Universality of the Quran - By Dr. Muhammad Fawzi

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين

عالمية القرآن
بقلم الدكتور محمد فوزي

Universality of the Quran
To praise the Quran to the skies is no wonder for a believer who looks at the text as God's Word or a divine scripture revealed to a God-sent prophet, Muhammad (pbuh). Still, for a thinker who may be a Muslim or not, the issue is different for they might look into the Quranic text from different perspectives: doctrinal, moral, legislative/legal, social, historical, political and even scientific and so forth. When verifying such aforementioned perspectives either by Muslim or non-Muslim scholars (or orientalists), it turns out that the Quran has to do with them all. And this is a key to understanding why the Quranic text is universal or a text that leaves not an aspect of life without being dealt with.
A big part of such universality stems not only form tackling such abovementioned areas of life and setting solutions to their problems, but also from addressing the argumentation of how a human achieves the integration between his or her body and soul and, moreover, between themselves and others in society. The Quran has thus addresses human issues and promotes agreed values like justice, freedom, peace, loyalty, love, cooperation and so forth. No doubt to expound how the Quran tackles these issues needs lengthy material. However, here is an example of what non-Muslims and/or non-Arabs say in this respect:
"I find it very interesting that this sort of information is in the ancient scripture of the Holy Quran, and I have no way of knowing where they would come from…Well, I would think it must be the divine being!" (Prof. William W. Hay)[1]; "A totally objective examination of it [i.e. the Quran] in the light of modern knowledge, leads us to recognize the agreement between the two [i.e. the Quran and science]" (Maurice Bucaille)[2]; "It has been a great pleasure for me to help clarify statements in the Quran about human development. It is clear to me that these statements must have come to Muhammad from God (Prof. Keith Moore)[3]; "Everything made so much sense. This is the beauty of the Qur'an; it asks you to reflect and reason (Cat Stevens)[4]; "I am not a Muslim in the usual sense, though I hope I am a "Muslim" as "one surrendered to God," but I believe that embedded in the Quran and other expressions of the Islamic vision are vast stores of divine truth from which I and other occidentals have still much to learn (W. Montgomery Watt)[5].
If people of highly scientific unbiased mentality or even highly artistic talent as is mentioned above think so, then the Quran is, indubitably, a text worth reading by all, Muslims or not; a text that the time calls for it; a text of which people and their modern world are in a dire need.

[1] - Professor William W. Hay is one of the well-known marine scientists in the United States.
[2] - "The Quran, and Modern Science".
[3] - Prof. Keith Moore is a prominent scientist of anatomy and embryology, University of Toronto.
[4] - Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) is the well-known former British pop star.
[5] - W. Montgomery Watt. "Islam and Christianity Today", London, 1983, p. ix.).

وهذه بعض الملاحظات اللغوية في المقال.
To praise something to the skies: to praise it ardently and powerfully.
Look into: to contemplate and think deeply
Leaves not: (a more emphatic negation)
To address s. thing. (argumentation): to tackle or deal with it.
Agreed values: استخدام صحيح بمعنى متفق عليه دون حرف الجر
As is mentioned: استخدام صحيح
Of which…(be) in a dire need:) في حاجة ماسة له (تقديم وتأخير)
for a thinker who may be a Muslim or not, the issue is different for they might look:
استخدام صحيح حسب قاعدة (جواز استخدام ضمير جمع للكلمة المفرد بدلا من استخدام he or she ) وهو استخدام حديث ومشهور ذو أشكال مختلفة).
Has to do with: touch or respect