The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
The Qur’an: The Book of God
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to the Quranic times of ancient Arabia could be
reborn today, the form of language in which he
would
express
himself
would
be
as
understandable to modern Arabs as it was to his
own contemporaries.
It is as if the Qur’an had placed a divine imprint
upon Arabic, arresting it in its course so that it
should remain understandable right up to the last
day. This being so, the Qur’an is never just going to
collect dust on some obscure ‘Classical Literature’
shelf, but will be read by, and give inspiration to
people for all time to come.
In the field of science, despite the great and rapid
advances in knowledge in recent years, we come
back to what was asserted in the Qur’an, so many
centuries ago, as having arrived at the quintessence
of the matter. Just as the Arabic language seems to
have been crystallised at a particular point in time –
in fact, at the moment of divine revelation, so also
does science seem to have been arrested in its
course, the Qur’an having the final say on matters
which for centuries lay beyond man’s knowledge
and which still, in many important cases, elude
