God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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What Marx had condemned in one place, he
condoned in another. But due to his great antipathy
for and antagonism towards the capitalist class, he
was unable to see his own contradiction in thought.
He was in favour of taking the control of economic
resources away from capitalists and entrusting it to
officials. But, blinded by prejudice, he did not see
what he was doing. He gave separate names to two
different forms of the very same phenomenon: in
the one case, he called it plunder of the many by the
few, in the other, he termed it ‘social order’.
The Quran, on the other hand, is completely free of
self-contradiction of this nature, and there is
absolute harmony in its discourses. Yet, even so,
opponents of the Quran have tried to prove that
there are contradictions in it. All the examples they
cite in this regard, however, have absolutely no
connection with the case they are trying to prove.
They say, for instance, that in the sermon of his
Farewell Pilgrimage, the Prophet stated that all men
were from Adam, and Adam was from the earth.
According to this principle women should enjoy the
same status as men. In practice, however, this is not
the case, say opponents of the Quran. On the one
