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It highlights how the Qur’an shaped religious, social, and political history: transforming conflict-ridden Arabia, spreading its worldview beyond the region, and fostering intellectual curiosity through emphasis on consciousness and knowledge. It also addresses Western misunderstandings of Qur’anic style and worldview, contrasting claims of crudeness or incoherence with the scripture’s enduring inspiration and ethical guidance.","THEMESSAGEOF  \nTHEQURAN  \nTRANSLATED & EXPLAINED BY  \nMUHAMMAD ASAD  \nForeword  \nREAD in the name of thy Sustainer, who has created created man out ofa germ-cell!  \nRead-for thy Sustainer is the Most Bountiful One who has taught [man] the use of the pen taught man what he did not know.  \nWith these opening verses ofthe ninety-sixth surah-with an allusion to man's humble biological origin as well as to his consciousness and intellect -began, early in the seventh century of the Chnstian era, the revelation of the Qur'an to the Prophet Muhammad, destined to continue during the twenty-three years of his ministry and to end, shortly before his death, with verse 281 of the second surah:  \nAnd be conscious of the Day on which you shall be brought back unto God, whereupon every human being shall be repaid in full for what he has earned, and none shall be wronged;  \nBetween these first and last verses (the first and the last in the chronological order of their revelation) 1 unfolds a book which, 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  \nand knowledge, it engendered among its followers a spirit of intellectual curiosity and independent inquiry, ultimately resulting in that splendid era of learning and scientific research which distinguished the world of Islam at the height of its cultural vigour; and the culture thus fostered by the Qur'an penetrated in countless ways and by-ways into the mind of medieval Europe and gave rise to that revival of Western culture which we call the Renaissance, and thus became in the course of time largely responsible for the birth of what is described as the \"age of science\": the age in which we are now living.  \n1 It is to be borne in mind that, in its final compilation, the Qur'an is arranged in accordance with the inner requirements of its message as a whole, and not in the chronological order in which the individual surahs or passages were revealed. All this was, in the final analysis, brought about by the message of the Qur'an: and it was brought about through the medium of the people whom it inspired and to whom it supplied a basis for all their ethical valuations and a direction for all their worldly endeavours: for, never has any book-not excluding the Bible-been read by so many with a comparable intensity and veneration; and never has any other book supplied to so many, and over so long a span of time, a similarly comprehensive answer to the question, \"How shall I behave in order to achieve the good life in this world and happiness in the life to come?\" However often individual Muslims may have misread this answer, and however far many of them may have departed from the spirit of its message, the fact remains that to all who believed and believe in it, the Qur'an represents the ultimate manifestation of God's grace to man, the ultimate wisdom, and the ultimate beauty of expression: in short, the true Word of God.  \nThis attitude of the Muslims towards the Qur'an perplexes, as a rule, the Westerner who approaches it through one or another of the many existing translations. Where the believer, reading the Qur'an in Arabic, sees beauty, the non-Muslim reader often claims to discern \"crudeness\"; the coherence of the Qur'anic world-view and its relevance to the human condition escape him altogether and assume the guise of what, in Europe's and America's orientalist literature, is frequently described as \"incoherent rambling\";2 and passages whic","cbCaie2kLAF40hah","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaie2kLAF40hah","pdf",6591947,5,1,1053,"English","en",105,"# Foreword\n## Qur’anic opening revelation and chronology\n## Global impact on religion, society, and civilization\n## How the Qur’an is received in translation","[{\"question\":\"What are the verses cited to frame the Qur’an’s revelation in the foreword?\",\"answer\":\"The foreword begins with opening verses of the ninety-sixth surah and references an ending point shortly before the Prophet’s death, including verse 281 of the second surah.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the foreword describe the Qur’an’s impact on 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