Argument for Divine Authorship of Qur’an | The Evidence Course | Session 5 / Part 3 (2021-10-13) #

0:00:14 we're going to look at the historical
0:00:16 deductive arguments understanding who
0:00:19 could have been the author of the quran
0:00:22 so one question that may remain
0:00:25 is whether the assessment of the quranic
0:00:26 linguistic mural miracle the marajasa
0:00:30 can be ascertained by a non-arabic
0:00:32 speaker
0:00:33 so in the previous video we explained in
0:00:35 a little detail
0:00:37 briefly covering the subject area about
0:00:39 how there are objective ways to analyze
0:00:42 the quranic composition but ultimately
0:00:45 this can only be assessed by those who
0:00:46 are capable in arabic language
0:00:49 so now we want to look at this
0:00:51 from a historical deductive argument in
0:00:54 order to demonstrate from a historical
0:00:57 analysis that the quran was truly a
0:00:59 revelation from allah
0:01:02 and that therefore a non-arab can look
0:01:04 at the history and understand and come
0:01:06 to the conclusion that this is indeed a
0:01:09 sign or miracle from allah
0:01:12 the essence of this argument is summed
0:01:14 up by understanding that and this is
0:01:17 really important
0:01:18 if you have will to perform an action so
0:01:21 if you have this intention this desire
0:01:23 this drive to perform the action if you
0:01:25 have the will to perform an action
0:01:27 and secondly
0:01:29 you have the capability of doing the
0:01:32 action
0:01:33 then what will inevitably follow
0:01:36 the action so if you have will plus
0:01:38 capability equals the action that's the
0:01:40 point that you know we need to remember
0:01:42 and think about throughout this video
0:01:45 we know that the quran
0:01:48 was the first was first known to
0:01:49 humanity in the seventh century so you
0:01:51 know if we go back every generation from
0:01:53 our generation people mentioned the
0:01:55 quran
0:01:56 previous one the previous one and so on
0:01:58 so forth and you go back throughout the
0:02:00 whole of the centuries they all referred
0:02:02 to a book that the muslims believed in
0:02:03 called the quran up until the 7th
0:02:05 century you go before the seventh
0:02:07 century no mention of quran after the
0:02:09 seventh century they start to mention
0:02:10 the quran
0:02:12 so the question is secondly we also know
0:02:15 that the quran was known to the people
0:02:17 of the arabian peninsula in peninsula in
0:02:20 the second in the seventh century
0:02:23 so we have ample air testimonial
0:02:25 evidence to demonstrate you know
0:02:27 historical evidence narrations you know
0:02:30 even written evidence that the quran in
0:02:33 the seventh century was revealed or was
0:02:35 was known to those people in the arabian
0:02:37 peninsula so the question we're going to
0:02:40 look at is in the seventh century
0:02:44 in the arab arabian peninsula the hijas
0:02:47 who could have been the possible author
0:02:49 of the quran
0:02:50 well we have four possible authors
0:02:52 one it could be a non-arab
0:02:55 or the non-arabs
0:02:57 secondly it could be the arabs who
0:02:59 produced the quran
0:03:00 thirdly it could be the prophet muhammad
0:03:02 sallallahu alaihi wasallam or fourthly
0:03:06 it could be allah
0:03:08 these are the only four possible authors
0:03:10 of the quran within the seventh century
0:03:13 in the arabian peninsula
0:03:15 where we can easily discount that the
0:03:17 non-arabs could have been the author of
0:03:19 the quran the quran is in arabic and
0:03:22 thus requires someone who is aware of
0:03:24 the arabic language is an obvious point
0:03:26 plus living in the arabian peninsula in
0:03:29 the 7th century so a non-arab by
0:03:31 definition who doesn't know arabic yeah
0:03:33 will not be the author of this the quran
0:03:37 this now leaves us with three possible
0:03:39 authors
0:03:40 for the quran well could the quran have
0:03:44 been produced by the arabs of that time
0:03:47 we know that the arabs were experts in
0:03:49 the arabic language
0:03:51 we mentioned in the previous videos that
0:03:53 the arabs prized language to a high
0:03:55 degree
0:03:56 composition of poetry was the method of
0:03:58 preserving their history they held
0:04:00 competitions over who produced the best
0:04:02 poetry
0:04:03 they had specialist poetry judges who
0:04:06 could adjudicate the verses that were
0:04:08 being produced they'd be specially
0:04:10 allocated areas in place like mecca in
0:04:13 the the market places where poets would
0:04:15 you know
