God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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challenges over the centuries. This constitutes
conclusive evidence of the Quran having had its
source in an Omnipresent and Eternal Mind— one
which knows all facts in their true forms and whose
knowledge has not been conditioned by time and
circumstances. Had it been a human fabrication it
could not have withstood the test of time, human
vision being, by contrast, narrow and limited.
The basic theme of the Quran is salvation in the life
hereafter. That is why it does not fall into the
category of any of known arts and sciences of the
world. But since it addresses itself to man, it
touches on almost all the disciplines which concern
him. In spite of the breadth of its scope, none of its
statements has ever been shown to have been made
on the basis of inadequate knowledge. Bertrand
Russell, in his
Impact of Science on Society
makes the
point that, renowned philosopher as he was,
Aristotle, while ‘proving’ the inferiority of women
to men, stated that ‘women have fewer teeth than
men’, thus revealing his ignorance of the fact that
men and women have an equal number of teeth. No
such ignorance or misconception is ever evinced in
the Quran. This clearly shows that the origin of this
