The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
Qur’an: The Voice of God
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Historically speaking, it is a compilation of a great
diversity of injunctions, but the divine scheme of an
Omnipotent and Omniscient God has made it into a
well-ordered and uniform whole.
So many books have been written on all branches of
learning and on every conceivable allied subject – to
date, millions of books have been printed and
published – that it would take more than one’s
entire lifetime to read them all. But the Qur’an is a
book of such a kind that, even if one could study all
the books in the world, its guidance would still be a
prime necessity. Indeed, one can only truly benefit
from the study of other books if one has first gained
from the Qur’an that depth of insight which is at the
basis of genuine discernment in all matters of
importance. Without the Qur’an, the human
individual is like a ship adrift on a vast ocean
without a compass. Just as the ocean liner is lost
without its compass, so does man need divine
revelation to steer him through the entanglements
of human existence. Only one who has received his
share of divine light will be able to navigate his way
across the ocean of this life.
