Tag
Revelation
How God spoke to the Prophet, and how the Quran came down.
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Was Muhammad illiterate? 5 answers on ummi, Iqra and clots
What ummi can mean, what Quran 29:48 claims, what Iqra asked, what alaq means and how the reports of his writing are weighed.
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Was the first revelation demonic? 6 answers from the sources
The cave of Hira, Khadija and Waraqa, and the report of fear: 6 answers on the claims of demonic origin and epilepsy.
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Does a preserved text prove it is true? 5 answers
Accurate copying shows continuity, not truth. 5 answers on what preservation establishes for the Quran and for other scriptures.
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Who wrote the Quran? 5 answers to the authorship claim
Revelation or composition? How the claim was argued from the start, how the text was fixed and what each side can and cannot show. 5 answers.
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What does the Quran mean by “the Book”? 7 uses, and what they decide
Decree, heavenly Book, revelation and written page: the Quran uses kitāb in four ways. 7 points on what that settles. Read on.
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Who saw Gabriel? 5 answers on witnesses to revelation
Nobody was in the cave with Muhammad, critics say, so why believe it was Gabriel? 5 answers on witnesses. Read the case.