The Universal Message

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The Universal Message

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The Qur’an successfully proved that it is God’s word, where all challengers throughout history failed to find any contradiction among its verses, and couldn’t come up with something that is at least similar to its content. This is the greatest miracle of prophet Muhammed peace be upon him. Not only that it is a book that asks a person to worship God, but it is a book that shows people how to live and develop their communities. It is a book that has all what human beings ask for, whether in our faith or in our daily life, whether in the after life or in the way we treat each other. The Qur’an is a universal message, where it is stated in its verses that it is a message to all humanity. The Qur’an challenged the world to come up with at least one surah (chapter) like the one in the Qur’an, but unfortunately the challengers failed. Muhammed’s illiteracy is one of the evidences that the Qur’an is pure, because the phrasing of Qur’an wasn’t expected to come from an illiterate person like him. It wasn’t even expected to come from a great poet at that time, because it had a new style that wasn’t known before in Arabic literature. The originality of its Arabic shows that it is not a creativity of a human being, or a one of the jinn or angels.
To Muslims, Muhammed is not divine, but the Qur’an is a divine message. The Qur’an in Islam is not like the Bible in Christianity. To a Muslim it resembles the role that an orthodox Christian ascribes to the person of Jesus Christ. The Qur’an has similar bases and teachings to the other Books, and the Qur’an states this in surah “The Most High” (Al’ala) where it starting describing the teachings of God to Muhammed in the Qur’an, and it ended the surah with two verses saying that the same message was sent to previous prophets. God said: “Lo! This is in the former scrolls, The Books of Abraham and Moses.” (87:18-19).
What makes the Qur’an different from the Books (e.g. The Torah and The Bible) is the way it reveals its message. The Torah is a book for Jews and only Jews, where they claim that they are “selected” from all other people. They made Judaism a religion that belongs to a certain race. The Bible, on the other hand, sometimes refer to God as Father, which makes God as a father for Christians and only Christians, where you have to be a Christian in order to for God to be your father, otherwise he is not your father. Unlike the Torah and Bible, the Qur’an revealed its message to all humanity. It didn’t differentiate between ethnic groups and races, nor did it prefer a group of people. The Qur’an mentioned that the people of the Book know for certain that the Qur’an is a true revelation, but they would deny it because of their envy. God said: “Many of the people of the scriptures long to make you disbelievers after you believe, through envy on their own account, after the truth has become manifest unto them…” (2:109) Note that the truth referred in this verse is the Qur’an itself. The Qur’an referred to the followers of the truth as believers and it didn’t mean a group of people in particular.
The Qur’an assertion of it is Arabic nature doesn’t affect its universal message, because the true message doesn’t depend on a certain language. The Qur’an came down in Arabic and Arabs at that time reached their peak in using their language and literature. They were influenced in poetry at that time, and the Qur’an came with a new style that was totally unknown for them. The Qur’an was stating that it is in Arabic to show the disbelievers of Mecca that it’s a miracle by itself, and it was telling them that the verses are clear as the full moon in the middle of the night. Note that at the time of the prophet; Arabic had different delicates and the Qur’an came down as a unification for this language and with a lot of clarity. The Qur’an was still continuing it is assertion that it is in Arabic to show the people of Mecca that they have no excuse for not believing in God, because God gave them a book in their own language, and a prophet who speaks their language too.
The illiteracy of the prophet Muhammed refers to the purity of the Qur’an, because he didn’t know how to read and write, and the Qur’an content wasn’t expected to come from a person like Muhammed, because he wasn’t that great intellectual among people in Mecca. The disbelievers in Mecca didn’t expect the prophecy from a person like Muhammed, because he was an orphan and poor. That is why they accused him of using magic and dealing with dirty souls to come up with this Qur’an, because the verses in the Qur’an were a great challenge for the disbelievers. God said in the Qur’an: “There has come unto you a messenger, one of yourselves, and it grieves him when you are overburdened with anything, he is full of concern for you, and to believers full of compassion and mercy.” (9:128)
The Qur’an is the greatest miracle of prophet Muhammed peace be upon him. It is a universal message to all human beings and Jinn. It was stated clear in the Qur’an that it isn’t a message for a group of people, and it is always calling people as believers or disbelievers. The Qur’an assertion that it is in Arabic doesn’t affect its universality, because a person should believe on the content and meaning of the verses, not on what language it was written on. God said that the Qur’an is in Arabic to assure to the disbelievers in Mecca that it is God message and revelation. The illiteracy of prophet Muhammed adds to the purity and truth of the revelation of the Qur’an.


Written by Ahmed Alshami

09/17/2005
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