(In The Name of Allah The Most Merciful, All Prays to Allah the Lord of the Worlds and Peace and Blessings Upon Our Master Mohammed and His Companions)

My thoughts about the Holy Quran are not an explanation of it, but they are purified gifts that may come to the heart of the believer with regards to one Verse or a number of Verses. And if the Quran could be explained (in simple language) the Prophet [PBUH] would have been the first of the people to explain it as it was revealed to him and to it he reacted and by it he was informed, he taught and worked. And to him its miracles were revealed.

However the Prophet [PBUH] stopped at informing the people in accordance with their needs from and of worship which makes known to them the nature of duty in the Holy Quran and that is what they are allowed to do and what they are forbidden from doing.

Those actions that the human being would be rewarded if he does them and will be punished if he leaves them and the basis of worshipping Allah the Almighty that the Quran revealed as the curriculum of life for humans on earth.

As to the secrets stored in the Quran about the general state of being and the creation, the Prophet [PBUH] was satisfied by what he knew and learned of them as the limited nature of human brain and its capability at that time was unable to accept what was stated and discussing such matters in detail (at that time) would have created arguments which would have had an adverse effect on the issue of religion and would have directed people away from the

curriculum of Allah in total worship to unnecessary arguments about matters from which they would have gained nothing.

The Holy Quran did not come to teach us the secrets of the Universe but came with clear Devine orders and duties and the secrets within it treasured until civilizations develop and the human mental ability is broadened then Allah would reveal from the secrets of the Universe that which would make us understand more of the offerings of the Quran about the secrets of beings and the creation as on each occasion when time progresses and Allah revealed a new secret in the Universe the uniqueness and extraordinary quality of the Quran is revealed because Allah the Almighty did refer to these Verses of the creation in his valuable book. The reference could be to one Verse or a number of Verses but this one Verse or the number of Verses gives us that extraordinary nature that science cannot match in its accuracy.

The Holy Quran carried with it miracles at the time of its revelation indicating the truthfulness of the message from Allah the Almighty and the truthfulness of the message of the Prophet [PBUH] and the first of such miracles was the words of Allah the Almighty within it there are the offerings of Allah that the human soul loves and is attracted by.

It talks to hidden parts of the soul that only Allah the creator of the soul knows about and he is most knowledgeable in them. These parts react when it hears the Quran and the hearts soften and belief enters it. The disbelievers were alerted to the profound effect of Quran on the human soul an effect that no one could explain but it attracts that soul to the path of belief and mercy enters the hearts.

Therefore the Masters of the disbelievers were most afraid about the disbelievers hearing the Quran and would prevent that using all means and would assualt those who recited the Quran, if this Quran was not the word of Allah in which he placed secrets of talking with the hidden parts present in the human soul the Masters of the unbelievers would not have cared if anyone would have listened or not to the Quran, however they were very conscience of the effects of Allah’s words which made them not only forbid the listening to the Quran but also as the Quran tells us:

[Those who disbelieve say: Heed not this Qur'an, and drown the hearing of it; haply ye may conquer]. (26)

Surat Fussilat (41)

And from that we realise that the disbelievers not only prohibited the listening to the Quran but also asked their supporters to make talk of confusion and fallacy about it and they would not have done this had they not been afraid from what effects of the Quran and what it does in wining the human soul to the believing path as the mere recitation of it attracts the disbelieving soul to the curriculum of Allah. And if we take the story of Omar Bin Al-Khattab and him entering Islam we will find that when he came to know that his sister Fatemah and her husband (his cousin) Saeed Bin Zaid became Muslims he hurried to punish them severely and kill Saeed Bin Zaid and when his wife came to his rescue to protect him he assaulted and battered her and she bled and when Omar saw the blood on his sister Fatemah's face his heart softened and had within it a rage of mercy instead of a rage of anger and a desire to hurt. Stubbornness left his heart and it was

filled with purity and he asked his wife for the page of the Quran from which they were both reading and he read the beginning of Verse Taha and said: how beautiful gracious this talk is he then hurried to the Prophet [PBUH] and declared his Islam.

Therefore when stubbornness and disbelief leaves the heart and the human listens with purity to the Quran instant belief will enter his heart.

Omar Bin Al-Khattab had heard the Quran before but never became a Muslim but when he saw the blood streaming down his sister's face and the range of anger and hurt became that of mercy he received the Quran with a pure soul his heart was filled with belief in Allah so he hurried to the Prophet (PBUH) and declared his Islam. Therefore the disbelievers would constantly stimulate feeling of disbelief in the hearts of the people so that Quran would not enter them. Because to receive belief and piety you will have to rid yourself from Disbelief first.

And that is how we see that the Quran is the word of Allah the Almighty because it has a special effect on the human soul as even the disbelievers listened to it from behind each others backs and would say that it had sweetness and smoothness and its highs is fruitful and it is high and there is no higher than it and this was the first extraordinary character of the Quran that is the word of Allah the Almighty.

The companions and the believers who were present at the time of Prophet [PBUH] when the Quran was revealed to him contemplated the offerings of the Quran from what their mental capacity allowed in understanding the secrets of the Universe and the secrets of the Holy Quran. So we do not find

any of the companions asking the Prophet [PBUH] about the meanings of the Verses or the Universe in the Quran or the linguistic ability of the Quran and for example no one asked the meaning of (ALM) or (HM) even though the Prophet [PBUH] received lots of people who believed in the book of Allah and lots of people disbelieved in what Allah revealed and they wanted to establish the a case against the Prophet [PBUH] and against the Holy Quran we never heard about any of them and they are people of great linguistic ability and language was to them a passion not an occupation. We never heard any of the disbelievers asked what is the meaning of (ALM) or (HM).

How was it that the disbelievers would observe the opening of Verses and he could not find about which to argue with the Messenger of Allah and to dispute. This was their opportunity to argue and it is a certainty that the fact they did not use these ambiguous opening of Verses is an indication that they were deeply affected even though they did not believe in them and they did not find anything that they may use to attack the Quran and plant doubt in it and if it were that these openings would have served their purpose in their attacks they would have told everyone about them.

The Prophet [PBUH] was the person to whom the Quran was revealed explained and clarified and explained all that is related to religious duties and left all that is not related to duties to the forthcoming generations. Time passed by and Allah revealed to his creation from the secrets of his verses what he wished so that the offerings of the Quran is equal to the mental capacity of humans, why? Because all the Devine messages before Islam came for a particular time and a place however the Quran is for every time

and place until the day of judgment therefore it must present an extraordinary thing for every generation so that it remains the miracle of every time.

The Quran came to challenge the Arabs in language and grammatical perfection however and because it is a universal religion for all it must challenge those who are non-Arabs in what they profess and that is why it came as a challenge to non-Arabs when it was revealed as a war erupted between the Persians and the Romans at the time the Quran was revealed. The Persians and the Romans represented, in our time, the United States of America and the Soviet Union they were the most powerful states at that time and when war erupted the Romans were defeated, the Quran stated that following at that time:

[Alif. Lam. Mim. (1) The Romans have been defeated (2) In the deepest land, and they, after their defeat will be victorious (3) In a few (less then ten) - Allah's is the command in the former case and in the latter - and in that day believers will rejoice] (4).

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