0:04:16 gather the people and start reciting
0:04:18 poetry and the best of them would
0:04:20 achieve wealth and fame
0:04:22 they'd even send their children into the
0:04:24 desert in order to preserve and develop
0:04:26 the arabic language so they would send
0:04:28 them to the bedouin tribes and the
0:04:30 bedouin tribes would raise their
0:04:31 children in order one of the reasons why
0:04:33 was to preserve the arabic language to
0:04:35 make the arabic language strong and pure
0:04:38 before they come back into the cities
0:04:39 and towns
0:04:41 and we know through multiple testimonial
0:04:43 evidence about how important language
0:04:45 was to their arabs and how they would
0:04:47 produce great works of poachers as i
0:04:48 mentioned
0:04:49 you know for example an example of this
0:04:52 is the famous le cat the more alike are
0:04:55 the seven hanging poems that were
0:04:58 hung inside the kaaba they were
0:04:59 considered the best of the best poetry
0:05:02 they were the standard by which you
0:05:03 would judge other poems uh and poetry uh
0:05:07 against
0:05:09 so we certainly can consider the arabs
0:05:11 had a high degree of capability in the
0:05:13 language there were the experts secondly
0:05:16 we also know that the arabs were
0:05:18 challenged by the beliefs
0:05:20 and the linguistic miracle of the quran
0:05:23 the arabs were pagan polytheists they
0:05:25 worshipped many idols they saw
0:05:27 monotheistic message of the quran as a
0:05:29 direct challenge to their belief values
0:05:32 and practices
0:05:34 furthermore some of their practices was
0:05:37 severely criticized within the quran and
0:05:39 the sunnah and the examples and the
0:05:41 statements of the prophet sallallahu
0:05:43 alaihi wasallam for example the way they
0:05:45 buried the daughters alive the way the
0:05:47 rich and the powerful of mecca known as
0:05:49 the quraish they were criticized for
0:05:51 their exploitative practices like the
0:05:53 way they treated
0:05:55 the weak the poor the orphans or the
0:05:58 slaves at that time how tribalism was
0:06:00 rampant within society that created war
0:06:02 and division all the economic
0:06:04 malpractices and the cheating in the
0:06:06 marketplace places
0:06:08 so the quran criticized all this this
0:06:10 was part of the message of islam it
0:06:11 shook the society the quran also
0:06:14 criticized the corrupt leadership of
0:06:16 quraish by name like abu lahab or others
0:06:19 by implication like
0:06:22 or abu jahl and others so the quran was
0:06:25 revealed to a people held beliefs values
0:06:27 and practices that were severely
0:06:29 criticized
0:06:30 it wasn't surprising then that the
0:06:32 people in particular the powerful elite
0:06:36 in mecca and the arabian peninsula
0:06:38 opposed the message of the quran and the
0:06:41 the claim of prophethood of the prophet
0:06:43 muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam and
0:06:45 they oppose the prophet we know this
0:06:47 from the the historical narratives and
0:06:50 historical narrations they slandered the
0:06:52 prophet sallam they attacked the prophet
0:06:54 sallallahu alaihi wasallam they attacked
0:06:56 tortured and killed the companions
0:06:58 around the prophet sallallahu alaihi
0:06:59 wasallam they boycotted the prophet
0:07:01 sallallahu alaihi wasallam and his
0:07:02 followers in mecca and they even
0:07:04 conspired in the end before his
0:07:06 immigration uh to assassinate the sallam
0:07:10 later on when the prophet sallam you
0:07:12 know established an islamic state in
0:07:14 medina they send their armies to fight
0:07:16 against apostle and islam to stop islam
0:07:20 and the message
0:07:21 of the quran so what does this tell us
0:07:24 it tells us there was clearly a will
0:07:28 a desire to see islam destroyed
0:07:31 the quran only challenged the quraysh in
0:07:33 the arab society's beliefs values but
0:07:35 also made an audacious claim
0:07:38 about how to destroy islam how to
0:07:41 challenge the quran and refute the
0:07:44 prophethood of the prophet sallallahu
0:07:46 alaihi wasallam so the quran is turning
0:07:48 around and saying well if you don't
0:07:49 believe that this book
0:07:51 is in revelation then produce one surah
0:07:55 like it and we know that the shortest
0:07:57 surah of the quran
0:08:01 three sentences long that's all
0:08:03 this is all they had to produce three
0:08:06 sentences that match the eloquence of
0:08:08 the quran using the rules of the ballara
0:08:11 known to the arabs at the time at least
