 Alright guys, welcome back to the channel. If you're new, my name is Bobby Geiss. Today we're going to react to Western scholar accidentally proves Koran's author is not human. So lately we've seen plenty of Western scholars finally coming around and confirming what we as Muslims already know. Guys, before we start the video, as always, leave me a thumbs up if you like the content and subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. With no further do, let's have a look. Secular Quran academics claim the Arabic Koran is not divine, but a cultural product of the Arabs written by an Arab or Arabs somewhere in or around Arabia. The culture that produced the other great cultural product of the Arabs, Jahili poetry, also known as the Dewan al-Arab archive of the Arabs, must have also produced the Koran. It's just common sense. If the source of both are the same, i.e. Exactly right. The idea is that the Koran is simply a poetic work of the Arabs. No difference to the other works prior to the Koran. That is the secular claim. Surely, the ontological worldview observed in the pre-Islamic poetry would be mirrored in the Koran, since much of the finest Arabic poetry was written in the preceding 6th century and in parallel with the Koran in the 7th. We ought to see a significant thematic overlap. That's just obvious. Evidence of conceptual borrowing between poetry and the Koran would indicate a common human origin, namely the cultural milieu of the Arabs. Therefore, the Koran isn't divine, but of human origin. So what's the truth? Brothers and sisters highly acclaimed secular professor Angelica Neueth, whom I've introduced you to in a previous video, will now demonstrate whether we find this historic literary and philosophical convergence. The professor is a world-leading German Islamic studies scholar and professor of Koranic studies at Frey University in Berlin, also a visiting professor at the University of Jordan in Amman. Her research focuses on Koran studies, classical and modern Arabic literature, Arab late antiquity studies. She has taught at the universities of Munich, Amman, Bamberg and Cairo. It's not at all surprising that the 6th century Arabs were interested in writing poetry about their immediate desert environment. Here are the themes and genres we find in their writings. The content of the other great source of early Arabic writing, rock inscriptions, are of the same intimate kind, love, sickness, death and longing. I'm going to underline this because it's important. Remember, she's describing pre-Islamic poetry here. The almost total absence of discursive speech. There are no theological, legal or cultic debates in pre-Islamic poetry. Indeed, little theoretical thinking can be traced. This she will next compare with the Koran. If you would just use common sense and you discard your preconceived notions, you simply look objectively at the situation. The Koran must have been extremely different to anything preceding it. Why else would the Arabs be so impressed with it through the Koran, through Islam? The Arabs got united. So this book must have had a powerful impact on those people. And if that is the case, which it is, of course, then you have to wonder why. And the answer is that the Koran was extremely different to any poetry prior to it. A book produced, supposedly, by the same ethno-linguistic group. So a complete 180. Where the poetry lacks these significant literary characteristics. The Koran is, quote, replete with theological and philosophical queries. So it's not surprising that. This observation has been... And I've interrupted here yet again because it is so extremely powerful. We're talking about the Arabs in the Arabian Peninsula that used to be pagans. So their poetry has no theological discussion whatsoever. But now comes the Koran, the message of Tawhid, pure monotheism. This is the first time that we see theological implementation in any type of text in the Arabian Peninsula. So therefore, yet again, the Koran clearly stands out. And that's what the scientists here say as well. The striking disparity between the rudimentary Arabic poetry on the one hand and the richness of the Arabic Koran on the other in terms of its intellectual sophistication is for academics, understandably, quite vexing. But recall, Angelica Newith made an exception with the Naseeb. Now this is where it gets deep and really interesting. I would actually rewind to this text here and read further because here she says, how can an intellectually sophisticated literally text emerge from a remote place like the Arab Peninsula? So you can clearly see that the German scholar here admits that the Koran is completely different to anything else prior to it. And moreover, it makes for wonder how it could emerge in such a remote place. Angelica Newith is describing the introductory Naseeb of the poems, which are famously sad and always conjure the image of a ruined Bedouin encampment. The poet laments a happy but lost past with friends and the departure of his beloved. The message of the Naseeb is always, love and happiness is fleeting. Man is helpless before his fate. It is also in the Naseeb. The poet will often introduce the audience to what should be a very familiar word to all Muslims, wahi, which in the poems is deployed as a powerful metaphor. In the context of Jahili poetry, it refers to a nonverbal sign or inexplicable graffiti on a desert rock. Some shapes in the poet's eyes represent not a valid sign system, but an empty signifier. Reflecting the devastated state of the poet's past of his encampment, which is erased to the ground and writing then, represented by wahi in pre-Islamic