ABSTRACT
The Qur’an contains rules, exhortations and moral precepts that bow men’s hearts and win a kindly way into men’s minds. In their wake resolutions take their forward way, in the cause of human society. The Qur’an was sent down at a time when, as is widely and confidently agreed, the Arabs had reached the finest point in their history. There is no comparison between the actual fact of the Qur’an’s being unmatched and a hypothetical impotence. The only thing they have in common is inability to match: but there is a world of difference between them and the fashion of the impossibility alleged. The matchlessness of the Qur’an is an actuality beyond the powers of humanity. For the Qur’an came to an Arabic-speaking prophet. Writing was well-known among the Arabs everywhere at that time, to a degree of excellence, and in the context of intense hostility.
