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eligions or traditions. Beyond human knowledge, it foretold the origin, recycling,
fundamentality and reservation of water. Beyond human expectation, it foretold the
existence of various universes besides the universe to which, this world belongs. It
asserted that human body was its own universe, characterized by complexity,
system, parallelism, sequence and coordination, which were not known to human
before. It precedes the era of science and technology and penetrated into the
worlds beyond contemporary human senses and thinking because without the help
of human achievement in sophistication and creativity it explored unseen space
and described in systematic way and it penetrated into delicate spots of atoms
(99:7&8), germs and organism (36: 36), oceanography (25:53) and other
creatures.
In contrast to the unlimited supernatural knowledge, human achievement in
knowledge was confined to materials seen by naked eyes, and confined to limited
experience because of the lack of achievement in science and technology like
present days. Human knowledge is something traditional, which was traditionally
passed on from one generation to another without impetus or momentum for
advancement, such as qiafah, a traditional knowledge on tracing in the desert of
Arabia, Arab traditional medicine and Hellenistic logics. Because of being
traditional, human achievement was subject to frequent improvement, which is that
present day achievement would have been unthinkable to traditional people. This
is because human being depended on seen pictures and experienced and tested
hardships and uncertainties from battle fields, individual mobility and tribal
migration in desert. These trials and errors were utilized to realize modern
accommodation, facilities, weaponry and transportations. Again, beyond human
belief, the Qur’an (55:33) foretold the penetrability of the space with great human
knowledge and determination. In contrast, the traditional pictures and experience
that were recorded in traditional poetry is considered to be the source for
knowledge for the Arabs then.
The universality of the Quran is upheld by the fact that the Quran adopted
the surrounding and phenomena outside the boundary of normal Arab experiences
of life, enterprise, worldview, communication, interaction and so on. This is proven
when the Quran reached out various environments beyond the bareness of the
Arab desert where the revelation took place. The Qur’an draws on transportation,
i.e. ship in the ocean, unfamiliar to the Arab, living things, such as cow and bee
including its honey, not existing in the Arab desert.
Conclusion
Islam is divine inspiration, not an adaptation, reformation and revision because the
differences or varieties in the Quran are of its own interpretation in dealing with
humankind, universe and other creatures. They do not represent the perspectives
of other religion, belief or tradition. The allegation of its adaption is baseless relying
on views restricted to perception, impression and traditionalism, not considering
the crux of Islam, i.e. the textuality of the Qur’an as its main source and not
considering the exclusiveness of the prophecy of Prophet Muhammad (saw).
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