The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
The Qur’an: The Book of God
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What Marx had condemned in one place, he
condoned in another. But due to his great antipathy
for and antagonism towards the capitalist class, he
was unable to see his own contradiction in thought.
He was in favour of taking the control of economic
resources away from capitalists and entrusting it to
officials. But, blinded by prejudice, he failed to see
what he was doing. He gave separate names to two
different forms of the very same phenomenon: in
the one case, he called it plunder of the many by the
few, in the other, he termed it ‘social order.’
The Qur’an, on the other hand, is completely free of
self-contradiction of this nature, and there is
absolute harmony in its content. Even so, opponents
of the Qur’an have tried to prove that contradictions
do occur in it. All the examples they cite in this
regard, however, have no connection whatsoever
with the case they are trying to prove. They say, for
instance, that in the sermon of his Farewell
Pilgrimage, the Prophet stated that all men were
from Adam, and Adam was from the earth.
According to this principle women should enjoy the
same status as men. In practice, however, this is not
the case, say opponents of the Qur’an, who point to
