Appendix 28
Muhammad Wrote
God’s Revelations
With His Own Hand
The first revelation was “Read,” and included the statement “God teaches by means
of the pen”
(96:1-4), and the second revelation was “The Pen” (68:1).
The
only function of the pen is to write.
Ignorant Muslim scholars of the first two centuries after the Quran could not understand the Quran’s challenge to produce anything
like it. They had no idea
about the Quran’s
mathematical
composition,
and
they
knew
that
many
literary
giants could have composed works comparable to the Quran. In fact, many such literary giants did claim the ability
to produce a literary work as excellent
as the Quran. The latest claim came from Taha Hussein, the renowned Egyptian
writer.
The ignorant Muslim scholars then decided to proclaim Muhammad an
illiterate man! They figured that this
would
make
the
Quran’s extraordinary literary excellence truly miraculous. The word they relied on to bestow illiteracy upon the
Prophet was “UMMY.” Unfortunately for
those “scholars,” this
word clearly means “Gentile,”
or
one
who
does
not
follow
any
scripture
(Torah, Injeel, or Quran) [see 2:78, 3:20 & 75, 62:2]; it does NOT mean “illiterate.”
The Prophet was a successful merchant. The “Muslim
scholars” who fabricated the illiteracy lie forgot that there were no numbers during the Prophet’s time; the
letters of the alphabet were used as numbers. As a merchant
dealing with numbers
every day, the Prophet
had to know the alphabet,
from one to one-thousand.
The Quran tells us that Muhammad wrote down
the
Quran—Muhammad’s contemporaries are quoted as saying, “These are tales from the past that he wrote down. They are being dictated to him day and night” (25:5). You cannot “dictate”
to an illiterate person. The Prophet’s enemies who accuse him of illiteracy abuse Verse 29:48, which relates
specifically to previous
scriptures.
On the 27th night of Ramadan 13 B.H. (Before
Hijerah), Muhammad the soul,
the real person, not the body, was summoned
to the highest universe and the Quran was given to him (2:97,
17:1,
44:3,
53:1-18,
97:1-5).
Subsequently, the angel Gabriel helped Muhammad release a few verses of the Quran at a time, from the
soul to Muhammad’s memory. The Prophet wrote down and memorized the verses just released into his mind. When the Prophet died, he left the complete
Quran written down with his own hand in the chronological order of revelation, along with specific instructions as to where to place every verse. The divine instructions
recorded by the Prophet were designed to put the Quran together
into the final
format intended for God’s Final Testament to the world (75:17). The early Muslims did not get around to putting the Quran together until the time of Khalifa Rashed
`Uthmaan. A committee was appointed
to carry out this task. Read Appendix
24 for the details.
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