poetry, is a kind of shorthand sign for the negation of the validity and relevance of Muruwa, the Bedouin world view. Okay, so there's a lot to take in. Let's break it down. In these Jahili poems, the opening of the Naseeb is always the same. The persona in the poem is observing a wahi, an enigmatic sign on rock and feeling a profound despair. These mysterious graffiti represent the obliterated past and leave the poet feeling confused and pessimistic about his present and future existence. Symbolizing, quote, the permanence of nature and the impermanence of culture. The poetic wahi, i.e., the confusing rock inscriptions, represent an existential crisis facing the Bedouin. This is the disconcerting world view of the pre-Islamic Arabs. Life is pointless for all good things perish. It is all the most striking and surprising that this wahi of loss, a wahi that remains mute, has been inverted in the Quranic lexicon. Wahi in the Quran denotes inspiration. It even successively acquires the meaning of revelation, ayat, science, epistemic tools that disclose to the listener the hidden significance of his surrounding. The mute and foreboding wahi of poetry that left the poet depressed, signifying pessimism, has literally been flipped 180 in the Quran. The term wahi in the Quran is no longer a perplexing graffiti that throws the poet headlong into a poria. The negative wahi now signifies a positive sign, a revelation, inspiration. And this makes perfect sense because before Islam you have many forms of paganism. Ultimately, you do not have the worship of one god and we as Muslims know of course if we are not worshiping god we're gonna get depressed and therefore you see it in the poetry as well. If you do not worship god, you will automatically fall into nihilism and that's why the poetry was nihilistic. They saw no meaning in their life. Quite the opposite, everything was meaningless. But with this revelation, with the Quran, with the return to worshiping one god alone, we find meaning in our life and this is why it is flipped 180. SubhanAllah. So instead of the wahi mystifying life, the Quranic wahi re-enchanced it by literally and symbolically descending as a revelation to unveil the sins of the universe. This reimagined wahi rouses in the once beleaguered poet a new found vitality and a sense of personal meaning for the arc of life. The Bedouin world is turned on its head. What was once willful fate annihilating culture and rampaging through civilization in poetry is replaced by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the Quran. Yes, yet again it brings back meaning. It gives you a structure, a linear timeline from the beginning till the end. Till the end of days, so to speak. However within the pagan world you did not have that linear progression. Quite the opposite. What you had was randomness and this is why I say in this day and age we are pagans as well. The majority of this society is absolutely pagan. They might not worship for the god of thunder or whatnot. However they worship their own desires. They worship anything but god, be it sexual immorality, be it parties, drugs or whatnot. They're worshipping anything but god and therefore this is polytheism. Hence it is paganism and moreover this is why the whole claim of this society is that everything is random. Right? Atheism tells you that there is absolutely no purpose to life. Everything is randomly evolved and now we are here. Yesterday monkeys today humans. As a Muslim is now able to shape his fate through the intentional act of worship and ritual dedication. Death and mute fate which doesn't respond to anybody has been displaced by a listening and benevolent god. Death is no longer the end of everything you savor. What you do in life is judged and it determines your afterlife. You now have the promise of eternal bliss to help you find meaning in this life. Ultimately the anthro-pocentric worldview has been displaced by a theocentric one. The individualistic heroic wine-drinking hedonism of Jahilir has been supplanted by a god-centered theological system that now values discipline and personal accountability held inside a profound covenantal bond reaching into the anals of history. The Quran Yes and we see that throughout all the societies, every time the societies fall into hedonism, into nihilism, they're degenerates, they're drinking, they have prostitution and whatnot, they are falling and after that they're being replaced by theocracies. The theocratic system is always superior to the nihilistic system however unfortunately people do not see it and because people do not see it they will suffer. It doesn't just hail a new moral vision and thereby an existential break from the past. It initiates a paradigm shift by directly challenging and turning the old ontological assumptions on their head. It's one thing to chart a new course but to say to an entire civilization everything they knew for a thousand years is wrong and the opposite is true and the brazen way Allah does so is just an astounding feat. Let's now get to the heart. I mean it's absolutely no wonder of course that the Arabs with Islam came to success because this ideology prior to Islam is an ideology of despair, whining about existence, crying about your own misery but with Islam it is quite the opposite. The adhan calls us to come to success, come to prayer, come to success. Of course this will lead then this society to succeed. It is very simple. Video are the people and culture who produced the Jali poetry also responsible for the 7th century Quran therefore both are of human origin. The answer is a resounding no. Firstly the worldview in the