SURVIVAL OF ARABIC LANGUAGE
English book, PDF p. 318
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
The Challenge of The Qur’an ~ 318 ~ unknown and unheralded, in complete humility bow to his wisdom and admit his inspiration. In the face of the simple truth here told, let us not quarrel over details due to translation and human interpolation or over the question of how God did His work or the time it took. Who knows? The facts as told have come down through the ages and are facts. It is our belief that the Old and New Testaments were originally divine, as the Quran still is today and that they still contain sparks of divine knowledge, but the scriptures have lost their pristine qualities in the process of translation and interpolation. As Dr. Maurice Bucaille writes in his book The Bible, the Quran and Science. ‘A revelation is mingled in all these writings, but all we possess today is what men have seen fit to leave us. These men manipulated the texts to please themselves, according to the circumstances they were in and the necessities they had to meet. ‘When these objective data are compared with those found in various prefaces to Bibles destined today

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