Three Questions by a Christian and their Answers — Page 34
34 the Holy Quran: I found them dead and I brought them to life, I found them falling into the pit of hell and I rescued them from this dreadful state, I found them ailing and I healed them, I found them in darkness and I gave them light. In order to manifest this miracle, God Almighty has, on the one hand, described the evil condition of the people of Ara- bia before they accepted Islam, and, on the other, He has described their transformation into a state of piety after their acceptance of Islam, so that whoever analyzes the condition of the Arabs at the time of their denial, and compares it to their condition after they had entered the fold of Islam, will become convinced that this change was completely out of the ordinary, and was no less than a miracle. The third miracle of the Holy Quran, to which we can our- selves testify, lies in the truths and verities, and points of beauty and subtlety which abound in its eloquent text. This miracle has been greatly emphasized in the Holy Quran. It says, let the Jinn and men join in their effort to produce the like of this Book; they shall fail. This miracle is corrobo- rated by the fact that, although this challenge of the Holy Quran has been proclaimed loud and clear in every corner of the world for the last thirteen hundred years, no one has been able to take it up. This categorically proves that the whole human potential put together is incapable of contest- ing the Holy Quran. In fact, if we were to search for the equivalent of just one, out of the innumerable excellences of the Holy Quran, it would be beyond the capacity of a poor mortal to produce anything like it.