What makes Islam the truth?
“The truth is heavy, yet it is the foundation of faith.”
Imam Ali
Islam presents faith as a natural automatic conclusion of reason and logic. Unlike any other religion, in Islam, a brainless blind faith is a weak, harmful faith. So, let’s use that sense of reasoning and logic to verify that.
Throughout mankind’s history, God kept sending messengers (Prophets) to remind people of their creator and guide them to a perfect, objective way of life. Those messages were specific to a particular group of people in a certain period and provided two significant components:
A message: Unique and one message: Your Lord is one and only, here’s a guideline to success in this world and the hereafter.
Evidence to substantiate that this message is from God is known as Miracles.
Those miracles were specific to the place and time of the prophets, but most importantly, were specific to the kind of power and level of knowledge of the nation: it wouldn’t make sense or be fair to challenge them on a field they were ignorant in.
For example, during Moses’s time, Egyptians were known for practicing magic and supernatural beliefs, so God challenged them on this. (We all know the story of splitting the sea and other miracles…)
For Jesus, his civilization (the Romans) specialized in the practical application of science and medicine, so God challenged them by reviving the dead and the birth of a child with no father…
But, by God’s justice, I can argue that we all have the right to reject a message brought 2000 or 10.000 years ago presenting as proof a miracle I didn’t witness and have no record of, except for the same book that claims it, or at least doubts it or gives it a scientific or psychological explanation, or engage in circular reasoning where the book is the proof of the miracle, and the miracle is the proof of the book.
A step further, I can use the reasoning faculty that God himself gave me to refute the divinity of that message or book by exploiting errors, contradictions, and scientific mistakes in it, proving its imperfection, which makes it, by definition undivine.
As a result, through God’s justice and mercy, Islam happened.
A religion claims to be the everlasting final message for all mankind, presenting evidence that can be analyzed objectively, logically, and scientifically. It brings an everlasting miracle that challenges not a specific nation or kind of knowledge but all mankind on the two things known to all humans and unique to them: language and reasoning.
Throughout mankind’s history, God kept sending messengers (Prophets) to remind people of their creator and guide them to a perfect, objective way of life. Those messages were specific to a particular group of people in a certain period and provided two significant components:
A message: Unique and one message: Your Lord is one and only, here’s a guideline to success in this world and the hereafter.
Evidence to substantiate that this message is from God is known as Miracles.
Those miracles were specific to the place and time of the prophets, but most importantly, were specific to the kind of power and level of knowledge of the nation: it wouldn’t make sense or be fair to challenge them on a field they were ignorant in.
For example, during Moses’s time, Egyptians were known for practicing magic and supernatural beliefs, so God challenged them on this. (We all know the story of splitting the sea and other miracles…)
For Jesus, his civilization (the Romans) specialized in the practical application of science and medicine, so God challenged them by reviving the dead and the birth of a child with no father…
But, by God’s justice, I can argue that we all have the right to reject a message brought 2000 or 10.000 years ago presenting as proof a miracle I didn’t witness and have no record of, except for the same book that claims it, or at least doubts it or gives it a scientific or psychological explanation, or engage in circular reasoning where the book is the proof of the miracle, and the miracle is the proof of the book.
A step further, I can use the reasoning faculty that God himself gave me to refute the divinity of that message or book by exploiting errors, contradictions, and scientific mistakes in it, proving its imperfection, which makes it, by definition undivine.
As a result, through God’s justice and mercy, Islam happened.
A religion claims to be the everlasting final message for all mankind, presenting evidence that can be analyzed objectively, logically, and scientifically. It brings an everlasting miracle that challenges not a specific nation or kind of knowledge but all mankind on the two things known to all humans and unique to them: language and reasoning.
“˹This is˺ a blessed Book which We have revealed to you ˹O Prophet˺ so that they may contemplate its verses, and people of reason may be mindful.”
Quran 38:29
A miracle called the Quran.
What makes the final testament of God a miracle in itself?
Here are some aspects of that miracle:
Here are some aspects of that miracle:
Inimitability:
Since it’s God’s verbatim, its style, eloquence, and linguistic features are so unparalleled that no human can produce anything like it. The Quran challenges people to create a chapter similar to its style, and it claims that they will not be able to do so.
A challenge so powerful that it allows any skeptic (even AI) to debunk the entire religion simply by reproducing a similar chapter of its revelation. By the way, the most minor chapter of the Quran is only three lines
Since it’s God’s verbatim, its style, eloquence, and linguistic features are so unparalleled that no human can produce anything like it. The Quran challenges people to create a chapter similar to its style, and it claims that they will not be able to do so.
