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A Messenger’s Speech?

  • philhoraia
  • Oct 27, 2021
  • 2 min read

Updated: Jun 24, 2024

S 69:40 It is a noble messenger’s speech. See also S 81:19 and note below.


It will be argued that it is Allah’s word conveyed by Jibril to ‘Muhammad’. The following verses say: And it is not a poet’s speech, little is what you believe. Nor a soothsayer’s speech, little is what you remember.


There’s not a word about conveyance to the messenger, nothing about Jibril. The author says that it’s not a poet’s speech; does this mean that it is not speech conveyed to a poet or does it mean that it doesn’t originate with a poet? The author says that it’s not a soothsayer’s speech; does this mean that it is not speech conveyed to a soothsayer or does it mean that it doesn’t originate with a soothsayer? Obviously it means that it is not speech that originates with a poet or a soothsayer respectively. Verse 43 will be cited: A tanzil from the lord of the ‘alamin. But the author has clearly said in his ‘clear’ book that it is a messenger’s speech. Now if Allah is the author, then is it being referred to as a messenger? Theoretically possible.


Let us look at another Quran reference and a non-Quranic hadith out of interest. In S 19:17 we read: And she took from them a screen. Then we sent to her our spirit and it assumed for her the likeness of a regular man.


In verse 19 we read: He said: I am only a messenger of your lord’s that I may give you a pure boy.


In a cave hadith we read: He used to take with him the journey food for that (stay) and then come back to (his wife) Khadija to take his food like-wise again for another period to stay, till suddenly the Truth descended upon him while he was in the cave of Hira. The angel came to him in it and asked him to read. The Prophet (ﷺ) replied, "I do not know how to read." https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6982


One of the Allah ‘names’ is Al-Haqq, The Truth. Is the hadith saying that “the Truth” was an angel, properly a messenger?


Further reading: Is Allah A Messenger?


Note to S 81:25


And it is not the speech of a rajim devil.


Does this mean that it is not speech conveyed to a devil or does it mean that it isn't a devil's speech?



 
 
 

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