"Yet they said, 'Confused dreams! Nah, he has fabricated it! Nah, he is a poet! Let him bring us a sign like those of old were sent!'"
Quran 21:5
I believe this is the first passage I've drawn from the twenty-first surah, al-Anbiya, here rendered as "The Prophets." Actually, I don't think I have a lot to add to this passage, other than it seemed like a worthy followup to yesterday's discussion of the suffering of the Prophet. There was certainly nothing about the early life or lineage of the Prophet which would have made people assume that he would serve as a vessel for God's messages. Consequently many people assumed that the revelations were fake, and that he was either a charlatan or a poet. For Muslims the majesty of the poetry inherent in the Quran, of course, is considered proof of the miracle.
Quran 21:5
I believe this is the first passage I've drawn from the twenty-first surah, al-Anbiya, here rendered as "The Prophets." Actually, I don't think I have a lot to add to this passage, other than it seemed like a worthy followup to yesterday's discussion of the suffering of the Prophet. There was certainly nothing about the early life or lineage of the Prophet which would have made people assume that he would serve as a vessel for God's messages. Consequently many people assumed that the revelations were fake, and that he was either a charlatan or a poet. For Muslims the majesty of the poetry inherent in the Quran, of course, is considered proof of the miracle.
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