Did Noble Verse 54:1 come from
Imru'u Al-Qays' (امرئ القيس)
poems?
The sections of this article are:
1- Noble Verse 54:1 and the
Scientific Miracle.
2- The alleged poem's history and some facts -
Clair Tisdall backed
down from his original attack on the Holy Quran.
The following can be found at: [1]
[2].
Emphasis below are mine.
On pages 47-49, we find the "Appendix to Chapter II" quoted here
in full:
It is sometimes said in the East at the present day that
Muhammad not only adopted many of the ancient habits and
religious rites of the heathen Arabs and incorporated them into
Islam, but that he was also guilty of plagiarism in borrowing
parts of certain verses of Imrau'l Qais, an ancient Arabic poet.
These, it is asserted, may still be found in the Qur'an. I have
even heard a story to the effect that one day when Fatimah,
Muhammad's daughter, was reciting the verse "The Hour has come
near and the Moon has split asunder" (Surah LIV., Al Qamar, 1),
a daughter of the poet was present and said to her, "That is a
verse from one of my father's poems, and your father has
stolen it and pretended that he received it from God."
This tale
is probably false, for Imrau'l Qais died about the year 540 of
the Christian era, while Muhammad was not born till A.D. 570,
"the year of the Elephant."
In a lithographed edition of the Mu`allaqat, which I
obtained in
Persia, however, I found at the end of the whole
volume certain Odes there attributed to Imrau'l Qais,
though not recognized as
his in any other edition of his poems which I have seen.
In these pieces of doubtful authorship I found the verses quoted
below.[1]
Though they contain some obvious blunders, I think it best to
give them without correction. The passages marked with a line
above them occur also in the Qur'an (Surah LIV., Al Qamar, 1,
29, 31, 46; Surah XCIII., Adduba', 1; Surah XXI., Al Anbiya 96;
Surah XXXVII., As Saffat, 59), except that in some of the
words there is a slight difference though the meaning is the
same. It is clear therefore that there is some connexion
between these lines and the similar verses of the Qur'an.
[Footnote] 1. Regarding the Mu`allaqat it may be well to quote
the following from Abu Ja`far Ahmad ibn Isma`il an nahhas (died
A.H. 338) He says:-
As-Suyuti says very much the same, though he also refers to the
story that the verses were hung up in the Ka`bah as possible (Mudhkir,
II., 240).
There seems good
reason to doubt whether Imrau'l Qais is the author of the lines
in question. They may have been borrowed from the
Qur'an instead of having been inserted therein from an author
who lived before Muhammad's time. On the one hand it is
difficult to suppose that at any time after the establishment of
Islam any one would have the daring to parody the Qur'an by
taking passages from it and applying them to the subject to
which these lines of poetry refer. On the other hand, it is very
customary even in comparatively modern times
to quote verses of
the Qur'an and work them into later compositions of a
philosophical or religious character, to which class, however,
these Odes do not belong. It
would be difficult to imagine Muhammad venturing to plagiarize
from such a well-known author as Imrau'l Qais (even
though, as we shall see later, he did so from less known
foreign sources (From me, Osama
Abdallah: This nonsense is thoroughly refuted here: [1]
[2]
[3]);
though this may be in part met by supposing that, as these Odes
formed no part of the Mu`allaqat, they were not as
generally current as poems contained in the latter collection
were. The account generally given of the Mu`allaqat is
that, whenever any one had composed an especially eloquent poem,
it was suspended on the wall of the Ka`bah, and that the
poems in this celebrated collection owe their name, which means
" The Suspended Poems," to this custom. Good authorities[1],
however, deny that this was the origin of the name, but that is
perhaps a matter of little importance. In spite of the Eastern
story which I have quoted, the balance of probability certainly
inclines to the supposition that
Muhammad was not[1]
guilty of the daring plagiarism of which he has
been accused.[2]
[Footnotes] 1. This is the opinion of Sir C. J. Lyall, than whom it
would be difficult to find any one better qualified to speak on
the subject of ancient Arabic poetry. In a letter which he has
kindly sent me regarding the authorship of the lines in question
attributed to Imrau'l Qais,
he expresses his conviction that
they are not his, giving reasons founded principally upon the
style and the metre. I have incorporated some of his
observations into this Appendix, and I owe to him also the
preceding note. His arguments have caused me to modify the
opinion on the subject
expressed in my Persian work, Yanabi`u'l Islam.
2. The Rev. Dr. Zwemer, of Bahrain, however, informs me that he
has found the words Danati 'ssa`atu wa'nshaqqa 'lqamaru
(cf. Surah LIV., 1, Iqtarabati 'ssa`atu wa'nshaqqa 'lqamaru)
in the last section of the last poem of Imrau'l Qais in an
edition which he possesses. He adds: "A Shaikh taught in Al
Azhar tells me that this evident quotation perplexes learned
Muslims."
