Humanity has received the divine guidance only through two channels: firstly the word of Allah, secondly the prophets who were chosen by Allah to communicate His will to human beings. These two things have always been going together and attempts to these two have been misleading. The Hindus neglected their prophets and paid all attention to their books that proved only word puzzles, which they ultimately lost. Similarly the Christians in total disregard to the book of Allah attached all importance to the Christ and thus also lost the very essence of Tawheed (monotheism) contained in the Bible.
As a matter of fact main scriptures revealed before the Quran i.e. the hold Testament and Gosple, came into book from long after the days of the prophet and that too in translation. This was because the followers of Moses and Jesus made no considerable efforts to preserve this revelation during the life of their prophet. Rather they were written long after their death. Thus what we now have in the form of bible (the old as well as the New Testament) is translation of individual’s accounts of the original revelations that contain addition and deletion made by followers of the said prophets. On the country the last reveled book, the Quran is extant in its original form. Allah himself guaranteed its preservation and that is why the whole of the Quran was written during the life time of the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) himself though on separate piece of palm leaves, parchments bones e.t.c. Moreover there were tens of thousand a of the companions of the prophets who memorized the whole Quran and the prophet himself used to recite it to the angle Gabriel once a year and twice when he was about to die. Then the first Caliph Abu Bakar entrusted the collection of the whole Quran in one volume to the prophets scribe zaid Ibn Thabit.
This volume was with Abu bakar till his death. Then it was with the second caliph Umar and after him it came to hafsa, the prophet’s wife. It was from this original copy that the third caliph Uthman prepared several other copies and sent them to different Muslim terrorist.
The Quran was so meticulously preserved because it was to be the book of guidance for humanity for all times to come. That is why it does address the Arabs alone in whose language it was revealed. It speaks to man as a human being.
“O man! What has seduced you from your lord”. The practicability to the Quranic teachings is established by the examples of Mohammad (PBUH) and the good Muslims throughout of the Quran is that its instruction are aimed at the general welfare of man and are based on the possibilities within his reach. In all its dimensions the Quranic wisdom is conclusive. It neither condemns nor tortures the flesh nor does it neglect the soul. It does not humanize God nor does it deify man. Everything is carefully placed where it belongs in the total scheme of creation.
Actually the scholars who allege that Muhammad (PBUH) was the author of the Quran claim something, which is humanly impossible. Could any person of the sixth century C.E. utter such scientific truths as the Quran contains? Could he describe the evolution of the embryo inside the uterus so accurately as we find it in modern science?
Secondly it is logical to believe that Muhammad (PBUH) who up the age of forty was marked only for his honesty and integrity, began all of a sudden the authorship of a book matchless in literary merit and the equivalent of which the whole legion of the Arabs poets and orators of highest caliber could not produce? And lastly it is justified to say that Muhammad (PBUH) who was known as AL-AMEEN (the trustworthy) in his society and who is the still admired by the non-Muslims scholars for his honesty and integrity came fourth with a false claim and on that falsehood could train thousand of men of character, integrity and honesty who were able to establish the best human society on the surface of the earth?
Surely any sincere and unbiased searcher of truth will come to believe that the Quran is the revealed book of Allah.
Without necessarily agreeing with all that they said, we furnish here some opinions of important non-Muslims scholars about the Quran readers can easily see how the modern world is coming closer to reality regarding the Quran. We appeal to all open-minded scholars to study the Quran in the light of the aforementioned points. We are sure that any such attempt will convince the reader that the Quran could not never be written by any human being.
However often we turn to it (the Quran) at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds and in the end enforces our reverence... its style in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible ever and anon truly sublime-thus this book will go an exercising through all ages a most potent influence.
Goethe, Quoted in T.P. Hughes dictionary of Islam, p.536.The Koran admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious book of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belongings to this classes of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect, which is, has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new phase of human thought and a fesh type of character. It first transformed a number of heterogeneous desert tribes of the Arabian peninsula into a nations of heroes, and then proceeded to create the vast politico-religious organization of the Muhammadan world which are one of the great force with Europe have to reckon todayG-MarholiouthIntroduction to J.M.Rodwell’s
The Koran, New York: Everyman’s library, 1977. p. VII.A work then which calls fourth so powerful and seemingly incompatible emotions even in the distant reader-distant as to time and still more so as mental development a work which not only conquers the repugnance which he may being its perusal, but changes this adverse feeling into astonishment and admiration such a work must be a wonderful production of the human mind indeed and a problem of the highest interest to every thoughtful observer of the destinies of mankind.
Dr. steingassQuoted in T.P. Hughes, dictionary of Islam, pp. 526-7.The above observation makes the hypothesis advances by those who see Muhammad as the author of the Quran untenable. How could a man from being illiterate become the most important author in terms of literary merits, in whole of Arabic literature? How could he then pronounce truths of a scientific nature that no other human being could possible have developed at that time and all this without once making the slightest error in his pronouncement on the subject?
Maurice Bucaille,The bible the Quran and science, 1978 p. 125.Here therefore its merits as a literary production should perhaps not be measured by some preconceived maxims of subjective and aesthetic taste but by the effects, which it produced in Muhammads contemporaries and fellow countrymen. If it spoke so powerfully and convincingly to the hearts of his hearers as to weld hitherto centrifugal and antagonistic elements into one compact and well organized body animated by ideas far beyond those which had until one ruled the Arabian mind, then its eloquence was perfect simply because it created a civilized nation out savage tribes and shot a fresh woof into the old warp of history.
Dr. Steingass,Quated in huges dictionary of Islam p. 528.In making the present attempts to improve on the performance of many predecessors and to produced something which might be accepted as echoing however faintly the sublime rhetoric of the Arabian Koran. I have been at pain to study the intricate and richly varied rhythms, which a part from the message it self constituted the Koran’s undeniable, claim to rank amongst the greater literary master pieces of mankind. This very characteristic feature that inimitable symphony as the believing pick hall described his holy book and ecstasy has been almost totally ignored by previous translators; it is therefore not surprising that what they have wrought sounds dull and flat indeed in comparison with the splendidly decorated original.
Author J. Arberry, the Koran interpreted, and London: Oxford University Press, 1964, p. X.A totally objective examination of it (the Quran) in the light of modern knowledge, leads us to recognize the agreement between the two, as has been already noted on repeated occasions. It makes us deem it quite unthinkable for a man of Muhammad’s time to have been the author of such statements, on account of the state of knowledge in his day. Such considerations are part of what gives the Qura’nic revelation its unique place and forces the impartial scientist to admit his inability to prove and explanation which calls solely upon materialistic reasoning.
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