1. Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims
  2. Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

373 Questions

Are there any resources addressing the criticism that the Qur'an could not have been derived from the Prophet's subconscious mind, dismissing claims of insanity or delusion?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Such claims are not new, but go back to more than fourteen centuries when Quran was revealed in the Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) and his enemies refused to believe. The reply is in the Quran itself when Allah (SWT) asked them to bring a book like Quran even by taking help from all their associates from humans and Jinns. They failed to bring like it. Allah asked them to bring ten chapters like Quranic chapters to prove that Quran is man made. They failed to do so. Then Allah asked them to bring just one Syrah (Chapter) like Quranic chapters which are 114, but they again failed to do so. This itself proved that Quranic can never be from humans but from The Creator, Allah.

‘All the scholars who read Quran, admitted that it is a Miracle in every field. Even non Muslim scholars admitted this fact. Miracles of Quran are attracting millions of truth seekers to the Truth of Islam.

Wassalam.
What do the authentic narrations and commentaries say about the concept of the seven heavens and seven earths as mentioned in the Quran?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

We have many authentic Hadeeths about the seven heavens and the seven earths. Imam Ali ibn Musa Al-Ridha (AS) was asked : Where are the seven earths? In his reply he stepped his left hand, and then he put the right on it, and he said, ""This is the land of this world (the first earth). And the sky is above it.  The second earth is above the first sky. The third earth is above the second sky , then forth earth is above the third sky ,  -- and so until he said: - and the seventh earth above the sixth sky, the seventh sky above it, the throne of the mercy is blessed and above the seventh sky above the seventh sky, the saying of God: * ( Who Created seven heavens and from the earth like them) *
Bihar Al-Anwaar , Volume 60, page 79.

Wassalam.
After the Quran's revelation, did the Prophet continue to be unlettered, or did he acquire the ability to read and write? Can you provide evidence for this?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Allah Has granted the Prophet Muhammad every knowledge which he did not know as we read in Quran ( And He Has Taught you every knowledge which you did not know) Sura 4, Verse 113.

The Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) was never unlettered but for the benefit of the message of Islam, he did not practice reading and writing in front of people  to avoid giving a chance to the enmities of Islam to accuse him copying from previous religious books.(Sura Al-Ankabout, verse 48).

Wassalam.
Is the belief that the Imams can hear angels but cannot see them, not in conflict with the Qur'an's assertion that the religion has been completed and cannot be added to?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Hearing the angles is not restricted for the prophets only but many persons were mentioned in Quran used to hear the angles like mother of Musa ( We inspired to mother of Musa that: Suckle him ) Sura Al-Qassass, verse 7. 
Mariam, the mother of Easa used to hear the angles (Sura 3m verse 42 and 45) but she was never a prophet. Sara, wife of Prophet Ebrahim was also hearing the angles as we read in Quran (Sura Hood, verse 69 to 73).

Even Sunni Muslims claim that Umar ibn Al-Khattab used to hear the angles. They called Umar ibn Al-Khattab by the name: Muhaddath Al-Ummah. Fadhaa'il Al-Sahabah, by Mohammad Hasan abdul-Ghaffar, V.4, page 6.

The 12 Unfallible Imams were granted by Allah great gifts and abilities to guide the Ummah to the right path after the Prophet Muhammad (SAWA).

Islam was completed before the departure of the Prophet from this life. Infallible Imams never added any thing but preserved the real teachings of Islam. Their status definitely higher than mother of Musa and mother of Easa and Sara wife of Ebrahim.who were hearing the angles.
Wassalam.