A challenge so powerful that it allows any skeptic (even AI) to debunk the entire religion simply by reproducing a similar chapter of its revelation. By the way, the most minor chapter of the Quran is only three lines
“And it was not [possible] for this Quran to be produced by other than Allah, but [it is] a confirmation of what was before it and a detailed explanation of the [former] Scripture, about which there is no doubt, from the Lord of the worlds. Or do they say [about the Prophet], “He invented it?” Say, “Then bring forth a chapter like it and call upon [for assistance] whomever you can besides Allah, if you should be truthful.”
Quran (10:38)
No Contradictions or errors:
The book was revealed over twenty-three years, giving multiple accurate accounts of future predictions, anecdotes of past communities and Prophets, as well as Scientific truths unknown at the time of revelation. Still, it comes without a single contradiction in the Quran that proves a divine hand in its authorship.
The Quran is the only book on the planet in which the author starts with the claim that you won’t find a single error or contradiction in it.
Which I would expect from God’s words!
The book was revealed over twenty-three years, giving multiple accurate accounts of future predictions, anecdotes of past communities and Prophets, as well as Scientific truths unknown at the time of revelation. Still, it comes without a single contradiction in the Quran that proves a divine hand in its authorship.
The Quran is the only book on the planet in which the author starts with the claim that you won’t find a single error or contradiction in it.
Which I would expect from God’s words!
“Do they not reflect on the Quran? If this book were from other than GOD, they would certainly find much variation and contradiction in it”.
Quran (4:82)
Prophecies:
Prophecy is foretold news about any future event. In the religious world, a prophecy, quite distinct from an educated and wise guess, is considered the most authentic criterion and a vital proof of the truthfulness or otherwise of a prophet.
Modern Example: The rise and fall of the state of Israel in Jerusalem
Prophecy is foretold news about any future event. In the religious world, a prophecy, quite distinct from an educated and wise guess, is considered the most authentic criterion and a vital proof of the truthfulness or otherwise of a prophet.
Modern Example: The rise and fall of the state of Israel in Jerusalem
“Then We gave back to you [children of Israel] a return victory over them. And We reinforced you with wealth and offspring and made you more numerous in manpower. [And said], “If you do good, you do good for yourselves; and if you do evil, [you do it] to yourselves.” Then when the final promise came, [We sent your enemies] to sadden your faces and to enter the temple in Jerusalem, as they entered it the first time, and to destroy what they had taken over with [total] destruction.”
Quran (17:6)
Authenticity:
If the universe and the Quran are both God’s products, we should see harmony and synchronicity between the two: no scientific errors.
For example, the book made the claim about the origin of the universe and that theory and all living things consist mostly of water in one verse 1440 years ago:
If the universe and the Quran are both God’s products, we should see harmony and synchronicity between the two: no scientific errors.
For example, the book made the claim about the origin of the universe and that theory and all living things consist mostly of water in one verse 1440 years ago:
“Do the disbelievers not realize that the heavens and earth were ˹once˺ one mass then We split them apart? And We created from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?”
Quran 21:30
Preservation:
the Quran has been preserved in its original form since the time of its revelation to the Prophet Muhammad. The process of preservation is seen as a divine undertaking to ensure the integrity and accuracy of the Quranic text through Oral Transmission (Memorization) and Written Manuscripts. The concept of the preservation of the Quran is fundamental to Islamic belief and is guaranteed by God:
the Quran has been preserved in its original form since the time of its revelation to the Prophet Muhammad. The process of preservation is seen as a divine undertaking to ensure the integrity and accuracy of the Quranic text through Oral Transmission (Memorization) and Written Manuscripts. The concept of the preservation of the Quran is fundamental to Islamic belief and is guaranteed by God:
“It is certainly We Who have revealed the Reminder, and it is certainly We Who will preserve it. ”
Quran 15:9
It is worth investigating.
For centuries, Islam has been straightforward to discredit, by conditions set by the the Author Himself:
just bring one chapter like the Quran, find a contradiction or a false prophecy or a scientific error: and that’s it, no war, no struggle no debates.
Isn’t that miracle enough for you?!
Doesn’t that simply make Islam Divine enough, trustworthy, and reliable?
Those are miracles presented to a non-muslim, but once embracing Islam, you will discover other sorts of miracles that will transform your life and way of thinking and make you a better human being living with pride, clarity, an eternal sense of purpose
just bring one chapter like the Quran, find a contradiction or a false prophecy or a scientific error: and that’s it, no war, no struggle no debates.
Isn’t that miracle enough for you?!
Doesn’t that simply make Islam Divine enough, trustworthy, and reliable?
Those are miracles presented to a non-muslim, but once embracing Islam, you will discover other sorts of miracles that will transform your life and way of thinking and make you a better human being living with pride, clarity, an eternal sense of purpose
