God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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systems, human equality has remained an
unattainable ideal, for power has always had to be
put in the hands of a few individuals, with others
becoming their subjects. This disparity can only
disappear when God is considered Sovereign. Then
the only difference that remains is between God and
man. He is the Ruler, all are His subjects. All men
are equal before him. There is no division and no
distinction, between man and man.
QURAN
If the different parts of a book contradict each other,
the book is inconsistent within itself. If the contents
of a book, as a whole, or in part contradict outward
realities, the book is externally inconsistent. The
Quran claims—with justice—to be free of either
type of inconsistency, whereas no work of human
origin can be free of either. It follows, therefore, that
the Quran must be superhuman in origin. Had it
been written by a human being, it would have been
beset by human failings and there would have been
inconsistencies in it of the type so frequently found
in the works of man.
