METHODOLOGY FOR STUDY OF THE QUR'AN
by Sheikh Imran Nazar Hosein
CHAPTER ONE
The Credentials of the Qur’ān as the Word of the One God
“In time We shall make them fully understand Our Signs (which will unfold) in the utmost horizons [of the universe] as well within themselves, so that it will become clear unto them that this [Qur’ān] is indeed the truth. [Still,] is it not enough [for them to know] that your Lord-God is witness unto everything?”
(Qur’ān, Fussilāt, 41:53)
Every Christian and Jew ought to carefully examine the claim of the Qur’ān when it declares that the same God Who revealed the Torah to Nabī Mūsa (Moses), and the Gospel to Nabī ‘Īsa (Jesus), also revealed the Qur’ān to Nabī Muhammad (peace and blessings be on them all).
The Qur’ān goes on to make a declaration of supreme importance to both Christians and to Jews on matters wherein they differ with each other. It declares that it provides an explanation which resolves those differences, and this certainly includes their differences pertaining to the subject of al-Masīh (or the Messiah):
“Behold, this Qur’ān explains to the Israelite people most [of that] wherein they hold divergent views.”
(Qur’ān, al-Naml, 27:76)
Hence it would be beneficial for Christians and Jews to carefully examine the credentials of the Qur’ān as the Word of the God of Nabī Ibrāhīm (Abraham (a)) and also to study the explanations which it offers on matters wherein they differ.
Fourteen hundred years is a very long period of time – and that is how long it has been since the complete Qur’ān came into the world. For more than fourteen hundred years the Qur’ān has proclaimed that it is the divinely-revealed word of the ‘One True God’; all other gods and goddesses are false. Islam declares of the ‘One True God’, that He created both the male and the female, but is neither male nor female.
to be continued .....
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