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Was the Qur’an copied from previous books, such as the writings of Aristotle?

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This is an ancient doubt raised by the early Arab disbelievers, and it is the core of the miraculousness: that the Prophet came with something that the people of his environment could not produce, such as Prophet Muhammad's knowledge of the stories of past peoples and the history of nations despite his illiteracy and distance from sources of knowledge. The Quran exposed their claim that a human taught him, pointing out that the one they claimed taught him was a non-Arab who did not know Arabic. The Quran challenged anyone who made this claim to name this teacher. History has proven that the Arabs were not exposed to the knowledge of philosophers like Aristotle until his books were translated during the Abbasid era. This indicates that the source of his knowledge was divine revelation.

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