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( 85 ) quiescent at the sight of the dangers to Islam? Surely some provision must have been made from beaven to retrieve the condition of Islam. . The Holy Quran also lends support to this view in that it. Verily We revealed this انا نحن نزلنا الذكر وإنا له لها فظون says remembrance and We are its Preserver. " The preservation of the Quran is possible in two ways, first of the text and second of the meaning. And actually we see that for the preservation of the text of the Quran thousands of provisions have been made by God. It is now thirteen hundred years since the days of the Holy Prophet (may peace and blessings of God be on him). All the religious books of the world have been tampered with and altered. But the Holy Quran is still extant in the same original purity, neither losing even by a part of a letter nor being added to in the least particular. Even the language of the Holy Quran has been preserved by God, for there is at present no other religion the language of the Divine book of which is now spoken anywhere on the globe. Sanskrit, Pehlvi and Hebrew are the three languages in which the books of the prominent religions of the world are at present extant. But all these languages are dead and only the language of the Holy. Quran, in spite of its being one of the oldest of languages, is still living and since the time the Holy Quran was revealed instead of being reduced in extent has attained wider diffusion. . Formerly Arabic was the language of Arabia alone, but now it is spoken in Egypt, Syria, Tripoli, Algeria, Morocco, Barbary and other countries. Millions of people are there who are conversant with the language, hundreds of thousands of. Hafizes (those who know the Quran by heart), and millions of books in all the countries of the world are safe-guarding the language, and the promise of God is being most thoroughly fulfilled up to this hour. Now, when the provision of God with regard to the safe-guarding of the text has been so well fulfilled, how then is it possible that the provision regarding the preservation of the meaning should not be carried in to effect. The book which is a meré dead script with no one left to follow it has nothing to give it peference over