Miraculously Eloquent

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum

Dear Friends

I pray that you are well.

The Qur'an is the greatest miracle to prove that Prophet Muhammad, Allah bless him and grant him peace, is the Messenger of God. We say the Qur'an is miraculously eloquent. It is surpassing eloquence with no equal. By that we mean that it is conventionally inimmitable. Shakespeare is more eloquent than any other English prose but it is imitable, so we don't call Shakespeare miraculous.

Someone who is an expert in Arabic, they would say the norm has been broken when they hear the eloquence of the Qur'an. The Arabs used to compete with each other in eloquence and used to vie with each other in eloquence. This was the culture in which the pre-Islamic Arabs lived. They hung the most eloquent Arabic poetry in the Ka'aba, but there was always somebody who was considered the most eloquent poet of the time.

When they challenged the Prophet is the messenger of God, the Qur'an challenged them to produce a surah like the Qur'an. The Arabs disbelievers went to war, spent money and lost lives when all they had to do was to bring a surah like the Qur'an. Not only they didn't bring a surah like it, they didn't even try to compete because they saw it as conventionally inimitable.

If one is an expert in the Arabic language and one has mastered the Arabic language as the pre- Islamic Arabs did, then one will be able to see this first hand as they did. If one is not an expert, one can infer its miraculous inimitability through historical contexts that the experts had at the time, who had a culture of competing in eloquence did everything else, when all they had to do was to produce a surah like it. It says they were unable to do so.

After the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, passed away, Islam left indelible mark by causing the collapse of two super powers at the time, the Byzantine Empire and the Persian Empire. Muslims took them away. People under the sway of Muslims didn't like the Muslims and to be under the dominion of the Muslims. The tension between Muslims and non-Muslims proceeded for 100s of years. This is one of the wisdom for Allah placing conflicts in the early ages of Islam so nobody can claim that the Qur'an was not a true revelation of God. People, whose life mission was to extinguish the message of the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, did not try to claim that the Qur'an was not true revelation of God. If they had done so, it would have reached us because it would have been mass transmitted.

As Muslims, we believe that the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, is the Messenger of Allah. We affirm it everyday several times by saying the shahada (testimony of faith) in every prayer and when we repeat the adhan when we hear it. Ash-hadu an la illaha illa-Allah wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan Rasulullah (I bear witness that there is none has the right to be worshiped but Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah).

This should not be something we say on the tongue and that is it. The consequence of this belief is that we believe in everything that the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, brought (including believe in the angels, the Divine Scriptures, all the prophets and the Last Day) and we act upon what he taught us for all his teachings were revelations and inspirations conveyed to him by Allah, the One whose pleasure and love we seek.

قُلْ إِن كُنتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللَّـهَ فَاتَّبِعُونِي يُحْبِبْكُمُ اللَّـهُ وَيَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ ذُنُوبَكُمْ ۗ وَاللَّـهُ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ ﴿٣١

"Say: 'If you love Allah, follow me, and Allah will love you, and forgive you your sins; Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.' (Qur'an AleImran 3:31)

آمَنَ الرَّسُولُ بِمَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْهِ مِن رَّبِّهِ وَالْمُؤْمِنُونَ ۚ كُلٌّ آمَنَ بِاللَّـهِ وَمَلَائِكَتِهِ وَكُتُبِهِ وَرُسُلِهِ لَا نُفَرِّقُ بَيْنَ أَحَدٍ مِّن رُّسُلِهِ ۚ وَقَالُوا سَمِعْنَا وَأَطَعْنَا ۖ غُفْرَانَكَ رَبَّنَا وَإِلَيْكَ الْمَصِيرُ ﴿٢٨٥

The Messenger has believed in what was revealed to him from his Lord, and [so have] the believers. All of them have believed in Allah and His angels and His books and His messengers, [saying], "We make no distinction between any of His messengers." And they say, "We hear and we obey. [We seek] Your forgiveness, our Lord, and to You is the [final] destination." (Qur'an al-Baqarah 2:285)

May Allah guide us and the Ummah of Muhammad Rasullullah, Allah bless him and grant him peace. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.

And Allah knows best.
Wassalaam