The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
Qur’an: The Voice of God
~ 110 ~
Qur’an was assembled if we imagine the parallel of
a factory under construction in India, for which the
equipment is being manufactured in some country
overseas.
This equipment for the factory has to be
manufactured in separate parts in different
production units. These parts have then to be
loaded on to different ships and sent off to India.
Throughout the various stages of its construction,
our factory will necessarily appear to the
uninitiated as a mass of heterogenous and
incomplete objects. But as soon as all the parts of
the equipment brought in different shipments are
properly assembled, they will take on the shape of a
complete factory, all ready to be put into
commission. It was in very much the same way that
the Qur’an was assembled in order to produce a
complete and permanent moral code for all human
beings. That is why, although formed of such
disparate elements, it is of such astounding
uniformity. It was because it bore a message urging
man to turn a hostile environment into a favourable
one that it had to be revealed in a gradual manner,
thus meeting the needs of differing circumstances.
