God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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in the whole of human history (p.228). There is such
compelling evidence of his being a messenger of
God that even Sir William Muir, the distinguished
Orientalist, has accepted him as such, albeit
indirectly. In his book,
The Life of Mahomet
he speaks
of how ‘Muhammad, thus holding his people at
bay, waiting, in the still expectation of victory, to
outward appearance defenceless, and with his little
band, as it were, in the lion’s mouth, yet trusting in
His Almighty power whose messenger he believed
himself to be, resolute and unmoved—presents a
spectacle of sublimity paralleled only in the sacred
records by such scenes as that of the Prophet of
Israel, when he complained to his Master, “I, even I
only, am left.’”
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Another prediction of the Quran worth mentioning
here is the overpowering of the Iranians by the
Greeks (who at that point formed part of the eastern
Roman Empire). This is recorded in the thirtieth
chapter of the Quran. “The Greeks have been
defeated in a neighbouring land. But after the
defeat, they shall themselves gain victory within a
few years.” The Persian empire, known as the
Sassanid empire, lay to the east of Arabian
