The Great Challenge to Produce |
| God has said in the Quran: |
And if you are in doubt about what We have revealed (the Quran) to Our worshiper (Muhammad 
), then produce a chapter like it, and call your witnesses (supporters and helpers) besides God if you are truthful. And if you do not do it, and you can never do it, then fear the Fire (Hell) whose fuel is men and stones. It has been prepared for disbelievers. And give good news (O Muhammad) to those who believe and do good deeds, that for them are gardens (Paradise) in which rivers flow....
(Quran, 2:23-25)
Ever since the Quran was revealed, fourteen centuries ago, no one has been able to produce a single chapter like the chapters of the Quran in their beauty, eloquence, splendor, wise legislation, true information, true prophecy, and other perfect attributes. Also, note that the smallest chapter in the Quran (Chapter 108) is only ten words, yet no one has ever been able to meet this challenge, then or today.1 Some of the disbelieving Arabs who were enemies of the Prophet Muhammad tried to meet this challenge to prove that Muhammad was not a true prophet, but they failed to do so.2 This failure was despite the fact that the Quran was revealed in their own language and dialect and that the Arabs at the time of Muhammad were a very eloquent people who used to compose beautiful and excellent poetry, still read and appreciated today.
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| The smallest chapter in the Holy Quran (Chapter 108) is only ten words, yet no one has ever been able to meet the challenge to produce one chapter like the chapters of the Holy Quran. |
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Footnotes:
(1) See Al-Borhan fee Oloom Al-Quran, Al-Zarkashy, vol. 2, p. 224. 
(2) See Al-Borhan fee Oloom Al-Quran, Al-Zarkashy, vol. 2, p. 226.
In my earlier blog post - Higher Education Ministry in Hot Soup - I commented on the article by the Star which highlighted the fact that confidential information on students (who failed to obtain a place in the local universities) were "sold" to private colleges.
On Sunday, both New Straits Times and the Star reported that an investigation will be launched immediately by the Higher Education Ministry into the claims.
I have however, some advice for our Minister of Higher Education, Datuk Shafie Mohd Salleh in his investigation process:-
[He]called on colleges to co-operate with the ministry in its investigation. “I would like to ask private college operators or administrators who have bought such information or have been approached to come and see me. If you have any evidence, come and see us at the ministry.”For goodness sake, why should these colleges report on the culprits in the Ministry, when they are clearly the "partners in crime", in which they benefited by having received the list of candidates who failed to find a local public university. This list in itself will save the college hundreds of thousands, as it will save the college from having to invest heavily to attract students via media advertisements.
“We have to ascertain if the lists the colleges allegedly bought are really from UPU. They could be just the work of a con man. There are many con men around. We have bogus doctorates and degrees. These, too, may be bogus lists.”Sigh. Some perverted logic must have linked the two cases together. In this latest UPU debacle, detailed, accurate and factual information must have been divulged to the private colleges for them to send out these "invitation letters" to the prospective students. How would a "con men" obtain these information, if not for a major leak at the Ministry?
Go on, Datuk Shafie, do the right thing.
, the Prophet of Islam