Is the Quran really a divine word?

Most people restrict their blogs to a particular stream of thought. I tend to blog about anything and everything that’s in my mind. No order, no classification, no structure, not even subject. This is one place that is my own to play with. Or is it really?

I made the evening tea today after ages. I feel guilty that I am not able to help around enough. It’s not because I don’t want to; it’s because 24 hours is simply not adequate for my work and needs that are voracious. I wonder how the rest of the world manages with it. I was able to take a few naps every now and then in the two gifted days. Anyway as soon as I get my post-grads off my hands, I hope to engage in kitchen and home specialities which still unfortunately remain important in this part of the world. I remember that I use to make time to recite the Quran and read a little from its translation everyday. It is a good mind-meditation scheme that brings me back to reality just like the five daily prayers do. Now I barely remember when I did that last, leave alone fixing up the tea.

I am somehow not satisfied reading the translation of the Quran. I did learn Arabic but the Quran is not just in spoken Arabic. The meanings are a lot deeper than what is literally implied. While reading I get the feeling that the Quran is somehow different from any other book. Is it because it is not a product of the human mind? It certainly cannot be because facts in the Quran were not known to mankind at the time revelations came down. In fact most of it still isn’t. It is a book of the past, the present and the future that will suit all times and all mankind. The Quran is logical. Science may contradict it but how many times in the past has science taken a U-turn? The Quran never will, because it is the absolute truth and just because some experiments performed by the very limited man illustrate otherwise that does not make the Quran wrong or false. Many attempts in the past to disprove the Quran as the word of God have ended as miserable failures. I only hope that my time on earth will be long enough to read and understand all of it, Insha Allah.

“This Quran is not such as can be produced by other than Allah; on the contrary it is a confirmation of (revelation) before it, and a fuller explanation of the book wherein there is no doubt - from the lord of the worlds. Or do they say, ‘He forged it’? Say: Bring then a sura like unto it and call (to your aid), anyone you can, Besides Allah, if it be ye speak the truth” 10:37-38