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Regarding Abrogation

  • philhoraia
  • Oct 29, 2021
  • 2 min read

Updated: Aug 21, 2024

S 2:106 What we abrogate from a verse or cause it to be forgotten we bring better than it or the like of it. Have you not known that Allah is mighty over everything?


S 22:52 And we did not send before you any messenger or prophet but when he desired the Devil threw into his desire, and Allah abrogates what the Devil throws then Allah establishes his verses. And Allah is learned, wise.


In the first verse we are not told that Allah abrogates its own verses. In the second we read that Allah abrogates what the Devil throws (present tense) into the messenger’s or prophet’s desire. Definition of abrogation: the repeal or abolition of a law, right, or agreement. (Google)

So were Satan’s castings law, something that might be repealed? Are Satan’s utterings on the same level as Allah’s?


Definition for nasakha:


  1. to abolish

  2. to delete

  3. to abrogate, to invalidate

  4. to repeal, to revoke, to withdraw

  5. to cancel

  6. to substitute, to replace

  7. to transcribe, to copy https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AE

Side note: In S 53:2-3 we read: Your companion has not strayed nor enticed, Nor does he speak from desire.


But in S 22:52 above we read: but when he desired the Devil threw into his desire,


One further thought: Does the 'clear' messenger’s speech actually say that what the messengers and prophets uttered was simply their desire? If so, where would Allah’s word fit in before it were established? Is the Quran largely what ‘Muhammad’ desired? But when Satan threw its verses in, Allah abrogated them and put in its own? Is the Quran a mixture of ‘Muhammad’’s and Allah’s words, his desire and its verses? As we read that “Allah abrogates [present tense] what the Devil throws [present tense] then Allah establishes [present tense] his verses”, it looks like it was more than the Satanic Verses that the Devil threw.


 
 
 

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2 Comments


jackmat8819
May 20, 2022

Saved the reference.

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linnteclark
Nov 07, 2021

I find it absurd that Allah can abrogate words that are uncreated and eternal!

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