The Quran—The Miracle Given to the Prophet

THE QURAN—THE MIRACLE GIVEN TO THE PROPHET Book which is recited to them? Indeed, there is a blessing and an admonition to true believers.175 There are many different aspects of the Quran’s miraculous nature. However, here we are going to concentrate on just three: I. The language of the Quran—Arabic—has, unlike other international languages, remained a living form of communication over the ages. 2. The Quran is unique among divine scriptures in that its text has remained intact in its original form. 3. The Quran challenged its doubters to produce a book like it. But unfortunately, no one has been able to take up this challenge and produce anything comparable to the Book of God. The languages in which all the ancient scriptures were revealed have been locked in history archives. The only exception is Arabic, the language of the Quran, which is still current in the world today. Millions of people still speak and write the language in which the Quran was revealed nearly 1500 years ago. This provides stunning proof of the miraculous nature of the Quran, for there is no other book in history which has been able to impact its language; no other book has moulded a whole language according to its style and maintained it in that form over the centuries. Take the Injil, known as the New Testament, of which the oldest extant copy is in Greek and not Aramaic, the language which Jesus is thought to have spoken. That means