God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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Mummies Room of the Egyptian Museum,
Cairo!
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As early as the seventh century A.D., the Quran had
asserted that the Pharaoh’s body was preserved as a
sign for man, but it was only in the 19th century
that the body’s discovery gave concrete proof of this
prediction. What further proof is needed that the
Quran is the Book of God? Certainly, there is no
book like it, among the works of men.
SURVIVAL OF ARABIC LANGUAGE
The very language Arabic in which it is written is a
kind of miracle, being an astonishing exception to
the historical rule that a language cannot survive in
the same form for more than 500 years. In the
course of five centuries, a language changes so
radically that the coming generations find it
increasingly difficult to understand the works of
their distant predecessors. For instance, the works
of Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400), the father of
English poetry, and the plays and poetry of William
Shakespeare (1564-1616), one of the greatest writers
of the English language, have become almost
unintelligible to twentieth century readers, and are
