SURVIVAL OF ARABIC LANGUAGE

The Challenge of The Qur’an ~ 320 ~ be of divine origin, and was prepared to exclude from all the sacred texts anything that appeared to him to merit exclusion on these grounds. ‘Later, at a time when the incompatability of certain passages of the Bible with modern knowledge has been realized, the same attitude has not been followed. This refusal has been so insistent that a whole literature has sprung up, aimed at justifying the fact that, in the face of all opposition, texts have been retained in the Bible that have no reason to be there.’ This certainly can never be said of the Quran. In the more ancient scriptures we find only glimpses of the truth, whereas in the Quran the truth is enshrined in all its original glory. Had the Quran been the work of man, and not of God, its assertions would certainly have been proved wrong, or irrelevant, in the light of modern scientific discoveries. Professor Arberry has translated the Arabic word ‘ikhtilaf’ as ‘inconsistency’. Other renderings of the word include contradiction, disparity and difference.