The Medinan scholar and descendant of the Prophet, Ja‘far Sadiq, was one of the pillars of sacred knowledge in the eighth century, revered by Sunnis and Shiites alike. When he was asked how the Qur’an, ‘despite the passage of generations, only increases in its freshness,’ he replied, ‘Because God did not make it for one specific time or one specific people, so it is new in every age, fresh for every people, until the Day of Judgment.’
