What Is The Proof That The Quran Is Supernatural / Divine?
People from that time used guess and conjecture to disprove Quran. You are saying the same thing. Do you have a proof that it was known at that time. If not, how did he know. Did he guess? Did aliens tell him? Did he find a book of advanced knowledge from an advanced civilization that once existed? What would be your answer? Let’s say it was a common belief at that time. How did they set this belief. Let’s give this one to you. Let’s move to the 2nd one. How did he know that?
Here’s my take on this: There is a clear evidence that the book has divine intervention but at the same time it’s hard to say that each and every word and verse in the book is from God – the book was sent down verse by verse over a period of many years and it’s not one monolith book to believe in but one has to pick and choose which verses makes sense and which ones not by pondering on them one by one as God has not signed any page of the book that confirms it’s from Him. However, at times understanding takes much longer than one would hope and therefore one must keep reading and pondering on hard to understand verses hoping one day they might begin to make sense. One should not follow anything until it make sense (i.e helps justice and prevent tyranny in the best way out of all other available options). God has actually warned against attributing lies to Him. 2ndly, the so called challenge of Quran to mankind and Jinn to make a few verses or a chapter like Quran is hard to understand as there is no objective criteria given to arrive at an impartial and unbiased conclusion. In addition, the story of so called “satanic verses” re the cranes went undetected until Gabriel(AS) alerted Prophet Mohammed (SW) to remove them from Quran and replace them with the correct ones. If this story (from the “authentic” books of hadiths) is true, it’s already failed the challenge of Quran that no one can create verses similar to Quran. 3rdly, the process of collection of verses of Quran and compiling it into a book is not fool proof, it’s hard to rule out a possibility of error / corruption here and there.