A claim by Islamic scholars as well as jihadists is that no one can produce something as beautiful as the Quran in the way the words are arranged, and thus it can only be of God. This claim should be answared. First, all someone has to do is examine some of the great works of literture to find as much beauty. Such as the Greek epic poet Homer with his
Iliad and
Odyssey and also the Latin poets Horance and then Virgil who produced the
Aeneid. Even one of the non-Bible books in the
Apocrypha called
Song of Three Children is also very beautiful. Thus, just because someone sees a work written in great beauty doen't mean it's inspired by God. Second, the scholar Edward Gibbon wrote after an examination of the Quran that it is an "incoherent jumble of fable and precept and declamation which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes craws in the dust and is sometimes lost in the clouds..." The writer Thomas Caryle wrote the Quran is "A wearisome jumble, crude, incondite [with] endless iterartion [and] longwindedness..." Likewise the philosopher David Hume was NOT favorably impressed after reading the Quran. [Source of the three scholars mentioned
Secrets of the Koran: Reveaing Insights into Islam's Holy Book -p. 65,66, by Don Richardson]
Furthermore, the following should be taken into consideration. Of course the Muslim who reads the Quran will see great beauty in the way the words are arranged. It is ,in part, because of the power of suggestion after being told so many time that the Quran is so beautifully written. That's an old brainwashing method, repeating and always being told that same lie, that that person will end up believing that lie. In addition to that, the Imams try to discourage their people from reading other works, such as the Bible, so then they don't have much or anything to compare or contrast the Quran with. Of course there are some well read Muslims that do read other works, but they are exceptions and they read other things only after they were already brainwashed by the Imams. In short, the Muslims can't read the Quran objectively because their Imams have programed them to have a strong bias towards it.