The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
The Qur’an —The Prophet’s Miracle
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comparable to the Book of God.
The languages in which all the ancient scriptures
were revealed have been locked in the archives of
history. The only exception is Arabic, the language
of the Qur’an, which is still current in the world
today. Millions of people still speak and write the
language in which the Qur’an was revealed nearly
1500 years ago. This provides stunning proof of the
miraculous nature of the Qur’an, for there is no
other book in history which has been able to make
such an impact on its language; no other book has
moulded a whole language according to its own
style, and maintained it in that form over the
centuries.
Take the
Injil,
known as the New Testament, of
which the oldest existing copy is in Greek and not
Aramaic, the language which Jesus is thought to
have spoken. That means that we possess only a
translated account of what the Prophet Jesus said
and did; and that too, in ancient Greek, which is
considerably different from the modern language.
By the end of the 19th century the Greek language
had changed so much that the meaning of at least
