The Quran—The Miracle Given to the Prophet

the English language a “firm boost” with his Canterbury Tales. Chaucer transformed a dialect into a language, paving the way for fresh progress in times to come. For two hundred years, English writers and poets followed Chaucer’s guidelines. Then, when William Shakespeare (1558-1625) appeared on the scene, English took another step forward. His dramas and poems set a new literary standard, enabling English to march further forward. The coming of the scientific age two hundred years later had a tremendous impact on every stratum of society. The language now began to follow the dictates of science. Prose became more popular than poetry, and factual expression was more effective than story-telling. Dozens of poets and writers, from Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) to T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), represented this trend. They were the makers of the modern age of English literature through which we are now passing. The same thing happened with other languages. Writers, or groups of writers, kept on emerging and became more popular than their predecessors. Whenever they appeared, they steered the language on a new course. Eventually, every language changed so much that it became impossible for a person to understand the ancient form of his tongue without the aid of dictionaries and commentaries. There is only one exception to his universal trend: Arabic. The claim of the Quran that no one would ever be able to write a book has been borne out to the letter. For further proof, one need only look at the various attempts to produce