{"id":88528,"date":"2024-08-06T15:40:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T20:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=88528"},"modified":"2025-10-09T10:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:59:13","slug":"why-was-the-quran-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2024\/08\/06\/why-was-the-quran-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Why was the Qur&#8217;an revealed?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&#8217;ll often hear Muslims say that the Qur&#8217;an is the message for all mankind. However, the Qur&#8217;anic data doesn&#8217;t back this up&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">P1. Every nation has been sent a messenger (16:36, 10:47 and 35:24)\u2026 despite the historical record not being able to substantiate this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">P2. Messengers are sent in the language of his people (14:4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">P3. Muhammad was the first person sent to warn the Arabs (36:6, 34:44 and 32:3)\u2026 despite Abraham and Ishmael supposedly having established the Kaaba generations before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">C. Muhammad was sent to those living in and around Mecca (42:7) to give them a warning in Arabic so that it would be clear to them (41:3, 43:3, 44:58, 26:195-196). &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Qur\u2019an says that the Jews and Christians are to follow their own Scriptures (5:43, 5:68). Rather than having to trust what Christians and Jews *say* about their Greek and Hebrew Scriptures, the Qur\u2019an is sent confirming it in *Arabic* (46:12), a revelation in their own tongue (41:44, 6:155-157). &nbsp;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ll often hear Muslims say that the Qur&#8217;an is the message for all mankind. However, the Qur&#8217;anic data doesn&#8217;t back this up&#8230; P1. Every nation has been sent a messenger (16:36, 10:47 and 35:24)\u2026 despite the historical record not being able to substantiate this. P2. Messengers are sent in the language of his people (14:4). P3. Muhammad was the first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2969,29],"class_list":["post-88528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","tag-featured","tag-islam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88532,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88528\/revisions\/88532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}