The Qur’an is the heart and soul of Islam. It is the ultimate and uncontested authority in the
worldview of Islam which decides truth from falsehood and right from wrong.1
Everything that is Islamic has
its origin in or takes inspiration from the Qur’an, whether it is a question of norms of daily life, tenets of
faith, law or spirituality. The firm idea that the Qur’an is Islam’s normative text is not a belated conclusion
that Muslim apologetics had awoken to or accredited their sacred Book with late in history