“Thirdly: Also, if the Qur’an is imagined to be man’s word, it necessitates that the  hidden  reality  of  a  criterion  of  truth  and  falsehood  that  is  miraculous  in  its exposition, and through the testimony of its fruits, results, and effects, is gilded with the most spiritual and life-giving, the most truthful and happiness-bringing, the most comprehensive and exalted qualities in the world of humanity, is, God forbid, the fabrication of a single unaided and unlearned man’s mind, and that the great geniuses and brilliant scholars who observed him closely and studied him meticulously at no time saw any trace of counterfeit or pretence in him and always found him serious, genuine, and sincere.

“This is completely impossible, an idea so nonsensical as to shame the Devil himself, like dreaming up an utterly impossible situation. For it entails supposing a person who throughout his life demonstrated and taught trust, belief, confidence, sincerity, seriousness, and integrity through all his conduct, words, and actions, and raised eminently truthful and sincere followers, and was accepted as possessing the highest,   most   shining   virtues,   to   be   the   most   untrustworthy,   insincere,   and unbelieving. For in this question there is no point between the two.

“If, to suppose the impossible, the Qur’an were not the Word of God, it would fall from the divine throne to the ground; it would not remain somewhere between. While being the meeting-point of truths, it would become a source of superstition and myth. And if, God forbid, the one who  proclaimed  that wonderful decree was not God’s Messenger, it would necessitate his descending from the highest of the high to the lowest of the low, and from the degree of being the source of accomplishments and perfections to the level of being a mine of trickery and intrigue; he could not remain between the two. For one who lies and fabricates in God’s name falls to the very lowest of degrees.

“It is as impossible as permanently seeing a fly as a peacock, and all the time seeing  the  peacocks’s  attributes  in  the  fly.  Only  someone  lacking  all  intelligence could imagine it to be possible.

“Fourthly:  Also,  if the  Qur’an  is imagined  to be man’s  word,  it necessitates fancying  that  the  Qur’an,  which  is  a  sacred  commander  of  the  community  of Muhammad, mankind’s largest and most powerful army, is – God forbid – a powerless, valueless, baseless forgery.