0:08:13 implicitly and as a result they would
0:08:16 have demonstrated that the quran is not
0:08:18 inimitable is not miraculous but was
0:08:21 within human production and therefore
0:08:23 was not from allah
0:08:26 so it's a bold challenge that the quran
0:08:28 allah is making
0:08:30 you know and so it becomes very
0:08:33 easy in our minds to realize that hold
0:08:35 on
0:08:36 if they had that strong desire to
0:08:38 destroy islam
0:08:39 and they had the capability in the
0:08:41 arabic language but they did not produce
0:08:44 the verse the surah of quran like also a
0:08:48 surah like the quran three sentences
0:08:51 like a surah of
0:08:52 quran then it demonstrates that actually
0:08:57 you know there was there's something
0:08:59 here
0:09:00 maybe they didn't have the capability to
0:09:02 produce it
0:09:03 romani who was a 10th century scholar
0:09:05 stated the inimitability of the quran is
0:09:08 manifested by the fact that despite a
0:09:10 huge number of claimants and a dire need
0:09:13 to respond the challenge was never taken
0:09:15 up it was never met
0:09:17 if then they met the challenge if so if
0:09:20 they actually did meet the challenge of
0:09:21 the quran
0:09:23 it would be clear
0:09:26 that with their desire to destroy islam
0:09:28 they would have spread this
0:09:30 far and wide across the arabian
0:09:31 peninsula we have met the challenge of
0:09:34 the quran we have imitated something
0:09:35 like a surah of the quran
0:09:38 so therefore
0:09:40 you know it's a simple it's a simple but
0:09:42 profound point but if we can say that
0:09:45 if we say that the absence of proof
0:09:48 or the absence of the proof of of
0:09:50 something that challenges the quran has
0:09:52 been met hasn't been met
0:09:54 then there is proof for its absence let
0:09:56 me just rephrase that
0:09:58 the absence of proof is proof for its
0:10:01 absence what do i mean by this the
0:10:03 absence of the fact that there is
0:10:04 something that challenges the quran by
0:10:06 the best of the arabs is a proof that
0:10:09 the arabs could not challenge the quran
0:10:12 they wanted to destroy islam they had
0:10:14 the capability in arabic language they
0:10:16 had the desire but they didn't have the
0:10:19 ability to produce anything on the level
0:10:21 of the quran
0:10:23 so we can see therefore
0:10:36 he commented upon this point he said in
0:10:38 spite of their strong motivation on
0:10:40 account of their tribal pride and
0:10:42 opposition to islam and in spite of the
0:10:44 fact that meeting the challenge would
0:10:46 have been easier for them
0:10:48 than fighting the muslims like engaging
0:10:49 the muslims in battle as they did all
0:10:51 needs to lose eventually that all they
0:10:54 had to do is meet the challenges of
0:10:55 quran but they didn't and that is an
0:10:57 indication that they couldn't produce
0:11:00 something like the quran like i said if
0:11:02 you have will
0:11:04 either desire the intention to do
0:11:06 something and you have the capability
0:11:08 you're going to get an action if you
0:11:10 don't have an action
0:11:11 which in this situation is a replication
0:11:13 of the quran or something like the quran
0:11:16 but you do know you have the will
0:11:18 then what is missing in the equation
0:11:21 capability i the ability to produce
0:11:23 something like the quran
0:11:26 and we also know from various statements
0:11:28 from the arabs at the time that actually
0:11:30 testified to the superior nature of the
0:11:32 quranic language for example
0:11:36 you know he replied about the quran he
0:11:38 goes what can i possibly say there is
0:11:41 not a single man who is more
0:11:43 knowledgeable of poetry or prose than i
0:11:45 or even that of the jinn and by allah
0:11:48 what he says bears no resemblance to
0:11:50 these things by allah what he says i the
0:11:54 quran has a sweetness to it and a charm
0:11:56 upon it the highest part of it is
0:11:59 fruitful and the lowest part of it is
0:12:01 gushing forth with bounty it dominates
0:12:04 and cannot be dominated and it crushes
0:12:06 all that
0:12:07 is under
0:12:08 it so it should be also noted that
0:12:11 this quote from
0:12:14 who's testifying to the superiority of
0:12:15 the quran actually remained an ardent
0:12:18 opponent to the prophet sallallahu
0:12:19 alaihi wasallam he was one of the
0:12:21 leaders of the quraish but there were
0:12:24 other people
0:12:25 who were poets at that time like
0:12:27 atafailadosi
0:12:29 like
0:12:32 he was
0:12:34 he was one of those people who is one of
