The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
The Qur’an —The Prophet’s Miracle
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current in Mecca when the Qur’an was revealed.
Homer’s Iliad (850 BC), Tulsi Das’ Ramayan (1623
AD), and the dramas of Shakespeare (1564-1616), are
considered literary masterpieces of their respective
languages. They have been read and, in the case of
the Ramayan and Shakespeare’s plays, performed
continuously from the time of their compilation until
the present day. But neither their literary worth nor
their form has been able to prevent the languages in
which they were written from being altered. The
Greek of Homer, the Sanskrit of Tulsi Das and even
the English of Shakespeare, are now classical rather
than modern languages. The Qur’an is the only book
to have moulded a language and maintained it in
that same form over the ages. There have been
various intellectual and political unheavals in Arab
countries, but the Arabic language has remained as it
was when the Qur’an was revealed. No change in
the Arab social order has been able to alter in any
way the Arabic tongue. This fact is a clear indication
that the Qur’an came from a supernatural source.
One does not have to look any further than the
history of the last 1500 years to see the miraculous
nature of the Book revealed to the Prophet
Mohammad.
