Facts about the Holy
Quran
- 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 rules of a perfect way of
living.
- For easy daily 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 3,30,113 letters.
- Millions of Muslims read the Qur'an
daily. Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) has said that, the minimum daily
reading of the Qur'an should be fifty verses or one-fourth of the
part, about five minutes reading.
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