0:12:36 the authors of the seven of one of the
0:12:38 seven poems that was hanging in the
0:12:40 kaaba and yet when he heard sur tul
0:12:43 khalthar recited to him
0:12:46 he was shocked by and he embraced islam
0:12:48 similar to philadelphia in the story
0:12:50 about how when he heard the verse of
0:12:52 quran he was known for his language
0:12:54 poetry and education he embraced islam
0:12:57 or the story of um who after hearing the
0:12:59 first seven or so verses of surah taha
0:13:02 embraced islam
0:13:05 now someone might claim
0:13:07 why don't we uh
0:13:09 someone might claim that the reason why
0:13:11 we don't have
0:13:12 uh you know a verse is comparable to the
0:13:15 quran is because the muslims destroyed
0:13:17 all challenges against the quran
0:13:19 somebody came produced the child they
0:13:21 killed him off before he could spread it
0:13:23 but the quraysh
0:13:25 had 13 years
0:13:27 before the migration the hijrah of the
0:13:29 prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam to
0:13:31 compose three sentences and spread that
0:13:34 message far and wide
0:13:36 that the quran has been matched
0:13:38 furthermore even when the sallam arrived
0:13:40 in medina to establish the first islamic
0:13:42 state meccan quraish still remains
0:13:44 strong and independent most of arabian
0:13:47 peninsula were still non-muslim
0:13:50 and therefore they had ample time and
0:13:52 opportunity to match the quran in fact
0:13:54 it was after eight years of the proxima
0:13:56 in medina did mecca open up to islam
0:14:02 and also we know that even towards the
0:14:04 end of the life of the prophet
0:14:05 sallallahu alaihi wasallam life in this
0:14:06 world
0:14:07 that there were people that came like
0:14:09 muslim of the liar or muslim from banu
0:14:12 hanifa tribe who also declared himself
0:14:14 the prophet and he began trying to
0:14:16 imitate the son by you know reciting
0:14:18 verses you know
0:14:20 and there's a famous story in which
0:14:24 he came to muslim and he asked muslim
0:14:28 you claim to be a prophet recite some
0:14:29 verses and i think you recite you know
0:14:32 some different narrations but one of the
0:14:34 narrations is
0:14:38 which basically means the elephant what
0:14:40 is the elephant what will make you
0:14:41 visualize the elephant it has a long
0:14:43 nose and a short tail
0:14:44 yeah and so ahmad ibn al-ass said
0:14:48 you know you know that i know that
0:14:50 you're a liar yeah that you're not
0:14:53 really a prophet so he they they were
0:14:55 people who actually went into other
0:14:57 areas within the arabian peninsula even
0:14:59 towards the end of the life of the party
0:15:00 some trying to spread their poetry and
0:15:02 this poetry became known but also it was
0:15:05 also a self-refuting
0:15:06 challenge they refuted them as having
0:15:09 anything that was inimitable
0:15:10 so we can see that there was sufficient
0:15:12 time and opportunity to ensure that if
0:15:15 the quraysh and the arabs were able to
0:15:16 match the quran they could have spread
0:15:18 it and spread this idea throughout the
0:15:20 arabian peninsula in fact this claim
0:15:23 that the victors could remove the
0:15:24 challenges not something we see when we
0:15:26 assess the reality when we look at the
0:15:28 reality we don't see this
0:15:30 there have been many occasions where
0:15:32 states have tried to destroy an idea but
0:15:34 it was just too difficult it's just too
0:15:36 held too much by too many people and too
0:15:38 strongly as we mentioned about the
0:15:40 soviet union who tried to remove
0:15:41 religion from the society but it was
0:15:43 held on to the people so even though
0:15:45 they tried to do by the force of the
0:15:47 state it still continued or even you
0:15:49 know during the
0:15:51 periods of certain times of the khilafah
0:15:53 where they try to adopt on the marathon
0:15:55 creed and they try to you know enforce
0:15:58 that creed it you know it didn't stop
0:16:00 people still adhering to the other
0:16:02 creeds so this idea that you know they
0:16:04 the muslims somehow achieved dominance
0:16:06 and destroyed it's just false it's just
0:16:07 not a correct and irrational concept
0:16:10 regards to that
0:16:12 and only that but also the islamic state
0:16:14 when it spread in the early period so
0:16:15 did the arabic language so when new
0:16:17 lands were opened up and many of these
0:16:19 new lands had a large number of
0:16:21 non-muslims
0:16:23 they also started to learn arabic so you
