The Quran—The Miracle Given to the Prophet

THE QURAN—THE MIRACLE GIVEN TO THE PROPHET of the scholars to have recognized this fact. In a book on Arabic literature, he writes: No religious book has had such an impact on the language in which it was written as the Quran has had on Arabic literature.178 World languages have changed so much over the ages that no expert in any modern language can understand its ancient form without a dictionary. There have been two leading causes of language alteration—upheavals in a nation’s social order and the development of a language’s literature. Over the centuries, these factors have worked in Arabic, just as in other languages. The difference is that they have not been able to change the structure of the Arabic language. The Arabic spoken today is the same as that which was current in Makkah when the Quran was revealed. Homer’s Iliad (850 B.C.), Tulsi Das’ Ramayan (A.D. 1623), and the dramas of Shakespeare (1564-1616) are considered literary masterpieces of their respective languages. They have been read and performed continuously from their compilation until today. But they have been unable to keep the languages they were written from alteration. The Greek of Homer, the Sanskrit of Tulsi Das and even the English of Shakespeare are now classical rather than modern languages. The Quran is the only book to have moulded a language in its form and maintained it in that form over the ages. There have been various intellectual and political upheavals in Arab countries, but the Arabic language had remained as it was when the Quran was revealed. No Arab social order