The Quranic Miracle and the Pure Phenomenon:A Critical Analytical Study

Abstract

Glorious Quran is the living miracle of Holy Prophet Peace be upon Him. Muslim scholars introduced the sciences of Balaghah (Rhetoric) to prove and demonstrate the hidden literary qualities and different aspects of Quranic Balaghah. There were many opinions about the reasons of being Quran a miracle, which includes its unique style melodious sound as its verses containing forecast about future incidents and so on. But some people thought that Quranic miracle is just because that All Mighty forcefully stopped the people of that age to accept challenge of Quran and write a book or verses similar or close to the Quranic verses. That called phenomena of Sarfa, which is absolute denial of miracle of Quran. Hence  this idea was rejected by majority of Muslims and Prominent Scholars like, Sakaki, Khatabi, Jurjani and others, who penned a large number of books to clarify the issue and answer all the questions raised by those writers promoting the ideology of sarfa as well as they established the rules and regulations for being  Quran a miracle of rhetoric.

  Al-Rawandi (Died: 298AH) was the first person who associate the ideology of Sarfa to Nizam(Died:221AH) head of mutazlah( Rationalists), this article deals with the issue of sarfa and its impact on Muslim thoughts and the importance of Quranic miracle of rhetoric.