0:16:24 had non-muslims in these lands in the
0:16:27 arab arabic speaking lands who spoke
0:16:29 arabic who also had the access or the
0:16:31 ability to produce something like the
0:16:33 quran so yet but yet throughout the
0:16:36 whole of the islamic history all the
0:16:38 muslim history or 1400 years of the
0:16:40 challenge we've not seen one single
0:16:42 person being able to match it
0:16:45 in a credible way
0:16:46 so what we've demonstrated that not only
0:16:48 were the arabs had a strong desire to
0:16:50 destroy islam and had a very relatively
0:16:53 simple way of doing it
0:16:54 but we also showed that they didn't do
0:16:57 it they were simply in unable to produce
0:16:59 something like the quran
0:17:01 so it's very clear
0:17:03 did the arabs produce quran no of course
0:17:05 they didn't so this now leaves the last
0:17:08 two possibilities could it have been the
0:17:10 prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam or we
0:17:12 can discount the prophet sallallahu as
0:17:14 being the author of the quran one the
0:17:16 prophetic son would recite the verses in
0:17:17 response to various incidences at times
0:17:20 of war you know in response to questions
0:17:23 and response accusations and as soon as
0:17:25 the prophet saw recited the verse the
0:17:28 verse was now you know memorized
0:17:30 understood heard and if you had made one
0:17:33 single grammatical mistake in over 6 000
0:17:36 verses it would have been easy to point
0:17:38 it out it isn't you know i would say it
0:17:40 was impossible to speak in a
0:17:43 grammatically perfect way you have to re
0:17:46 write it down you have to look at your
0:17:48 what you're saying and that way you can
0:17:50 understand if it's grammatical you have
0:17:51 to revise it you edit it you make
0:17:53 mistake this is the nature of a human
0:17:54 being we make mistakes but yet the
0:17:56 partisan alum was reciting these verses
0:17:59 perfectly not only perfectly in terms of
0:18:00 grammar but the highest form of speech
0:18:03 in a unique genre
0:18:05 so we know that therefore you know from
0:18:07 that point of view secondly
0:18:10 is that the prophet sallam was known to
0:18:11 be the unlettered prophet
0:18:13 he wasn't known to have the ability to
0:18:16 you know
0:18:17 read or write or compose
0:18:19 literature or compose poetry as well
0:18:21 and this is what what was understood
0:18:23 about the part of sallam in the 40 years
0:18:25 prior to prophet the prophets have never
0:18:27 recited or any uh composed any forms of
0:18:30 poetry he was not known for that
0:18:32 so
0:18:33 for a person who has you know he's
0:18:35 considered unlettered
0:18:37 producing the highest form of arabic
0:18:39 language that even still today uh
0:18:42 upholds again it doesn't uh and it
0:18:45 doesn't seem possible
0:18:47 yeah that the boyzone could produce that
0:18:51 thirdly
0:18:53 the point here is really important if
0:18:55 the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
0:18:56 was the author of the quran then the
0:18:58 quran would be within human capability
0:19:01 if then one person could produce it
0:19:04 somebody else could replicate it
0:19:06 and that's because we mentioned this
0:19:08 before about isa al-assam that if a
0:19:10 person produces something novel all
0:19:12 they're doing is taking the prevalent
0:19:14 knowledge previous information that
0:19:16 exists within the environment and maybe
0:19:18 arranging it in a way which is novel at
0:19:20 that moment but then other people can
0:19:22 look at and see what they're doing
0:19:24 reverse engineer and produce something
0:19:26 of similar quality towards this so when
0:19:30 the prox if the participant produced the
0:19:32 quran somebody else could
0:19:35 can he use it
0:19:36 i said look at it understand it reverse
0:19:38 engineer and produce something similar
0:19:40 to it
0:19:40 fourth fourth reason why it couldn't be
0:19:42 the point of the prophetic hadith the
0:19:45 language the prophet sallamus language
0:19:46 we know in prophetic hadith and some of
0:19:48 these hadith hadith mutterwater clear
0:19:50 cut we know that it definitely came from
0:19:51 the prophet sallallahu
0:19:52 is completely different in terms of the
0:19:55 verses of quran for example the way the
0:19:57 sentences are constructed the types of
0:19:59 words that are used the style of
0:20:00 language indicate that they are
0:20:02 completely distinct distinct
0:20:04 authors
0:20:06 and also the quran contains information
0:20:08 like predictions of future events in
