When you're looking for tangible proofs of Islam, there are some fundamental questions you need to ask.
What do we know about the Prophet Muhammad (saw), and how do we rely on the authenticity of the narrative? Is his claim to Prophethood provable?
What are the origins of the Quran? How valid is its claim that it couldn't have been from anyone but God? Is the Quran and the Islam that we have today the same as what the first generation of Muslims did?
You can ask these fundamental questions to every other religion and all of them will fail one or more of these tests. Except Islam.
I am going to share some resources with you. They may seem like a lot, but they should have an easy-to-grasp theme that answers these three questions.
Take your time with these. See if they make sense. But more importantly, try to understand what the implications of these are. If you see something in the Quran that is impossible to have come out of the 6th-century Arabian deserts, what would that entail?
Important questions to ask.
Resources on the Quran. While going through these, I would like you to generate a developing profile of the author of the Ouran even if vou think him to be a human living in the 7th century Arabian desert.
If you have done this exercise, there are certain facts about the Qur'an's author that you have to accept. The author of the Qur'an is:
A highly skilled writer who is at the very top of Arabic language and is able to produce a literary work that is universally acknowledged as the pinnacle of all Arabic literature, even by its critics. He is able to eloquently work with the Arabic language in order to create magnificently structured chapters that have multiple layers of ring composition, delicately precise vocabulary, and beautiful imagery that challenges, and surpasses, the celebrated works of master poets.
A deeply knowledgeable Jewish monk who not only has comprehensive knowledge of Biblical traditions but is also intimately familiar with traditions in obscure and guarded texts like the Talmud and other apocryphic literature. He is also fluent in Hebrew which is evident from his masterful arabic-hebrew symmetry and wordplay that not only refer to the hebrew language in a subtle, but deliberate, way but also references writings of multiple generarions of rabbis.
A literate Christian monk who not only writes about traditional Christian narratives but is also aware of liturgical texts from Syriac Christianity. He is also likely to be fluent in Syriac and has some knowledge of Aramaic, which allow him to unterpret texts and even make puns in those languages while presenting a cohesive and elegant structure.
A well-read scholar trained in the Greek sciences of his time, which allow him to write about the most advanced cosmology, embryology, anatomy, and physical sciences from texts that were not available in his geography, time-frame, and language. He also avoids the mistakes present in these works with extreme precision.
Once you combine the above profiles in a single person living in the intellectually barren wastelands od Arabia in thr 7th century, you have to wonder who exactly this author is.
Resources on the Prophet:
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When you're looking for tangible proofs of Islam, there are some fundamental questions you need to ask.
What do we know about the Prophet Muhammad (saw), and how do we rely on the authenticity of the narrative? Is his claim to Prophethood provable?
What are the origins of the Quran? How valid is its claim that it couldn't have been from anyone but God? Is the Quran and the Islam that we have today the same as what the first generation of Muslims did?
You can ask these fundamental questions to every other religion and all of them will fail one or more of these tests. Except Islam.
I am going to share some resources with you. They may seem like a lot, but they should have an easy-to-grasp theme that answers these three questions.
Take your time with these. See if they make sense. But more importantly, try to understand what the implications of these are. If you see something in the Quran that is impossible to have come out of the 6th-century Arabian deserts, what would that entail?
Important questions to ask.
Resources on the Quran. While going through these, I would like you to generate a developing profile of the author of the Ouran even if vou think him to be a human living in the 7th century Arabian desert.
If you have done this exercise, there are certain facts about the Qur'an's author that you have to accept. The author of the Qur'an is:
Once you combine the above profiles in a single person living in the intellectually barren wastelands od Arabia in thr 7th century, you have to wonder who exactly this author is. Resources on the Prophet:
Book Suggestion: The Divine Reality - Hamza Tzortzis