مصدر وحی کے متعلق مستشرقین کے اہم اعتراضات کا تنقیدی جائزہ

Abstract

Since the creation of mankind on Earth, their growth and guidance have been fully arranged and the Creator has continued His arrangement through the invitations of the nominated prophets. Finally, the last prophet, Muhammad (peace be upon him) arrived with the revealed book of Allah, “The Quran”. The Quran, both in its meaning and essence, is undoubtedly a divine revelation. It is a celestial book upon which many researchers and critics have embarked including a class of orientalists who have conducted intensive research work on the Quran from different angles and aspects.

The orientalists claim that the Quran is not a book of divine revelations but; rather a book written by Muhammad (peace be upon him) himself. They have argued upon the basis of some sort of resemblance found between the Quran and previous celestial books and termed it as solid evidence.

Furthermore, the orientalists have also raised several questions, such as the influence of the social & cultural environment of the Arabian Peninsula on the compilation of revelations, the influence of pre-Islamic poets on the poetry on the Quran, and the influence of Deen-e Hanif.