📘 ❞ The Miraculous Quran ❝ كتاب ــ جمال زارابوزو

عن كتاب The Miraculous Quran:
Let me state at the outset that, after being Muslim for many years now, if I
were given the topic of “The Miraculous Quran,” as I see it now, I would be
emphasizing and discussing aspects that were completely unknown to me at
the time that I was studying Islam as a non-Muslim.
I have been studying the Quran for over thirty years now and it never fails to
fascinate me. In fact, the phenomenon of continually finding new fascinating
aspects of the Quran has been true for the Muslim scholars throughout the
years. Over the centuries, as they have spoken about the Quran, later scholars
recognize the miraculous aspects that the earlier scholars mentioned while

coming across other aspects that they consider no less remarkable and amaz-
ing.

Thus, for example, in the past cen-
tury, we have had Aishah bint al-
Shaati, Sayyid Qutb and Mustafa

Saadiq al-Raafi’ee all adding com-
ponents to the overall theory of the

miraculous nature of the Quran.1
Lately, many have emphasized

what are called the “scientific mi-
racles of the Quran,” a topic we

shall try to visit toward the end of
this lecture.

However, this lecture is about “my story” and my path to Islam via the Qu-
ran. Therefore, I will be emphasizing those aspects of the Quran that influ-
enced me the most at that time and I will give less time to other aspects that I

have studied in detail since then.

1
For a discussion of these recent additions to the concept of the miraculous nature of the
Quran, see Muhammad Rafii Yunus, “Modern Approaches to the Study of I’jaz al-Quran (Ph.D.
Disserta"on, University of Michigan, 1994), pp. 78-91 and 118-125










The first and second articles are an introduction for the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and make comparison between the Quran’s content and the orientalists’ sayings about it. The third explains that in order for a religion to be true, it must be from God in a total sense and not only in its origin then the scholars distort it. The fourth and fifth mention one of the unique qualities of the Quran which is its detailed preservation, a fact which makes it much different than all other religions, confirm that the Quran itself contains proofs for its truth and requires no “leap of faith” in order to believe it, and take a look at the accusation that Muhammad borrowed or stole the Quran from other religions, particularly the Christianity and the Judaism. The sixth and seventh mention the depictions of God and the Prophets in the Quran vs. the Bible and the Talmud and explain the comprehensiveness, completeness, balance and practicality of the legislation of the Quran. The eighth shows the Quran’s effect on the generation of the Prophet and the next generations to the extent that it made them leaders of the world to guide people to the straight path. The ninth mentions a unique prophecy which dealt with events completely out of the control of the Prophet or the Arabs that the Byzantine kingdom will defeat the Persian Kingdom within three to nine years. The tenth takes a look at some of the scientific facts mentioned in the Quran which modern scientists, Muslim and nonMuslim alike, affirm as true. Finally, the eleventh shows the linguistic miracle of the Quran and refers that Allah challenged the disbelievers of Makkah to compile a book like the Quran but they failed. The challenge got into very simple standard i.e. to compile a Surah Chapter looks like any of its Surahs but they also failed.