By Hamza Mustafa Njozi
"Who is the writer of the Qur'an?"
On this topic students have flagrantly contradicted one another. This paintings makes an attempt to make a serious evaluation of the foremost 'authorship' theories by means of urgent into provider logical arguments, ancient facts, textual research and medical data.
Probably, the one element of contract concerning the Qur'an is that it was once uttered for the 1st time through a guy who used to be born in Makkah (Mecca), a urban of Arabia, within the 6th century-a guy via the identify of Muhammad (blessings and peace be upon him). As to the resource of the Qur'an, students are divided into 3 major teams: those that think that Muhammad (blessings and peace be upon him) himself used to be the writer; those that think that he was once no longer the writer himself yet discovered it from one other human writer or authors; and people who think that the Qur'an has no human writer yet is quite a word-for-word revelation from God. Hamza Njozi examines the 3 theories and springs to a company and logical end.
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Cit, p. 191. lamzah see p. 189. She was avenging her father 'Utbah and her brothers Walid and Shaybah who were killed in the battle of Badr. See also Hafiz G. Sarwar, Op. cit, p. 192. 40 Moral Reformation In fact even the assumption that moral reformation is the central concern of the Qur'an is incorrect. Moral precepts are only part of the message. There are numerous verses in the Qur'an which invite man to research and study the universe, like: "Say: 'Travel through the earth and see how God did originate creation ...
3, Pp. 2-4. I have quoted only part of it. 57 Philip K. Hitti, Islam and the West: A Historical Cultural Survey (New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1962), p. 14. 58 Norman Daniel, Islam and the West: The Making of an Image, (Edinburgh: The Edinburgh University Press, 1960) Pp. 27-28. - - - - - - - - - - - The Sources of the Qur'an 45 himself either to it or to that of demoniac possession. " 59 Apart from the epileptic theory, there is also what we can call the religious illusion theory. According to this theory, a man who is deeply religious may experience visions which lead him to think that what he imagines comes from God while that is not the case.
As a person goes through this experience he feels disoriented, confused, sleepy and may experience headache. The person will have no recollection of what happened to him. It is obvious that these symptoms are not applicable to Muhammad68 (Blessings and Peace be upon him). 66 The New Encyclopedia Britannica, (Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1985), Vol. 4, p. 525. 67 68 Ibid. For a detailed description See: Encyclopedia Britannica, (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1976), Vol. 8 and under Epilepsy and Epileptic Fit, p.