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   DID MUHAMMAD AUTHOR THE QURAN?   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   Did Muhammad Author the Quran?   
      
      
      
   Who authored the Quran?  Someone must have produced it! After all, how   
   many desert men have stood up in the history of man and given the   
   world a book like the Quran?  The book has amazing details of past   
   nations, prophets, and religions as well as accurate scientific   
   information unavailable at the time. What was the source of all this?   
   If we were to deny the divine origin of the Quran, we are left with   
   only a few possibilities:   
      
   - The Prophet Muhammad authored it himself.   
      
   - He took it from someone else.  In this case, he either took it from   
   a Jew or a Christian or one of the foreigners in Arabia.  The Meccans   
   did not bother to accuse him of having taken it from one of them.   
      
   A brief response from God is:   
      
   “And they say, ‘Legends of the former peoples which he has written   
   down, and they are dictated to him morning and afternoon.’ Say, [O   
   Muhammad], ‘It has been revealed by He who knows [every] secret within   
   the heavens and the earth. Indeed, He is ever Forgiving and   
   Merciful.’” (Quran 25:5-6)   
      
   It was well known to his detractors that Muhammad, who was raised   
   among them, never learned how to read or write from the time of his   
   birth.  They knew whom he befriended and where he had traveled; they   
   acknowledged his integrity and honesty by calling him ‘Al-Ameen,’ the   
   Reliable, the Trustworthy, the Honest.[1] Only in their revulsion   
   against his preaching did they accuse him – and then it was anything   
   they could dream up: He was accused of being a sorcerer, a poet and   
   even an imposter!  They could not make up their minds.  God says:   
      
   “Look how they strike for you comparisons; but they have strayed, so   
   they cannot [find] a way.” (Quran 17:47)   
      
   Simply, God is aware of what is in the heavens and the earth, He knows   
   the past and the present, and reveals the truth to His prophet.   
      
   Could Muhammad Have Authored It?   
      
   It is impossible that Muhammad could have authored the Quran due to   
   the following reasons:   
      
   First, several occasions presented themselves where he could have   
   fabricated revelation. For example, after the first revelation came,   
   people awaited to hear more, but the Prophet did not receive anything   
   new for months. The Meccans began making fun of him, ‘His Lord has   
   abandoned him!’  This continued until the 93rd chapter, Ad-Doha, was   
   revealed. The Prophet could have compiled something and presented it   
   as the latest revelation to end the mockery, but he did not. Also, at   
   one point during his prophethood, some of the hypocrites accused his   
   beloved wife Aisha of being unchaste. The Prophet could have easily   
   fabricated something to free her of blame, but he waited for many   
   excruciating days, all spent in pain, mockery, and anguish, until   
   revelation came from God freeing her from the accusation.   
      
   Second, there is internal evidence within the Quran that Muhammad was   
   not its author. Several verses criticized him, and were on occasion   
   strongly worded. How can an imposter prophet blame himself when it may   
   run him into the danger of losing the respect, perhaps following, of   
   his followers? Here are some examples:   
      
   “O Prophet! Why do you prohibit [yourself from] what God has made   
   lawful for you, seeking the approval of your wives? And God is   
   Forgiving and Merciful.” (Quran 66:1)   
      
   “…while you concealed within yourself that which God is to disclose   
   and you feared the people, while God has more right that you fear   
   Him..” (Quran 33:43)   
      
   “It is not for the Prophet and those who have believed to ask   
   forgiveness for the polytheists, even if they were relatives, after it   
   has become clear to them that they are companions of Hellfire.” (Quran   
   9:113)   
      
   “But as for he who came to you striving [for knowledge] while he fears   
   [God], from him you are distracted.  No!  Indeed, they [these verses]   
   are a reminder.” (Quran 80:8-11)   
      
   If he were to hide anything, he would have hid these verses, but he   
   recited them faithfully.   
      
   “And he [Muhammad] is not a withholder of [knowledge of] the unseen.   
   And it [the Quran] is not the word of a devil, expelled [from the   
   heavens].  So where are you going?  It is nothing but a reminder to   
   the worlds.” (Quran 81:24-27)   
      
   The Prophet is cautioned, perhaps warned, in the following verses:   
      
   “Indeed, We have revealed to you, [O Muhammad], the Book in truth so   
   you may judge between the people by that which God has shown you. And   
   do not be an advocate for the deceitful. And seek forgiveness of God.   
   Indeed, God is ever Forgiving and Merciful. And do not argue on behalf   
   of those who deceive themselves. Indeed, God loves not the one who is   
   a habitually sinful deceiver.  They conceal [their evil intentions and   
   deeds] from the people, but they cannot conceal [them] from God, and   
   He is with them [in His knowledge] when they spend the night in such   
   as He does not accept of speech.  And God ever is encompassing of what   
   they do,. Here you are – those who argue on their behalf in [this]   
   worldly life – but who will argue with God for them on the Day of   
   Resurrection, or who will [then] be their representative?  And whoever   
   does a wrong or wrongs himself but then seeks forgiveness of God will   
   find God Forgiving and Merciful. And whoever earns [i.e., commits] a   
   sin only earns it against himself. And God is ever Knowing and Wise.   
   But whoever earns an offense or a sin and then blames it on an   
   innocent [person] has taken upon himself slander and manifest sin. And   
   if it was not for the favor of God upon you, [O Muhammad], and His   
   mercy, a group of them would have determined to mislead you.  But they   
   do not mislead except themselves, and they will not harm you at all.   
   And God has revealed to you the Book and wisdom and has taught you   
   that which you did not know. And ever has the favor of God upon you   
   been great.” (Quran 4:105-113)   
      
   These verses explain a situation in which a man from the Muslim   
   inhabitants of Medina stole a piece of armor and hid it in the   
   property of his Jewish neighbor.  When the owners of the armor caught   
   up with him he denied any wrongdoing, and the armor was discovered   
   with the Jewish man.  He, however, pointed to his Muslim neighbor,   
   also denying his involvement in the crime. The people from the   
   Muslim’s tribe went to the Prophet to plead on his behalf, and the   
   Prophet began to incline towards them till the above verses were   
   revealed clearing the Jewish man of wrongdoing.  All this despite the   
      
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