1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

A.Y. – Because I prepared that prayer.
S.P. – You are right. If a person who wrote a lyrical poem of
only five couplets finds out that one of this couplets has been
stolen, he will want the thief to be punished. Every person
boasts about his own work; isn’t it right?
A.Y. – Yes.
S.P. – Is it possible to make a prayer better than that of
yours?
A.Y. – Yes, it is.
S.P. – Is there a difference between your prayer and the
Qur’ân al-kerîm with respect to literature and eloquence?
A.Y. – Sure. There is a great deal.
S.P. – Shouldn’t great honor be bestowed upon those who
wrote a Qur’ân with expressions that Arabic men of letters and
all men of knowledge, whether they are friends or enemies,
cannot convey as the Qur’ân al-kerîm does, though they strive
so hard?
A.Y. – Yes, it should!
S.P. – Does the owner of such a superior work donate it to
someone else? Muhammad (alayhissalâm) used to say, “This
Qur’ân is the word of Allah. If you do not believe it, try to
express yourself as well as one of its verses! You cannot!”
They were not able to do so, despite their great enmity and their
cooperative efforts. Some of them believed it as soon as they
saw its literary superiority and its eloquence. And some others
admitted it willy-nilly by saying that man could not express it. If
Hadrat Muhammad had done it together with a few persons, the
enemies also would have assembled together and done the
same, for there were literary and eloquent people among the
disbelievers as there were among the Muslims. Furthermore,
while challenging them with it, how can he be said to have
silenced his assistants with his property, rank or government,
since he did not have any of these? The Qur’ân al-kerîm was
not put forward as a whole as the Tawrât, the Zabûr, and the
’Injîl were. Then, how can one say that his assistants could not
know that this work of theirs would be so valuable, and that
later they would repent, but it would be too late? The Qur’ân
descended slowly over twenty-three years. When each verse
was revealed everybody admired it. If he had had assistants,
could they have kept silent for twenty-three years while seeing
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