God offered the Qur'an as the Prophet's sign in the
same way as
He offered signs for all the other prophets. He sent the things
most appropriate to the time in which they were sent. Thus Prophet Musa (as) had
the power to divide the sea with his hand and rod, and to let the rock burst forth
with water in the desert, and all his other signs in a time of magic. And Prophet
Issa (as) had the power to bring the dead back to life, to make birds out of clay,
to cure those who had been blind from birth and the leprous, and all his other
signs in a time of medicine. And Prophet Muhammad (saww) had the book and all
his other signs in a time of eloquence.
If the Prophet had performed some
miracle other than the Quran, it would have no meaning for that people, given
their mental structure.
The path would have been open for all kinds of
doubt and hesitation.
But the Arabs of that age who were addressed by the
Quran could
never have any doubts about its extraordinary eloquence, for they
were all aware of all the mysteries of rhetoric and had living among
them
masters of language and literary composition, hence their
admitting that the
Quran could not have been the production of
Prophet Muhammad (saww). |
