The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
The Qur’an: The Book of God
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and unwitting errors are all too prone to make
deliberate misrepresentations of facts when they are
motivated by the base emotions of greed, envy,
jealousy, revenge and fear.
Human moods and passions are often to blame for
people turning a blind eye to the truth and falling a
prey to faulty reasoning. Love and hate, friendship
and hostility all have their influence on human
thinking. A man’s inability to be dispassionate, his
elation or depression, his triumph or despair, his
successes and frustrations all colour the quality of
his thought. Such fluctuations of mood, caprice and
willfulness, can deflect the very best minds from the
truth.
The only one who is free of all such caprice and all
such limitations is the Almighty. That is why His
word is of an impeccable consistency.
BIBLICAL INCONSISTENCY
To illustrate this point, let us take the example of
the Bible, which, as a book of revelation was the
forerunner of the Qur’an.
