Inside Islam: A Guide for Catholics

(Jacob Rumans) #1

only one who taught and inspired


Muhammad. Another was a Persian,


Salman Al Farsi. Echoes of his


influence can be found in the Koran and


Mohammad’s tradition: ‘‘(It is) a


Qur’an in Arabic, without any


crookedness (therein): in order that they


may guard against Evil’’ (Sura 39:28).


In Sura 16:103, Muhammad brushes


aside accusations that he was taught by


someone who is Persian: ‘‘we know


indeed that they say, ‘It is a man that


teaches him.’ The tongue of him they


wickedly point to is notably foreign


while this is Arabic, pure and clear.’’


The Arabic word translated here as


‘‘foreign’’ is A’game, which means


Persian or Iranian. The Koran’s


repeated insistence that it is in Arabic

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