قرآنِ مجید اور استشراق – فکری مبا حث

Quran and Orientalism: Analysis of Theoretical Discourses

Abstract

Quran has been a source of guidance and the holy book of the Muslims since Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)’s advent in the 7th century. But criticism of this holy text has existed since it was being revealed to the Prophet (PBUH). The practice of laying allegations against the compilation, structure and verses of the Quran is not a new phenomenon; new questions and criticisms have popped up time and again from the Orientalists scholars. Their aim has been to prove the Quran to be wrong, inefficient, false, and incompetent in the present scenario, mathematically inaccurate and linguistically repetitive and plagiarized. The Orientalists largely allege the authorship of the Quran and try to prove that it was written by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). They also are skeptical about the compilation of the Holy text and believe it to be like all other scriptures in the world. They put their maximum efforts in questioning the structural composition of the book as well. But all these arguments are not very well thought enough, they lack research and historical evidences. It is important to note that they blame the Muslims for the ‘inaccuracies’ they find in the Quran because they measure everything according to their own experiences. Since their own books were tampered with, compiled rather written centuries later, and do not comply with science they assume that every other work i.e. even the Quran has been corrupted for which they use different techniques to prove their feeble point.