Jum'ah Journal- about Qur'an

Many a people both believers as well as non-believers have made remarkable comments about this book but none, in my knowledge has touched my heart as much as this one.
      So, I would like to share with you this comment written by a Mr. John Penrice in 1873 (Old but very quotable)

 "It is not to be expected that all the transcendent excellencies and miraculous beauties discovered in the Qur'an by its commentators and others should immediately unveil themselves to our cold unsympathizing gaze; beauties there are many and great; ideas highly poetical are clothed in rich and appropriate language, which unfrequently rises to a sublimity far beyond the reach of any translation ; but it is unfortunately the case that many of those graces which present themselves to the admiration of the finished scholar are but so many stumbling blocks in the way of the beginner; the marvellous conciseness which adds so greatly to the force and energy of its expressions cannot fail to perplex him while the frequent use of ellipse leaves in his mind a feeling of vagueness not altogether out of character in a work of its oracular and "soi-disant" prophetic nature."

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