With-Love-to-Muhammad

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Continuation of Prophethood according to the Holy Qur’ān 245
لَّوْ‏ لاَ‏ جَآءُوْ‏ عَلَيْهِ‏
عِنْدَ‏ اهللّ‏
فَاُولٰ‏ ٓ ى ‏َك ابِ‏ لشُّ‏ هَدَآِء ايَ‏ ‏ْتُوْا فَاِذْ‏ لَ‏ ‏ْم ابِ‏ ‏َرْبَعَةِ‏ شُ‏ هَدَآ‏ ‏َء
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ٰ ِ همُ‏ ُ الْكٰذِبُوْ‏ نَ‏ ۝
Why did not those, who gave currency to this charge,
bring four witnesses to prove it? Since they have not
brought the required witnesses, they are indeed liars
in the sight of Allāh! 235
This is the level of credibility of Farhan Khan who dared to say
that when the word ash-shuhadā’ is used “in the Qur’ān and
Hadīth literature, it always means martyrs”! There are many
other verses to prove that his ridiculous claim is wrong but only
two verses should suffice.
In his Mufridāt, Imām Rāghib has also made it very clear
that the word shahīd in Sūrah An-Nisā’, verse 70, means
“witness”:
{ وا aا ٔ
‏ْنَ‏
بوہ:{‏ و aو د aو
ادaدaالaادaواادa
‏ْنَ‏
َ ا ّٰ ِ حِ‏
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َ ٓ ا ءِ‏
َ ا‏ُّ‏
‏ِد ْ ِ
َ ا‏ّ‏
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With his statement: “And the truthful, and the
witnesses, and the righteous” – and shahīd: it is used
in the meaning of “witness” and “the witnessing of
something”
It gives us no pleasure in saying this but keeping a beard and
speaking with an Arabic accent makes no one an authority on
Qur’ān and ahādīth. Statements made by Farhan Khan are so
strange that we have no choice but to say that he is ignorant of
the Arabic language. His translation of shahīd as “martyr” is not
235
Sūrah An-Nūr, 24:14
236
Mufridāt Imām Rāghib, under the word شھد [shahada]