Study of History - Maulana Kausar Niazi

STUDY OF HISTORY
the story of the creation of Adam and subsequent
historical events, for the compilation of Old and
New Testaments does not fulfil the conditions
laid down for modern research and their authority
lacks confirmation. The narrators of these
books are men of unknown ancestry. Moreover,
their own lives are shrouded in obscurity. The
Christian and Jewish world knows very little
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about their third and fourth narrators, not to
speak of the first and second narrators. But the
Holy Qur'an as well as the Arab historians of
the first three and subsequent centuries of Hijrah
fulfil all the conditions laid down by modern
research. The Qur'an which is the source and
foundation of Muslim historiography certainly
transcends all mere conjectures.
Not only according to Muslim scholars, but
| also according to world historians, it is a historif
cal fact that every letter, every word, every dot
and every verse of the Qur’an from the beginning
to the end has been transmitted to the world
of today in the same order in which it was
revealed twelve years before the Hijrah during
the ministry of the Prophet beginning from his
stay at Mecca up to the year of his death. The
problem of the Qur’an is not like the problem of
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