Inspired
- philhoraia
- Jul 17, 2022
- 8 min read
Updated: Apr 23
The Quran speaks of various people and things being inspired.
S 3:44 That is from the news of the ghayb. We inspire you with it. And you were not in their presence when they threw their pens as to which of them takes charge of Maryam. And you were not in their presence when they dispute.
S 4:163 We have inspired you as we inspired Nuh and the prophets after him and we inspired Ibrahim and Isma’il and Ishaq and Ya’qub and the tribes and Isa and Ayyub and Yunus and Harun and Sulayman and we gave Dawud a Zabur.
The 12 tribes of Israel were inspired?
S 5:111 And when I inspired the Hawariyun to believe in me and in my messenger they said: We have believed and bear witness that we are Muslims.
S 6:19 Say: Which thing is bigger as a testimony? Say: Allah is a witness between me and you and I have been inspired with this Quran that I may warn you therewith and whom it has reached. Do you testify that with Allah there are other gods? Say: I do not testify. Say: He is only one god. And I am free from what you associate.
From an Answering Islam article:
Say (O Muhammad): "What thing (shay-in) is the most great in witness?" Say: "Allah (the Most Great!) is Witness between me and you; this Qur'an has been revealed to me that I may therewith warn you and whomsoever it may reach. Can you verily bear witness that besides Allah there are other aliha (gods)?" Say "I bear no (such) witness!" Say: "But in truth He (Allah) is the only one Ilah (God). And truly I am innocent of what you join in worship with Him." S. 6:19 Hilali-Khan
And call not upon another god with God; there is no god but He. All things (shay-in) perish, except His Face. His is the Judgment, and unto Him you shall be returned. S. 28:88 Arberry
Does he think that no one (ahadun) has power over him? … Does he think that no one (ahadun) sees him? S. 90:5, 7 Shakir
Say: 'He is God, One (ahadun), S. 112:1 Arberry
In fact, in one of the headings for Sahih al-Bukhari we find the following admission:
XXI. "Say: 'What thing is greatest as a witness?' Say: 'Allah. '" (6:19)
Allah Almighty called Himself a thing, and the Prophet called the Qur'an a thing, and it is one of the attributes of Allah. He says, "All things are passing except His Face." (28:88) (Aish Bewley, 100. Book of Tawhid (the belief that Allah is One in His Essence, Attributes and Actions): *; bold emphasis ourss) Dr. Badawi Proves That Allah Exists As A Limited Physical Being
S 6:50 Say: I do not tell you I have Allah’s treasures or know the ghayb or tell you I am an angel. I do not follow but what I am inspired with. Say: Is the blind man equal to the seeing man? So do you not ponder?
S 6:93 And who is more unjust than he who has fabricated a lie against Allah or said: I have been inspired, and was not inspired at all and he who has said: I shall send down the like of what Allah has sent down? And were you to see when the wrongdoers are in death throes and the angels stretch out their hands: Expel your souls! Today you are recompensed with the torture of abasement because you used to say other than the truth against Allah and were arrogant towards his verses.
S 6:106 Follow what you have been inspired with from your lord. There is no god but him and turn away from the mushrikun.
S 6:112 And thus did we make for every prophet an enemy--devils of man and jinn, inspiring one another with the ornament of speech in delusion. But had your lord willed they would not have done it, so leave them and what they fabricate.
S 6:121 And do not eat of what Allah’s name has not been mentioned over and it is fisq. And the devils inspire their protectors to dispute with you. And if you obeyed them you would be mushrikun.
S 6:145 Say: I do not find in what I have been inspired with something forbidden to a feeder who eats it except that it be a dead creature or blood shed or pork. And it is rijs or fisq that has been dedicated to other than Allah. And he who has been compelled not desiring nor returning then your lord is a forgiver, merciful.
S 7:117 And we inspired Musa: Throw your staff, and behold, it grabs what they delude.
S 7:160 And we cut them into 12 tribes, nations. And we inspired Musa when his people asked him for a drink: Strike the stone with your staff. Then 12 springs spouted from it. All people knew their drinking place. And we shaded the clouds over them and sent down the manna and the quail upon them. Eat of good things what we have provided you. And they did not wrong us but they were wronging themselves.
