“The chapter commencing with these words, ‘Say God is one God’ ([Sūrah cxii].), is equal to a third of the Qurʾān.”
“The person that repeats the chapter of the Cave ([Sūrah xviii].) on Friday, the light of faith brightens him between two Fridays.”
In the Qurʾān there are many assertions of its excellence; the following are a few selected verses:—
[Sūrah iv. 94]: “Can they not consider the Qurʾān? Were it from any other than God, they would assuredly have found in it many contradictions.”
[Sūrah ix. 16]: “If they shall say, ‘The Qurʾān is his own device.’ Then bring ten Sūrahs like it of your devising.”
[Sūrah xlvi. 7]: “Will they say, ‘He hath devised it’? Say, If I have devised it, then not one single thing can ye ever obtain for me from God.”
[Sūrah liii. 4]: “Verily the Qurʾān is none other than a revelation. One terrible in power taught it him.”
Maracci, von Hammer, and other Orientalists, have selected the XCIst chapter of the Qurʾān, entitled the Sūratu ʾsh-Shams, or the Chapter of the Sun, as a favourable specimen of the best style of the Qurʾān. It begins in Arabic thus:—
١ وَٱلشَّمْسِ وَضُحَاهَا
٢ وَٱلقَمَرِ إذَا تَلَاهَا