The Quran, more than any other single phenomenon known to us, has fundamentally affected the religious, social and political history of the world. No other sacred scripture has ever had a similarly immediate impact upon the lives of the people who first heard its message and, through them and the generations that followed them, on the entire course of civilization. It shook Arabia, and made a nation out of its perennially warring tribes; within a few decades, it spread its world-view far beyond the confines of Arabia and produced the first ideological society known to man; through its insistence on consciousness and knowledge, it engendered amongst its followers, a spirit of intellectual curiosity and independent inquiry, ultimately resulting in that splendid era of learning and scientific which distinguished the world of Islam at the height of its cultural vigour…..
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