al-Qamar: 22).
In spite of the fact that it has an easily understandable style, it
cannot be compared in any way with another book. This is one of
Allah's great miracles. Those who doubted, in spite of clear proofs,
slandered the Prophet (saas), and so Allah revealed:
Do they say: "He has invented it"? Say: "Then produce a surah like it
and call upon anyone you can, besides Allah, if you are telling the
truth." (Surah Yunus: 38)
Even though noone could ever achieve this, the unbelievers could
mistakenly consider it an easy matter. In Arabia, poetry and
literature were highly developed; there were poets and fluent and
eloquent individuals who used Arabic very well. As Bediuzzaman Said
Nursi said, a tribe's literary people were considered the people's
greatest heroes. Given the importance they placed on literature and
rhetoric, the Mu'allaqat (seven odes written by seven poets) were
suspended in gold letters on the walls of the Ka`bah. 8 Some of them
were recited to the people on great occasions, such as the trade fair
at Ukaz. Even the Bedouins could recite poetry that was just as good
as any composed by the urban poets. Whether their poems were metrical
or composed in a free style, the people were moved.9
So, at a time when eloquence and style were well developed, Allah
revealed the Qur'an to our Prophet (saas). It was not long before
these literary individuals, even though their inner arrogance and
conceit made them persist in their rebelliousness, noticed that the
Qur'an was, in literary terms, a miracle.
The Qur'an includes incidents that are means of guidance for people,
allows people to recognize their own lower selves, gives information
about the past and the future. Its richness is infinite and
incomparable. In fact, this miracle is so great that Allah told the
Prophet (saas) to proclaim to those who were too arrogant to listen to
it:
Say: "If both humanity and jinn banded together to produce the like of
this Qur'an, they could never produce anything like it, even if they
backed each other up." We have spread throughout this Qur'an all kinds
of examples for people, but most people spurn anything but unbelief.
(Surat al-Isra': 88-89)
Or do they say: "He has invented it"? Say: "Then produce ten invented
surahs like this and call upon anyone you can besides Allah, if you
are telling the truth." If they do not respond to you, then know that
it has been sent down with Allah's knowledge and that there is no
deity but Him. So will you not become believers? (Surah Hud: 13-14)
Do they say: "He has invented it"? Say: "Then produce a surah like it
and call on anyone you can besides Allah, if you are telling the
truth." No, the fact is that they have denied something that their
knowledge does not embrace and the meaning of which has not yet
reached them. In the same way, those before them also denied the
truth. See the final fate of those who do wrong! (Surah Yunus: 38-39)
Unbelievers remain weak and powerless in relation to the Qur'an's
excellence. No one has ever produced anything like it, and no one ever
will. All the unbelievers' traps and ruses designed to discredit the
Prophet (saas) and prevent him from delivering his message were, as a
blessing from Allah, rendered ineffective.
From the literary point of view, with the Qur'an, our Prophet (saas)
gave the wisest response to his people's powerful and elaborate
rhetoric, to their most famous poets and finest orators. Besides this,
he proved himself superior to all literary people. No doubt this was
one of the effects of the Qur'an's incomparable literary quality and
wisdom. In response to the verses that the Prophet (saas) recited, the
Meccan polytheists were amazed. But in spite of their own certainty
about them, some of them rebelled because of their pride:
If you have doubts about what We have sent down to Our servant,
produce another surah equal to it and call your witnesses, besides
Allah, if you are telling the truth. If you do not do that – and you
will not do it – then fear the Fire whose fuel is people and stones,
made ready for the unbelievers. (Surat al-Baqarah: 23-24)
The great scholar Bediuzzaman Said Nursi interprets these verses in this way:
When the Qur'an came, it challenged at the same time the experts in
these four fields. First, it made the people of eloquence bow down
before it. They all listened to it with amazement. Second, it stunned
the poets and orators so that they bit their fingers in astonishment.
Their most beautiful poems written in gold were given a blow, and the
famous Seven Poems that were placed on the walls of the Ka`bah as an
object of pride were brought down. Third, it also silenced the
soothsayers and magicians, made them forget about their discoveries of
hidden knowledge, resulted in the expulsion of the jinn from the
heavens, and brought the process of divination to a certain end.
Fourth, it rescued from myth and fabrications those who were cognisant
of the events of bygone times and the facts of cosmology, teaching
them the real story of past events and the illuminating knowledge of
the facts of creation. Thus did those four groups bow down before the
Qur'an in astonishment and respect and become its students. None of
them ever dared dispute with a single verse of it. 10
The revelation of an extraordinary book to the Prophet (saas), who had
lived among them all his life, amazed the arrogant people and led them
to hate him without cause. As a result, they did their best to harm
him in every possible way. Although they saw that he was good both in
his life and moral character, they conspired against him:
Those who slandered this good and blessed man were personal witnesses
to his moral superiority. With their own eyes they saw the Prophet
Muhammad's (saas) faithfulness to his promises, loyalty, justice,
honesty, truthfulness, kindness to orphans and those in need,
generosity, and interest in others. His excellent character and moral
qualities always caught everyone's attention, and he was everyone's
most trusted, beloved, and respected friend.
Our Prophet's (saas) moral character could not be denied or ignored.
His moral character, as described in the Qur'an, was pleasing to
Allah, Who made him an example and guide to all people. According to
Islamic sources, Nadr ibn al-Haris attempted to harm the Prophet
(saas) with his words; later on, he met with the idolaters' leaders
and told them:
O Qurayshis, I swear that today you have encountered something that
has never befallen you before. From early childhood, Muhammad was your
most beloved, the greatest speaker of truth, and the one who achieved
the greatest respect. When he was older and brought Allah's Book, you
said that he was a magician. I swear that he is not a magician. We
have seen many magicians and how they breathe on knots. You then
called him a seer. I swear that neither is he a seer. How many seers
have we seen and witnessed their speech? You called him a poet. I
swear that he is not a poet. How many poems have we learned and seen
their metre? You called him crazy. I swear that he is not crazy. Are
there any signs of fainting, nonsense, or fits in him? O Qurayshis
think well and decide… 11
Footnotes
7. Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Risale-i Nur Collection, "The Letters: The
Twenty-sixth Letter, The First Topic," www.risale- inur.com.tr/rnk
/eng/words /15th_word.htm.
8. "Mu'allaqat," www.britannica.com/eb /article-9054111.
9. Ahmet Cevdet Paşa, Muallim Mahir iz, Peygamber Efendimiz (sav) (Our
Prophet [saas]) (Hediye Kitaplar), 55-56.
10. Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Risale-i Nur Collection, "The Letters: The
Nineteenth Letter, Eighteenth Sign, Second Remark," www.risale-
inur.com.tr/rnk /eng/letters /19letter.html
11. As-Suyuti, Tahdhib al-Khasa'is al-Nabawiyyah al-Kubra (The Awesome
Characteristics of the Prophet [saas] (Istanbul: Iz Publications,
2003), p.286.-
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