Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
15. The Qur’an—The Prophet’s Miracle
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Qur’an. It was the Qur’an’s phenomenal literary
style, which preserved the Arabic language from
alteration, such as other languages, have
undergone. The noted Christian writer, Jurgi
Zaydan (1861-1914) is one of the scholars to have
recognized this fact. In a book on Arabic literature
he writes:
No religious book has had such an impact on
the language in which it was written as the
Qur’an has had on Arabic literature.
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World languages have changed so much over the
ages that no expert in any modern language is able
to understand its ancient form without the aid of a
dictionary. There have been two main causes of
language alteration—upheavals in the social order
of a nation and development of a language’s
literature. Over the centuries these factors have
been at work in Arabic, just as in other languages.
The difference is that they have not been able to
change the structure of the Arabic language. The
Arabic that is spoken today is the same as that
which was current in Makkah when the Qur’an was
revealed. Homer’s Ilyad (850 B.C.), Tulsi Das’
