Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
15. The Qur’an—The Prophet’s Miracle
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intermingling of races. First it was the rank and file,
those who did not pay much attention to the finer
points of linguistics, who were affected. But the
cultural elite did not remain immune either. A man
once came to the court of Ziyad ibn Umayyah and
lamented. “Our fathers have died, leaving small
children,” with both “fathers” and “children” in the
wrong case. Mistakes of this nature became
commonplace, yet the Arabic language remained
essentially the same. Shielded by the Qur’an’s
supreme eloquence, written Arabic was not
corrupted by the degradation of the spoken version.
It remained cast in the mould of the Qur’an.
For proof of the Qur’an’s miraculous nature, one
has only to look at all the traumatic experiences that
Arabic has been through over the last 1500 years. If
it had not been for the protective wing of the
Qur’an, the Arabic language would surely have
been altered. The unsurpassable model that was
established by the Qur’an remained the immutable
touchstone of standard Arabic.
The fall of the Umayyad dynasty in the second
century Hijrah posed a great threat to the Arabic