poetry and the Quran are diametrically opposed. In summary the Quran has a positive message of hope. The signs and world reveal the purpose of life. You shape your own life. A final judgment. Your actions inform an afterlife that depends on your actions whereas the pre-islamic poetry has a depressing message of a pointless life. Signs on rocks are mute and confusing. Non-negotiable fate and not God controls life. No final judgment. No afterlife. So on account of this strong conceptual adversity the only reasonable conclusion is the Quran could not have been a product of the Qasida producing Arabs. It means that the Quran comes as a sudden disclosure in Arabic language of until then unspoken of or at least unattested discursive ideas. I propose to read the Quran as nothing less than the document of a cultural turn. An epistemic revolution. With words like sudden disclosure, unattested, until then unspoken, a cultural turn, an epistemic revolution, there is no doubt in Angelica Newith's mind the writing of the pre-islamic Arabs and the writing in the Quran cannot be compared. Okay so if the masters of the Arabic lexicon didn't write the ultimate literary masterpiece in Arabic the Quran who on earth did? Must have been a foreigner then right? All right and this is it for today's video. As I said in previous western videos we as Muslims do not need this confirmation however for the west this of course is important. It is always kind of funny for me personally to see that even though this scientist, this scholar clearly sees that the Quran is completely different than anything previously they still have to discard it as some human invention after all. So who was it then? In the end I joked huh must have been a foreigner then right? If the Arabs were not capable of writing anything of those sorts who wrote the Quran? We as Muslims of course believe that it comes straight from Allah, that it comes from God. But even if you want to take this humanistic approach after all here you have to ask yourself the question why is the theological worldview, the theological worldview of worshipping one God so extremely superior to the nihilistic one? What is it truly if there is no God whatsoever and this book has been created by a mere human? Why does it lead to such positive outcomes? What is it in that book that leads to positive outcomes? What is so transformative about this book? How can the thought of an afterlife? How can the thought of an ultimate judgment of an all-powerful being lead to a better life? If there is absolutely no God whatsoever and we're just random evolutions, why would that lead to a positive outcome? It doesn't make any sense whatsoever. If we just evolved then the only thing that matters is survival of the fittest. All I have to worry about is eating and having sex. That's it. I don't have to worry about society, I don't have to worry about family, I don't have to worry about love, philosophy, spirituality, none of those sorts. So why yet again is the message of one God at all considered positive for us? Why do we experience this relief? Why do we experience this shift from nihilism and depressed state into a state of joy, happiness, hopefulness when we envision that there is a God that judges us? That is totally counterintuitive yet again evolutionary speaking it wouldn't make you happy at all if there was somebody judging you but for the believer this brings back meaning in life and this is what it boils down to. The human being needs meaning. We see that over and over again. We're not just a monkey that cares about food and sex. No, we care about meaning. We are questioning things and every single time we are lacking meaning in our life we get depressed. Even the atheist finds meaning in his life by saying there is no God and he finds meaning somewhere else be it in science, be it in art, be it in what not but everybody is looking for that meaning. Unfortunately nowadays people tell us that there is no meaning in life and they tell us that there is no right and wrong, there is no truth, there is no objective morality and we can do whatever we want. We have this monkey body, we have this absolute animal body and we can follow its urges. Whatever feels good is automatically right. When we are hungry we can order and Uber eats and if we want to have sex we can go on Tinder. Just pleasure ourselves until we die because nothing really matters. My heart goes out however to the deceived people and guess what? I was one of them as well. I was in Jerelia. I was there myself. I was dating. I was partying. I was drinking. I was doing drugs. I was doing all of those things because I didn't know any better. I was severely depressed apparently without even seeing it. I thought I'm just having fun. I however by the grace of God got out of it. Alhamdulillah. But I see so many people being trapped in it. So many women that find themselves now in their 30s sexually traumatized and not able to form a meaningful relationship. Those women are damaged goods and again my heart goes out to them because they fell victim to the promotion of feminism, liberalism etc etc. You go girl have fun and now they're absolutely destroyed and this happens if you remove God from society. Once you remove God from society you surely will have a depressed life. All right guys but this is it for today's video. If you like to leave the thumbs up, if you haven't subscribed already guys please do so and if you want to support this channel via Patreon or by getting merch all the links are in the description box below. Thank you so much for your ongoing support guys and as always may God bless you all. Much love and peace.