نظريه الصَّرﹾفَه في ميزان الدراسه و النقد

Investigation and criticism of Al Sarfah issue

Since Quran descends from heaven, Muslims paid attention to researches on the miracle of Quran. They believed that Quran in the aspects of rhetoric and eloquence is in the highest degree. However in the third century (AH), a new theory about the miracle of Quran, called Al-Sarfah came into the existence. The first person to whom this theory attributed was Ibrahim Bin Sayyar al-Nazzam. Followers of this theory believed that Arab’s inability in creating a book similar to Quran is due to the God preventing them from disagreeing with Koran and is not related to its specific properties such as its miracle, rhetoric and eloquence. Many of the Muslims did not accept this theory and tried to reject it. In this research, we study and criticize the above mentioned theory.