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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Role of Holy Imams in Revival of Religion A Summary of Our Discussion In the previous lesson, from among the Caliphate schools narratives, we narrated and studied the fable regarding the first divine revelation. This fable stated: The Holy Prophet (s.a.w) doubted the revelations of the Lord, and he thought that the angel delivering the revelations was a jinn or devil - God Forbid!

After wards we stated the truth behind the occurance from the narratives related to this event in the Ahlul bait (a.s) school. In this discussion we study a bigger lie than the previous one, a lie which has gained vast publication in the historical and biographical texts of the Caliphate school, and that being the Gharaniq Fable.

A summary of this fable has been narrated by Tabari and many other scholars as such: When the Prophet (s.a.w) was reciting the Surah Najm and came to the celebrated verse: '---Arabic text---' Satan caused him to say: 378 '---Arabic text---' and the Prophet recited these words among the Quranic verses in his recitation.

The idolators were gladened that the Prophet spoke such words in description of their idols and prostrated along with the Muslims while Valid, who was one of the Quraishite leaders, took a fistful of earth and prostrated on it since because of his advanced age he could not bend over. News of this occurance reached the immigrant Muslims in Abyssinia, they thought that the idolators of Mecca had accepted Islam.

They returned to their homeland but upon arrival saw that the idolators had remained firm in their idolatry.

After this event Gabriel appeared to the Prophet and informed him that the aforesaid verses were from Satan and the Prophet became greatly saddened and unhappy and God sent this verse to console him: '---Arabic text---' This was a summary of this enormous lie and fabricated, dangerous fable, and we said in a description of its many weak and defective points that: This fable centered around verses from the Surahs Najm and Hajj.

In the part concerning the Surah Najm the verses which mention the three famous Arab idols are included in a group of this Surahs' verses which are verses 17-30. This group of the Surah Najms verses and unified and uniform as to the subject matter of their topic of discussion, and all of their remarks revolve around the three Arab idols.