Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
15. The Qur’an—The Prophet’s Miracle
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the Arabic language—the English word “doctor”
for example. But such changes were just on the
surface. Arabic proper still remained the same as it
had been centuries ago, when the Qur’an was
revealed.
LITERARY ADVANCEMENT
Once in a while, writers of outstanding status appear
on a language’s literary scene. When this happens,
the language in which they write undergoes some
change, for their literary masterpieces influence the
mode of popular expression. In this way languages
are continually passing through progressive
evolutionary stages, until eventually they become
quite different from their original form. With Arabic
this did not happen. At the very outset of Arabic
history, the Qur’an set a literary standard that could
not be excelled. Arabic maintained the style set for it
by the Qur’an. No masterpiece comparable to the
Qur’an was destined to be produced after it; so
Arabic remained cast in the mould of that divine
symphony.
Take the example of English. In the 7th century
A.D. it was just an ordinary local dialect, not geared
