Muhammad The Great Exemplar — Page 36
Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad 36 this, the Qur’an in itself is the greatest miracle of all and sufficient to show his superiority over his fellow messengers. THE MIRACLE OF THE HOLY QUR’AN According to a school of thought, the miracle of the Holy Qur’an is its unlimited eloquence as a book. [So those who oppose Islam] look to find fault with it and consequently commit such injudicious errors one cannot help but be amused. In his book, The Life of Mahomet , Sir William Muir argues that prior to the hijra, from the fifth to tenth year of his mission, the Holy Prophet sa began to insert elements of Jewish scripture into the Holy Qur’an. This involved a shift in tone from the previous Qur’anic style as the Prophet sa laboured and toiled to transcribe Jewish stories into the Arabic language. Yet owing to his commitments, this was not possible by day and so according to Muir: ‘For this end a midnight hour must have been stolen from sleep. ’ 16 Muir refers to the following passage of the Holy Qur’an to support his thesis: ْ اَو ً ْل ی ِ ُ قَل ہ اَوِ انْقُصْ مِنْ آ ٗ ہ نِّصْفَ ً ْل ی ِ ْلَ اِلَّ قَل ی َّ قُِ ال ُ الْمُزَّمِّل َيَُّا أ �ٰ ی َّ إِن ا ً ْل ی ِ ْكَ قَوْلً ثَق ی َ إِنَّ سَنُلْقِْ عَل ا ً ْل ی ِ وَرَتِّلِ الْقُرْاٰنَ تَْتِ ہ ْ ی َ زِدْ عَل 16 Sir William Muir, Life of Mahomet , 102 [Publishers]