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The Glorious Qur'an is the Word
of Allah as revealed to His Prophet, Muhammad, peace be on
him and his progeny.
On reading the Qur'an one is at
once convinced that it is the Word of Allah, for no man
can write such perfect guidance on so many subjects.
The Holy Qur'an says that no man
will be able to forge even a part of it and that no
corruption shall touch it from any side. It is a miracle
that the Holy Qur'an has remained unchanged and unaltered
during all these 1400 years and it shall remain so till
the Day of Resurrection, for Allah, has taken it on
Himself to protect it.
The Book of Allah is like an
ocean. The less learned, like children, collect pebbles
and shells from its shores. The scholars and thinkers,
like pearl divers, bring out from it the highest
philosophy, wisdom and rulse of a perfect way of living.
For easy dailiy recitation, the
Qur'an is divided into thirty equal parts. One part takes
only twenty-four reading minutes, and the whole Book
requires twelve reading hours. There are 114 chapters, and
6,226 verses, containing 99,464 words made up of 330, 113
letters.
Millions of Muslims read the
Qur'an daily. Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq has said that, the
minimum dailiy reading of the Qur'an should be fifty
verses or one-fourth of the part, about five minutes
reading.
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