Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
15. The Qur’an—The Prophet’s Miracle
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expert, Adolf Deissman, discovered some ancient
scrolls in Egypt. From them it emerged that biblical
Greek was in fact a colloquial version of classical
Greek. This language was spoken in Palestine
during the first century A.D. Deissman was able to
attach meanings to some of the unknown words,
but there are another fifty words whose meanings
are still unknown.
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Ernest Renan (1823 - 1894) carried out extensive
research on Semitic languages. He wrote a book on
their vocabularies, in which he had this to say about
the Arabic language:
The Arabic language is the most astonishing
event of human history. Unknown during the
classical period, it suddenly emerged as a
complete language. After this, it did not
undergo any noticeable changes, so one
cannot define for it an early or a late stage. It
is just the same today as it was when it first
appeared.
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In acknowledging this “astonishing event of human
history” Renan, a French orientalist, is in fact
acknowledging the miraculous nature of the
