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Yes to prove to a non Muslim that the kalima is the truth we have to use the Quran, we have to prove to them that it is perfect, because it is from Allah and not written by a human.




Most people today would not understand if you told them that the Arabic used in the Quran is perfect, because most of us are not masters of the Arabic language like the first people who listened to the Quran in Arabia 6th century C.E. We would have to show that its content, laws, teachings are perfect. How would we start to do this using basics and primary (baby steps) to try to show a non Muslim that it is from Allah and there is no doubt about it. I want us together to come up with some good proofs that would help us to say the right things. Most semi-educated non Muslims would consider it to be a book like any other book, what can we use to show to them that it is unique, Divine in origin and above all other books in perfection. Dear Brother, Assalaamoalaikum,

There are two approaches to this issue.
The first approach is to say that the Holy Messenger (SAW) also had the same problem, viz. how to explain and prove Allah(SWT) to the Kaafirs, how to prove that he, the Holy Messenger(SAW) was, in fact, the Messenger sent by Allah(SWT) as a transmitter of the Message of Allah(SWT), as a guide, and as a model, and how to prove that the Holy Qur’an was a revelation from Allah(SWT).
The Holy Messenger(SAW) only transmitted the Holy Quran as and when the verses were revealed, and guided the muslims through his sayings and actions. He did not look for scientific facts to prove that Allah(SWT) exists, did not try to find ways and means to prove that the Holy Qur’an was from Allah(SWT), and that he was a messenger sent by Allah(SWT).
Allah(SWT) provided answers to all these questions through the verses He revealed. The same verses are still in the Holy Qur’an, and we may still use these to provide replies to such interrogations from non-muslims, today also. For example,
It is Allah Who causeth the seed-grain and the date-stone to split and sprout. He causeth the living to issue from the dead, and He is the one to cause the dead to issue from the living. That is Allah: then how are ye deluded away from the truth?
( سورة الأنعام , Al-Anaam, Chapter #6, Verse #95) – Yusuf Ali (Source: Searchtruth.com).
Say: "travel through the earth and see how Allah did originate creation; so will Allah produce a later creation: for Allah has power over all things.
( سورة العنكبوت , Al-Ankaboot, Chapter #29, Verse #20) Yusuf Ali (Source: Searchtruth.com)
We need to look around and we will find many examples in nature that clearly indicate that there is necessarily a design behind every thing that exists, and that design inevitably leads to a DESIGNER. Unfortunately logic and reasoning only are not sufficient to come to such a conclusion; otherwise scientists throughout the ages would all have been believers. Guidance from Allah(SWT) is NECESSARY.
On a certain secular forum (I have forgotten which one), there was a brother whose username was :The Submitter is back”, and who used to reply to the kaafirs by only providing the relevant verses from the Holy Qur’an. Whether they insulted him or not, his replies were always only verses of the Holy Qur’an – and nothing more. I really admired him. Shouldn’t we follow his example?
Obviously, the second approach is to try to (a) prove that the Holy Qur’an could not have been but revealed, and as a consequence that the Holy Messenger(SAW) was a messenger of Allah(SWT) sent as a model / guide to humanity, and lastly that Allah(SWT) is He WHO Revealed the Holy Qur’an, the Creator and Sustainer of all the worlds.
For our own consumption, we note that the Holy Qur’an contains information that could not have been copied from other religious scriptures because, inter alia, such information was not available to anyone at that time. Western Europe was still living in caves.
Would you go for the second approach?

Brotherly yours
farook