Addition by me, Osama Abdallah. Another source for
Clair Tisdall's statement is:
Rev. W. St. Clair Tisdall, The Original Sources Of The
Qur'an, 1905, Society For The Promotion Of Christian Knowledge:
London, pp. 47-50
"Some might have heard the above
questioned claim, repeated by some Christian authors who do not know better (and
then also by those who read their books). The following article will show that
this claim is not substantiated by sufficient evidence.
This result of my investigation into the origin
of this claim is provided
as an apology to the Muslims
who might have had to bear this attack through an unsubstantiated allegation and
as a service to the Christians so that they may know better and not base any
argument on information erroneously claimed to be a fact. We are called to be
people of truth and need no false claims, either for our own faith or in
questioning Islam."
And the following links refute the other nonsense that they have
on Islam in their article:
Also, the following
detailed article in Arabic gives 20 reasons why the poem is a
fabrication against Islam. Many of them are solid ones. The article has 20 refutations to the alleged poem
and prove that it was
a lie put on the mouth of Imru'u Al-Qays' (امرئ
القيس). They quoted many early poetry
historians and many other early sources that prove without any doubt that the
poem is a fabrication. Among their best arguments were the
following:
1- The Arabs of Mecca, Madina and
all other tribes were very knowledgeable of the Arabs' poetry. Yet, not
once was Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, charged with plagiarizing from
Imru'u Al-Qays.
2- The early poetry historians such
as Al-Thahabi and many others never once
mentioned this poem and its verses.
3- The poem's verse itself about the
moon split has three versions.
"اقتربت الساعة وانشق القمر
من غزال صاد قلبي ونفر" (the hour has come
near and the moon had split, from a
gazelle that hunted my heart and ran away)
"ذنت الساعة و إنشق القمر عن غزال صاد قلبي
و نفر" (the hour came down and the moon has split,
away from a gazelle that hunted
my heart and ran away)
"دنت
الساعة وانشق القمر غزال صاد قلبي ونفر" (the
hour has come near and the moon has split,
gazelle hunted my heart and ran
away)
4- The other verses in the poem
speak of resurrection:
اقتربت الساعة وانشق
القمر من غزال صاد قلبي ونفر
إذا زلزلت الأرض زلزالها وأخرجت
الأرض أثقالها
تقوم الأنام على رسلها ليوم
الحساب ترى حالها
يحاسبها ملك عادل فإما
عليها وإما لها
The pagans did not believe in
resurrection as this was one of the main points for them initially rejecting
Islam:
Moon
Orbit Miracle:
This is
the short version of the long article below.
Allah Almighty said this about the moon's
S-shaped orbit around the earth:
36:39والقمر قدرناه منازل حتى
عادكالعرجون
القديم
"And
We have decreed set phases for the moon, until it ends upعادlooking like an old date
branch
كالعرجون
القديم. It is not for the sun to overtake the moon
nor for the night to outstrip the day; each one is swimming in a sphere.
(Qur'an, 36:39-40)"
As we clearly saw from the points above, the Prophet of
Islam, peace be upon him, was never ONCE charged with plagiarizing from
Imru'u Al-Qays.
Also, the Persian source for the alleged poem is highly doubtful, and the poem
itself doesn't exist anywhere in Imru'u Al-Qays' poetry-collections as we saw
above. There is clear evidence of fabrication from perhaps anti-Islamics
back in the days. It seems to me that this is an Islam-hating
Persian fabrication against
Islam, because:
1- Islam came and crushed the pagan
Persian empire.
2- Many Persians remained
non-Muslims, even to this day.
3- Persians used to look down upon
Arabs, before Islam, because while the Persians had a great empire and
civilization, the Arabs were backwards nomads and Bedouins who:
(a)- Hardly had any culture.
(b)- Hardly had any civilization.
This is of course not
stereotyping against all Iranians, for they do also have many pious
Muslims among them. But like Jews in relation to Good and evil (Ex:
911
was 100% an Israeli Mossad operation), and how many of them are a
cancer to all of humanity (See my
666 and
anti-Christ
articles), many of them even today hate
Islam, and are a cancer inside Islam. You can especially see this among
those Iranians who live in the West. And even on the internet, some of the
most venomous anti-Islamics are Iranians, such as
Ali
Sina,
Salman
Rushdie and others. Even worse, Iran's entire "Islamic" regime
is one of the most dangerous enemies to Islam, because it propagates a
Shia version
of Islam, which is mainly a heretical one that is full of corruptions, and even
directly
blasphemes
against Allah Almighty and the Glorious Quran!
