TAINT IS IN THE MOTIVE

Carlyle is very charitable to his fellow countryman. The motives of George Salewho
pioneered an English Translation of the Holy Qur'an, were suspect. He makes no secret
of his antagonism to the Holy Book of Islam. In his preface to his translation in 1734 he
made it known that it was his avowed intention to expose the man Mohammed and his
forgery. He records:
"WHO CAN APPREHEND ANY DANGER FROM SO MANIFEST A FORGERY? ...
THE PROTESTANTS ALONE ARE ABLE TO ATTACK THE KORAN WITH
SUCCESS; AND FOR THEM, I TRUST, PROVIDENCE HAS RESERVED THE
GLORY OF ITS OVERTHROW."
George Sale
And he set to work with his prejudiced translation. You will be able to judge how "fair"
and scholarly George Sale was from the very verse which "Struck"(Carlyle) "much!"
Compare it with the three examples already given by a Muslim, a Christian and a Jew:
And of his signs another is,
that he had created for you, out of
yourselves, wives that YE MAY
COHABIT WITH THEM, and hath put
love and compassion between you.
(Emphasis added)
I do not think that George Sale was "a male chauvinist pig" of his day to describe our
mates, wives or spouses as sexual objects. He was only keeping to his promise, which
Carlyle overlooked. The Arabic word which he (Sale) perverted is "li-tas-kunoo"which
means to find peace, consolation, composure or tranquillity; and not "cohabit"meaning
"To live together in a sexual relationship when not legally married."(The Reader's
Digest Universal Dictionary.)
Every word of the Qur'anic text is meticulously chosen, chiselled and placed by the All
Wise Himself. They carry God's "fingerprint", and are the Signs of God. And yet, the
spiritually jaundiced...
ASK FOR A SIGN
What Signs?They mean some special kinds of signs or miracles such as their own
foolish minds dictate. Everything is possible for God, but God is not going to humour the
follies of men or listen to their false demands. He has sent His Messenger to explain His
Signs clearly, and to warn them of the consequences of rejection. Is that not enough? The
trend of their demand is generally as follows:
In specific terms they asked that he - Muhummed (pbuh) - 'Put a ladder up to heaven and
bring down a book from God in their very sight' - "THEN WE WOULD BELIEVE,"
they said. Or "Ye see the mountain yonder, turn it into gold' - "THEN WE WOULD

BELIEVE."or 'Make streams to gush out in the desert'- "THEN WE WOULD
BELIEVE."
Now listen to the soft, sweet reasoning of Muhammed (pbuh) against the unreasonable
and sceptical demands of the MUSHRIKS- "Do I say to you, verily I am an angel? Do
I say to you, verily in my hands are the treasures of God? Only, what is revealed to
me do I follow."
Listen further to the most dignified reply he is commanded by his Lord to give the
Unbelievers.

In the following AAYAAH
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(verse) the Holy Prophet is made to point to the Holy Qur'an
itself as an answer to their hypocritical demand for some special kind of "Sign"or
"Miracle"for which their foolish, pagan mentality craved. For indeed all miracles are
"signs"; and it is their disbelief, their scepticism, their lack of faith which motivates their
request for a sign. They are asked to - "Look at the Qur'an" And again, "Look at the
Qur'an!"

TWO PROOFS
As proof of the Divine Authorship and the miraculous nature of the Holy Qur'an, two
arguments are advanced by the Almighty Himself:
1.
"THAT WE"(God Almighty) have revealed to YOU(0! Muhummed!) "THE BOOK
to YOU"who art absolutely an unlearned person. An "UMMI"Prophet. One who
cannot read or write. One who cannot sign his own name. Let Thomas Carlyle
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testify
regarding the educational qualifications of Muhummed -
"ONE OTHER CIRCUMSTANCE WE MUST NOT FORGET: THAT HE HAD NO
SCHOOL LEARNING; OF THE THING WE CALL SCHOOL-LEARNING NONE AT
ALL."
Moreover the Divine Author (God Almighty) Himself testifies to the veracityof
Muhummed's (pbuh) claim that he could never have composed the contents of the Holy
Qur'an; he could not have been it's author:
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WEis a plural of respect and honour and not of numbers. In every Eastern language,
including Hebrew, this is their method of grammar. In the English Language itis called
the "Royal Plural,".
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Memorize the verse with its meaning while the Book is still in your hands.
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The Author of the Qur'an is reasoning with us, that had Muhummed (pbuh) been a
learned man, and had he been able to read or write, then in that case the babblers in the
market places might have had some justification to doubt his claim that the Holy Qur'an
is God's Word. In the event of Muhummed (pbuh) being a literate person, the accusation
of his enemies that he had probably copied his Book (AI-Qur'an) from the writings of the
Jews and the Christians, or that perhaps he had been studying Aristotle and Plato, or that
he must have browsed through the "Torat,"the "Zabur"and the "Injeel"
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and had
rehashed it all in a beautiful language, might have carried some weight. Then, "THE
TALKERS OF VANITIES" might have had a point. But even this flimsy pretence has
been denied to the unbeliever and the cynic: a point hardly big enough to hang a fly
upon!
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2.
'The Book'? Yes, the "BOOK"itself, carries its own evidence proving its Divine
Authorship. Study the Book from any angle. Scrutinize it. Why not take up the Author's
challenge if your doubts are genuine?
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Get into the habit of learning off by heart the verses with their meanings as they occur
in this Book.
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TORAT/ZABUR/INJEEL:These are the Arabic terms of the original revelations God
granted Moses, David and Jesus (peace be upon them all) respectively.
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The Bible was not translated into Arabic until the tenth century of the Christian Era, so
no Arab living before the year 1000 would have had the opportunity to examine the
written text of the Bible in his own language.