A Response to the Claim “The Quran Was Influenced by Poems Written Before Islam”

Especially in many anti-Islamic blog sites and books, it is claimed that ” the Quran was written by Prophet Muhammad and that, as a source, it was influenced by the words of some poets / that some words were quoted from them”.

The most famous of these claims is the slander that the expression occurring in the verse with the meaning “Doomsday has drawn near and the moon has split” (54/1) was quoted from the “Muallakat-ı Seb’a” of Imru’ al-Qays. Without touching on the falsity of the information that pre-Islamic poems were hung on the wall of the Kaaba and read by the public, I want to explain the subject from another angle.

In the 81-couplet Muallakat of Imru’ al-Qays there is no expression whatsoever that means “Doomsday has drawn near and the moon has split.” We read and examined the ode in question from beginning to end and could not come across such an expression.[1] It appears that this claim is plainly a slander.

A couplet that does not exist has, as is understood, been produced later by opponents of the Quran (!)

In fact, even if this Arabic idiom existed in some written text, while it is clear that its repeated use among Arabic-speaking people anyway does not deserve false information of this kind, producing a false source and knowingly spreading this is, to put it most mildly, slander.

Note: (I thank the administrator of the blog site called dinsizdeist, who made a correction on his site after learning this truth. But that Arif Tekin, like many opponents of Islam, still keeps such a baseless claim without citing a source in his book titled “Bilinmeyen Yönleriyle Kuran: Kuran’ın Kökeni 2” is a great weakness of intellect. )

Source 1: http://www.onlinearabic.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11141