I am not saying that the dictatorship regimes of Arabia are
better or are legitimate. They too are infidels. But while those
servants of America and the West and the entire ONE-EYED
Zionist Machine
(the one eye
is an Islamic Prophecy. See below)
are corrupt rulers, but they are not considered Islamic Regimes. Iran's
government boasts about its regime being an Islamic one. And like I said,
it is both a corrupt one and a blaspheming one against GOD Almighty. There
is even a great deal of evidence that the ruling government of Iran are
Iranian Jews. There is also the same type of evidence on the
ruling family of
Saudi Arabia being Jews as well.
Whatever the case maybe, Allah Almighty in the Glorious
Quran has declared that the Zionsits will reach
"Mighty Heights"علوا كبيرا
of evil power and might on earth:
Zionist
Israel will rule the earth
with Mighty Evil!
(Islamic Prophecy)
The Glorious
Quran declared 1,400 years ago that the Israeli Zionist machine
will rule the entire earth with mighty evil and power.
They will reach
"Mighty Heights"علوا كبيرا of evil
power and might on earth. See
Noble Verses 17:4-8:
Also, Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be
upon him, made a
stunning prophecy about the one-eyed anti-Christ
who will rule the infidels and the world:
Narrated Ibn Umar:
"Once Allah's Apostle stood amongst the people,
glorified and praised Allah as He deserved and then
mentioned the Dajjal
(anti-Christ)
saying, "l warn you against him (i.e. the Dajjal) and
there was no prophet but warned his nation against him.
No doubt, Noah warned his nation against him but I tell
you about him something of
which
no prophet told his nation before me. You should know
that
he is one-eyed,
and Allah is
not one-eyed."
(Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 55, Number
553)"
Prophet
Muhammad had
many visions about the dajjal,
and gave many signs about him. Some of
the things the Prophet said about the dajjal
were literal, and some were
vision-metaphors. The most prominent
one is that he will be one-eyed. This
is both literal and metaphoric. It is
literal today because the
zionist anti-Christ system is
indeed represented by the
ONE-EYE symbol
as seen in the following images. The
metaphors here are Allah Almighty not being
ONE-EYED, because nothing can describe Allah
Almighty. There is
"none like unto Him"
(Quran, 112:4). In other words
also, the Prophet warned that this ONE-EYED
SATANIC system will be a worshiped deity.
And that false deity is not Allah Almighty. For ample more
details and proofs, please visit
link
below.
Was the
Islamic ONE-EYE Prophecy foretold
before Islam in the Bible's
Zechariah 11:17?
I demonstrated using ample Biblical verses
that the ONE-EYED DAJJAL (anti-Christ) was
never prophesied in the Bible to be
ONE-EYED, nor was this Sign ever given in
the Bible to any being.
For ample
Noble Verses and Hadiths (Sayings of the Prophet), and proofs,
please visit:
Many
references of this Hadith (Saying) exist throughout our
Islamic Texts. This is one of the most popular
Hadiths and Prophecies of Prophet Muhammad, peace be
upon him. And indeed, we are seeing it come to
pass before our very eyes. Please also visit:
There is simply too much evidence that exposes the poem and its
verses as infidels-made forgery.
Dhul Qarnayn's story. Sunrise
and sunset.
Also Why
حمئة
and not حاميةٍ.
Dhil Qarnayn's journey is detailed
with scientific and geographical
maps that are more 1000 years old.
The moon wasn't split during Prophet
Muhammad's days according to the Quran Itself. A detailed rebuttal
from the Glorious Quran Itself by the Engineer Mr. Adnan Al Refaei [1]
المهندس عدنان الرفاعي
is included
in the video file.
The
pagans dismissed the
Solar Eclipse Miracle as a magic by the Prophet.
NASA has confirmed and proven that a
solar eclipse did indeed occur during the lifetime of Prophet Muhammad,
peace be upon him.
This is
the short version of the long article below.
Allah Almighty said this about the moon's
S-shaped orbit around the earth:
36:39والقمر قدرناه منازل حتى
عادكالعرجون
القديم
"And
We have decreed set phases for the moon, until it ends upعادlooking like an old date
branch
كالعرجون
القديم. It is not for the sun to overtake the moon
nor for the night to outstrip the day; each one is swimming in a sphere.
(Qur'an, 36:39-40)"
Was the
Islamic ONE-EYE Prophecy foretold
before Islam in the Bible's
Zechariah 11:17?
I demonstrated using ample Biblical verses
that the ONE-EYED DAJJAL (anti-Christ) was
never prophesied in the Bible to be
ONE-EYED, nor was this Sign ever given in
the Bible to any being.
For ample
Noble Verses and Hadiths (Sayings of the Prophet), and proofs,
please visit:
Many
references of this Hadith (Saying) exist throughout our
Islamic Texts. This is one of the most popular
Hadiths and Prophecies of Prophet Muhammad, peace be
upon him. And indeed, we are seeing it come to
pass before our very eyes. Please also visit:
