The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
Divine Arrangement
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vast human group came into being as had never
previously existed for the guarding of any other
revealed scriptures.
Another helpful event that followed was a series of
conquests both in and outside of Arabia by which
the Muslims progressively gained dominance over
a vast inhabited territory of the ancient world and
established the greatest and the strongest empire of
the time. This empire, too strong to be overcome by
any other power, was well able to guard the
authenticity of the Qur’an, resisting all onslaughts
for over a thousand years. Then with the advent of
the age of the press, the possibility of the Qur’an
ever being destroyed was finally ruled out.
In the age of the press it became possible to print a
million copies from just one manuscript –
something which had been an impossibility in
ancient times, when each copy was separately
hand-written. That was why one copy differed from
another to some extent. This happened with all
ancient books. It was only in the case of the Qur’an,
of which tens of thousands of copies had been
separately hand-written before the age of the press,
