It's text claiming to be that, but that doesn't make it true.
My point was that when I read about how protons and electrons interact, and how electrons react with electrons from other atoms, and how these tiny reactions make larger more complex reactions, which create larger reactions, and so on I cannot help but be absolutely amazed. But when I read the Quran....nothing.
It just seems to me that anything capable of creating the universe could make a book which would have an equal impression on me, but it didn't.
Asalaamu Alaikum (peace be unto you),
Firstly, in regards to reading the Quran; You need to realise that it is so much more different when you read the Arabic and understand it in that language, it's really only then when you can really get the feel of something powerful from the Quran. It's quite a mystery even today as to why the Quran of all scriptures is
hardest to translate into any other language, like there is currently no extact or accurate translation of it today, but no translation has done it any real justice today.
Here are what some orientalists(non-Muslims) say about it -
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However often we turn to it [the Qur'an] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence... Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime -- Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence."
Goethe, quoted in T.P. Hughes' DICTIONARY OF ISLAM, p. 526.
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A work, then, which calls forth so powerful and seemingly incompatible emotions even in the distant reader - distant as to time, and still more so as a mental development - a work which not only conquers the repugnance which he may begin its perusal, but changes this adverse feeling into astonishment and admiration, such a work must be a wonderful production of the human mind indeed and a problem of the highest interest to every thoughtful observer of the destinies of mankind."
Dr. Steingass, quoted in T.P. Hughes' DICTIONARY OF ISLAM, pp. 526-527.
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The above observation makes the hypothesis advanced by those who see Muhammad as the author of the Qur'an untenable. How could a man, from being illiterate, become the most important author, in terms of literary merits, in the whole of Arabic literature? How could he then pronounce truths of a scientific nature that no other human being could possibly have developed at that time, and all this without once making the slightest error in his pronouncement on the subject?"
Maurice Bucaille, THE BIBLE, THE QUR'AN AND SCIENCE, 1978, p. 125.
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In making the present attempt to improve on the performance of my predecessors, and to produce something which might be accepted as echoing however faintly the sublime rhetoric of the Arabic Koran, I have been at pains to study the intricate and richly varied rhythms which - apart from the message itself - constitute the Koran's undeniable claim to rank amongst the greatest literary masterpieces of mankind... This very characteristic feature - 'that inimitable symphony,' as the believing Pickthall described his Holy Book, 'the very sounds of which move men to tears and ecstasy' - has been almost totally ignored by previous translators; it is therefore not surprising that what they have wrought sounds dull and flat indeed in comparison with the splendidly decorated original." -
Arthur J. Arberry, THE KORAN INTERPRETED, London: Oxford University Press, 1964, p. x.
That's just a few, but you get the picture. The Quran today is seen by Arab's(including the Christian/Jewish) as the highest form of Arab Literature in the world today. When you just look at it's literature (ignore the Scientific/Mathematical miracles etc.) Muslims believe no man could've created something like this. Non-Muslims however are still pondering on trying to explain how a man could've created this.
At the time of Prophet Muhammad(pbuh), the Arab people were at the highest peak in their poetic linguistic skills. They used to celebrate whenever a "poet" was born in the family. Yet when Muhammad(pbuh) used to recite the verses of the Quran in all it's powerful manner, it used to bring people to tears(even does today) simply because of it's beauty in sound and speech. Many of the followers of the Prophet(pbuh), a illiterate man, came too him because of his recitations, they were that taken back by it.
And then then the challenge(at various stages in 23 years) came to mankind(including the great linguistics of that time) -
Say: "If the mankind and the jinns were together to produce the like of this Qur'an, they could not produce the like thereof, even if they helped one another." [Qur'an 17:88]
And if you (Arab pagans, Jews, and Christians) are in doubt concerning that which We have sent down (i.e. the Qur'an) to Our slave (Muhammad Peace be upon him ), then produce a surah (chapter) of the like thereof and call your witnesses (supporters and helpers) besides Allah, if you are truthful. [Qur'an 2:23]
And this Qur'an is not such as could ever be produced by other than Allah (Lord of the heavens and the earth), but it is a confirmation of (the revelation) which was before it [i.e. the Taurat (Torah), and the Injeel (Gospel), etc.], and a full explanation of the Book (i.e. laws and orders, etc, decreed for mankind) - wherein there is no doubt from the the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns,and all that exists).
Or do they say: "He (Muhammad(P)) has forged it?" Say: "Bring then a surah (chapter) like unto it, and call upon whomsoever you can, besides Allah, if you are truthful!" [Qur'an 10:37-38]
Or they say, "He (Prophet Muhammad(P)) forged it (the Qur'an)." Say: "Bring you then ten forged surah (chapters) like unto it, and call whomsoever you can, other than Allah (to your help), if you speak the truth!" [Qur'an 11:13]
Or do they say: "He (Muhammad(P)) has forged it (this Qur'an)?" Nay! They believe not! Let them then produce a recital like unto it (the Qur'an) if they are truthful. [Qur'an 52:33-34]
And even the great Arab linguistics at the time couldn't re-produce anything like it. In fact, they began to use the excuse that Muhammad(pbuh) was using "black magic" or was a devil in disguise(people were superstitious in those days) to try and stop people from converting.
It just seems to me that anything capable of creating the universe could make a book which would have an equal impression on me, but it didn't.
I hope I have sort've given insight to that claim. If you did read the Quran in Arabic, the impression you would get from it would be unlike any you've got from any other book. Some translations are good and do give a unique feel, but nothing does justice to the Quran in it's Arabic language, this is seen today by Muslims as a living Miracle.
I finish off with following verses;
[SIZE=-1] "And We reveal (stage by stage) of the Qur'an that which is a healing and a mercy for believers, and to the unjust it causes nothing but loss after loss." -- (17:82)[/SIZE]
"So have We made the (Qur'an) easy in thine own tongue, that with it thou mayest give Glad Tidings to the righteous, and warnings to people given to contention." -- (19:97)
[SIZE=-1]"Will they not then ponder on the Qur'an? If it had been from other than Allah they would have found therein much discrepancy." -- (4:82)
And finally, if you would like to know more about the Scientific/Mathematical miracles of the Quran then please visit -
http://www.harunyahya.com/miracles_of_the_quran_01.php
After much research, I can only conclude that this book was given to mankind by non-other then the creator of the Heavans and the Earths. And Muhammad(pbuh) was the sealing of the messages that came before him through the likes of (Jesus(pbuh), Moses(pbuh) etc.).
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