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they say about the Qur-an Without necessarily agreeing completely with their statements, we would like to quote some of the opinions of important non-Muslim scholars who have studied the Qur-an. Such comments show that the non-Muslim world is taking a more serious view of the Qur-an and that it is beginning to appreciate its truth. We appeal to all people who are seeking spiritual truth to study the Qur-an in the light of the aforementioned points. Cast your preconceived notions aside and listen to what these people have to say.  |
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However
often we turn to it [the
Qur-an],
at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds,
and indeed in the end enforces our reverence...Its style, in accordance
with its contents and aim, is stern, grand, terrible - ever
and anon truly
sublime. Thus this book
will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.
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Qur-an admittedly, occupies an important position among the great
religious books of the world. Though the youngest
of the epoch-making works belonging to this class of literature, it
yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect, which it has produced on
large masses of men. It has created an all but new phase of human
thought and a fresh type of character. It first transformed a number of
heterogeneous tribes of the Arabian Peninsula into a
nation of heroes, and then proceeded to create the vast
politico-religious organizations of the Muhammadan world,
which are one of the great forces with which Europe and the East have to
reckon today. G. Margoliouth Introduction to E.M. Rodwell's The Koran, New York Every man's Library, 1977, P. VII |
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work, then, which calls forth so powerful and seemingly incompatible emotions even in
the distant reader distant as to time and still more so as to mental
development - a work which not only conquers the repugnance with which
he may begin its perusal, but changes this adverse feeling into
astonishment and admiration, such a work must be a wonderful production
of the human mind indeed and a problem to the highest interest to every
thoughtful observer of the destinies of mankind. Dr. Steingass Quoted in T. P. Hughes' Dictionary of Islam, PP. 526-7 |
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observation makes the hypothesis advanced by those who see Muhammad
as the author of the Qur-an untenable. How could a man, from
being illiterate, become the most important author, in terms of literary
merits, in the whole of Arabic literature?
How could he then pronounce truths of a scientific nature that no other human
being could possibly have developed at that time, and all this without
making the slightest error in his pronouncement on the subject? Maurice Bucaille The Bible, the Qur-an and Science, 1978, P 125 |
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therefore, its merits as a literary production should perhaps not be
measured by some preconceived Maxims of subjective and aesthetic taste, but by the effects, which it produced in Muhammad’s
contemporaries and fellow countrymen. If it spoke so powerfully and
convincingly to the hearts of his hearers as to weld hitherto
centrifugal and antagonistic elements into one compact and well
organized body.
Animated by ideas far beyond those which had until now ruled the
Arabian mind, then its eloquence was perfect, simply because it created
a civilized nation out of savage tribes, and shot a fresh woof into the old warp of history. Dr. Steingass Quoted in Hughes Dictionary of Islam, P. 528 |
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