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 anilliterate 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.
