then humbled to a verse. Bearing on that, Allah, The Truth, all praise and glory be to Him, says (what means):

“Or do they say: ‘He (Muhammad SAW) has forged it?’ Say: ‘Bring then a Surah (chapter) like unto it, and call upon whomsoever you can, besides Allah, if you are truthful!’” (Surah Yunus, 10: 38)

Had the Noble Qur’an been limited to a miracle in the power of speech, it would have come to a standstill. But the Muhammadan Message is the last of all the celestial messages and is sent down to humanity at large, to the entire world not only to the Arabs. The linguistic miracle poses as a challenge to the Arabs for the revelation of the Noble Qur’an with their language. As for the non- Arabs Muslims such a challenge would not exist, if the Noble Qur’an were limited only to a linguistic miracle. Therefore, the challenge in the Noble Qur’an is not restricted to the Arabs alone but called to the entire humanity.

The Noble Qur’an came withdrawing the shading veils of the Unseen till the Day of Resurrection, revealing a miracle to each generation. The Noble Qur’an lifted the veils of the past, the future and that of space; lifted all the veils screening the Unseen to give us miracles that continue up till now and will continue till the Day of Resurrection.

The Noble Qur’an amends what the predecessors have distorted

But how has the Noble Qur’an unveiled the past? By bringing the news of the past nations justly corrected to wipe out widespread mistakes, insertions intruded into the Divine Books (save the Noble Qur’an), and lies uttered against the universe Allah, all praise and glory be to Him, has created.

Among the first revealed Qur’anic verses were the ones discussing the beginning of creation and how it happened. The Noble Qur’an related to us the story of the first creation; that of Adam and Hawwa’ (Adam and Eve, peace be upon them), and how Allah, all praise and glory be to Him, has created everything from a male and a female so that the generation of creatures continue. Then came the modern science – statistics – to bear witness to what the Noble Qur’an had already related.

Statistics has proved that as time elapses, the number of creatures multiplies; meaning that the further we sail aback, the lesser grows the number of creatures. If we assumed that mankind currently amounts to thousands of millions, a few centuries ago it was hundreds of millions only and a few centuries before it was tens of millions, and the further we look back the lesser the number grows until it dwindles to a few thousands then to a few hundreds then to dozens then to the origin, a male and a female, Adam and Hawwa’.

In this way, the Noble Qur’an has unveiled the past regarding creation, relating to us the veracious story of the beginning of creation. The Noble Qur’an has also unveiled the future when it foretold that there would come people who would claim that man descended from an ape!! And the origin of life was in such and such fashion. That they would fabricate false theories so do not listen to them, because such people are misleaders, who wish to lead you astray.

In this regard The Truth, Blessed and Exalted be He, says (what means):

“I (Allah) made them (Iblis and his offspring) not to witness (nor took their help in) the creation of the heavens and the earth and not (even) their own creation, nor was I (Allah) to take the misleaders as helpers.” (Surah Al-Kahf, 18: 51)

The prophecy came true and there appeared misleaders who alleged that the origin of creation was in such and such fashion and they invented lies against Allah. To all those people we simply say that they served to affirm the truthfulness of the Noble Qur’an. Because if they did not bring forth their fallacious theories we would have said that the Noble Qur’an has informed us that there would come misleaders who would dispute about the creation of the heavens and the earth, and that of man, where are then those misleaders foretold by the Noble Qur’an? But they actually came and the lies they invented inspired us to say, ‘Subhan Rabana Al-‘Azhim’ (All praises be to our Lord, the Most Great). For The Almighty informed us about those misleaders and they actually came and He said that they would dispute about the creation of the heavens and the earth, and that of man, and they did dispute concerning them. In this manner Allah, all praise and glory be to Him, used the disbelievers and misleaders in serving the issue of Faith and proving the veracity of the Noble Qur’an.

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