The European Orientalist and the opponents of Muhammad S.A.W have described some passages of the Qur’an as more poetic than others. This was why he was even accused of being a soothsayer subhanalillah. The Qur’an itself refutes this thus:
“It is not the word of a poet; little it is you believe! Nor is it the word of a soothsayer; little admonition it is you receive. This is a message sent down from the lord of the worlds.”
(Qur’an 69:40-43).
The accusations against Muhammad S.A.W refuted in the above passage are based on the usage of a particular style, employed in the Qur’an, which is said to be like a rhymed prose or something close to it.
A rhymed Prose is a literary form with some emphasis on rhythm and rhyme but distinct from poetry. It is not as sophisticated as poetry but has been employed by Arab poets, and it is the best known of the pre- Islam Arab literary works.
Such passages of the Qur’an such as Suratul Ikhlas are seen by some people as a poem. They look at such end rhymed of the Arabic text:
There are wide differences between the English literature and the Arabic Qur’an. Ibn Khaldun (d.809 H / 1406), the well known author of the Muqaddima, pointed out in a passage on literature of the Arabs the difference between literature and the Qur’an in general and between rhyme poem and Qur’an in particular.
He gave example of Suratu Ikhlas quoted above that has a rhyme ending with the syllable ad.
Qul Huwallahu ahad
Allahu Samad
Lam Yalid Wa Lam Yulad
“It is not the word of a poet; little it is you believe! Nor is it the word of a soothsayer; little admonition it is you receive. This is a message sent down from the lord of the worlds.”
(Qur’an 69:40-43).
The accusations against Muhammad S.A.W refuted in the above passage are based on the usage of a particular style, employed in the Qur’an, which is said to be like a rhymed prose or something close to it.
A rhymed Prose is a literary form with some emphasis on rhythm and rhyme but distinct from poetry. It is not as sophisticated as poetry but has been employed by Arab poets, and it is the best known of the pre- Islam Arab literary works.
Such passages of the Qur’an such as Suratul Ikhlas are seen by some people as a poem. They look at such end rhymed of the Arabic text:
There are wide differences between the English literature and the Arabic Qur’an. Ibn Khaldun (d.809 H / 1406), the well known author of the Muqaddima, pointed out in a passage on literature of the Arabs the difference between literature and the Qur’an in general and between rhyme poem and Qur’an in particular.
He gave example of Suratu Ikhlas quoted above that has a rhyme ending with the syllable ad.
Qul Huwallahu ahad
Allahu Samad
Lam Yalid Wa Lam Yulad
WalamYakun Lahu Kufwan ahad.