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It's a great question. I don't believe that the Sahaba, it's oversimplification and I believe it's also inaccurate to say that the Sahaba accepted Islam because of the linguistic miracle of the Quran. I don't believe that to be the case.

I believe that that's one of many dimensions of the impact of the Quran.

It has a psychological impact, a philosophical impact, an intellectual impact, it has a linguistic impact, it has a spiritual impact.

Like, human beings are complicated creatures, right?

And we make decisions based on a complicated set of factors.

And the Quran, the speaker of the Quran, knows the complexity of the human being better than the human being knows it.

And he revealed a speech that targets every one of our complex decision making factors and hits all of them.

So to reduce the divinity of the Quran to linguistically look at this amazing thing, which I am fascinated by.

But it would be a crime to reduce the divine compelling nature of the Quran to its linguistics, actually.

It's much more than that, you know, like in literature, I've told you many times I've told you the example that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, right?

So for example, if I took these three books, right?

So one, two, three, one book, one book, one book.

Together, they are what? Three books, three books, right?

But if I just read one book, right, volume three, my understanding would be different.

But if I read one, two, and three, in sequence, that my overall understanding would be greater than one of them individually, right?

So what happens in mathematics is one plus one plus one is three.

But what happens in the human experience is one plus one plus one is more than three.

There's more undefined or more factors that benefit you, right?

The same thing happens in literature. You guys see this all the time.

In chemistry, you combine two things, you combine two elements, you get a compound.

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