0:20:10 historical events which were simply
0:20:12 outside of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
0:20:14 wasallam's capability of knowing and
0:20:16 there's numerous examples of this
0:20:18 therefore it becomes
0:20:20 absolutely clear
0:20:22 that the quran could not have been
0:20:23 written
0:20:24 nor composed by the prophet sallallahu
0:20:26 alaihi wasallam so if we've just
0:20:28 discounted the non-arabs and we've
0:20:30 discounted the arabs and we've discarded
0:20:32 the prophet salallahu
0:20:34 anyway as being the possible author in
0:20:37 the seventh century in the arabian
0:20:38 peninsula
0:20:40 then who could be the only possible
0:20:42 author of the quran
0:20:44 allah obviously
0:20:46 so to summarize the quran was first
0:20:48 known in the arabian peninsula in the
0:20:50 7th century
0:20:51 common era the arabs were highly capable
0:20:54 in the arabic language the arabs sought
0:20:56 to destroy islam as it was antagonistic
0:20:58 to their beliefs values practices and
0:21:00 societal structures
0:21:01 if they were able to produce free
0:21:03 sentences like the quran then the
0:21:04 intellectual challenge would have been
0:21:06 met and the prophethood of the prophet
0:21:08 sallallahu alaihi wasallam would have
0:21:10 ended there and then
0:21:12 no challenge was ever met we know this
0:21:14 by first the absence of any similar
0:21:17 verses like the quran we also know this
0:21:19 because the quran remains unchallenged
0:21:22 and quran exists today if it had been
0:21:24 met 1400 years ago nobody would have
0:21:27 you know taken it forward beyond that
0:21:29 certainly there's thirdly the fact that
0:21:31 there still remains the intellectual
0:21:32 foundation uh challenge founded within
0:21:34 the quran and finally the arabs
0:21:37 themselves testified that no human being
0:21:39 could produce or replicate the quran the
0:21:41 prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is
0:21:42 one of the arabs if he produced the
0:21:44 quran then other people could have
0:21:46 produced the quran
0:21:47 therefore the only possibility the only
0:21:50 possible author of the quran for this
0:21:53 historical deductive and or historical
0:21:55 analysis method for a deductive process
0:21:58 means that only allah
0:22:01 could have been the possible author of
0:22:03 the quran
0:22:05 what if somebody claims
0:22:07 that maybe somebody in the future could
0:22:09 replicate the quran well if we've proven
0:22:11 that the author backs 1400 years ago is
0:22:14 the lord of the worlds the all-knowing
0:22:17 and if the lord of the world and all
0:22:18 knowing states that no human being will
0:22:21 produce something like the quran then we
0:22:23 can take that as
0:22:25 definitive knowledge and therefore
0:22:26 nobody in the future will have produced
0:22:30 will be able to produce the quran if
0:22:32 we've proven
0:22:33 what who is the author in the past
0:22:37 there's many more points that can be
0:22:39 mentioned in regards to this historical
0:22:41 deductive method we've not mentioned
0:22:44 also some of the non-muslim orientalists
0:22:47 throughout history that have talked
0:22:49 about the inimitable excellence of the
0:22:51 quran like for example the professor
0:22:54 of oriental studies
0:22:56 martin zamet or the orientalist aj
0:23:01 abre or professor bruce lawrence or
0:23:04 hamilton gribb or palmer or numerous
0:23:07 other writers from the non-muslims and
0:23:09 we've not even mentioned the muslims or
0:23:11 what they have said like barcalanni as
0:23:13 your journey and others
0:23:15 all of this clearly indicates to us
0:23:18 and numerous testimonial evidence
0:23:20 numerous examples that the quran
0:23:22 is a has a divine origin and just as one
0:23:26 final point
0:23:27 just like you know when we turn around
0:23:29 and say oh can a non-arab understand the
0:23:31 quran you know we're not experts just
0:23:34 like the people around who saw the
0:23:36 magicians compete with musa alayhi
0:23:38 salaam could not make the assessment of
0:23:40 whether musa al-islam's actions was a
0:23:43 magic or was it a miracle
0:23:46 that they were able to base their belief
0:23:48 that it was indeed a miracle because of
0:23:51 whom the experts testifying
0:23:55 to the inimitable nature of musa
0:23:57 al-islam's miracle and we have the exact
0:23:59 same thing we have the experts in the
0:24:01 arabic language who testify to the
0:24:04 inimitable nature of the quranic
0:24:06 language and therefore the prophethood
0:24:08 of the prophets
0:24:20 you