“ Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven by the need of early scholars to interpret the Qur'an. Jim Al-Khalili
“ In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official lang… Jim Al-Khalili
“ Do you order righteousness of the people and forget yourselves while you recite the Scripture? Then will you not reason? Qur'an
“ They said, "Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You? Qur'an 2 30
“ ...The Qur'an cannot be translated. ...The book is here rendered almost literally and every effort has been made to choose befitting language. But the result is not the Glorious Qur'an, that inimitabl… Marmaduke William Pickthall
“ The word 'jihad' has nowhere been used in the Qur'an to mean war in the sense of launching an offensive. It is used rather to mean 'struggle'. the action most consistently called for in the Qur'an is… Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
“ The Qur’an sought to reform, not to destroy and start from scratch, tosalvage what was useful and then to modify and build on it. The task wasto get the Arabs to think about religion in a novel way, t… Jeffrey Lang
