In the name of Allah, the Beneficient, the Merciful
Facts about the Qur'an
The Glorious Qur'an is
the Word of Allah as revealed to His Prophet, Muhammad, peace be on him and his
progeny.
On reading the Qur'an one
is at once convinced that it is the Word of Allah, for no man can write such
perfect guidance on so many subjects.
The Holy Qur'an says that
no man will be able to forge even a part of it and that no corruption shall
touch it from any side. It is a miracle that the Holy Qur'an has remained
unchanged and unaltered during all these 1400 years and it shall remain so till
the Day of Resurrection, for Allah, has taken it on Himself to protect it.
The Book of Allah is like
an ocean. The less learned, like children, collect pebbles and shells from its
shores. The scholars and thinkers, like pearl divers, bring out from it the
highest philosophy, wisdom and rulse of a perfect way of living.
For easy dailiy
recitation, the Qur'an is divided into thirty equal parts. One part takes only
twenty-four reading minutes, and the whole Book requires twelve reading hours.
There are 114 chapters, and 6,226 verses, containing 99,464 words made up of
330, 113 letters.
Millions of Muslims read
the Qur'an daily. Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq has said that, the minimum dailiy
reading of the Qur'an should be fifty verses or one-fourth of the part, about
five minutes reading.