The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
Qur’an: The Voice of God
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eye which can see only so long as there is some
external source of light. In pitch darkness, this self-
same eye cannot see anything whatsoever. Only
when a light is switched on, does everything
become clearly visible. The human intellect, like the
eye, needs the light – the light of God’s revelation –
if it is not forever to grope in the dark. Without
God’s revelation, we can never arrive at the truth of
things.
A scholarly acquaintance of mine once remarked
that learning – so it is held – is not acquired by
reading book after book and possessing a string of
degrees from colleges and universities, but consists,
in its supreme form, of faith. The Qur’an likewise
states that, ‘in fact, it is those who fear God who are
learned.’ But he failed to grasp the significance of
this, he said. I replied, ‘Karl Marx is considered a
‘prophet’ in the field of economics, but he did not
have one whit of the True Knowledge which, today,
by the grace of God, you possess. Faced by a world
in which a small number of feudal lords and
industrial magnates had taken possession of a
disproportionate share of the available wealth,
while most people lived in abject poverty, Marx
