BLOG 60 - Why Is Qur'an The Word Of God?

[Dr. Shabbir]

For me, only the internal evidence in the Book is sufficient to prove that it could not be a product of human imagination.

The Book has more than 6000 verses on extremely diverse subjects such as history, commands, laws, science, the future, personalities, humanity, the universe, psychology, animate and inanimate objects, bad and good societies, good and evil, human behavior, pragmatism (do this and this will happen - always), oceans and land, planets, rocks, trees, origin of life, evolution, water-cycle, animals, guidance, the permanent laws of rise and fall of nations, life and death, the Hereafter, the law of recompense, success vs failure, and much more. Yet, we find not a single error or contradiction in the Qur'an as it claims. I tried very hard to find just one error or contradiction but failed. And I read the Book closely at least 25 times.

There are more than a hundred scientific facts in the Qur'an that the entire world did not know in the seventh century. There is not a single confirmed scientific discovery up to the 21st century that goes against the Glorious Book.

Those who know the Quranic Arabic, marvel at the Book for its style, eloquence, choice of words, the beautiful rhythm and the noble guidance practicable for all times. It is the only text that is neither prose nor poetry; sounds like an impossible proposition but true it is.

There is overwhelming internal evidence that the Book cannot be a human effort. No wonder that not a single person in the last 1400 years has been able to take the challenge and bring one little Surah like it. The opponents fought 82 battles against Muslims during the exalted Prophet's lifetime and got beaten again and again. The choice was clear. The most eloquent Arabs could have composed one little Surah like this and that would have been the demise of Islam. So, why did they fight those 82 battles?