S 7:203 And when you have not brought them a sign they have said: Why have you not chosen it? Say: I only follow what I am inspired with from my lord. This is insights from your lord and guidance and mercy for a people who believe.
S 8:12 When your lord inspires the angels: I am with you so make those who have believed firm. I shall throw terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved. So strike above the necks and strike from them every distal phalanx.
S 10:15 And when our verses are read to them as proofs, those who do not hope for our meeting have said: Bring a quran other than this or change it. Say: It is not for me to change it of the meeting of my soul. I do not follow but what I am inspired with. I fear if I disobey my lord the torture of a great day.
S 10:109 And follow what you are inspired with and be patient until Allah judges. And he is the best of judges.
S 11:12 Then perhaps you are leaving some of what you are inspired with and your chest is straitened by it because they say: Why has a treasure not been sent down upon him or an angel come with him? You are only a nadhir. And Allah is an agent over everything.
S 11:49 That is from the news of the ghayb; we inspire you with it. You were not knowing it, you nor your people before this. So be patient. The result is for the fearers.
S 12:102 That is from the news of the ghayb which we inspire you with. And you were not with them when they agreed upon their matter and they were plotting.
S 12:109 And we did not send before you but men. We inspire them from the people of the villages. So have you not travelled in the Earth and seen how the result of those before them was? And the home of the hereafter is best for those who have feared. So do you not comprehend?
Are villagers being inspired? But wasn't the founder of Islam supposedly the last messenger/prophet?
S 14:13 And those who had disbelieved said to their messengers: You will expel us from our land or return to our cult. So their lord inspired them: We will destroy the wrongdoers.
The messengers were inspired.
S 16:43 And we did not send before you but men. We inspire them. So ask the People of the Dhikr if you do not know.
S 16:68 And your lord inspired the bees: Take houses from the mountains and from the trees and from what they build up.
Bees inspired (!)
S 17:39 That is from what your lord has inspired you with of wisdom. And do not make with Allah another god lest you be thrown into Jahannam blameworthy, overpowered.
S 18:110 Say: I am only a human being the like of you. He inspires me that your god is one god. So he who was hoping for the meeting of his lord, let him do a righteous deed and not associate anyone with the worship of his lord.
S 19:11 Then he went out to his people from the mihrab and indicated to them to praise in the morning and in the evening.
Here the same verb is used.
S 20:13 And I have chosen you so listen to what is inspired.
Musa was inspired.
S 20:38 When we inspired your mother what is inspired:
Musa's mother was inspired.
S 21:7 And we did not send before you except men; we inspire them. So ask the People of the Dhikr if you do not know.
We inspire them, present tense?
S 21:25 And we did not send before you any messenger but we inspire him: There is no god but me so worship.
Are previous messengers being inspired?
S 21:108 Say: I am only inspired that your god is one god. So are you Muslims?
S 28:7 And we inspired Musa’s mother: Suckle him but when you have feared for him throw him into the sea and do not fear or grieve. We are returning him to you and making him of the commissaries.
S 33:2 And obey what you are inspired with from your lord. Allah was an expert in what you do.
S 38:70 I am not inspired except that I am only an obvious nadhir.
S 41:6 Say: I am only a man the like of you. I am inspired that your god is one god, so be upright towards him and ask him for forgiveness. And woe to the mushrikun,
S 41:12 So he finished them as seven skies in two days and inspired in every sky its affair. And we adorned the lowest sky with lamps and as a defence. That is the determination of the mighty, the learned.
What was inspired? The skies?
S 46:9 Say: I am not an innovation among the messengers and I do not know what will be done with me or with you. I do not follow but what I am inspired with and I am nothing but an obvious nadhir.
S 53:4 It is nothing but inspiration that is inspired.
S 53:10 So he inspired his slave what he inspired.
The slave, the founder of Islam, was inspired by Allah, or by Jibril.
S 99:5 Because your lord has inspired it.
The Earth will have been inspired.
Verb
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to indicate, to insinuate, to hint, to suggest أوحى - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
As seen above, I have translated awha ila in S 19:11 as "indicated to", But in S 6:112 I have put "inspiring one another". Human beings don't literally inspire and perhaps Allah doesn't but merely indicates. A thought that occurred to me is that Allah calls Musa the Most High. See my post Musa the Most High? Does Zakariyya in that verse actually inspire his people? :)) Did the author actually entertain such an idea?
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