Deliverance from the Cross — Page 109
3. The Quran is the only scripture which has been safe guarded against perversion under divine decree, as is said: 'Surely, We Ourself have sent down this Exhortation, and We will, most surely, safeguard it. (al-Hijr, 15:10) The Quran has the unique distinction that of all the scriptures it is, from beginning to end, entirely verbal revelation. That in itself is a guarantee that it would not be perverted or twisted. All non-Muslim scholars who have made a research into the integrity of the text of the Holy Quran are agreed that it is an exact and accurate version of the verbal revelation that Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, claimed God had vouchsafed to him. But the divine guarantee of safeguarding the Quran, that has just been set out, is not confined to preserving the integrity of the text alone. It extends to all the factors that bear upon the preservation of the Quran as the perfect source of divine guidance for the whole of mankind for all time. For instance, it is a guarantee that the language in which it was revealed, namely classical Arabic, would always continue a living language in current use all the time, so that no difficulty might be encountered in determining and comprehending the meaning of the Quran. Classical Arabic is today spoken and written over a much vaster area of the earth and by many hundred times the number of people than was the case when the Quran was revealed. Besides, the Holy Prophet predicted 109