Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
15. The Qur’an—The Prophet’s Miracle
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process of change in the Arabic language, but this
was not to be. The supreme eloquence of the
language of the Qur’an guarded Arabic from any
such transformation. What happened instead has
been explained in the following words by Dr.
Ahmad Hasan Zayyat:
After the coming of Islam, the Arabic
language did not remain the monopoly of one
nation. It became the language of all those
who entered the faith.
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Then these Arab Muslims left their native land,
conquering territory extending from Kashghar in
the east to Gibralter in the west. Persian, Qibti,
Berber, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Aramaic and Suryani
were among the languages spoken by the peoples
they came into contact with. Some of these nations
were politically and culturally more advanced than
the Arabs. Iraq, bastion of an ancient civilization
and the cultural centre of major tribes, was one of
the countries they entered. They mingled with the
Iranians, masters of one of the world’s two great
empires. The highly advanced Roman civilization,
and an expanding Christian religion, were two of
