The Qur’an: A Linguistic Miracle - Shaykh Mohammad Elshinawy

[@amalmoallin]

I love the Quran it’s the miracle that’s keeps on giving us miracles

[@ansarclinic5734]

MashaALLAH what a great lecture by non other than our brother Muhammad elshinawy. May ALLAH make it easy for us to understand Quran and implement it in our life amd die by it.Allahuma Amin.

[@elal5176]

Brother- May Allah bless you without measure 🙏🏻

[@mariaclaudettecaluban5286]

Alhamdulillah. I am deeply touched especially by the 2nd part 🥹🙏✨❤️. May the Most Merciful bless you brother.

[@hameemhabeeb4455]

Phenomenal ! La illaha ilallah Muhammadan rasululuallah

[@bilqisjibril3142]

Assalamu alaikum warahmatullah. Exquisite with depth as always.... MaashaAllah

[@nuruddintijani9040]

Subhan Allah. An extraordinary lecture!

[@atiqrahman7289]

HALLE-LU-YAH. YAH-AL-LAH.

[@iiddrrii6051]

Interesting talk. Honestly I don’t know much Arabic so I can’t make an informed idea on if the Quran is especially profound or not. However, why would a god pin evidence on a language most people don’t speak.

[@BasharM1]

The answer to this question is very interesting and I recommend you watch videos or read up some articles. However, I will try to answer your question and keep it short. The reason Quran was revealed in Arabic is because the Arabic language has a lot of words for the same meaning. This causes the Quran to be very accurate with certain words. Another reason for it being in Arabic is because through out the Quran, God constantly “challenges” disbelievers based on the strengths of that time period. For example, during Jesus’ time, medicinal advancements were being made so God have Jesus miracles that related to that (healing the blind, breathing life into a bird, bringing back the dead, etc.). In the case of the Quran, Arabic was known as a poetic language due to the amount of words it contains. So God reveals the Quran to show the people at the time that no one can write a single chapter similar to the Quran, and we see this sort of "challenge" being made through out the Quran. Many more reason why the quran was revealed in Arabic, but these are just personally the most interesting reasons to me.

[@iiddrrii6051]

@@BasharM1 Thank you. I'm familiar with most of the points you've made. This doesn't seem to address the issue - why pin the evidence on a language MOST people don't understand. While your points may have been relevant to the people of Mohammed's time, they are not relevant to most people today. I honestly don't see the Quran as beyond man's ability. I've seen pre-Islamic poetry with the exact same verse of surah At-Tariq and other poetry that sound like the Quran. The main issue is that Islam presumes an immensely powerful God, but he seemingly has challenges making himself reasonably convincing.

[@iiddrrii6051]

​@@BasharM1 Even I, a simpleton, can think of several better ways. 1. Just show yourself. 2. Speak to us in our dreams every night, or in our internal voice, which is a more subtle approach. 3. Send more prophets with convincing arguments for contemporary people. 4. Leave large monoliths around the world with the exact same inscriptions with guidance for mankind. Regardless of these contrived alternatives, the main point is that an omniscient and omnipotent god would KNOW what would be convincing to each person. And if most people are NOT convinced, that's the God's failure, not the peoples. In basic writing/communication class, we're taught - "If the message is unclear, it's the messenger's fault." "If the reader is lost, the writer is to blame." "If the audience is confused, the presenter has failed."

[@TestkanaalL]

@@iiddrrii6051if god produced something that would convince the whole world, than what is the purpose of a test? We are here on earth as a test, and god shows sign here and there for the intellectual. On a rational thought the intellectual would understand the miracle of the quran. So i hope I understand the points of how the quran came to be, no sentence was improved, no sentence was erased, when the prophet pbuh recited he did it in 1 go without making a slip of the tongue once. All of the factors combined, a rational thinking person must conclude this is from god.

[@iiddrrii6051]

@@TestkanaalL it doesn’t make sense to me because of something isn’t convincing then it’s the fault of the speaker, not the listener. This has been called non-resistive non-belief. It doesn’t make sense to me to have a “test” without sufficient evidence. It becomes unfalsifiable and a mental trick. A Mormon can tell you that God is testing everyone to see if they accept Mormonism. And the lack of convincing evidence is because “it’s a test”.

[@amuthi1]

Read Lüling "A Challenge to Islam for Reformation" to have a deeper understanding about the origins of early meccan surahs coming from christian hymns.

[@iiddrrii6051]

Overly generous perspective