THE ULTIMATE NEWS - New views on the Noble Quran, by Mohamed Abdallah Draz

This book deals with the most sublime work there is, the Koran, and in particular with the question of its inimitability and its miraculous character. With his vision of synthesis, and his elegant and refined style, Sheikh Draz demonstrates that the Koran cannot come from a human being. To assert this, he uses evidence drawn from Muhammad's personality, life, background, and surroundings. It is also interested in the vocation of the Prophet, as well as in the mode of transmission of the Koran to him, analytical (munajjam) at the beginning, synthetic (murattal) thereafter, so many characteristics by which the Koran transcends any work. human.

As for the content of the Quran, it begins with its shell rich in precious pearls, in other words its melody, the vibration of its words, the harmony in the arrangement of its letters and their arrangement in different coherent groups. Continuing on the theme of aesthetics, he describes the semantic and rhetorical richness of the work, and its art of satisfying the curiosity of the mind and the emotional thirst of the soul.

To crown it all, the author cites a representative example: the surah The Cow (al-baqara). It is a summary sura, which summarizes almost all the features of the Quran. He analyzes it with such finesse that he ends up making the reader feel that each surah is comparable to a necklace with perfectly sorted and arranged pearls, and that all these necklaces are crossed by a thread to form this splendid necklace, larger and more beautiful, that is the noble Koran. [Why don't they meditate on the Koran? If it came from other than Allah, then they would necessarily find many contradictions there] [Qur'an, sura 4, verse 82].