The benefits of the verse: “And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down to Our servant, then bring forth a surah of the like thereof and call upon your witnesses other than Allah if you are truthful”
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In this verse there are benefits: First, it demonstrates the defense of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), based on His saying? Read it all; it is derived from these verses. Define it?
The student:[Al-Baqarah 2:23] This means that Our servant is not one about whom there is doubt.
The Shaykh : Yes, “what We have sent down to Our servant”[Al-Baqarah 2:23] This is the aspect of the indication, because the command here is for the challenge. So Allah, Mighty and Majestic, challenges these people to bring forth a counter to what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) brought.
And among them is: the virtue of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) by describing him with servitude. Servitude to Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is the ultimate freedom, because whoever does not worship Allah must worship someone else. So if he does not worship Allah, Mighty and Majestic, who is the one worthy of worship, he worships Satan and his desires. As Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) said in the al-Nuniyyah:
They fled from the slavery for which they were created, and were afflicted with the slavery of the self and Satan.
And among the benefits of this verse is: that the Qur'an is the speech of Allah, based on His saying: And the reason it is the speech of Allah is that the Qur'an is speech, and speech is not bodies that are created and are separate from Allah, Mighty and Majestic. Rather, it is an attribute of the Speaker. By this, we know that whoever claims that the Qur'an is created and says that Allah said: [Az-Zukhruf 43:3] and said: [An-Nahl 16:44] and the like of that, his statement is refuted against him, and he has no proof in such as His saying, the Exalted: [Al-Hadid 57:25] and His saying: [Az-Zumar 39:6] and His saying: [Al-An'am 6:1] All of this is not a proof due to the difference between the entities that exist in themselves, which Allah attributes to Himself, and the attributes that do not exist in themselves.
And among the benefits of the verse is: the exaltation of Allah, Mighty and Majestic. Because once it is established that the Qur'an is His speech and that it was sent down from Him, it necessitates the exaltation of the Speaker. And the exaltation of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is a matter of innate disposition and intellect. We have previously mentioned five types of evidence for it, which are: the Book, the Sunnah, consensus, intellect, and fitrah.
The student:
if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our Servant
إن كنتم في ريب مما نزلنا على عبدناThe Shaykh : Yes, “what We have sent down to Our servant”
then produce a surah the like thereof
فأتوا بسورة من مثلهAnd among them is: the virtue of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) by describing him with servitude. Servitude to Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is the ultimate freedom, because whoever does not worship Allah must worship someone else. So if he does not worship Allah, Mighty and Majestic, who is the one worthy of worship, he worships Satan and his desires. As Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) said in the al-Nuniyyah:
They fled from the slavery for which they were created, and were afflicted with the slavery of the self and Satan.
And among the benefits of this verse is: that the Qur'an is the speech of Allah, based on His saying:
What We have sent down
مما نزلناIndeed, We have made it an Arabic Qur'an
إنا جعلناه قرآنا عربياWe revealed to you the message
أنزلنا إليك الذكرAnd We sent down iron, wherein is great military might
وأنزلنا الحديد فيه بأس شديدand He produced for you from the grazing livestock eight mates
وأنزل لكم من الأنعام ثمانية أزواجand made the darkness and the light
جعل الظلمات والنورAnd among the benefits of the verse is: the exaltation of Allah, Mighty and Majestic. Because once it is established that the Qur'an is His speech and that it was sent down from Him, it necessitates the exaltation of the Speaker. And the exaltation of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is a matter of innate disposition and intellect. We have previously mentioned five types of evidence for it, which are: the Book, the Sunnah, consensus, intellect, and fitrah.