“The Holy Qur’an, we must always remember, does not contain the human speech and thought of the Prophet Muhammad , but is the Divine Song of power and love sung directly by Allah, the ultimate Source of the universe, through the personal, cultural, and spiritual being of His Prophet. The Holy Qur’an, in its depth, is direct revelation, regardless of whatever historical studies are made of its surface. No meditation upon the Qur’an, no matter how strong the inspiration or how broad the scholarship, could begin to equal the Arabic original, simply because the Arabic Qur’an remains in the realm
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